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POLLHENA, Sri Lanka, May 28, 2010 (IPS) – It is Saturday morning and the Pollhena beach, 160 kilometres south of the capital Colombo, is jampacked as usual with local and foreign tourists alike, who are either playing in the sand or bathing in its calm, shallow water, which…

A reduction in various import duties has been announced. As usual there has been no honest explanation of why. While this reduction has been predicted for over 6 months now amongst the circle of people in …

by Tisaranee Gunasekara T he unprecedented…

Parliamentarian Vasudeva Nanayakkara wants telecom tariffs down. Quoting an unnamed ‘prominent mobile operator’ who placed the operational cost of a phone call at LKR 0.20 (Less than one fifth of a US cent) at a [...]

A man clad in a sarong makes his way along the sand. With a pair of diving gogglesand a snorkel in hand, he treads carefully along the shoreline, his eyes fixed on the sand before his …

by Sri Lanka Unites A young boy from a border village in Polonnaruwa had fiercely sworn to hate the Tamil race. Living on the borderlines of the conflict, he lost his mother and father to a brutal LTTE attack in the…

by Rajan Philips P re-monsoon rains in May wreaked havoc in as many as five …

Every day, we fight several battles – from inflation to traffic to our friendly neighborhood cop. Our battles are many, but our defeat in one particular battle stands out, quite spectacularly.  Sign boards saying “Mehi kunu dameema ballanta pamanai” (Only dogs may dump garbage…

Following is the full text of the interview with Al Jazeera on 27 May. Fauziah Ibrahim: Welcome back to 101 East. This week we are in Sri Lanka as the nation marks its first anniversary after the end…

By Kalana Senaratne T he war which came to a conclusion on or around 19 May 2009 was a necessary one, for terrorism had to be defeated. It was evident that the LTTE did not know any other way of resolving disputes. Negotiations had failed. In fact, negotiations were…

By Dr. S. Narapalasingam A year has passed since the Sri Lanka military eliminated the …

Interestingly of the four pieces I have read on the first anniversary of the war, three are by Indian analyst/commentators, of whom two are military professionals: Gen Ashok K. Mehta’s Manekshaw paper No 22 for the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (New Delhi) on …

The HOPE in Sri Lanka after war was in 2009 Deborah Philip’s first photo-essay to Groundviews anchored …

Prelude: The following is a ‘fragmented reflection’, on present-day Sri Lanka, war’s end and related issues. The objective was to capture the thought process of a citizen ‘thinking’ about these issues as realistically as possible, hence the fragmented nature of the rendering, and…

By Anne Abayasekara “M any little people…

In a pre-…

Background On Tuesday 19 th May 2009 – the day after the death of …

About six months after the end of the war, in November 2009, the government of …

Reported by IRIN News B ATTICALOA, Ganeshwary Santhanam, 31, is …