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Personal traits of leaders and their relevance
[ Daily Mirror ] [ 01:40 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
With due respect to whatever achievements of our leaders, there do not seem to be a direct correlation between the leadership traits and the country's overall performance. On personal traits of leadership, Prabhakaran is now on many case studies and in the last forum held in a capital outside Sri Lanka well attended by academics on world conflicts, it was discussed that Prabhakaran possesses many of the leadership traits for wrong reasons to the South and right reasons to the LTTE and pro-LTTE Tamils in Sri Lanka and abroad. He has to be active to run his organization from strategic leadership to day-to-day, hands on management. He is honest to his organization by carrying the cyanide capsule himself.Dynamism is the religion he practices and he is ambitious enough not to have compromised his mission for the achievement of a homeland for the Tamils.
Young Marines Stay Committed, Graduate
[ The Merced Sun-Star ] [ 03:02 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
The Young Marines is a nonprofit program started in 1965 with chapters in every state and in a few bases overseas. The program focuses on character building through self-discipline, teamwork and leadership with an emphasis on a healthy and drug-free lifestyle. Kirk Gadsby became a Young Marine to get a taste of what his future will be like. At 15, he already has decided that he "will go to the United States Naval Academy," as he puts it.If the Castle Air Young Marines is any indication of what he can expect in Annapolis, Gadsby can look forward to a physically exhausting lifestyle with plenty of character building.
The Trouble with Tigers - Civil war on a faraway island has an impact on Canada
[ Ottawa Sun ] [ 09:17 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
Helen Olafsdottir has a frustrating job, trying to monitor fairness and peace amongst two sides in a 30-year dispute characterized by unfairness and death. Welcome to Sri Lanka, where the only daily certainty is uncertainty. Olafsdottir is with a Norwegian monitoring mission trying to keep peace between two sides that loathe each other with a vehemence stretching back some 400 years, as another Norwegian group tries to broker a peace deal. Nothing is easy when it comes to dealing with the fight between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam 'who have tens of thousands of Canadian supporters' and the Sri Lankan government.
Security imbalance, not violence, threatens truce
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 09:18 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
The actual risk to the ceasefire is not violence per se, but the continuing non implementation of crucial aspects of the Agreement resulting in declining benefits from it. Observers of Sri Lankan's ethnic conflict have watched the ongoing shadow war in island's east between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan military with growing concern. Although the killings undoubtedly cast doubts on the bona fides of both sides, more disconcerting for peace advocates is the pace at which the truce seems to be unraveling. But focus on the violence alone obscures the actual risks to the ceasefire agreement.
'Our call in unison should be heard by the international community'
[ LTTE Peace Secretariat ] [ 09:23 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
'The international community can no more ignore the genuine struggle for our lost sovereignty and we collectively endorse the proclamation made in the first Tamil Uprising in Vavuniya on 27 July 2005 and we fervently hope that the civilised world community would act now in the proper direction' was the theme of the declaration made yesterday 14 September 2005 by the delegates to the Tamil Uprising at Puthukkudihyiruppu, Mullaittivu. 'In numeric, we are a hundred thousand, but all of us are united in making this call to the international community in unison to recognise the ground political realities that deny our basic right to live as rightful citizens with equality and dignity in our homeland' said one of the delegates.
IMF warns Sri Lanka over subsidy spending, budget targets
[ AFP ] [ 09:25 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned Sri Lanka that it was exceeding budget targets and urged tough measures to cut subsidies, especially on fuel, in order to salvage the economy. The IMF in a detailed report on the state of the tsunami-battered island's economy said the government had overspent on subsidies while failing to collect expected tax revenues so far this year. "Collections in several areas have fallen short of expectations, including excise tax and import duties," it said in a 73-page report released Thursday. "On the expenditure side, subsidies for fuel have been considerably higher than budget provisions and 20 billion rupees (200 million dollars) has already been spent on tsunami relief."
