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	<description>groundviews is an award winning Sri Lankan citizen journalism initiative</description>
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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>
		<description><![CDATA[
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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		<title>Interview with Prof. Kumar David</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Prof. Kumar David, an electrical engineer by training, regular columnist in traditional print media and a frequent commentator on Groundviews, talks about what&#8217;s left of leftist politics in Sri Lanka, the end of war and its impact on Tamil diaspora juxtaposed against th autocratic and essentially one-party rule in Sri Lanka.
I also asked him about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundviews.org/2010/03/03/interview-with-prof-kumar-david/</link>
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		<title>Citizen&#8217;s Commission: Expulsion of the Northern Muslims by the LTTE in October 1990</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sri Lanka has been increasingly the scene of much ethnic violence. The Northern Muslims are the victims of the earliest large scale act of ethnic cleansing in our history. Close to 80,000 persons, constituting the entire Muslim population of the five Northern Districts of Jaffna, Mannar, Vavuniya, Mullaithivu and Kilinochchi were summarily expelled from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundviews.org/2010/03/02/citizens-commission-expulsion-of-the-northern-muslims-by-the-ltte-in-october-1990/</link>
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		<title>THE DEEPEST DIVISION IN SRI LANKA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have always argued that the deepest division in Sri Lanka is not the so-called ethnic divide but the split between supporters of democracy and supporters of totalitarianism, and the presidential elections proved this point. Bitter arguments within the Sinhalese community generated by the candidacy of Sarath Fonseka completely demolished the manufactured image of a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.groundviews.org/2010/03/01/the-deepest-division-in-sri-lanka/</link>
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