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JVP delegation with former President Although the campaign to abolish the Executive Presidential system was first initiated by late Ven. Sobitha Thera, the present campaign is being spearheaded by the JVP. According to media reports, the reason for the JVP..

Posted on April 7th, 2019 Mangala Samaraweera’s speech apologising to UNHRC High Commissioner, Michelle Bachelet was rather difficult to read on my PC because my screen was blurred with his crocodile tears shed for human rights. Simultaneously, his tears were..

By Neville Ladduwahetty UNHRC Resolution 40/1 has come and gone leaving behind a host of questions. By co-sponsoring the resolution, first in 2015 and recently in 2019, Sri Lanka has become a party to the resolution notwithstanding the fact that..

Hate speech comes in various shades of lies. It is the curse that haunts current of global politics. It runs from white supremacists in America to the boot-end of New Zealand. On the way to New Zealand it has linked..

September 16, 2013 “Information Clearing House – Somewhere in the Lester B. Pearson Building, Canada’s foreign affairs headquarters, must be a meeting room with the inscription “The World Should Do as We Say, Not As We Do” or perhaps “Hypocrites..

Interestingly, Germany is co-sponsoring a UNHRC resolution against Sri Lanka for so called genocide of Tamil terrorists. 100 years after Germany gave up its colonial rule in Southwest Africa, there have been fresh calls for the German government to admit..

Courtesy of: www.freemalaysiatoday.com Malaysians may well come to regret that their government has agreed to their country acceding to the International Criminal Court. Malaysia has joined a scandal-ridden body whose reputation has been badly damaged by allegations of corruption, racism,..

(Courtesy of Lanka Web) The news reports of Sri Lanka’s military cum humanitarian rescue operation is poignant for several reasons. It provides us some real time news sans politicization & influence and now 10 years on it helps us to..

(This is an edited version of a paper read out at a Public Seminar on the ‘ Kandyan Convention of 1815’ held at the University of Peradeniya, Arts Theatre, on March 09, 2019) The Kandyan Convention (‘Ingrisy – Sinhale Givisuma’)..

UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon commissioned 3 members (Ban Ki Moon Panel of Experts) selected personally by him to submit a personal report on the ‘final months’ of Sri Lanka’s conflict. This report was not commissioned by the UNGA..