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		<title>Victory has a thousand fathers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 03:54:23 +0000</pubDate>
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Victory has a thousand fathers   II
Thursday, 28 May 2009 &#8211; 10:52 AM SL Time








Foreign allies of the LTTE have shifted their anti-Sri Lanka operations to a different front. At the time of writing, a human rights battle was being fought in Geneva between the western governments and Sri [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dusteye.wordpress.com&blog=600965&post=1875&subd=dusteye&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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Gwynne Dyer: Aftermath for Tamils in Sri Lanka and abroad
By Gwynne Dyer
Publish Date: May 28, 2009

&#8220;(The war) is not going to end soon,&#8221; said Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara, the Sri Lankan army&#8217;s spokesman, last month. &#8220;It will take some time to completely eradicate terrorism from the country&#8211;we think about two years.&#8221;
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		<description><![CDATA[Asia Times
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Sri Lanka wards off Western bullying
By M K Bhadrakumar
The strange lineup of the member countries of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for or against Sri Lanka at the special session of the body scheduled to take place in Geneva on Tuesday underscores the maritime Great Game unfolding in the Indian [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dusteye.wordpress.com&blog=600965&post=1870&subd=dusteye&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka to increase Army from 200,000 to 300,000 to contain Tamil unrest</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Associated Press: Sri Lanka: Displaced Tamils seek missing family
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By RAVI NESSMAN – 2 hours ago
MANIK FARM, Sri Lanka (AP) — Of all the hardships in this sprawling displacement camp, people most bemoan not knowing what happened to relatives who disappeared in the chaos of the decisive battle that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dusteye.wordpress.com&blog=600965&post=1867&subd=dusteye&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[What Next for Sri Lanka&#8217;s 2.5 Million Tamils? &#8211;  TIME
Tuesday, May. 26, 2009
By AMANTHA PERERA / COLOMBO
The Sri Lankan national flag is everywhere in Colombo these days. In the last months of the Sri Lankan government&#8217;s 26-year war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the national flag — a sword-bearing lion on a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dusteye.wordpress.com&blog=600965&post=1864&subd=dusteye&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Moderate Tamils chart new course</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asia Times Online 
South Asia
May 27, 2009
Moderate Tamils chart new course
By Ameen Izzadeen
COLOMBO &#8211; Now that Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is dead, the question is which way the Tamil cause will go. The man who resorted to armed insurgency to achieve his goal of setting up a separate state for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dusteye.wordpress.com&blog=600965&post=1861&subd=dusteye&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cult of personality grows around Sri Lanka&#8217;s leader</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 03:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doug Saunders
Colombo —  From Tuesday&#8217;s Globe and Mail, Monday, May. 25, 2009 09:33PM EDT


As the President&#8217;s motorcade passed slowly through Colombo Monday, 20-year-old university student Chaturi Waidyasekera pressed her head to the ground, then rose and chanted, “Praise our king”
Dozens of others did the same, beneath billboards that pictured Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dusteye.wordpress.com&blog=600965&post=1857&subd=dusteye&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GEOPOLITICS DROWNS SRI LANKA’S TAMILS: The great game</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[GEOPOLITICS DROWNS SRI LANKA’S TAMILS: The great game
Deccan Herald
By M K Bhadrakumar
Monday, May 25, 2009, 12:00 [IST]
Sri Lanka snubbed Washington by rejecting the US offer to dispatch a naval force to provide humanitarian assistance.
The strange line-up of the member countries of the United Human Rights Council (HRC) for or against Sri Lanka at the special [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dusteye.wordpress.com&blog=600965&post=1854&subd=dusteye&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some of the est. 7000 children killed or wounded in the last days of the Sri Lanka war</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 03:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does it really matter who held the gun?
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		<title>Sri Lanka: child victims of the battle to end a bloody civil war</title>
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President said Tamil Tigers were defeated without inflicting civilian casualties




 Gethin Chamberlain in Colombo
 guardian.co.uk,			 				            Sunday 24 May 2009 22.59 BST


 Lying howling on a torn mattress, in a cot by a window overlooking the Sri Lankan ­capital, Colombo, the wounded toddler was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dusteye.wordpress.com&blog=600965&post=1835&subd=dusteye&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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