Sri Lanka President: Peace Process Irreversible Despite Polls
[ Dow Jones ] [ 09:27 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga Wednesday said that the fragile peace process in her country can't be derailed even with the election of a new government later this year. "I am proud to say it would now be difficult to reverse the momentum toward peace in my country," said Kumaratunga, who is in New York to attend the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting. She denied there were any disagreements within her party on the approach toward handling the peace process with the Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka. But she added that the presidential candidate from her party will only receive a nomination if he conforms with the party's policies.
'We have to satisfy the Sinhalese people'
[ TamilGuardian ] [ 14:24 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
Despite criticism of his electoral pact with an ultra-nationalist Sinhala party, the favourite in Sri Lanka's Presidential race this week inked another agreement, this time with a hardline Buddhist monk's party.When Mahinda Rajapakse signed an agreement with the Janatha Vimukthi Perumana (JVP) last week, setting out a shared uncompromising stance on Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict and an illiberal economic vision, he alarmed the island's minorities as well as some of his erstwhile backers. He even seemed to trigger a rift within his own Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), although political analysts suggest the strong criticism from President Chandrika Kumaratunga, the SLFP leader, and others had more to do with an internal struggle than his policies per se. 'The prime minister has turned the election into a referendum on the peace process'
Ethnicity, Aid and Peace in Fragile States: A Sri Lankan Case Study
[ Illangai Thamizh Sangam ] [ 14:26 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
This study examines the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict through a multi-layered analytical lens of ethnic, socio-economic, and political considerations. Residual colonial tensions, intensified by market liberalization and political competition, created an atmosphere conducive to ethnic scapegoating and civil war. Under the current Norwegian-brokered Ceasefire Agreement, and in the face of immediate need for relief in the North and East in a post-tsunami atmosphere, it is demonstrated that international humanitarian and monetary aid must be allocated in consideration of the resulting ethnic grievances if peace is desired. The Post-Tsunami Operational Management Structure (P-TOMS) is argued to have the potential to serve as a mechanism to achieve this end by its encompassing nature. The study concludes that, if proven to be effective not only as an aid distribution mechanism, but also as a catalyst for state reform and conflict resolution, the P-TOMS may be able to serve as a model for general aid distribution throughout the entire country, while simultaneously facilitating durable peace.
Sri Lankan Media Failed Tsunami Victims, Report
[ IPS ] [ 14:42 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
For a country that suffered more than 35,000 deaths and one billion US dollars in damages, local media coverage of the aftermath of the Dec. 26 tsunami has been woefully inadequate, a study, sponsored by Transparency International in Sri Lanka, has concluded. ''The voiceless were not given a platform to express themselves at all. The main function of the majority media texts analysed was to conceal the fact that the state of public opinion at any given time is made up of a system of forces, of tensions, and the serious inadequacy of the Sri Lankan way of journalism toward representing the state of public opinion,'' the report, released last fortnight, said. While efforts are underway to address the lopsided tsunami reporting, the Transparency International study recommended major overhauls inside media houses to stem the rot.
Sri Lanka 'must be federal state'
[ BBC ] [ 14:45 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga has stressed that Sri Lanka must become a federal state, as splits in the ruling party deepen. The president opposes a pre-poll pact made by the prime minister - and ruling party presidential election candidate - with Sinhalese nationalists. The deal signed by PM Mahinda Rajapakse includes a commitment to maintaining a unitary state and reviewing the ceasefire with Tamil Tigers. On Wednesday, Sri Lanka's foreign minister - and brother of the president - added his voice to criticisms of the deals signed by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse with the Sinhalese nationalist JVP and Buddhist party, the JHU.
Tamil Eelam begins commemorating martyr Thileepan
[ LTTE Peace Secretariat ] [ 15:00 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
September fifteenth. Tamil people all over the world remember this date as the day on which began a new chapter in their armed freedom struggle. Thileepan, the warrior, Thileepan, the freedom fighter opened a new page in the history of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Thileepan the committed fighter demonstrated to the world and especially to India a nation that gave birth to ahimsa and sathyagraha as powerful weapons in the freedom struggles of the oppressed. It is on this day Thileepan commenced his fast unto death in the year 1987. Not a drop of water did Thileepan take for twelve days and attained martyrdom on the twelfth day, 26th September 1987.
