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		<title>Ambassador Blake: Transforming to knowledge economy is key to prosperity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Full Text of Speech by Ambassador Robert Blake to the University of Moratuwa&#8217;s Closing Ceremony of Mentoring Program, Conference Hall of HNB Towers, Friday, May 9, 5:30 pm:
It&#8217;s a pleasure to attend this event today on behalf of my government.  I am honored to participate in the closing ceremony of the mentoring program in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka&#8217;s model democracy is being ravaged by war</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Bob Rae
[Former adviser to the Sri Lanka peace talks, 2002-2004] 
A United Nations agency recently declared Sri Lanka one of the world&#8217;s most dangerous places for aid workers and journalists. It is also a terrifying place to be a soldier. Both the government and its opponents, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), count [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/443</link>
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		<title>Armed group releases underage recruits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Karuna faction, the Tamil Tiger breakaway group, which has been transforming itself from an armed military group into a political party, released 39 underage recruits in April 2008.
The group, officially known as the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pullikal (TMVP), released 28 children on 24 April after 11 were let go on 11 April.
The TMVP was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/442</link>
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		<title>NPC: Eastern Election Must Not Lead to Further Alienation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Statement by National Peace Council:
On Saturday May 10 the people of the Eastern Province will cast their vote at crucial elections that will have a bearing on the future course of politics in the country, and especially with regard to the ongoing ethnic conflict. The election can be historic as it will represent for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/440</link>
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		<title>What makes free and fair different in the East</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kusal Perera
The east has now become a battleground for interpreting democracy. The President claims the PC elections in the east would be an ideal example for democracy in comparison to all other elections. Whatever that example is and whatever lesson one would learn from it, it could never be assessed and analysed by &#8220;numbers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/439</link>
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		<title>The regime is challenged in the Eastern polls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Harim Peiris
The Eastern Provincial Council elections are around the corner and as Easterners and the rest of the nation await the outcome of the polls not much can be gained by speculating regarding its outcome. However the situation in the East raises issues that will remain long after the polls are over and pose [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/438</link>
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		<title>Eastern election, Northern task Force</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Dayan Jayatilleka
In his soaring &#8216;rap on race&#8217;– his initial response to the Jeremiah Wright controversy–a speech that should be studied by every reflective Sri Lankan (I watched it twice myself, having read the text once), Barack Obama drew his fundamental demarcation from his former pastor. He said that Rev Wright’s main error was in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/437</link>
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		<title>Remarks by Mano Ganesan MP Bogowantalawa May Day Rally</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our journey among the plantation workers is to evict the clique of reactionary &#8216;all-time ministers&#8217;
Remarks by Mano Ganesan MP, at Bogowantalawa May Day Rally:
Today the plantation workers vote and elect their own representatives. Beginning from the bottom, there are hundreds of local and provincial councilors. There are ten parliamentarians of recent Indian descent. Except me, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/435</link>
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		<title>Report on fact finding visit to Jaffna - February 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A team from the Centre for Policy Alternatives and INFORM Human Rights Documentation Centre visited Jaffna from 18-21st February 2008 to meet with colleagues and partners in the peninsula and to obtain a firsthand impression of the situation there. The team spoke to local civil society actors, community leaders, IDPs, and members of international humanitarian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/436</link>
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		<title>Human rights abuses in Sri Lanka flourish under veil of secrecy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Statement by Amnesty International
Ensuring respect for human rights around the world very often relies on impartial and rigorous media coverage–without exposure and public scrutiny abuses can flourish under a veil of secrecy and denial.
The importance of the media in conflict situations cannot be overstated, without reports, pictures and film of the fighting and the violence, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/434</link>
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