Learning to respect others - first step
International Day for Tolerance on November 16:
They were just two grade 7 students fighting
their own private war in their schoolyard. It wasn’t a fight about
getting better grades or being promoted to the next class or even
winning a scholarship for needy students. Their differences went
deeper, shaped by years of ‘racist’ prejudice embedded in their
minds due to the racist remarks made by their parents,
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Illicit love affairs end in murder
The busiest crime court in Sri Lanka trying
heinous crimes is the High Court. The most conspicuous feature here
is that they are flooded with murder cases except that there is a
recent trend that child rape and grave child abuse cases too have
come up to account for a fairly a big number in the court's calendar
for trial cases. In most of the murder cases often women had been
the unfortunate victims.
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CHOGM theme - consultation and co-operation
Sri Lanka claims the distinction of being the
first country in this part of the globe to hold CHOGM. The theme of
the Commonwealth is “consultation and co-operation” a noble
principle of long lasting value. Some countries who were triumphant
over alien domination who were reluctant to accept the unifying bond
of allegiance to the Queen still wished to remain in the
Commonwealth.
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