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		<title>Tamil businessman who filed FR case against police abducted at Wellawatte by armed group in white van</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by D.B.S. Jeyaraj State Terror in the form of the dreaded “white van goon squad” struck again in Colombo on Saturday February 11th 2012 when a Tamil businessman of Indian origin was abducted near his residence on Canal Bank Row, Wellawatte in the presence of his Sinhala wife and daughter. 42 year old Ramasamy Prabakaran [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indo-Chinese tensions and the &#8216;mutiny&#8217; causing regime change in Maldives</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by D.B.S.Jeyaraj Hello Friends There has been a regime change in the Paradisian archipelago of Maldives. Recent events leading to such a change in the Maldives Islands have evoked great interest and concern in the corridors of power in Colombo. Sri Lanka is the closest neighbour to the Maldives and there existed a strong personal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Madonna, M.I.A and the middle finger malfunction!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by D.B.S. Jeyaraj Superbowl XLVI is over and the National Football League champions for 2011 are the New York Giants who beat New England Patriots 21 -17. The game played on Sunday February 5th 2012 at Lucas Oil stadium in Indianapolis,Indiana was televised live by NBC.I was one of the estimated 110 million who watched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Return and re-settlement of displaced persons in the North: A TNA overview</title>
		<link>http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/3988</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 02:26:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello Friends The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has begun the commendable task of comiling and releasing informative reports on crucial issues affecting the people of the North and East. The latest in this series is one pertaining to the return and resettlement of displaced persons in the North. The preamble of the TNA report states [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sri Lankan connection of Swami Vivekananda</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Priyadarshi Dutta Hello Friends Narendranath Dutta known as Swami Vivekananda was the chief disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahamsar and founded the Ramakrishna mission that performs commendable service in many parts of the world including Sri Lanka. Swami Vivekananda is a Bengali who was born in 1863 and passed away in 1902. He was greatly responsible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Asian Think Tank IPCS researcher critiques LLRC Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello Friends, The Report released by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC)has been receiving mixed responses. The latest critique that I read was from the South Asian Think tank – Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) in New Delhi ,India.It is written by an ICPS staff researcher J.Jeganaathan based in Delhi who is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sea Tiger commander Soosai&#8217;s wife Satyadevi speaks out</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello Friends Thillaiambalam Sivanesan alias Soosai was the former commander and special commander of the naval division of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) known as “Kadal Puligal” or Sea Tigers. This native of Polygandy in Vadamaratchy fought to the very end and died in Mulllivaaikkaal in Mullaitheevu district on May 17/18th 2009. Soosai born [...]]]></description>
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		<title>50th Anniversary of abortive coup d&#8217;etat conspiracy in January 1962</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By D.B.S. Jeyaraj Fifty years ago on Sunday January 28th 1962 the people of the Island nation known then as “Ceylon” were rocked by a special news bulletin in the afternoon on “Radio Ceylon” (Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation)that interrupted regular programming . The shocking announcement repeated ad nauseam by a male voice on Radio stated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Irresponsible diaspora sections cause many problems in Jaffna</title>
		<link>http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/3809</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rajasingham Jayadevan Hello Friends Rajasingham Jayadevan is an accountant based in London, Britain. He has been and continues to e a political activist concerned about the future and well-being of Sri Lankans in general and Tamils in particular Pic courtesy of: A visit to the market in Jaffna ~ more pics-by By helpingmedia ~ [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rowdyism at Rameswaram by Tamil Nadu &#8216;activist&#8217; mob</title>
		<link>http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/3781</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by D.B.S. Jeyaraj Rameswaram (Rameshwar)in the South of Tamil Nadu state in India is revered by Hindus all over the world as a place of tremendous religious significance.The Island town was the scene of an ugly rumpus on the tenth of this month when a well-known Sri Lankan Tamil businessman visiting for a religious purpose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sharing land powers is part of the devolution process enshrined in the constitution</title>
		<link>http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/3766</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:56:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Austin Fernando Hello Friends The sharing of powers over land between the Provincial and Central Governments is currently a raging controversy. The “lands” issue has become one of the primary issues on which the Government and Tamil National Alliance (TNA)are finding it difficult to reach agreement upon. President Rajapaksa’s pronouncements on the subject tend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Island Mystique: Three startling differences Between  India and Sri Lanka</title>
		<link>http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/3754</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alaka M.Basu Hello Friends A friend sent me an interesting article that appeared in “The Telegraph”published in Kolkota (Calcutta). It is written by Alaka M.Basu who is a professor in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University,USA. Ms.Basu was in Sri Lanka on a holiday recently and is captivated by its charm like [...]]]></description>
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