Welcome to Sri Lanka (0)
6/02/09 •
Sri Lanka, also known as Ceylon, is an island separated from her nearest neighbour India by just 29 km across the Palk Straits in the Indian Ocean. (located south / south east of the Indian peninsula). Sri Lanka is a land of a varied sceneries. No other country can boast of such varied natural landscapes, [...]
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Sri Lankan government voices anger as UK MPs address Tamil group (0)
2/25/10 •
David Miliband and Gordon Brown among parliamentarians at London conference of Global Tamil Forum
The diplomatic rift between London and Colombo has widened after Gordon Brown and David Miliband met delegates from a new worldwide Tamil union despite “strong protests” from the Sri Lankan government.
Miliband, the foreign secretary, used his address to the inaugural conference of [...]
Sri Lanka needs carrot, not stick | Patrick Basham (0)
2/12/10 •
Despite its shortcomings, scrapping Sri Lanka’s trade benefits would only impede its progress towards liberal democracy
Are Sri Lanka’s problems caused by too much democracy? Western analysts were dismayed by President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s recent election victory over General Sarath Fonseka, who led the military defeat of the Tamil Tigers. Criticism of Rajapaksa’s government increased following Fonseka’s [...]
Letters: Sri Lanka and C4 (0)
2/12/10 •
Jon Snow (Comment, 5 February) does little to enlighten the reader to the issue to which the Sri Lankan government sought redress. Since Channel 4’s report on the refugee camps, many of the events in the report have been identified as innuendo. There is also the allusion that Sri Lanka does not take these sorts [...]
Video: Clashes in Colombo (0)
2/10/10 •
Violence has erupted in Colombo between pro and anti-government demonstraters
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- Video: Sri Lankan military police arrest Sarath Fonseka
- Sri Lankan general held in crackdown
- Channel 4 can’t play it both ways when it comes to the law
- Letters: Ofcom not exploited
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