[ Daily Mirror ] [ 01:40 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
With due respect to whatever achievements of our leaders, there do not seem to be a direct correlation between the leadership traits and the country's overall performance. On personal traits of leadership, Prabhakaran is now on many case studies and in the last forum held in a capital outside Sri Lanka well attended by academics on world conflicts, it was discussed that Prabhakaran possesses many of the leadership traits for wrong reasons to the South and right reasons to the LTTE and pro-LTTE Tamils in Sri Lanka and abroad. He has to be active to run his organization from strategic leadership to day-to-day, hands on management. He is honest to his organization by carrying the cyanide capsule himself.Dynamism is the religion he practices and he is ambitious enough not to have compromised his mission for the achievement of a homeland for the Tamils.
Young Marines Stay Committed, Graduate
[ The Merced Sun-Star ] [ 03:02 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
The Young Marines is a nonprofit program started in 1965 with chapters in every state and in a few bases overseas. The program focuses on character building through self-discipline, teamwork and leadership with an emphasis on a healthy and drug-free lifestyle. Kirk Gadsby became a Young Marine to get a taste of what his future will be like. At 15, he already has decided that he "will go to the United States Naval Academy," as he puts it.If the Castle Air Young Marines is any indication of what he can expect in Annapolis, Gadsby can look forward to a physically exhausting lifestyle with plenty of character building.
The Trouble with Tigers - Civil war on a faraway island has an impact on Canada
[ Ottawa Sun ] [ 09:17 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
Helen Olafsdottir has a frustrating job, trying to monitor fairness and peace amongst two sides in a 30-year dispute characterized by unfairness and death. Welcome to Sri Lanka, where the only daily certainty is uncertainty. Olafsdottir is with a Norwegian monitoring mission trying to keep peace between two sides that loathe each other with a vehemence stretching back some 400 years, as another Norwegian group tries to broker a peace deal. Nothing is easy when it comes to dealing with the fight between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam 'who have tens of thousands of Canadian supporters' and the Sri Lankan government.
Security imbalance, not violence, threatens truce
[ Tamil Guardian ] [ 09:18 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
The actual risk to the ceasefire is not violence per se, but the continuing non implementation of crucial aspects of the Agreement resulting in declining benefits from it. Observers of Sri Lankan's ethnic conflict have watched the ongoing shadow war in island's east between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the Sri Lankan military with growing concern. Although the killings undoubtedly cast doubts on the bona fides of both sides, more disconcerting for peace advocates is the pace at which the truce seems to be unraveling. But focus on the violence alone obscures the actual risks to the ceasefire agreement.
'Our call in unison should be heard by the international community'
[ LTTE Peace Secretariat ] [ 09:23 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
'The international community can no more ignore the genuine struggle for our lost sovereignty and we collectively endorse the proclamation made in the first Tamil Uprising in Vavuniya on 27 July 2005 and we fervently hope that the civilised world community would act now in the proper direction' was the theme of the declaration made yesterday 14 September 2005 by the delegates to the Tamil Uprising at Puthukkudihyiruppu, Mullaittivu. 'In numeric, we are a hundred thousand, but all of us are united in making this call to the international community in unison to recognise the ground political realities that deny our basic right to live as rightful citizens with equality and dignity in our homeland' said one of the delegates.
IMF warns Sri Lanka over subsidy spending, budget targets
[ AFP ] [ 09:25 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned Sri Lanka that it was exceeding budget targets and urged tough measures to cut subsidies, especially on fuel, in order to salvage the economy. The IMF in a detailed report on the state of the tsunami-battered island's economy said the government had overspent on subsidies while failing to collect expected tax revenues so far this year. "Collections in several areas have fallen short of expectations, including excise tax and import duties," it said in a 73-page report released Thursday. "On the expenditure side, subsidies for fuel have been considerably higher than budget provisions and 20 billion rupees (200 million dollars) has already been spent on tsunami relief."
