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		<title>Sri Lanka at Sixty: The unfinished task of nation building</title>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/309</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by D.B.S. Jeyaraj
President Mahinda Rajapakse in his address to the nation on our 60th independence day observed thus 
&#8221; Our challenge today is to be true to the nation&#8221;. 
He also stated &#8221; our resolve will take us to the creation of a truly free and independent nation in our motherland&#8221;
Brave words indeed! 
But what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>APRC in Quandary Over Future as Jan 23 Deadline Draws Near</title>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/285</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
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The All Party Representative Committee (APRC) is facing a practical dilemma as D -day or January 23rd draws near!
The APRC chaired by Science and Technology minister Prof. Tissa Vitarana is in a quandary about what it&#8217;s future course of action should be in terms of presenting a final report on Constitutional reform to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President Rajapakse wants &#8220;APRC River&#8221; to Flow Backwards</title>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/276</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;Rivers do not flow backwards&#8221; was a favourite saying of Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike. It was almost as famous as his &#8220;trials of transition&#8221; used frequently to justify all what was going wrong during the revolution of 1956 that he ushered in.
SWRD&#8217;s 1956 revolution has spawned many political off-spring. President Mahinda Rajapakse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>APRC Under Pressure to Propose 13th Amendment Plus as Interim Solution</title>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/266</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 22:24:25 +0000</pubDate>
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Much maligned and mis &#8211; understood in recent times , the All Party Representative Committee (APRC) continues to forge ahead with its task of drafting a comprehensive scheme of Constitutional reform that would provide maximum power sharing between centre and periphery.
Despite the disinformation and misinformation being dished out the APRC chaired by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why The Muslim Congress quit the Rajapakse Govt</title>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/252</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:21:11 +0000</pubDate>
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The latest decision by the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) to quit the Government led by President Mahinda Rajapakse has caused controversy. The timing of the SLMC&#8217;s move has led to much speculation that the party decision was tied up with the Budget&#8217;s third reading vote on Dec 14th.
While this may be true to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Khamer Rouge Leaders Face Trial For Cambodian Killing Fields</title>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/225</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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The wheels of justice are grinding slowly but surely for ex &#8211; Khmer Rouge leaders in Cambodia. Though Pol Pot is no more and some others too are dead,  there are a few yet remaining.
Now some have been arrested and will face trial at the hands of a&#8221; hy-brid&#8221; tribunal set up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding the legitimate fears of Sinhala nationalists</title>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/224</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2007 18:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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A recent report by the International Crisis Group on Sri Lanka is titled &#8220;Sri Lanka; Sinhala Nationalism and the Elusive Southern Consensus&#8221;. The  report  examines the nationalism of the country&#8217;s largest ethnic community and its relationship to the almost 25-year conflict. While observing that &#8221;  the Sinhalese are not unalterably [...]]]></description>
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		<title>JR&#8217;s Kandy March in 1957 and the &#8220;Veeraya&#8221; Who Stopped it at Imbulgoda</title>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/206</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:59:36 +0000</pubDate>
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Last month saw the golden jubilee of a shameful event in the political annals of this Country. October 3rd 1957 was the day on which the  United National Party organized a protest march to Kandy from Colombo under the leadership of Junius Richard Jayewardena. JR&#8217;s Kandy march as it was known played [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hong Kong in China: Two Systems in One Country</title>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/207</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by D.B.S. Jeyaraj
The Ceylon Workers Congress  which held its party convention in Chilaw on Sunday October 28th has passed a resolution urging that a scheme on the lines of the &#8220;Hong Kong&#8221; model be  set up for the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka.
In adopting the resolution the CWC noted  that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Aftermath of the A&#8217;Pura Attack</title>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/199</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 19:04:11 +0000</pubDate>
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Velupillai Prabakharan the numero uno of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) is a man with a keen sense of history. When he was a youth dabbling with explosives there was an accident and his legs were charred. Acutely conscious of having blackened legs Prabakharan referred to himself as Karikalan which literally [...]]]></description>
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