The Importance of ‘Rearbase’: Taraki, 1989

[TamilNet, Friday, 17 February 2006, 02:05 GMT]
In the 29 October 1989 issue of Sri Lanka's English daily, Island International, late Dharmeratnam Sivaram, popular journalist and Senior editor at TamilNet, writes on the waning importance of a rear base in Tamil Nadu after the end of Eelam war I in 1987. "That a multipurpose comfortable rearbase would in the long term erode the conviction to fight and play into the hands of India was an opinion expressed in 1983. Finally the rearbase started becoming a factor that threatened to undermine the control various leaders had over their fighting cadres," Sivaram wrote.
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Sri Lankan inflation on the rise

[TamilNet, Friday, 30 June 2000, 19:24 GMT]
Sri Lanka's annual inflation rate increased by 0.3 percent in the June quarter, according to a report from the Department of Census and Statistics. This rate is based on the basis of 12 months' moving average and went up to 3.7 percent, from 3.4 percent in May 2000.
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