Whilst it is not clear as to whether we would be voting in both the presidential and general elections on the same day, it is clear that we will be voting in at least one of them in the next three months, followed soon thereafter by the other.  Most likely it will be the presidential elections since it is the president who has to decide and since he is much more popular than his party. Moreover, we have been told that he is willing to sacrifice, if necessary, two years of his first term in order to secure a second and a parliamentary majority nearest to the heart’s desire.

All elections are important and these will be no exception. It is worth …

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219 Tamils
were rounded
up in Gampaha
town during
dusk to dawn raids.

They had no
proper id cards
and did not
offer adequate
reason

to be living
in the vicinity.
Their Sri
Lankan
citizenship,

rights to move
about the
multi-ethnic,
multicultural
country do

not hold up
to scrutiny
under Prevention
of Terrorism Act
which allows

for exceptions
to such liberal
silliness
as equality
under law.

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By Chandrika
Yesterday one of my overzealous office buddies forwarded to me a sensational photograph (as she thought) of half of a mangled bomb victim who happened to have been a prominent public figure; I told her off for it but when I walked around the office I found clumps of my colleagues staring at this photograph on office computers and commenting over it.
Im sorry but I really don’t get it, Im missing the point here. I honestly don’t have any thing against cheery powerpoints of smiling orangutans that you receive in your email in the mornings, or heck, even a bit of quality pornography (actually its called erotic art) but hello, dead bodies? Before breakfast? And of Sri Lankans? Somehow, …

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