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@HMVijithaHerath @gidonsaar Are they been allowed into the bunkers when the sirens start??

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@NewsWireLK How do you ban something that is authorised.. is it not like killing something that is already dead

[Numbers.lk @numberslka]

🇱🇰 3 Months, No Policy — E-Commerce Still in Limbo

⭕ It has been over 3 months since the government supposedly began working on a new framework for taxing and releasing e-commerce goods.

⭕ As usual with the Department of Trade and Investment policies & Dept of Customs, nothing has materialized.

⭕ Meanwhile, 🇨🇳 AliExpress continues to impose arbitrary taxes on goods electronic parts, circuit components, and educational items that cannot be sourced elsewhere.

⭕ The worst part is that there is no cross-check mechanism between what customers pay as “taxes” and what intermediaries declare to customs — meaning much of the changed fees as "taxes" never reaches government coffers.

#SriLanka #Ecommerce

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

🚨🇮🇱 I CAN‘T STAND THIS PROPAGANDA ANYMORE.

Yes, I’m glad that Israeli hostages have been freed. And just as glad that Palestinian prisoners have been released. But a few things need to be made clear:

FIRST: It’s absurd that Israelis are called “hostages” while Palestinians are labeled “prisoners.” That’s propaganda. It’s the same thing: human beings who’ve had their freedom taken away, on both sides.

SECOND: The released Israeli hostages appear well-fed, smiling, not a single kilo lost. Clearly treated well under the circumstances. In contrast, the Palestinian prisoners look like they’ve just walked out of a death camp: emaciated, scarred, aged by years of abuse. Tortured. And no one talks about it.

THIRD: Everywhere I read: “Hamas killed all the women, only men were released.” That’s simply a lie. A malicious one. The women who were still alive had already been released in earlier exchange deals. But facts don’t matter when it’s time to push the next hate-driven narrative for $7000.

FOURTH: Everyone talks about a handful of Israeli hostages, but no one mentions the tens of thousands of Palestinian hostages abducted by Israel. Many of them children. Imprisoned without charges, without trial.

FIFTH: And no one talks about the tens of thousands of civilians killed in Israel’s genocide.

SIXTH: While the ‘ceasefire’ (it’s just a matter of time until Israel breaks it again) is being celebrated, radical Israeli settlers are still violently stealing land in the West Bank; with full impunity. They break international law daily, and no one seems to care.

SEVENTH: Politicians across the world are shamelessly cucking for Israel, offering blind support while refusing to even mention the crimes committed in Gaza, the ongoing apartheid in the West Bank, or the endless aggression toward neighboring countries.

EIGHTH: The same governments and media that claim to stand for human rights, international law, and “never again” are now either silent or fully complicit: funding, arming, and excusing an apartheid regime in real time. When Palestinian lives are dehumanized, erased, and bombed into dust, suddenly all those values vanish

So no, I will not take part in this propaganda. I will not whitewash Israel’s crimes.

And yes, I still stand by my words: A STATE LIKE ISRAEL SHOULD NOT EXIST.

[Anwar El Ghazi @elghazi1995]

I am currently in Doha, Qatar and have witnessed first hand the illegal criminal acts of Israel, a state which has no respect for life or law and order.

If this is what they can do with impunity in a sovereign state like Qatar, then imagine the decades long cruelty and oppression they have been inflicting against defenceless Palestinian civilians and children.

Are these the actions of a state that wants peace?

When will the world wake up?

FREE PALESTINE

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@UEFA @grok is Israel a member of UEFA??

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@chami9539 @RameshSchaffter You seem to be aligning to a different point.. the discussion here is the state spends 10 rupees on developing something and what's benefitting the society is worth only 5 rupees.. the other 5 is lost and cannot be recovered..

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@naus45140175 @RameshSchaffter The study does not differentiate.. it refers to all who got free education

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@eupheu @AnasAlSharif0 The key word in your post is "Return"

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@EylonALevy Or if Israel is not an entity with Zionist maniacs intent on genocide.. oh wait.. then there would be no Israel

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@MMawroof @alisabrypc Hope you understand the victim in the divorce and the victim in marriage are mostly the different person

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@alisabrypc You mention of a draft bill.. please clarify when this was finalised and signed by the AG.. also were any islamic scholars consulted during the drafting process

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@sajinvg @alisabrypc Under which common law do we not have disagreements and disputes after a divorce

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@alisabrypc From the reforms you have listed.. how many do you think are islamic? While this can only be determined by a scholar.. is this something you considered when listing it down

[Chaminda Dias @chami9539]

🚨 Scam Alert: The railway ticketing system was briefly restored under the new government but is back to its old ways. Tickets are “sold out” the moment they go live, then immediately reappear on the black market.

If you’re in tourism, you already know the drill. We’re forced to pay black market prices just to honour confirmed services to our guests. We’re being extorted, while the crooks operates openly with clear collusion from inside the Railway Department.

It’s public infrastructure being hijacked for private profit.

And it doesn’t stop here. I’ve signaled this before, and I’ll say it again: the old operators are crawling back across every sector and many are well and truly back in business.

Meanwhile, it’s easy to wax poetic about crime and justice because a handful of arrests keep the sycophants buzzing. Those token wins become a shiny shield, distracting from the rot festering underneath.

If this government isn’t serious about institutional reform and about dismantling the networks embedded deep inside the state... then this mandate too will be eaten from the inside out.

The people didn’t vote for cosmetic change... They voted for Systemic change.

#SriLanka
#SystemChangeLK
#AccountabilityProjectLK

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@fahimfarookme @NewsWireLK This is the L board many predicted

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@HarshadeSilvaMP A high percentage of the stuff brought from these e-commerce sites are not produced locally.. and the SMEs are nothing but retailers for the same products.. a significantly different taxing scheme for both will suppress one over the other.. and ultimately impacting the consumer

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@iMedOli Is there a link to the complete version??

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@MarkA74986 @ShanakiyanR What is he accused of

[Shanakiyan Rajaputhiran Rasamanickam @ShanakiyanR]

Below is an English translation of a post that I have copied from a Facebook profile. Hope Chemmani Mass graves will create enough pressure to have an accountability mechanism for atrocities committed.

“The doll that stayed awake, watching, knows everything that happened there.

A little girl has been buried in the red soil, along with a blue book bag, glass bangles, sandals, and children’s toys.

This doll is going to become a time capsule.

I too had a similar-looking doll. It was made of thick rubber, and the colors on it were not just painted on the surface but thoroughly infused during molding—cast in a single mold. One of the quality dolls of those days. It was first used by my elder sister during her childhood, and later I played with it.

That doll appears in a photograph from my sister’s second birthday (1985).

Similar dolls can also be seen in Tamil movies from the mid-1980s.

This doll must have been bought at a temple festival stall or a toy shop before the family relocated. It’s likely that this doll was used by the little girl’s sibling and kept safely for her. I believe that, just like me, this child carried the doll with her during their displacement.

If that sibling is still alive, this child can be identified—and through that, the timeline of this burial site will be revealed.

My inner voice says that a well-lived family has been reduced to dust.

It feels as though nature has held onto these items, waiting for the right moment to settle its account. HOPE 🤞”

https://t.co/ouvqpKCMtg