Sri Lanka President: Peace Process Irreversible Despite Polls
[ Dow Jones ] [ 09:27 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga Wednesday said that the fragile peace process in her country can't be derailed even with the election of a new government later this year. "I am proud to say it would now be difficult to reverse the momentum toward peace in my country," said Kumaratunga, who is in New York to attend the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting. She denied there were any disagreements within her party on the approach toward handling the peace process with the Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka. But she added that the presidential candidate from her party will only receive a nomination if he conforms with the party's policies.
'We have to satisfy the Sinhalese people'
[ TamilGuardian ] [ 14:24 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
Despite criticism of his electoral pact with an ultra-nationalist Sinhala party, the favourite in Sri Lanka's Presidential race this week inked another agreement, this time with a hardline Buddhist monk's party.When Mahinda Rajapakse signed an agreement with the Janatha Vimukthi Perumana (JVP) last week, setting out a shared uncompromising stance on Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict and an illiberal economic vision, he alarmed the island's minorities as well as some of his erstwhile backers. He even seemed to trigger a rift within his own Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), although political analysts suggest the strong criticism from President Chandrika Kumaratunga, the SLFP leader, and others had more to do with an internal struggle than his policies per se. 'The prime minister has turned the election into a referendum on the peace process'
Ethnicity, Aid and Peace in Fragile States: A Sri Lankan Case Study
[ Illangai Thamizh Sangam ] [ 14:26 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
This study examines the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict through a multi-layered analytical lens of ethnic, socio-economic, and political considerations. Residual colonial tensions, intensified by market liberalization and political competition, created an atmosphere conducive to ethnic scapegoating and civil war. Under the current Norwegian-brokered Ceasefire Agreement, and in the face of immediate need for relief in the North and East in a post-tsunami atmosphere, it is demonstrated that international humanitarian and monetary aid must be allocated in consideration of the resulting ethnic grievances if peace is desired. The Post-Tsunami Operational Management Structure (P-TOMS) is argued to have the potential to serve as a mechanism to achieve this end by its encompassing nature. The study concludes that, if proven to be effective not only as an aid distribution mechanism, but also as a catalyst for state reform and conflict resolution, the P-TOMS may be able to serve as a model for general aid distribution throughout the entire country, while simultaneously facilitating durable peace.
Sri Lankan Media Failed Tsunami Victims, Report
[ IPS ] [ 14:42 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
For a country that suffered more than 35,000 deaths and one billion US dollars in damages, local media coverage of the aftermath of the Dec. 26 tsunami has been woefully inadequate, a study, sponsored by Transparency International in Sri Lanka, has concluded. ''The voiceless were not given a platform to express themselves at all. The main function of the majority media texts analysed was to conceal the fact that the state of public opinion at any given time is made up of a system of forces, of tensions, and the serious inadequacy of the Sri Lankan way of journalism toward representing the state of public opinion,'' the report, released last fortnight, said. While efforts are underway to address the lopsided tsunami reporting, the Transparency International study recommended major overhauls inside media houses to stem the rot.
Sri Lanka 'must be federal state'
[ BBC ] [ 14:45 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga has stressed that Sri Lanka must become a federal state, as splits in the ruling party deepen. The president opposes a pre-poll pact made by the prime minister - and ruling party presidential election candidate - with Sinhalese nationalists. The deal signed by PM Mahinda Rajapakse includes a commitment to maintaining a unitary state and reviewing the ceasefire with Tamil Tigers. On Wednesday, Sri Lanka's foreign minister - and brother of the president - added his voice to criticisms of the deals signed by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse with the Sinhalese nationalist JVP and Buddhist party, the JHU.
Tamil Eelam begins commemorating martyr Thileepan
[ LTTE Peace Secretariat ] [ 15:00 GMT, Sep. 15, 2005 ]
September fifteenth. Tamil people all over the world remember this date as the day on which began a new chapter in their armed freedom struggle. Thileepan, the warrior, Thileepan, the freedom fighter opened a new page in the history of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Thileepan the committed fighter demonstrated to the world and especially to India a nation that gave birth to ahimsa and sathyagraha as powerful weapons in the freedom struggles of the oppressed. It is on this day Thileepan commenced his fast unto death in the year 1987. Not a drop of water did Thileepan take for twelve days and attained martyrdom on the twelfth day, 26th September 1987.