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President’s Victory Day speech:
Need for unified voice against terrorism
Independent Commission appointed to find causes
that led to terrorism:
The Armed Forces went to battle carrying guns in
one hand, the Declaration of Human Rights in the other; they also
took food for the liberated people:
President Mahinda Rajapaksa stressed the need for
a unified voice against global terrorism and said certain countries
which are sympathetic towards terrorists would ultimately have to
pay the price for this attitude.
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Tsunami over-reaction inevitable - Disaster Mitigation Director
The people’s reaction to tsunami alert signalled
in the early hours of last Sunday was chaotic. Some people panicked
and overreacted when tsunami watch alert was issued after an
underwater earthquake, measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale, off the
coast of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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