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Scenting the Sweet Smell of Success! How and Why Anura Kumara Dissanayake Anticipated Victory in the 2024 Presidential Race.
Forced into exile 25 years ago and compelled to stay away in order to stay alive, journalist D.B.S. Jeyaraj always dreamt of returning to Sri Lanka. That flame of hope flickered occasionally, as the ...
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How and Why the JVP led by Anura Dissanayake Formed the National People’s Power (NPP) in 2019.
JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake was elected as leader of the NPP also.The NPP general secretary was Dr.Nihal Abeysinghe. Dr.Harini Amarasuriya and Lal Wijenayake were the deputy secretaries. The ...
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Ceylon Workers Congress President Saumiyamoorthy Thondaman was the Dynamic Leader of Sri Lanka’s Hill Country Tamils for many Decades.
The 25th death anniversary of Plantation Tamil Patriarch Saumiyamoorthy Thondaman is being commemorated today 30 October 2024. Saumiyamoorthy (name is spelled as Savimiyamoorthy and Saumiamurthy also) ...
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The Rise and Fall of the Medamulana Rajapaksa Dynasty.
After independence from Britain, D.A. Rajapaksa represented the Beliatta seat in Parliament from 1947 to 1965 with a short break in March1960 when he lost to D.P. Atapattu of the UNP. D.A. Rajapaksa ...
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Remembering Legendary Muslim Congress Leader M.H.M.Ashraff on his 76th Birth Anniversary.
October 23rd 2024 is the 76th Birth anniversary of legendary Muslim Congress leader M.H.M. Ashraff. The dynamic lawyer – politician hailing from Eastern Sri Lanka would have celebrated his 76th ...
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“Comrade”Anura Began Historic Journey After Becoming the Fifth Leader of JVP in 2014.
The year was 1969. A 31 year old mother sought the services of a prominent astrologer to draw up the horoscope of her six month old son. The astrologer made some calculations based on planetary ...
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The Brazen Abduction and Brutal Murder of Militant Turned Journalist “Taraki” Sivaram.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake frequently emphasised during his election campaign that he would re-open investigations into incidents of colossal fraud,mass murder and assassinations where the ...
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Anura Kumara’s Ascendancy Inside the JVP and his Political Rise Within Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka’s newly elected ninth executive president Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) continues to be the focus of this column. In the first part of this article published last week, the early years of ...
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On what legal basis did President Dissanayake call out the armed forces to maintain ‘public order?
Speaking to me soon after, a colleague ruminated as to whether this was a routine act, the signing of a gazette placed before the President by a staffer, the issuing of which was not so much a ...