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		<title>Improved water retention measures needed to thwart floods</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 03:08:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flash floods that affected 418,000 people and left 23 dead and four missing this week in western Sri Lanka could have been avoided with proper water retention schemes, government irrigation engineers told IRIN.
Floods caused by the onset of the southwestern monsoon on 2 and 3 June affected more than 94,000 families in nine districts in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sri Lanka, Somalia, Islam and the West</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 02:47:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dr.Ram Manikkalingam
I recently visited Somalia to attend a meeting of religious figures, clan elders and women leaders. Somalia is not a very stable place. But like all unstable countries, there are pockets of relative stability. While this is true of most countries that have an internal armed conflict, Somalia has the additional problem of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gota lays down his law to journos</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 03:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa who is officially tasked to ensure the security of all Sri Lankans, had indirectly levelled death threats on two senior journalists last Monday.
The people of this country had great respect for Secretary Rajapaksa for his effort to crackdown on the LTTE and were aghast when he faced an LTTE suicide attack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strengthening the Provincial Council Process</title>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/462</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 13:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remarks by Deputy Chief of Mission Jim Moore to the National Conference on Strengthening the Provincial Council Process, May 28, 2008 BMICH, Colombo:
Honored Governor, Chief Ministers, Ministers and Provincial Council Members, distinguished guests:
It is an honor to be with you today, to attend this National Conference on Strengthening the Provincial Council Process, and to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NPC: Enhance Democratic Norms in the post election period in the East</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 02:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Statement by National Peace Council of Sri Lanka:
The violent clashes that have taken place in the Muslim-inhabited parts of the east have led to the killing of several persons and to a climate of rapidly escalating tension. These clashes have come shortly after the Eastern Provincial Council elections which the TMVP contested while  remaining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Power sharing concept can respond to the aspirations, says Ambassador Blake</title>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/459</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2008 17:30:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[US ambassador Robert Blake in an interview with Colombo newspaper The Sunday Observer said that the US believes the answer to the Sri Lanka conflict lies with a power sharing concept which can respond to the aspirations of Sinhalese, Tamils and Muslims.
Excerpts of the interview:
Q: Are you satisfied with the support that the US had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mahinda sticks to the Tiger he can handle</title>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/458</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 May 2008 21:28:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dr. Vickramabahu Karunaratne
The politics of the bourgeoisie of underdeveloped countries in this monopoly capitalist period reflect the primitive nature of the class itself; so explained Trotsky of the role of the national bourgeoisie in his famous thesis-the Permanent Revolution. The things that take place here are good examples.
Venomous attack
Mahinda started by launching a venomous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>East: Stability on cliffhanger after election</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 03:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Dr. A.R.M. Imtiyaz
The government conducted the first provincial elections in two decades on May 10 in the Eastern Province. The ruling colaition of the United People&#8217;s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) through an electoral alliance with the Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (TMVP) and an &#8220;understanding&#8221; with the dissidents of the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) grabbed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resettled IDPs rebuilding livelihoods</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 01:22:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Report by United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs-Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN):
Tharmalingam Sudarshan, a farmer, returned to his home in Vavunathivu town, Batticaloa District, in eastern Sri Lanka in July 2007, having fled the area for three months due to conflict between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and government forces. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eastern Provincial Council Election &amp; its Results</title>
		<link>http://federalidea.com/focus/archives/455</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 11:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Col. R.Harharan (Retd)
The swearing in of Sivanesathurai Chandirakanthan (better known as Pillaiyan, his nom de guerre of militancy days) as the chief minister of the newly created eastern provincial council on May 16, 2008 marks a new turn in Sri Lanka politics. It came about after a great deal of backdoor bickering, rumours and [...]]]></description>
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