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By Sena Thoradeniya (Courtesy of The Island)   On December 26, 2019, at least two people were injured and several buried in snow when an avalanche hit Andermatt, a ski resort in the Swiss Alps, 68 miles South of Zurich…

Faced with the monumental achievements of the Sinhala-Buddhist civilisation the Tamils have been struggling constantly to pose as if they were the Gullivers who were the founding architects of the nation, from “the dawn of  history”,  and the rest were..

(Courtesy of  The Island) One-time Sri Lankan Ambassador in Qatar, A.S.P. Liyanage, was among those who contested the 2019 presidential election. Of the 35 contestants, Liyanage polled 6,447 votes (0.05 per cent). The Sri Lanka Labour Party leader secured the..

Sri Lanka’s sleuths must conclude the investigation before Geneva sessions. Firstly, Sri Lanka must answer whether the abduction happened or not. Secondly, the Sri Lankan police must show if it didn’t happen the evidence to showcase this. Thirdly, if it..

By D.B.S. Jeyaraj (Courtesy of Daily Mirror) Recent events have focused the media spotlight on the Federal Republic of Switzerland known officially as the Swiss Confederation. The landlocked European nation is respected highly on a global scale due to its..

By Lakshman Ratnapala (courtesy of The Sunday Island) The Sri Lanka Presidential election of November 16 has proven some home truths.   The first of these is  that the  minority Tamil and Muslim voters in the North and the East of..

(Courtesy of The Sunday Island) After the recent Presidential election, we were saddened to see, how the Tamil voting pattern reflected the division between us and that the Tamil Eelam map was drawn once again. We know, there was significant..

(Courtesy of The Island) Against the backdrop of a deepening crisis, caused by Switzerland providing political asylum to Inspector Nishantha Silva, his wife and three children, followed by accusations over alleged abduction of a local female Embassy employee, the writer..

Mario Arulthas writes to Al Jazeera on 8 Dec 2019 titled Trouble brews in post-election Sri Lanka”. What are the concerns he raises: He refers to Gotabaya Rajapakse as a ‘hardliner’ exactly what does he imply by this? He claims ‘prospects for justice & reconciliation..

(Courtesy of The Island) In what must surely be one of the strangest games of diplomatic brinkmanship to be played out in this country, the Swiss embassy in Colombo demands an investigation into an alleged ‘abduction’ of one of its..