Contrary to Co-Chairs’ Statement peace talks won’t be ‘unconditional’
Peace negotiations, if it does take
place any time soon, are not going to be as unconditional as Donor
Co-chairs announced. The government has already demanded an undertaking
by the Tiger supremo, Velupillai Prabhakaran to cease hostilities,
failing which, the government has also made it clear that it would go
ahead with military action.
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Terror analysed
Sept 11, 2001 - or better known to all as 9/11 - was a day
that shocked the world. But what really happened? Apart from the obvious
emotional trauma of the event that rocked the world, the questions as to
who was to blame still ring in the air five years after the World Trade
Center collapsed.
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Where terrorism left off, media terrorism takes over with a halo
The heat is on. The Hindu carried
a comment to say that Sri Lanka is becoming intolerant of its
“peaceniks.” That term is insulting by itself, and connotes the lunatic
fringe. (Peaceniks, beatniks, flower-kids, lunarniks, lunatics...) But,
the Hindu says that Sri Lankan peaceniks and NGO flower-kids are not
adequately cosseted or pampered.
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