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		<title>The 18th Amendment to the Constitution: Process and Substance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The President has proposed to make changes to the constitution via an urgent bill.  The changes known as the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, seek to remove the two term limit on being elected to the office of the President and the Constitutional Council under the 17th Amendment.  As required under the Constitution, the President [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundviews.org/2010/09/02/the-18th-amendment-to-the-constitution-process-and-substance/</link>
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		<title>Synthesis of Personal Reflections: Reconciliation, Sri Lanka Unites and Me</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ever since reading the article by E Pluribus Unum on Groundviews “A Critique of Sri Lanka Unites: Freedom has not made itself known”, I have felt compelled to respond to it,  but was unsure about how and when . At the back of the triumph of the “Future Leaders Conference, Season-2”, I think the time [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundviews.org/2010/09/02/synthesis-of-personal-reflections-reconciliation-sri-lanka-unites-and-me/</link>
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		<title>Official transcript of LLRC oral submission by Mr. Jayantha Dhanapala</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Groundviews exclusively carried Jayantha Dhanapala’s response to erroneous and selective media reports of his submission to LLRC a few days ago, in which he promised an authoritative transcript of his presentation and of the question and answer session from the LLRC. A covering note to the media from Mr. Dhanapala and the transcripts were sent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundviews.org/2010/09/01/official-transcript-of-llrc-oral-submission-by-mr-jayantha-dhanapala/</link>
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		<title>Outrageous process and substance: The proposed 18th Amendment to the Constitution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rohan Edrisinha lectures at the Law Faculty, University of Colombo and is also a Director at the Centre for Policy Alternatives. In this succinct interview conducted by Vikalpa today, Rohan flags serious concerns over the government&#8217;s proposed 18th Amendment to the Constitution. Salient points made by Rohan are, Significant problems with the process through which the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundviews.org/2010/09/01/outrageous-process-and-substance-the-proposed-18th-amendment-to-the-constitution/</link>
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		<title>Jayantha Dhanapala responds to erroneous and selective media reports of his submission to LLRC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Internal Armed Conflicts, Humanitarian Laws and the Curious Transformation of Dr. Jayantha Dhanapala by Kalana Senaratne on Groundviews flagged a number of pertinent questioning arising from the media reportage of Jayantha Dhanapala&#8217;s submission to the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) recently. On our Facebook page as well as through numerous emails sent to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundviews.org/2010/08/30/jayantha-dhanapala-responds-to-erroneous-and-selective-media-reports-of-his-submission-to-llrc/</link>
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		<title>A-Z of Sri Lankan English: D is for deffa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eyebrows were raised when I included the word deffa on the mirisgala website under “new entries”. And it’s true that it is stretching the point to claim that it qualifies as standard Sri Lankan English. But perhaps it also gives us an insight into the future of SLE. Deffa (or defa) is a word that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundviews.org/2010/08/29/a-z-of-sri-lankan-english-d-is-for-deffa/</link>
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		<title>Internal Armed Conflicts, Humanitarian Laws and the Curious Transformation of Dr. Jayantha Dhanapala</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Photo courtesy Global Zero Numerous reports suggest that Dr. Jayantha Dhanapala had some interesting things to say when he appeared before the Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) recently; about aspects relating to the interference of certain States in the internal affairs of other States; about the R2P concept; about the Sri Lankan Armed Forces [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundviews.org/2010/08/28/internal-armed-conflicts-humanitarian-laws-and-the-curious-transformation-of-dr-jayantha-dhanapala/</link>
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		<title>Where do they go from here?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On our way to the first scheduled hearing of Northern Muslims who were expelled by the LTTE in 1990, we spotted a group of men working hard out in the open, under the midday sun, and we stopped to have a conversation with them. Eight days earlier they had made their way from Puttalam to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundviews.org/2010/08/26/where-do-they-go-from-here/</link>
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		<title>In conversation with Tissa Jayatilaka</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interview III &#8211; Tissa Jayathilaka from Young Asia Television on Vimeo. In this interview, Tissa Jayatilaka speaks about the Ceylon of his childhood and the experience of being part of the last batch of students enrolled at the University of Ceylon. Tissa also talks about the tumultuous period during the 1970s, the roots of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundviews.org/2010/08/23/in-conversation-with-tissa-jayatilaka/</link>
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		<title>THE RANDIV-SEHWAG AFFAIR:  MISTAKING THE WOOD FOR THE TREES</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Professor Michael Roberts, in a letter to the editor of The Island, has raised a matter of moral philosophy with regard to the controversy over Suraj Randiv’s deliberate no ball at Dambulla this week in an attempt to denude Virender Sehwag of his century, and the role of Tillekeratne Dilshan in it. Which is worse, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundviews.org/2010/08/22/the-randiv-sehwag-affair-mistaking-the-wood-for-the-trees/</link>
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