Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

A community portal about Sri Lanka with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a predominantly Buddhist island nation in South Asia, located about 31... [more]

A community portal about Sri Lanka with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a predominantly Buddhist island nation in South Asia, located about 31 kilometres off the southern coast of India. It is often popularly referred to as the Pearl of the Indian Ocean. It is home to more than 20 million people.

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M. Chandrapala may not be your typical Sinhalese Sri Lankan. Dressed in an ankle-length lungi and standing outside his modest home in Trincomalee, on the east coast of this beautiful but tragic island, he tells me that Tamil citizens must be given ...  
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by Australian authorities. Boats take up to three weeks to reach Australia. However, some travel by air to Indonesia and then take wooden boats from there to the Australian coast. Last week, dozens of Sri Lankan asylum seekers left an Australian customs  
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Nov 25, Colombo: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa addressed the students and the teachers from the Vavuniya educational zone participated in the national Program on schoolchildren's ethical and intelligence development "Nenaguna Veduma Sisu Diriya" at a ceremony held in Temple Trees today.  
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India looks to be in commanding position on Day 1 of the 2nd Test at the Kanpur. Gambhir and Sehwag partnership made it miserable for the Sri Lankans bowlers. Sri Lankans also were too sloppy in their fielding and were giving away too many runs. They were not able to control...read more  
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Kanpur, Nov 25 (IANS) India’s lower-order crash triggered by left-arm spinner Rangana Herath after Rahul Dravid’s 28th century may have rattled the Sri Lankans seeing the way the Green Park pitch responded to the spinners in the second cricket Test here Wednesday. Thouh the Sri Lankans lost only one wicket scoring 66 in reply [...]  
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Sri Lanka Army officers operating in IDP camps in Vanni were involved in various rape cases. Evidences started emerging " Sri Lanka Army (SLA) intelligence officers operating in the internment camps of Vanni have been allegedly involved in several rape cases during the...read more  
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(New York) - As it prepares to allow the 130,000 internally displaced persons detained in camps to decide whether to stay or leave, the Sri Lankan government should ensure that no additional persons are subject to arbitrary detentions, Human Rights Watch said today. read more  
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I think that the governments of Cuba, Bolivia and Nicaragua let down the entire Tamil population in the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, as well as “proletarian internationalism” and the “exploited”, by extending unconditional support to Sri Lanka’s racist government.I think that the governments of Cuba, Bolivia and Nicaragua let down the entire Tamil population in the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, as well as...  
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COLOMBO, Nov 25 — Ten days ago, at the end of a national security council meeting in Colombo, Sri Lankan war hero Sarath Fonseka quietly told President Mahinda Rajapakse that he intended to quit the army at the end of the month as he was ...  
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Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lanka’s presidential election next year will allow voters to go to the polls in the northern region formerly controlled by the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said. People in the north ...  
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka—Sri Lanka's president signed a decree Monday calling for early elections, hoping to take advantage of his popularity after ending the country's 25-year civil war to win a new six-year term. However, President Mahinda Rajapaksa ...  
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LTTE members either in custody or operating units in the island have become the most vulnerable to counter-Tamilnational conspiracies of Colombo government, well informed sources in Colombo indicate. The Colombo government’s focus now is to get the section of the LTTE in its trap to denounce Tamil Eelam and efforts are intensified to make use of the Heroes’ Day to test the conspiracy. Colombo is as usual abetted by certain powers in this...  
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Internally displaced Sri Lankan Tamil civilians peep from over a fence at a camp for the displaced in Vavuniya yesterday. Some 300,000 war-displaced people were forced into camps after fleeing the final months of the government’s decades-long war ...  
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Sri Lanka has announced that, it will begin the process of giving permission to the civilians who got displaced and lost their homes during the gruesome war between Sri Lankan military forces and the terrorist organization, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Since the military offensive began, the villagers and civilians from the nearby regions [...]  
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U.N. Humanitarian Chief John Holmes, left, speaks as Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama looks on during a media briefing in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Nov. 19, 2009. Holmes visited northern Sri Lanka to study the welfare of war ...  
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