Himalayan,  Sun Jan 17 23:20:57 EST 2010

    NEW DELHI: Two celebrated heroes who, as president and army chief, helped end Sri Lanka’s long and brutal civil war against the Tamil Tigers are now crossing political swords. Whichever candidate wins Sri Lanka’s presidential election on January 26 will have to lead that small but strategically located island-nation in a fundamentally different direction — from making war, as it has done for more than a quarter-century, to making peace through ethnic reconciliation and power sharing.
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- The Academic

Only when the least can say,  'I have got my liberty'      I will have mine ---Gandhi




Our journalists have lost their liberty.
Muzzling the rights of jourmalists is proof of hiding the human rights violations
rampant in the country led by the vicious men seeking popularity
through unscrupulous and devious actions.

To even think that one could commit cold blooded murder in broad daylight
and get away with it is the 'rights' given to these muderers by the hierachy.

we hope that soon 'freedom to write' will prevail without
undue repurcussions


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