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		<title>We men and women’s activism</title>
		<link>http://sanjanah.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/we-men-and-women%e2%80%99s-activism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:51:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Where, after all, do human rights begin? In small places, close to home – so close and small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world… Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere. Without concerned citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sanjanah.wordpress.com&blog=1043529&post=313&subd=sanjanah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Post-war politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Victors, if the pre-election shenanigans in the South are any barometer, violently differ on how to share the spoils of war. Unsurprisingly, the war and LTTE are still alive in the pre-election campaigns in the South. Victory against the LTTE and those who championed it are projected as superior, and better fit for political office [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sanjanah.wordpress.com&blog=1043529&post=311&subd=sanjanah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>An enduring mypoia</title>
		<link>http://sanjanah.wordpress.com/2009/09/25/an-enduring-mypoia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 07:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanjana Hattotuwa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A news report published week suggests a novel approach by the Sri Lankan government to thwart allegations of war crimes and is anchored to Damilvani Gnanakumar, a British Tamil present in the Vanni during the final bloody weeks of war, was subsequently interned in Menik Camp. Upon her release from Menik Camp, she left to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sanjanah.wordpress.com&blog=1043529&post=306&subd=sanjanah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>War crimes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanjana Hattotuwa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It is lamentable that the Government of Sri Lanka continues to divert attention from the central truth in this matter – that is, the problem of impunity for serious human rights violations…”
Press released by the International Independent Group of Eminent Persons (IIGEP), 30 April 2008
The report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sanjanah.wordpress.com&blog=1043529&post=304&subd=sanjanah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Eyes Wide Open</title>
		<link>http://sanjanah.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/eyes-wide-open/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanjana Hattotuwa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On my instructions, due to the priority given to the policy of zero civilian casualties the security forces are limiting themselves to rescue operations of the entrapped civilians held hostage as a human shield by the LTTE. &#8211; Address by President Mahinda Rajapakse to the diplomatic community, 7 May 2009
&#8220;Firing should stop,&#8221; Mr. Anandasangaree, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sanjanah.wordpress.com&blog=1043529&post=301&subd=sanjanah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Imagining peace</title>
		<link>http://sanjanah.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/imagining-peace-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanjana Hattotuwa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A pause
Quiet footfall of zephyr
At this base of white
evening lines come in a quiet
pāli hush.
Eyes open, undulating stones warm the ancients
who see
light meditations in
a chiaroscuro of hope.
Peace comes easy here, for now,
after uneasy undercurrents have shifted
white and saffron interplay.
To imagine peace, what memory chains
to escape crimson strokes
and see inside out on silhouette tracings
What we really [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sanjanah.wordpress.com&blog=1043529&post=299&subd=sanjanah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The shame of Menik Farm</title>
		<link>http://sanjanah.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/the-shame-of-menik-farm/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:25:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanjana Hattotuwa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The floods that affected significant swathes of the expansive Menik Farm a week ago generated interesting responses from government. One of the most revealing was the deafening silence of the usually loquacious Rajiva Wijesinghe, and the lack of any statement over the flooding by the Disaster Management and Human Rights Minister, Mahinda Samarasinghe.
On 22 July, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sanjanah.wordpress.com&blog=1043529&post=296&subd=sanjanah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elections without democracy</title>
		<link>http://sanjanah.wordpress.com/2009/08/07/elections-without-democracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 18:22:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanjana Hattotuwa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government ban on media coverage of the elections in Jaffna and Vavuniya, citing security reasons, is revealing. It coincided with the passing, once again, of Emergency Rule in Parliament, with the Prime Minister justifying it on account of the need to “silence the guns” of underworld elements. On the first count, it is quite [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sanjanah.wordpress.com&blog=1043529&post=294&subd=sanjanah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The growing censorship in Sri Lanka</title>
		<link>http://sanjanah.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/the-growing-censorship-in-sri-lanka/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanjana Hattotuwa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An order by Jayantha Wickramaratne, the Inspector General of Police in Sri Lanka and the same chowderhead who once said women could record themselves getting raped through mobile phones, to the Director General of Telecommunication Regulatory Commission to suspend the licenses of twelve websites exhibiting nude photographs is the first step in Sri Lanka’s post-war [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sanjanah.wordpress.com&blog=1043529&post=289&subd=sanjanah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Rajiva Wijesinghe</title>
		<link>http://sanjanah.wordpress.com/2009/08/01/on-rajiva-wijesinghe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:16:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sanjana Hattotuwa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rajiva Wijesinghe, the last Secretary General of the Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP), does not always make sense. However, together with Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva Dayan Jayatilleka, Rajiva was the centre and forward in the Rajapakse government’s efforts during the height of war to counter negative international scrutiny [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sanjanah.wordpress.com&blog=1043529&post=284&subd=sanjanah&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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