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(The Editorial The Island -November 29, 2017) Foreign Minister Tilak Marapana would have us believe the government is planning to make use of Lord Naseby’s statement contradicting UN figures as regards the number of people killed in the Vanni, when..

In a shocking turn of events unabashed commemoration of terrorists & mass murderers are taking place – dead silence by the Government & nod of approval by the very countries who are still hounding senile men in their 90s accusing..

Courtesy The Island Following Sri Lanka’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) held at the Human Rights Councils in Geneva on the 15th of November 2017, and the adoption of its Report on the 24th, a draft outcome document called “Draft report..

(Courtesy of The Island) Thirty four months into President Sirisena’s administration, Sri Lanka continues its convoluted engagements with the international community and multilateral bodies on the vexed issue of UNHRC 30/1. On October 12, 2017, Lord Naseby (LN), a longtime..

Today, proudly promoting themselves as the international community, the Western nations who have become first world nations as a result of the plunder & murder of the third world are preaching accountability. No country with soiled hands has a right..

(Courtesy of The Island) As per a news item in The Island dated 15 Nov 2017, under the title “Cabinet spokesman provoked by query on govt. response to Naseby move” Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera has said that the statement made by..

(Courtesy of The Island) President and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, Maithripala Sirisena, has explained his position pertaining to post-war accountability issues and alleged attempts made by his opponents to exploit the situation at the expense of political stability. It..

For eight years now, western nations and the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva have slammed the Sri Lankan Armed Forces (SLAF) and the former Sri Lankan government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa for brutal human rights violations during..

(Courtesy of The Island) The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is apparently wasting its time and money on its campaign to have a hybrid war crimes tribunal set up in this country. For, UN expert and South African human rights..

We must first understand the premise that the same ethnic group cannot evolve in 2 different countries and both cannot seek self-determination separately in the two different countries. If we agree to this fundamental theory, we can move forward to..