Solving issues behind bars

Integrating rehabilitated ex-LTTE combatants into society and carrying out prison reforms are two major hurdles. Rehabilitation and Prison Reforms Minister DEW Gunasekara speaks about future plans of the Ministry to address these issues

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Rain, drains and brains

The Morning Inspection - Malinda

‘Rain, rain, go away, come again another day...’ so goes the old nursery rhyme. I’ve never understood it; as a child I didn’t want the rain to go away because raining was like Santa Clause’s arrival except that Santa only promised, the rain delivered. Rain turns paddy fields into mirrors, gardens into pools, roads and all pathways into rivers and rivulets respectively.

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Expunging ghastly images of terror era

PARALLEL Perspectives - Phillip Fernando

In a way, the LTTE’s decadence and ultimate doom came due to the moral treachery inflicted on the very people they were purportedly liberating. History was not on their side as they repeatedly eschewed practitioners of the art of political discourse in preference to suicide bombers.

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