Home Archives for July 2008

Reply to Anandasangaree: In Defense of Devolution Within a Unitary State

"As for Indian model devolution, there is no logic by which a 50 million Tamils in Tamil Nadu and a far smaller fraction in Sri Lanka require the same degree of...

Raging 1983 Revenge War and a Diaspora’s dilemma

EXCLUSIVE"Trapped into the WTM-LTTE den, the Canadian Sri Lankan Tamil Diaspora is a community that is being exploited by clever crooks and downright desperados...

The status of the Non-Aligned Movement

by Abdolreza Ghofrani(July 31, Tehran, Sri Lanka Guardian) The 15th Non-Aligned Movement foreign ministers meeting is now being held (27-30 July 2008) in Tehran....

Ex-Thai PM Thaksin's wife jailed on tax charges

by Ian MacKinnon in Bangkok(July 31, Bangkok, Sri Lanka Guardian) The wife of the deposed Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra was sentenced to three years in...

Disgusted Businessmen complain publicly to Ranil

(July 31, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Business community who met Leader of Opposition and UNP , Ranil Wickremesinghe at ‘Shalika Inn ‘ Hall , Kegalle on...

Public Admin rules out Friday holiday for SAARC

(July 31, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Public Administration ministry has ruled out declaring a public holiday on Friday (Aug. 01) in view of the SAARC summit.A...

7 LTTE cadres killed in fighting : Palamoddai

(July 31, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) At least 7 LTTE fighters were killed in fighting that ensued between the Sri Lanka army and the LTTE yesterday, in Palamoddai...

Need for a professional administrator as Treasury Head

by Dr Sudath Gunasekara(July 31, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Now that the Jayasundara episode is over with his resignation from the post of Secretary to the Treasury...

Victory –Is It Worth The Price?

by Fr. Alex Dassanayake(July 31, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The long protracted ethnic war has brought about such an amount of death in our country that one...

A qualitative-quantitative improvement in the Army

(July 31, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) The Sri Lanka Army's ranks are swelling by the day as unprecedented numbers join the ranks and deserters start returning...

The view point of the South!

- The Sudar Oli Editorial(July 31, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Colombo is determined to pursue the war, since it is committed to the standpoint that the ethnic...

Sri Lanka: Reign of Anomy - An essay on the ethnic conflict

by Charles Ponnuthurai SarvanPreface (July 31, London, Sri Lanka Guardian) To the memory of M. Shanmugan, Senior Superintendent of Police, and Dharmasiri de Zoysa,...