Child conscription: The ultimate terror - Part 2

Those who take children away from their families and communities to which they belong and use them in activities that lead to their inevitable deaths or being maimed physically and emotionally are psychopaths.

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Is corrupt 'civil society' fit to represent the people in Geneva? - Part II

The National Peace Council, headed by Jehan Perera, has been in the forefront of a campaign by the self-styled "civil society" to claim a seat as observers in the future peace talks with the Government and the LTTE.

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Varanasi violence underlines religious polarities

The series of bomb explosions which rocked Varanasi in India's Uttar Pradesh state, recently, snuffing out scores of lives and causing considerable devastation, is an ominous pointer to the continuing presence of violent religious nationalism in the Indian body politic.

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