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	Chandrika Kumaratunga - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		She currently heads the United People's Freedom Alliance which is an electoral coalition in which the SLFP is the largest party.
		Chandrika herself was elected Prime Minister of a People's Alliance government on August 19, 1994 and President in the presidential elections held shortly thereafter in November, an election which ended 17 years of UNP rule.
		However, President Kumaratunga's People's Alliance party (PA) and the leftist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna or JVP (People's Liberation Front) formed the United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) in January 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chandrika_Kumaratunga (633 words)

	Encyclopedia: Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Archeological evidence is somewhat contradictory to this account, showing continuous settlement in the Anuradhapura area from the 10th century BC onwards with people living in the area having knowledge of agriculture, metallurgy, and livestock breeding.
		The international anti-terrorism focus may have influenced the main Tamil rebel group to seek the ceasefire, as the LTTE was declared a terrorist organization by the United States of America, the United Kingdom, India, and Sri Lanka.
		The United Peoples Freedom Alliance is a political alliance in Sri Lanka.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Sri-Lanka (7866 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As had been predicted by pollsters, the United Peoples’ Freedom Alliance led by the president, Ms Chandrika Kumaratunga, has emerged as the single largest force in parliament, with 105 seats in the 225-member parliament.
		The UPFA is eight seats short of a majority and will have to depend on minor Tamil and Muslim parties, which have their own narrow agenda for survival.
		Moreover, the UPFA is an alliance between Ms Kumaratunga’s Sri Lanka Freedom Party and the hardline Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, which hardly inspires confidence.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040408/asp/opinion/story_3098047.asp (432 words)

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	encyclopedia.jrank.org /COM_COR/CONSUL.html (5544 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / Sri Lanka leader seeks talks with rebels (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Sri Lanka's president, whose political alliance won the most seats in parliamentary elections, plans to make a resumption of peace talks with Tamil Tiger rebels her "top priority," her chief aide said on Sunday.
		Freedom Alliance took 105 seats in the 225-member Parliament in Friday's vote -- just eight short of an absolute majority -- and was in discussions with minor parties to join it to form a government.
		"Her alliance has given promises in their manifesto that they will take forward the peace process, and this is good," said Varathan, a spokesman for the leader known as Karuna.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2004/04/04/presidents_party_leads_in_sri_lanka_vote?mode=PF (656 words)

	TamilNet: 27.02.04 "UPFA firmly committed to political dialogue with LTTE"
		The Alliance recalls the words of a LTTE leader who said that the six rounds of talks with the UNF government were a waste of time.
		Within a short time of the formation of the Freedom Alliance government President Kumaratunge will call for the recommencement of the peace talks with the LTTE and also propose time frames for solving the problems concerned.
		The people must be aware that the UNF is desperately seeking to distract attention from the grave problems that beset the people today.
	www.tamilnet.com /art.html?catid=13&artid=11327 (797 words)

	Lanka truth::A set of suggestions from UPFA to the Commissioner of Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In its letter to the Elections Commissioner the UPFA has suggested it is appropriate to assign elections officers from outstations in the relevant areas and also to set up cluster polling centres at a distance of one kilo metre from the un-cleared area border.
		The UPFA also reminds that in the previous elections proper covering of the polling booth was not made and have requested to rectify this at the forth coming elections for minimum disruption.
		The letter also suggests that since the UPFA Presidential candidate Mr Mahinda Rajapakse didn’t have the opportunity to meet the civilians it is reasonable to allow him to explain his principles to the voters at a point close to the cluster polling centres.
	www.lankatruth.com /full_story/Nove/03112005/full_story_20051103_3.htm (319 words)

	Asia Times Online - The best news coverage from South Asia
		While the UPFA is a coalition of President Chandrika Kumaratunga's Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the Janata Vimukti Peramuna (JVP), the UNF is led by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's United National Party (UNP).
		Although the LTTE itself is not contesting the election, it is backing the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), a coalition of Tamil parties, which accepts the LTTE as "the sole representative of the Tamil people".
		People are afraid that when the bloodletting begins, they will be caught in the crossfire.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/South_Asia/FC17Df05.html (1430 words)

	Why Canada IS Worth SAVING (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		People mostly come for a better future for themselves and their children, while others come here because it is a country that respects human rights.
		People must begin to realize that we are losing this identity as more and more of our corporations and jobs are taken over by foreign companies.
		Freedom of speech, the freedom to vote, and the freedom to wake up in the morning and the biggest problem one must face is what to have for breakfast, rather than how one will survive the day, is what makes Canada a fair nation.
	www.canadianactionparty.ca /MainPages/cwsEssays.asp?Language=English (15793 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Asia / Sri Lanka Election May Not Produce Clear Winner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Freedom Alliance says Wickremesinghe's peace process is dangerous, and also accuses his government of corruption.
		Another wildcard is the inclusion of the People's Liberation Front (JVP), a hardline nationalist party with Marxist economic policies, in the Freedom Alliance.
		The markets generally see Wickremesinghe's party, which has pursued privatization and courted foreign investment, as more business-friendly, while the Freedom Alliance's cost of living accusations have struck a cord with the public.
	www.boston.com /news/world/asia/articles/2004/03/28/sri_lanka_election_may_not_produce_clear_winner?mode=PF (673 words)

