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Paul Harris South China Morning Post It is heartening to read that the Sri Lankan army has recaptured much of the territory in northern Sri Lanka held for many years by Velupillai Prabhakaran's Tamil Tigers. A decisive victory by Sri Lankan government forces would at last bring peace and a return of prosperity to the war-torn country, and might also offer the prospect of justice for one of the world's most ruthless terrorist masterminds. Few people remember that, from the 1930s to the 1980s, Sri Lanka was recognised as a leading Asian country, both in terms of economic growth and educational levels. It was identified in the 1980s as an "Asian tiger" which seemed to have the potential for the same sort of growth that has transformed Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong.  What went wrong is much disputed, but there is little doubt that the government of president Junius Jayawardene in the 1980s bears a heavy responsibility for deliberately increasing majority Sinhalese discrimination against Tamils as a political tool. Equally, irresponsible social attitudes on the part of the Sri Lankan ruling class led successive governments to neglect the plight of the poorest, leading to increasing desperation, in turn feeding the rise of extremism.
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 Colombo, Dec 02: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has assured Pope Benedict XVI that the famous 400-year-old Madhu Catholic Church, which suffered damages in the war with LTTE, has been restored to its original glory.
The visiting Lankan President met the Pope in the Vatican City on Monday and appraised him about current developments in Sri Lanka. He said the church has been cleared of the Tamil Tiger rebels who had besieged it and restored, making it possible for the faithful to pray there. |
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The Associated Press Colombo, Sri Lanka: Sri Lankan soldiers seized a rebel-held village, destroyed four guerrilla bunkers and captured another in separate clashes in the island's northeast, the military said Tuesday. The rebels holding Periyakulam village in Mullaitivu district initially resisted but eventually fled under the attack by Sri Lankan forces, military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said. Casualty details were not immediately available, Nanayakkara said. A day earlier, on Monday, troops attacked and destroyed four bunkers and captured a fifth in Mullaitivu district, the military said in statement. Nanayakkara said there were no military casualties but that eight rebels were wounded in the bunker attacks. |
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 Ankara (Asiantribune.com): Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived in Ankara late on Monday on an official visit at the invitation of his Turkish counterpart, Abdullah Gül.
President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Shiranthi Rajapaksa were received by Kemal Onal, Governor of Ankara at Ankara Esenboga International Airport when he arrived yesterday (1December) evening from Rome. |
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COLOMBO: Condemning the deadly terror strike in Mumbai, Sri Lankan foreign minister Rohitha Bogollagama on Friday said militant groups such as LTTE provide ideas and methodology for undertaking such attacks. "Methodology and well-coordinated precision of these savage attacks are reminiscent of the terror tactics employed by the LTTE against innocent civilians and vital infrastructure in Sri Lanka," Bogollagama told the parliament. "I have no doubt in my mind that the terrorist groups the world over, study and mimic the modus operandi of each other and to cause maximum death and destruction," he said. |
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