A great milestone in capacity building of Lanka’s youth skills

The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting is scheduled to be held at the BMICH, Colombo in November 2013. The last CHOGM meeting held in the South Asian Region was in India during the period November 23 to 29, 1983 and the 23rd CHOGM meeting to be held in Sri Lanka,

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Opinion:

If Tamils can live in the South why can’t Sinhalese live in the North?

The lies being promoted are many: from a mythical homeland, to being treated as second class citizens, Sinhala extremism and intolerance, discrimination. oppression under “Sinhalese” governments, “Sinhalese” army occupying “Tamil Homeland” are all stories being used to facilitate the goal of creating a separate state.

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Opinion:

Human rights swept under the carpet during LTTE terror

Human rights have become an effective tool for the so-called big countries to exert pressure on countries which do not dance to their tune. Thanks to the Nelsonian eye shown by the so-called worldwide guardians of human rights, over 21 million people had suffered immensely for almost three decades due to LTTE terrorism.

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Poaching by Indian fishermen in Sri Lankan waters:

Collective action vital

Fisheries Minister Rajitha Senaratne said it was absolute hypocrisy that the fishing vessels owned by South Indian leaders who take to streets over the rights of the Tamils in the North and East, cold heartedly deprive the livelihoods of the very same people. Fisheries Ministry has sought a dialogue with the Attorney General on the legal side of retaining the poaching vessels (owned by the big time fish traders) after releasing boat hands who work for a daily wage,

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