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Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse on Wednesday unveiled the budget for 2008 in the 225-member Parliament amidst tight security, declaring that the island nation has maintained seven per cent growth despite various challenges.
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Posts and Telecommunications Minister Rauff Hakeem in Sri Lankan parliament on Tuesday condoled the death of LTTE’s political head S.P. Thamilchelvan. When government ministers including Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremenayake hailed Sri Lankan security forces for killing him, minister Rauff took an opposite stand in this connection and expressed his sorrow over the killing of the LTTE leader.
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We seem to be in the midst of a civilisational crisis; a crisis that encompasses all dimensions of social life; economic-social- political- cultural and moral. It appears that leaders on whom we used to set our hopes not only have been unsuccessful in arresting the escalating crisis situation; rather they are becoming a part of the problem.
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Sinhala nationalism, long an obstacle to the resolution of Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict, is again driving political developments on the island. Nationalist parties, opposed to any significant devolution of power to Tamil areas of the north and east and to negotiations with the Tamil Tigers, help set President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s agenda.
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Kilinochchi – Friday Morning Friday, 2 November 2007 was a day without the usual monsoon rain clouds in Kilinochchi - the bread basket of the North. With the loss of Jaffna in 1995, the seat of Tamil governance from ancient times, and the ensuing displacement of about 800,000 people, Kilinochchi became the seat of Tamil government.
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Chennai, India: The Periyar Dravidar Kazhagam (PDK) party today protested in front of the Sri Lankan Consulate here against the killing of Tamil Tiger rebel political wing leader S.P. Thamilselvan.
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - Sri Lanka's president presented the impoverished country's largest-ever defense budget Wednesday as the government pushed forward with an escalating war against Tamil separatists in the north.
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 Liberation Tigers have repulsed a Sri Lanka Army
(SLA) ground operation towards the Northern Forward Defence Line (FDL)
positions between Ki'laali and Mukamaalai in the early hours of
Wednesday, Irasiah Ilanthirayan, the military spokesman of the
Liberation Tigers told TamilNet. The ground operation, launched by the
SLA with heavy artillery, Multi Barrel Rocket Fire and with the support
of Sri Lanka Air Force (SLAF) helicopter gunships at 5:20 a.m. was
thwarted around 7:30 a.m., after intense fighting, he said claiming
that more than 100 SLA troops were wounded and at least 16 killed in
the attack.
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A meeting has been scheduled between the Head of
Mission of the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) Major General Lars
Johan Solvberg and the Liberation Tigers of Tamileelam (LTTE) new
Political Head P. Nadesan, in Ki'ilinochchi on Thursday, according to
informed sources in Vanni.
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 Several Members of Parliament (MPs) in Canada
expressed their solidarity with the Tamil community in Toronto, taking
part in a memorial event Monday night to pay respects to the slain
Political Head and Chief Negotiator of the Liberation Tigers, S.P.
Thamilselvan.
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India's Hindustan Times reporter PK Balachandran claimed today (Tuesday, 06 November) in an extensive article that the Sri Lankan troopers sent home from Haiti "were not accused of rape, as generally assumed here ?. the allegation was that they had used the services of sex workers, some of whom were minors".
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