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Sri
Lanka
| Capital
: Colombo
Land
Area : 65,610 sq km
Head
of Government : President HE Mrs Chandrika Bandaranaike
Kumaratunga (since 12 November 1994)
Population
: 20,064,776 (July 2005 est.)
Major
Languages : "Sinhala (official and national language)
74%, Tamil (national language) 18%, other 8%
Note: English is commonly used in government and is spoken
competently by about 10% of the population"
Major
Religion(s) : Buddhist 69.1%,
Muslim 7.6%, Hindu 7.1%, Christian 6.2%, unspecified 10%
(2001 census provisional data)
Date
of Joining : 1948
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| Letter
to the Speaker of Parliament regarding the Constitutional
Council - 13th April 2006.
CHRI
Submission to CMAG :
February 1998
Articles
from CHRI Newsletter :
- Lawyers
vs. Law, Naomi Gunasekara, Journalist,
BBC World Service, CHRI Newsletter, Volume 12, Number
1, Spring 2005.
- A
Paradigm Shift in the Sri Lankan Peace Process, Jehan
Perera, Media Director, National Peace Council of Sri
Lanka, CHRI Newsletter, Volume 10, Number 1, Spring 2003.
- Sri
Lanka puts International Delegations on hold, CHRI
Newsletter, Volume 8, Number 2, Summer 2001.
Articles
from E-Magazine:
Bills/Laws/Acts
from RTI:
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