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  This is sheer madness. This is how one could describe the potentially disastrous hate campaign unleashed against the Island’s peaceful Muslim community by a handful of racist rabble rousers who are law unto themselves. Recently two Muslim payment hawkers were attacked by monks at Embilipitiya. Police, first refused to accept victims’ complaints, recorded them only after JVP intervention.  Then there …

Some have left, others are resilient as Israel encroaches on their territory   A Greek Orthodox priest walks inside the Church of the Nativity, the site revered as the birthplace of Jesus, ahead of Christmas in the West Bank town of Bethlehem December 22, 2012. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (WEST BANK – Tags: RELIGION)     Bethlehem: Amid plastic bags snagged on …

  The population in the Galle Fort World Heritage City has declined during the past few years according to the latest census statistics. The population of 1,589 persons in 2009 has decreased to 961 people. Galle Heritage Foundation chairman Parakrama Dahanayake attributed it to amplified land and property purchases by foreigners within the pristine citadel during the past few years. …

  The past week recorded the 22nd anniversary of a cruel, inhuman episode in the history of Tamil –Muslim relations in Sri Lanka. It was in October 1990 that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE)organization forcibly expelled the Tamil speaking Muslim people from the Northern Province in an atrocious act amounting to ethnic cleansing. Within a few days the Muslims …