	Chronicle 2004: The unreported year - South Asia
		The detention of five leading dissidents led to the biggest protest in Maldivian history on 12 and 13 August – which in turn led to the arrest of 300 more dissidents, the imposition of a state of emergency that lasted until 10 October and a night-time curfew which is still in place.
		According to Amnesty International at least 69 people are still in indefinite detention and fresh evidence of torture and ill-treatment continues to emerge.
		Still less comfortable is the story behind this photograph, which shows Sherpur, a neighbourhood in Kabul where people have been forced out of their homes by the Karzai Government, more or less at gunpoint, to make room for the luxurious villas of influential commanders.
	www.newint.org /chronicle04/southasia.htm (1252 words)

	The IR Theory Knowledge Base
		A balance of power system functions most effectively when alliances are fluid, when they are easily formed or broken on the basis of expediency, regardless of values, religion, history, or form of government.
		There are further nuances to the theory: for instance, the sources of power transition vary in their volitility, population change being the least volatile and political capacity (defined as the ability of the government to control resources internal to the country) the most volatile.
		The unit of analysis is the world-system rather than a state or society, with particular emphases on the long-term history and totality of the system.
	www.irtheory.com /know.htm (6903 words)

	Let us admit that we have been fools - By Eric Fernando, Kandy, Sri Lanka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The basis of the argument is that the UPFA does not recognize the LTTE as the sole representative of Tamil people.
		The President and the JVP members have been elected by the people of this country in conformity with the constitution and are therefore the correct representatives of the people.
		The LTTE on the other hand, have not been elected by the people and their conduct for the last so many years does not seem to project an image of being accepted as the representatives of the Tamils.
	www.spur.asn.au /EF_20040123_LTTE_Sole_Representatives.htm (466 words)

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		The people in the North East, Amerasinghe said, were urging for human rights and democracy and only a democratic and progressive alliance like their alliance could realize such hopes among the oppressed people of the area.
		Appealing the people to monitor them and support them the JVP leader said although the past of alliances were not very pleasant in Sri Lanka this alliance would stqnd on its promises.
		Reminding that the Alliance would not depend only on the constituent parties of the PA she said it was open to all other patriotic forces and parties and this was only a first step of a broader national alliance that would benefit the country.
	www.go2lanka.com /stories/300104.html (886 words)

	HIMAL SOUTH ASIAN \| May 2004 \| Commentary \| Finders keepers losers weepers
		Despite their criticism of the former government, the UPFA combine has behaved in much the same way in its dealing with the LTTE split in the east (after Karuna, the eastern commander broke away from the Tigers in March).
		On providing immediate economic relief to the people, among the UPFA’s promises was increasing the salary of public sector employees by 70 percent, creating 30,000 new jobs, and subsidising farmers and other needy groups — all of this within the space of three months.
		And indeed, the UPFA’s attempt to tinker with the constitution is coming across as a partisan effort to serve its interests rather than those of the country as a whole.
	www.himalmag.com /2004/may/commentary_1.htm (1772 words)

	Sri Lanka SECURITY:: JVP to act with restraint
		While remaining as the coalition partner in the United Peoples' Freedom Alliance (UPFA) government, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) will continue to take up issues which are detrimental to the country, Cultural Affairs and National Heritage Minister Vijitha Herath said yesterday.
		Herath, a member of the JVP who bagged the highest number votes in the Gampaha District at the last Parliamentary Elections, told 'The Island' that they would stick to promises made during the parliamentary elections and to their party policies.
		The former Peoples' Alliance General Secretary said that everything depended on the LTTE.
	www.lankanewspapers.com /news/2005/2/625.html (446 words)

	GlobalEcho - Alternative Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Now in office, the UPFA ministers are coming under pressure from big business and foreign investors to abide by the austerity demands of the IMF and World Bank.
		The UPFA promised to raise the salaries of government workers by some 75 percent—at an estimated cost of 90 billion rupees a year.
		Far from alleviating the social crisis confronting the masses, the UPFA government is preparing to make further inroads into the social position of the majority of the population—a move that can only heighten the political instability.
	www.globalecho.org /view_article.php?aid=463 (1422 words)

	Election 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		At that moment, the civil society for peace and democracy was pushing the Prime Minister to win over the President and to start discussion with the LTTE on the basis of their document concerning interim administration.
		There was awareness among people for a programme to protect their living conditions.
		Chandrika and the UPFA turned against this forward march of the people and pushed the country towards chauvinism, religions sectarianism and militarism.
	www-cs.engr.ccny.cuny.edu /~dhar7752/Campaigns.htm (586 words)

