The UN network of informers

The internal ‘Crisis Operations Group’ seems to have been on a par with what was termed the Coffee Club, a group of international NGOs that were led by shadowy figures who were very hostile to the Sri Lankan government, and who actively promoted a petition to the Secretary General sent in September 2008 that was deeply critical of the Sri Lankan government,

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K B Ratnayake:

Great sportsman and veteran politician

Versatile sportsman, honest politician, one of the leading lights of North Central Province the highly respected former Minister of Sports and Speaker of Parliament K. B. Ratnayake passed away seven years ago on April 30 2004, at the age of 80 years.

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Sri Lanka’s Independence and the Bracegirdle incident

The Bracegirdle issue had set the ball rolling in the process that was to culminate in the complete independence of Sri Lanka. In 1943, the Ceylon National Congress called for complete independence and in 1945 the State Council passed the Free Lanka Bill,

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May Day rebuff to Darusman cacophony

On May 21, 2009, just days after the final rout of the LTTE, the Wall Street Journal in an editorial comment observed that ‘The war on terror scored a big victory this weekend with the Sri Lankan Army’s battlefield defeat of the terrorist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

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