World tributes pour in for Nelson Mandela
South Africans gather near the homes where
Mandela lived as the nation prepares to host world leaders for the
funeral honouring him. White South African women pulled up in SUVs,
bringing their children and their maids, clad in neat uniforms,
aprons and kerchiefs. Well-heeled members of the nation’s growing
black middle class posed for iPhone photos in front of mountains of
flowers,
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'Lanka has worked with special rapporteurs':
Government invited Dr Beyani
The visit to Sri Lanka of the UN Special
Rapporteur on Displaced Persons is not tied to the Human Rights
Sessions in Geneva to be held in March, but is part of the ongoing
process between the United Nations and Sri Lanka, Plantation
Industries Minister and Special Envoy on Human Rights Mahinda
Samarasinghe said,
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Opinion: New style of media freedom:
How Britain took Guardian editor to task
Certain members of the British Parliament – the
House of Commons, often discuss matters pertaining to Sri Lanka as
if they don’t have any other domestic issues to discuss. If not,
they must still be assuming that Sri Lanka is still a British colony
or a County in the UK.
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Why dig into bitter past, says KP
Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP the chief arms
procurer of the defeated LTTE outfit now leads a life with children
affected in the conflict in the centre of Kilinochchi. He
established the Chencholai children's home in January this year to
look after war affected children in the North.
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