	On-the-spot report Thousands lack aid in tsunami-affected areas of Sri Lanka
		The response of ordinary people following the tsunami was an outpouring of sympathy and assistance to the victims regardless of their religion, language or ethnic background.
		The vast majority of people were worried about their own futures and deeply frustrated at the lack of government assistance.
		He was obviously a supporter of the ruling UPFA as he tried to tell us that people in the area had facilities and the government was working to improve their conditions.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2005/jul2005/sril-j01.shtml (1470 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Sri Lanka president's party largest winner in parliament vote, but coalition ...
		COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – The political alliance led by President Chandrika Kumaratunga won the largest number of seats in Sri Lanka's parliamentary elections, officials said Sunday, apparently forcing aside her longtime rival, the former prime minister.
		The president's United Peoples Freedom Alliance secured 105 seats in the 225-member Parliament – eight short of an absolute majority – and party leaders were already in discussions with smaller parties on forming a coalition government.
		The president's United People's Freedom Alliance was confident that it would emerge the winner.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040404-0736-srilanka-election.html (656 words)

	The Hindu : Sri Lanka pact may give boost to hardliners
		While the imperatives then were to continue the life of the then ruling party, the People's Alliance (PA), in which the SLFP is a main constituent, the current dynamics aim at paving the way for the Opposition's return to power.
		The latest agreement, giving birth to the United Peoples' Freedom Alliance (UPFA) marks another chapter in Sri Lanka's historic rivalry between the two bitterly opposed parties — the UNP and the SLFP.
		During those elections, the UNP won 45.62 per cent of the votes and the Peoples' Alliance and the JVP polled 37.19 per cent and 9.10 per cent respectively.
	www.hindu.com /2004/01/23/stories/2004012301721300.htm (577 words)

	The Hindu : Save the motherland, says UPFA
		Sri Lanka's newly-formed United Peoples' Freedom Alliance (UPFA) held its first public rally in Colombo today, with calls for support from leaders of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) and the left-nationalist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) "to save the motherland''.
		The leader of the JVP, Somawansa Amarasinghe, who returned from a European destination, where he is on a self-imposed exile, said in joining the alliance with the SLFP, his party had to choose between principles and saving the country, and had chosen the latter.
		The Alliance was formed on January 20, when the two parties signed a Memorandum of Understanding outlining five broad objectives.
	www.hinduonnet.com /2004/01/30/stories/2004013005171600.htm (311 words)

	Sangam.org - Ilankai Tamil Sangam, USA, Inc. - Where to, Sri Lanka? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The main constituents of the United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) are the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), the Janatha Vimukthi Perumuna (JVP), the National Unity Alliance (NUA), a Muslim party, and The Eelam Peoples Democratic Party (EPDP) with one Tamil MP who supports the SLFP on the TNQ.
		In the opposition are the United National Party (UNP), the Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC), the Ceylon Workers Congress (CWC), the Upcountry Peoples Front (UPF), and the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) - a supporter of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
		Though the people want a lower cost of living, increased level of employment and economic development, their choice indicates the path to war with or without the realization that war will increase the cost of living, unemployment and economic and human catastrophe.
	www.sangam.org /articles/view?id=316 (1165 words)

	Online edition of Daily News - Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Ceylon Workers Alliance (CWA) has called upon the working class to rally round the UPFA to carry on with its development projects shedding all differences.
		Suresh said that the people of this country have pinned their confidence and trust in President Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, as she was committed to go ahead with the stalled peace process, root out corruption and malpractices and bring a permanent solution to the burning and pressing problems of the people.
		He called upon the working class of the country to rally round UPFA to carry on with their development projects forgetting their petty religious, party, caste and creed differences.
	www.dailynews.lk /2004/04/22/pol08.html (258 words)

	TamilNet: 04.08.04 "No talks on the basis of ISGA"-UPFA
		The SLFP is the major constituent of the minority United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) government.
		Ms Kumaratunge made her stand clear on the resumption of peace talks at the executive council meeting of the ruling United Peoples Freedom Alliance held Tuesday, SLBC reported.
		At the UPFA ex-co meeting the leaders of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) demanded the President to make her stand clear on the resumption of peace talks with the LTTE citing various media reports suggesting President Ms Chandrika Kumaratunge was prepared to commence talks with the LTTE on the basis of ISGA, sources said.
	www.tamilnet.com /art.html?catid=13&artid=12593 (228 words)

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		Although the United National Party (UNP) of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had won the elections in 2001, there had been an awkward cohabitation between President Kumaratunga, who leads the United Peoples' Freedom Alliance a rival party and has vast constitutional powers, and Mr.
		Her United Peoples' Freedom Alliance also accused the government of corruption and appealed to the people to "join hands to rid the country of war, uncertainty and corruption".
		Another wildcard was the inclusion of the People's Liberation Front (JVP), a hard-line nationalist party with Marxist economic policies, in the United Peoples' Freedom Alliance.
	www.ipu.org /parline-e/reports/2295_E.htm (658 words)

	Oil workers' strike heightens Lanka crisis -DAWN - International; 23 August, 2004
		Union officials were compelled to call the strike because of mounting anger among oil workers over the lack of a wage rise and the threat to their jobs posed by privatisation.
		Prior to the election, the UPFA promised to repeal the legislation.
		The UPFA is under pressure from the IMF and World Bank to reduce the budget deficit, which is forecast to be 8.5 per cent of GDP.
	www.dawn.com /2004/08/23/int12.htm (1265 words)

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