Did Bala blind the British?
Reports indicated that the cost for that exercise
was Pound Sterling 40,000. In local currency it is well over Rupees
eight million. Balasingham was never employed in the final phase of
his life. He and his wife Adele lived on LTTE funds. The Tigers
collect funds sqeezing the throats of the expatriate Tamil
community. In other words, the Balasingham couple lived on ransom.
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Discourse on economics in a different light: The glory of
thought and activity
The economic order entwined with Mahinda
Chintana is so conceived characteristically. Its sole purpose is but
to sustain better and happier life and not profit alone. Human
persons have basic requirements for food, clothing, shelter and
medicine.
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Tale of the Vakarai exodus
Reedeethanna: The de- facto receiving point of
vakarai refugees
Reedeethanna is a remote security outpost, few
kms into the jungle on Polonnaruwa-Batticaloa road. It now functions
as a receiving point for a daily exodus of 2,000 - 3,000 civilians
fleeing fighting in besieged Vakarai, the last bastion of the LTTE
in the East.
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