Kings, irrespective of their religious faith, adopted “the highly selective method” of isolating “for desecration only those temples that were identified with enemy kings.”
“If the country experiences another five years of anarchy under the PPM and its allies,” many Maldivians will view “the suppressed stability of Gayoom’s presidency with rose-tinted glasses.”
Israel has been willing to supply India with high-tech weapons “without expecting an explicit change in India’s voting patterns at the U.N. or a dilution of its pro-Palestine positioning.”
A group of Tamil political prisoners who had been detained for almost 15 years have been released this morning, after a Sri Lankan court found no evidence linking them to a 2006 explosion in Colombo.