The whole country is being rapidly transformed into a mental hospital, I guess. You who read this as well as I who write this are, frankly speaking, schizophrenic. Instead of being a total lunatic, if one remains bogged down half way in the madness, that is really pathetic. For a lunatic can be easily detected, diagnosed and treated whereas semi-madness is rarely discernible, let alone diagnosing and treating.

This is a very alarming stage. Any disease that cannot be diagnosed at a curable stage is life threatening. When a whole society suffers from such ailment the situation becomes disastrous.

People’s sovereignty is believed to be a power of decision making exercised by the people of the whole country. Taking critical …

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A child means every human being below the age of 18 years. Children have rights as adults. Unfortunately these rights violate by the society which create and rule by adults. Children do not commit wrongs. That is one reason why we call them children.

In Sri Lankan society, on going war has established a hell for children. The convention on the rights of the child adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1989. Sri Lanka is a state party to this convention. The children in the North and the East have faced various difficulties.

The most aggrieved parties in this ethnic conflict are women and children. Article 38 of the UN convention said …

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Children’s Day is celebrated on 1st October in Sri Lanka. The day is celebrated with the renewal of calls and pledges to respect and protect children’s rights. A day that focuses on children in Sri Lanka should not only have calls and pledges but also take a serious look at the situation of children in Sri Lanka and what actions are feasible in the future. Special attention should be given to children who are affected by man made and natural disasters such as the conflict and the tsunami, taking on board the vulnerabilities of children in such situations and their specific experiences.

Conflict, Displacement and Children
With the conflict children have born …

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Dear Mihin Uncle,

Mihin air, Mihin cost of living, Mihin law, Mihin entourage and Mihin war are making people’s life miserable.

The 25 year old war is an earning for few people who attach to my uncles regime. War may create wounds in the minds of civilians specially Tamils. Before my uncle became the leader neither support nor against the any issue regarding the ethnic conflict. I feel this is a tactic.

Now the cat is out of the sack. People of North East are suffering. People of South getting familiar with barralism this was first reappeared in 1988 and 1989 period. The barralism symbolizes the rising of abductions, extrajudicial killings disappearances and torture in almost all parts of the country.
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Melvin Ally

It comes as no surprise that the rate in divorced or separated couples is on the increase in Sri Lanka and this is a worrying trend, the consequences of which might stretch out to future generations. One opinion is that as economies develop, the first institution to pay for it is marriage - which has its fair share of truth.

The working mother is one aspect of it. With the rise in the cost of living, very few families can survive with only one breadwinner and the working mother seems to be a necessity in today’s context. The career woman is the other side of the coin – many women are relatively more and more career-minded and career-focused where …

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Butterflies

Last year was belonged to children. It was named as butterfly’s year. This was asuggestion by Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapakse. Did they compare children to butterflies with true or honest intention? Or was it an attempt to gain politicalbenefits?

Sri Lankan children affected by tsunami tragedy in 2004. Since the end of 2006 their healings not cured. The children at Tsunami camps faced various difficulties. Right to food, Right to education and other rights were violated. They didn’t have a better environment to continue their studies. Their protection was in danger. Some child abuses were reported.

After the election of …

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“The legislation which allows police to detain a person without an arrest warrant for 48 hours was first introduced by the Justice Ministry in 2005 for an interim two year period and yesterday it was extended until 2009.”
Daily Mirror-August 24 -2007

The law enforcement authority of the government is police. Police have failed to maintain law and order since few decades. Torture, extra judicial killings, violence and abductions have increased at the moment. The situation is more familiar to 1988-1989 period.The new bill introduced first on 2005. After that no progress has shown. The crime rate is increasing day by day.

The detention period without arrest warrant increased to 48 hours. This makes the situation of arrested person even worse. The …

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