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Reducing Of Sri Lanka’s Judiciary To A Mockery
Reducing Of Sri Lanka’s Judiciary To A Mockery By Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena -December 8, 2012 Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena Nowhere in South Asia or indeed the entire world (excepting in failed states)...
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Select (Reject) Committee report in Parliament early morning: Mockery court...
Select (Reject) Committee report in Parliament early morning: Mockery court finds SC guilty of 3 charges (Lanka-e-News -08.Dec.2012, 10.45PM) The puppet show select (reject) Committee of MaRa...
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Constitutional Supremacy Or Parliamentary Supremacy?
Constitutional Supremacy Or Parliamentary Supremacy? By Kamal Nissanka -December 9, 2012 Kamal Nissanka When notices were sent to the Hon speaker, President and the members of the Select Committee...
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Tamil Women Coerced into Joining the Military- Women’s Action Network
Tamil Women Coerced into Joining the Military- Women’s Action Network ………………………………………………………………….. Crisis escalates as PSC finds CJ guilty of three charges By Our Political Editor = Bar Association...
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Did The Chief Justice Get A Fair Trial?
Did The Chief Justice Get A Fair Trial? By Chandra Kumarage -December 8, 2012 Chandra Kumarage Some citizens including lawyers have filed petitions in the Court of Appeal seeking writs restraining the...
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Island wide Bar Association representatives meet in Colombo yesterday : BASL...
Island wide Bar Association representatives meet in Colombo yesterday : BASL President’s effeminacy and backstreet policy resented (Lanka-e-News -09.Dec.2012, 6.00PM) The Presidents , Secretaries and...
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Not The End Of The Road Though; Opposition Plays Deaf And Blind
Not The End Of The Road Though; Opposition Plays Deaf And Blind By Kusal Perera -December 9, 2012 Kusal Perera “Reason has always existed, but, not always in a reasonable form” - Karl Marx The Leader...
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Indian foreign policy, ground realities and mixed messages
Indian foreign policy, ground realities and mixed messages By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya-Sunday, December 09, 2012 A talk by Dr Arvind Gupta, Director General of the Institute for Defence Studies and...
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More Countries Are Now Breathing Down Sri Lanka’s Neck And It Is A Good Sign
More Countries Are Now Breathing Down Sri Lanka’s Neck And It Is A Good Sign By Paul Newman -December 9, 2012 Dr Paul Newman The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a process in the United Nations...
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Special funds allocation from Sri Lanka government is necessary, to build the...
Special funds allocation from Sri Lanka government is necessary, to build the lives of Tamil speaking people. Mawai Senathiraja urge Tamil National Alliance parliament member Mawai Senathiraja urged...
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Fein: U.S.’s immunity determinations flout due process
Fein: U.S.’s immunity determinations flout due process [TamilNet, Saturday, 08 December 2012, 14:43 GMT] In the final legal brief filed with the United States Court of Appeals in the case against Sri...
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Old Left Or Dead Left – Betrayal Of Sri Lankans
Old Left Or Dead Left – Betrayal Of Sri Lankans By Members of the Sri Lankan Spring -December 9, 2012 Tissa, DEW and Vasu The Old Left movement comprising mainly of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP)...
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A Tricky Moral Dilemma: Egypt’s Hastily Drafted Constitution
A Tricky Moral Dilemma: Egypt’s Hastily Drafted Constitution By Kumar David -December 8, 2012 Prof Kumar David The power struggle in Egypt is moving at the speed of greased lightening. A draft...
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CALL TO BOYCOTT SRI LANKAN CRICKET TOUR
CALL TO BOYCOTT SRI LANKAN CRICKET TOUR December 9, 2012 Critics of Sri Lanka’s human rights record are calling for a boycott of the national cricket team’s tour of Australia and say the Boxing Day...
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Sri Lanka Not Serious About Tamils’ Rights, Says Canadian Tamil Congress
Sri Lanka Not Serious About Tamils’ Rights, Says Canadian Tamil Congress News East-West TORONTO: Citing a recent piece in the local National Post about a defected Sri Lankan soldier exposing...
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TID interrogators fabricate accusation against 14 students in Jaffna
TID interrogators fabricate accusation against 14 students in Jaffna [TamilNet, Sunday, 09 December 2012, 01:28 GMT] The ‘Terrorist’ Investigation Department operated by the Sri Lankan Defence...
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Human Rights Day: Importance Of The UDHR
Human Rights Day: Importance Of The UDHR By Laksiri Fernando -December 9, 2012 Dr Laksiri Fernando The adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) on 10 December 1948 by the United...
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SRI LANKA: The clergy and civil society condemn the arrest
SRI LANKA: The clergy and civil society condemn the arrest Saturday, 8 December 2012, 4:13 pm Press Release: Asian Human Rights Commission FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-FST-056-2012 December 7, 2012 A...
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Live Recording Of Dr. Tanya Ekanayaka In Concert At London’s St....
Live Recording Of Dr. Tanya Ekanayaka In Concert At London’s St. Martin-in-the-Fields December 7, 2012 Dr. Ekanayaka’s recital concluded with the UK premiere of her composition ‘Dhaivaya: Alter(ing)...
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An Overview Of The State Of Human Rights In Sri Lanka In 2012
An Overview Of The State Of Human Rights In Sri Lanka In 2012 By Asian Human Rights Commission -December 10, 2012 Mahinda Rajapaksa In previous annual reports, the Asian Human Rights Commission has...
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