09/11/2011
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Sunday Leader
The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) says the government must keep to its pledge to free all those detained in Jaffna following the recent violence over the sightings of the so called grease devils.
09/19/2010
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Sunday Leader
Having removed the sole really-existing impediment to dynastic rule with the 18th Amendment, the triumphant Rajapakses are hatching the next step in their constitutional revolution. According to Minister Maitripala Sirisena, the 19th Amendment will introduce a hybrid of proportional representation and first-past-the-post systems. It will also reform the 13th Amendment, the Indian-propelled constitutional provision which devolved a measure of power from the centre to the provinces and, thus, from the majority to the minorities.
09/07/2010
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Civil Rights Movement, Sunday Leader
We have witnessed thirty years of armed conflict and the erosion of democratic values entrenched in the first post-independence Constitution. The end of the armed conflict brought with it high expectations of a just peace, strengthened democracy and development. The proposed changes to the Constitution do not merely disappoint these expectations, but in themselves give rise to grave apprehensions.
09/06/2010
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Sunday Leader
The police have arrested two JVP members while distributing leaflets on the proposed 18th amendment among people in the Nuwara Eliya town.
09/06/2010
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Sunday Leader
Authorities of the Colombo University have today (6) cancelled a seminar organized by the university students on the proposed constitutional amendments.
09/05/2010
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Sunday Leader
Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the North remain unregistered to vote, despite it being over three months since voter registration began, claims Director of Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE), Keerthi Tennakoon.
09/03/2010
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Sunday Leader
Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao has said the Sri Lankan government has assured that the army will return the land of the displaced Tamils in the country’s northern Vavuniya district, Indian media reports stated.
09/03/2010
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Sunday Leader
Proposed 18th Amendment To The Sri Lankan Constitution (Full Text) (links)
09/01/2010
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Sunday Leader
The latest statistics released by the government has stated that the total number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the Menik Farm relief camp has dropped to 28,659 as of today (1).
08/26/2010
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Sunday Leader
The first prize winner is a displaced child from Vanni who acted as a helpless woman who lost her husband and all her children.