Articles
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Presidential Pardon to Corporal Sunil Rathnayake?
Sri Lanka faced a thirty year old war with Tamil terrorists. Terrorists had no scruples in breaking the age old international rules of war honored by all countries irrespective of whether they were democratic, socialist, capitalist or even communist countries..
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On Wesak 14 May 1985 Tamil Terrorists killed 146 civilians. On Easter Sunday Islamic Terrorists killed 300 civilians
Wesak Day is marked with great veneration in Sri Lanka. It is the day celebrating the birth, enlightenment and passing away of Buddha. It is one of the most colourful events in the world. It is also a day many..
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Walter Jayawardene: journalist, patriot, activist
The hardest thing about saying goodbye to a departed one is not being able to say goodbye, as with flowers and incense, a last long look, prayers for the journey ahead, or a final touch. Yet, that’s how family and..
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Living with COVID-19: Lessons learnt – Please don’t go back to normal
(Courtesy of Financial Times) God has called a ‘time out’ for humans and asked us to get off the field until they purify it again. But will we be allowed back again? If so when and under what terms and..
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Has COVID-19 pandemic created a constitutional crisis in Sri Lanka?
(Courtesy of Financial Times) The dissolution of the Parliament by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa and the postponement of the General Elections has led to many legal arguments. By Gazette Extra Ordinary No. 2165/8 dated 2 March 2020, the President issued a..
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Election Commission cannot usurp Presidents powers: Sri Lanka’s President must declare new polls date before 2nd June
The recent article by Dr. Nihal Jayawickrema reconfirms the doubts many have that the Election Commission was up to mischief and committing a series of blunders. The situation requires the President and his legal advisors to promptly mitigate the crisis..
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Has Sri Lanka’s Election Commission blundered
The President in dissolving Parliament on 2nd March & setting a new date for polls followed all the rules. Having set a date it was left to the Election Commission to conduct the polls. Yes, the country was facing a global..
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A sequel to Protecting human rights while preventing terrorism Arrest of lawyer reopens debate on PTA
This is a sequel to your above captioned article by Gehan De Checkera published in the online edition of the 25th April issue, quoting lawyers and HR activist critical of the Prevention of Terrorism Act., under which Lawyer Heejaz Hizbulla..
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Who has the power to declare Elections: Sri Lanka’s President or Elections Commission?
The country is facing a situation it has never before had to face. Plucking Articles from the Constitution and crying to the Supreme Court without helping deal with the situation, shows how bankrupt the politicians making a furor are. It..
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Is a constitutional coup brewing to reconvene Sri Lanka’s Parliament?
The calls to reconvene Parliament come from the same coterie of people who orchestrated regime change in 2015 capitalizing on a Presidential Election victory to bring to power a minority UNP government and place Ranil as PM without removing the sitting..





