A salute to Anura and Arthur
This month saw the passing away of two prominent
personalities in this country. Anura Bandaranaike, Member of
Parliament and scion of an eminent political clan died without
reaching the proverbial three score and ten. If Anura Bandaranaike
represented some thing very indigenous, Sir Arthur C Clarke,
domiciled in Sri Lanka by choice, was a reminder of the endless
possibilities of the human mind and spirit.
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Dying to kill: Suicide terrorism
Since their formation in 1972, The Liberation
Tigers of Tamil Eelam, better known as the Tigers, have waged a
relentless insurgency against the Sri Lankan State in order to
fulfil their ambitions of an independent state for the ethnic
Tamils. Suicide attacks - which they have carried out over 200 of in
the last three decades - have been a prominent tactic in their
participation in a civil war which has claimed some 60,000 lives in
the last two decades.
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Troops advance undaunted despite torrential rains lashing
battlefront
Inundated areas pose huge challenge to soldiers:
The rainy weather that continues to lash Wanni,
out of season within the past few weeks, has turned the entire
battleground into a completely different one. The thick jungle
patches in the Weli Oya and Vavuniya have gone under water making
the task before the troops a difficult one compelling the troops to
operate in extremely difficult circumstances.
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