Sitsabaiesan not on a pleasure trip

The Jaffna-born and raised in Canada since age five, Canadian parliamentarian Rathika Sitsabaiesan's tour from December 28 through January 3 in Sri Lanka's predominantly ethnic Tamil northern region was not to exchange pleasantries with her long lost kith and kin, but on ‘foreign-influenced activities’ well known to her parliamentary colleagues, the Harper regime, and most importantly, to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).

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Opinion:

Sri Lanka's defeat of terrorism: Did Tamils want LTTE eliminated?

There is one question that, if honestly answered, would provide the only solution to burying the past and getting on with the future and that is for Tamils to finally ask themselves whether they are happy the LTTE is no more and whether they want to continue to be a part of plots to resurrect a terror period that some are working towards achieving. Did the Tamils not want the LTTE eliminated? Was the country mistaken to think that the Tamils wanted the LTTE eliminated?

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Timely detection prevents disaster:

Hazardous radioactive container rejected at Colombo harbour

Handling radioactive material knowingly or unknowingly could cause serious consequences and a milder exposure could lead to a cancer. A deeper exposure could eventually cause severe organ damage or ultimately death. Sri Lanka had a near miss when a container full of radioactive material arrived at the Colombo Port recently that could have caused a disaster if not for the mindful handling of the Customs officials.

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