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	<description>groundviews is an award winning Sri Lankan citizen journalism initiative</description>
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		<title>War crimes and human rights in Sri Lanka: A home grown solution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Sri Lankan discourse on war crimes, violations of international humanitarian law and human rights in general, divide into two camps, both of which demonise the other. One holds that the entire matter is a campaign by imperialism and its agents; human rights is itself a suspicious Western usage if not a concept invented millennia [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundviews.org/2010/03/14/war-crimes-and-human-rights-in-sri-lanka-a-home-grown-solution/</link>
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		<title>The Commissioner of Elections: A close friend&#8217;s critique</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
One evening we boisterously debated on the conduct of the last Presidential Elections. Some blamed the President and supporters, some Ranil Wickremesinghe / Sarath Fonseka and supporters, R. Samapanthan and Somawansa Ameresinghe and others posthumously bashed Velupillai Prabhakaran for the “sin” he committed in November 2005. Also, Dayananda Dishanayake received enough criticism.
Dayanada Dishanyake whom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundviews.org/2010/03/13/the-commissioner-of-elections-a-close-friends-critique/</link>
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		<title>Interview with Justice C.G. Weeramantry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Justice C.G. Weeramantry was bestowed Sri Lankabhimanya, the highest National Honour of Sri Lanka in 2007. Justice Weeramantry also won the UNESCO Peace Education Prize in 2006 and the Right Livelihood Award in 2007, considered alternative Nobel Prize.
In this interview conducted a few months ago, Justice Weeramantry talks about the importance of peace education in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundviews.org/2010/03/12/interview-with-justice-c-g-weeramantry/</link>
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		<title>Seeing it comin&#8217;: Reforming the Sri Lankan State</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“You never see it comin’ till it’s gone” 
 
– ‘Falling &#38; Flyin’, Jeff Bridges in ‘Crazy Heart’
Seeing it comin’: Will the Tamils silently celebrate and the Sinhalese secretly curse the day that Prabhakaran died? With his secessionist fundamentalism and ghastly terrorism, he was the biggest obstacle to achievable autonomy for Tamils and the best [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundviews.org/2010/03/10/seeing-it-comin-reforming-the-sri-lankan-state/</link>
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		<title>Death of a Green Activist: Tribute to Piyal Parakrama (1960 – 2010)</title>
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Piyal Parakrama on Sri Lanka 2048 TV show
Piyal Parakrama’s smile was regular and genuine, but it could be also be a bit misleading. Those who engaged him found that there was a keen mind, passionate heart and a sharp (yet always courteous) tongue behind that disarming smile. Opponents dismissed him lightly at their peril.
In public [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundviews.org/2010/03/09/death-of-a-green-activist-tribute-to-piyal-parakrama-1960-%e2%80%93-2010/</link>
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		<title>The Slide in Sri Lanka</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 24th of February marked the first month anniversary of the disappearance of Prageeth Ekneligoda, the Lanka E-News journalist. Two special Police teams are said to be on the case.  They have however, not come up with any information as to Ekneligoda’s whereabouts.
Ekneligoda’s disappearance is yet another statistic of shame in the long list of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundviews.org/2010/03/08/the-slide-in-sri-lanka/</link>
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		<title>Interview with Arvind Kejriwal: No democracy without right to information</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Arvind Kejriwal is one of India&#8217;s foremost champions of the Right to Information. Awarded the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for Emergent Leadership in 2006, Arvind has won a number of awards for his pioneering work in India. As noted on the Ashoka Foundation site,
Arvind uses a 2001 law called the Right to Information Act (RTIA) to bring [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundviews.org/2010/03/08/interview-with-arvind-kejriwal-no-democracy-without-right-to-information/</link>
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		<title>Interview with Manik de Silva, Editor of the Sunday Island</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Manik de Silva is the most senior and longest-serving Editor of an English newspaper in Sri Lanka. Presently the Editor of the Sunday Island, Manik was also a former Editor of the Daily News. In July 2009, he was elected as the President of the Editors Guild.
I interviewed him in July 2009, just around two [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundviews.org/2010/03/07/interview-with-manik-de-silva-editor-of-the-sunday-island/</link>
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		<title>The Return of Sarath Fonseka: An Enduring Headache?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The sudden and allegedly suspicious death of former General Secretary of the UNP and Minister of Transport, Highways and Civil Aviation, Gamini Athukorala (in 2002) seemed to have marked the end of a critical phase in Ranil Wickremasinghe’s political career; a phase which spanned from the early 1990s to 2002. During this phase, Ranil saw [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundviews.org/2010/03/07/the-return-of-sarath-fonseka-an-enduring-headache/</link>
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		<title>Rebuilding Sri Lanka</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A perceptive and sensitive Sri Lankan has noted;
“It is reported that the people of the North, especially in the Jaffna district, have developed a feeling of dissatisfaction, disaffection and contempt towards the people of the South, who post the end of the war are now engaging in pilgrimage and sightseeing related visits to the North [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundviews.org/2010/03/03/rebuilding-sri-lanka/</link>
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