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The Modi Doctrine For Sri Lanka
Prime Minister Modi’s two day visit to Sri Lanka was supposed to be non-political. Yet, in his address to the International Vesak Conference at the BMICH, he laid out the Modi doctrine for Indo-Lankan …
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“TEXIT” Strategy of Tamil Nationalism is Political Utilization of Constitutional Referendum Regardless of Result
(Courtesy of Daily Mirror)
By Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka
A funny thing happened in-between the reconvening of the Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly (Feb 21) and the adjournment motion on the Constitution held the next day in Parliament. TNA MP MA Sumanthiran …
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THE STRATEGY FOR AN ANTI-SRI LANKAN CONSTITUTION
DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA
Mr. R. Sampanthan’s 90 minute (written) speech during the recent adjournment debate (Feb 22) on the Constitution was ‘historicist’, in the sense that he invoked a great deal of political history. But his argument was a-historical and …
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Ban Ki-moon’s “New Union” for Sri Lanka
By Dr Dayan Jayathilaka
You’ve heard of the “We Tamils” (who beat up High Commissioner Ansar). Now we have the “E-Tamils”–the “Eluga/Ezhuga Tamils” (or simply Eelam Tamils?). They shut down Jaffna, took over its streets, raucously demanding federalism, an international …
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Chandrika’s Call For Federalism
One must thank Chandrika for letting the cat out of the bag. In her recent address to “the national secretariat for national reconciliation” she has called for a federal, semi-secular constitution. I shall bypass the issue …
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The road from Nandikadal: A NEW REVIVALISM
By Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka
The TNA-Tamil Diaspora-UNP project is a frail, minimalist State with a weak centre
Would India have allowed Ban Ki moon to travel to Kashmir and have a political dialogue with strident Kashmiri nationalists?
The Sri Lankan Government …
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POLITICAL ETHNOCIDE, STATE SUICIDE?
(Courtesy of The Daily Mirror)
By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
How is it that the much-celebrated peace agreement heralding national reconciliation in Colombia between its FARC guerrillas and Columbia’s President Dos Santos just signed in Havana in the presence of President …
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Power In The Park
By Dayan Jayatilleka
…Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
After Hyde Park, March 17th 2016, politics cannot go on as before. Not for much longer anyway.
For a few months now, Prof. Kumar David, a literate leftist and an ideologue of the
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WHO WILL PREVAIL?THE PM OR THE PRESIDENT?
‘President Sirisena says his government will not act “in haste.” This is unacceptable.’
…- New York Times Editorial, Jan 28, 2016.
“…there is no ethnic group called the Sinhalese.”
– Chief Minister Wigneswaran, Jan 19, 2016.“As Iran proved in
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Geneva 2015 was not inevitable
Courtesy The Nation
As the UK Permanent Representative explicitly stated when addressing the Human Rights Council on Oct 1, the US-UK resolution is firmly founded upon Zeid al Hussein’s report. As Zeid al Hussein made amply clear in his video …
LTTE Terrorists Attack of the Month
32 Buddhist monks were hacked to killed by LTTE Tamil terrorists on 2nd June 1987.
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Numbers Game
13th Amendment
