... MIGs and Kfirs. Though the Katunayake attack had been put together in the year 2000 the LTTE had refrained from implementation because the LTTE had been observing a unilateral ceasefire. The Kumaratunga regime rejected the LTTEs peace offer and pursued war. It launched operation 'Agni Kheela' on April 24 which ended in failure. The turning point came when the government embarked on a ...

... power here but it is, no doubt, salutary. Governments, as ex-President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga declared the other day, cannot act like terrorists. How true! Nor should governments, she ... of its warships off the Eastern coast in the aftermath of the tsunami disaster under the Kumaratunga regime that carried forward the UNF's appeasement policy. How does Britain react when its ...

...Like a mantra President Rajapakse, just like Kumaratunga and Jayawardene before him, repeatedly assures ...> And just like Jayawardene and Kumaratunga, Rajapakse also inflicts this suffering in ... ago) was mockingly codenamed 'Operation Liberation.' Kumaratunga declared her self-styled 'war-for-... the SLFP's APRC charade). President Kumaratunga unveiled her much-vaunted Devolution 'Package...

...Like a mantra President Rajapakse, just like Kumaratunga and Jayawardene before him, repeatedly assures ... destruction. And just like Jayawardene and Kumaratunga, Rajapakse also inflicts this suffering in ...ago) was mockingly codenamed 'Operation Liberation.' Kumaratunga declared her self-styled 'war-for-... the SLFP's APRC charade). President Kumaratunga unveiled her much-vaunted Devolution '...

... regimes of Presidents Junius Jayawardene, Chandrika Kumaratunga and Mahinda Rajapakse, the paper contends:... a mantra President Rajapakse, just like Kumaratunga and Jayawardene before him, repeatedly assures ...> And just like Jayawardene and Kumaratunga, Rajapakse also inflicts this suffering in...) was mockingly codenamed 'Operation Liberation.' Kumaratunga declared her self-styled 'war-for...

... regimes of Presidents Junius Jayawardene, Chandrika Kumaratunga and Mahinda Rajapakse, the paper contends:... a mantra President Rajapakse, just like Kumaratunga and Jayawardene before him, repeatedly assures .... And just like Jayawardene and Kumaratunga, Rajapakse also inflicts this suffering in ...ago) was mockingly codenamed 'Operation Liberation.' Kumaratunga declared her self-styled 'war-for-...

... this juncture, the Mahinda Chintanaya's reincarnation, the SLFP Chintanaya, resonating dualities of Kumaratunga's 1995 devolution package, presently, demarcating Rajapaksa's end of the beginning a la ...current dispensation, it may in measured form do the same for the LTTE. From Kumaratunga to Rajapaksa, Lanka's peace process has regressed from a negotiated platform theoretically conducive ...

... party leader and Sri Lankan President, Chandrika Kumaratunga, to lead them in their struggle against ... minister Mangala Samaraweera, on Wednesday appealed to Kumaratunga to "guide" his struggle against the "...group, the SLFP (Mahajana Wing), Samaraweera asked Kumaratunga to come out of political retirement and ...guide the party in the right direction." Kumaratunga is currently in the UK, and ...

... by the constitutional council, a body comprised of six members appointed by parliament and four ex officio members. Since November 2005 the council has been defunct due to the refusal by Kumaratunga's successor, President Mahinda Rajapakse, to activate the body on the grounds that smaller political parties had not yet nominated the last remaining member. "In June 2006, the president ...

...a poll in February by the Centre for Policy Alternatives, a Sri Lankan think-tank, 59%% of Sinhalese wanted a "military solution" to the conflict. Mr Wickremesinghe's predecessor, President Chandrika Kumaratunga, had also tried to please this majority. She waged a policy of "war for peace" against the Tigers-as unsuccessful as it was illogical. But Mr Rajapakse has plunged further into the...