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by Amal Jayasinghe

COLOMBO, June 30, 2012 (AFP) –

The United States Saturday joined rights groups in demanding that Sri Lanka stop “harassing” media organisations, a day after police shut down opposition news websites and arrested nine workers.

The US embassy in Colombo said it was closely following Colombo’s shutting down of the websites and the arrest of nine employees, including several journalists who had been highly critical of Sri Lanka’s government.

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Friday’s crackdown signaled that Colombo did not tolerate dissent.
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By Karu Jayasuriya M.P.

Everything that presently ails Sri Lanka hinges on a single factor – the executive presidency that concentrates all power in the hands of a single individual who can at his whim and fancy, systematically undermine and destroy every other institution of governance in the country.

This system in the hands of this administration, which has managed to bring about the 18th Amendment that further erodes democracy in this nation and places more power at the disposal of the all powerful President has become a scourge that the public and even politicians must suffer.
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by Camelia Nathaniel

Bereavement for families of a missing person is an unrelenting anguish. The suddenness of a person vanishing and not knowing what has happened, disallows the family to accept the finality of death.

Saroja Devi and Tharsalamma, the mothers of Leon Roxi and Hudson Lorantine, the uncertainty of not knowing whether their sons are dead or alive after they went missing in 2008 know the never ending feeling of anguish all t

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