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By Malinda Senevirathna In the aftermath of the victory over terrorism a disbelieving ‘international community’ relentlessly targeted Sri Lanka. That game is still not done. I remember a particularly ‘hot’ session of the UNHRC in Geneva. The year was 2012…

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/08/14/port-a14.html Sri Lanka’s government was pushed into crisis by a series of protests by Colombo Port workers last month against plans to privatise the port’s Eastern Container Terminal and hand it over to an Indian company. During the workers’ actions,..

Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) just secured a landslide victory in Parliamentary polls, bringing back Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister. Admiral Jayanath Colombage, Foreign Secretary and a former Commander of the Sri Lankan Navy, spoke with Rudroneel..

The 19a  has shown that making a constitution or even an amendment should not be done in a hurry, with intent to stifle opposition, embrace undue powers, grab power, squash the people’s rights & freedoms and ignorantly thinking that the..

(Courtesy of The Island) Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa was sworn in as the Prime Minister again, yesterday. Mahinda’s dramatic comeback, five years after his downfall, reminds us of the Oscar-winning, Hollywood super flick, The Revenant. In January 2015, he was left..

(Courtesy of The Island) The bane of this country has been ethnicity and religion based politics. It first began among the ‘Ceylon’ Tamils in the north and east with the rise of the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi which put the..

(Courtesy of The Island) If someone asked me what the senior appointment I really loved most was, my answer would be Chief of Staff of the Sri Lanka Navy (Second-in-Command of the Navy) – CoS. The CoS has all the..

JR, if alive, would be a very happy man. His constitution after 42 years saw a single party win a majority without going on bended knee to minority kingmakers. This victory is special not only because it saw the majority..

The People have spoken & given a victory that has surprised even the SLPP. The Voice of the People put to pieces any aspirations of a weak government fishing for frogs to cross over. The People have been wise &..

Let us try to get away from the rhetoric- the art of effective or persuasive speaking, often with an implication of insincerity or exaggeration”(Oxford Dictionary). Promises are many but it is quite evident that most promises cannot be easily fulfilled…