10/02/2011
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Sunday Times
Shanty dwellers become VIPs - very important pollsters
Both sides express confidence, but outcome crucial for UNP
By Our Political Editor
07/11/2010
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Sunday Leader
The buzz word in the political lexicon of the Sinhalese in the past weeks has been ‘Sovereignty’ — Swaireebawaya (in Sinhala). We say Sinhalese because Tamils have ceased to speak on politics for quite sometime. Political sovereignty — as anyone who ventures to discover its precise meaning, will find a bewildering number of definitions. The closest interpretation of our ardent defenders of sovereignty is: The right of a nation to defend its national interests free from external interference.