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It  is by looking back that one  can detect how coming events had cast their shadows across the political landscape in Sri Lanka on the first Independence Day. In the previous article I showed how the two major events that..

(Courtesy of The Island) By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA   “Many Sinhalese … forget that the Tamils of the North and East occupied our Island even before the birth of Buddha … Long before the Sinhalese language was born out of Pali, Tamil..

(By Courtesy of Asiantribune) If nations in the developing Third World – Sri Lanka included – had closely monitored the shaping of the foreign policy of the Trump administration in the United States, they would have noticed a significant and clear..

Several factors need to be taken into account to comprehend the gravity of the situation. Firstly, it is now glaringly clear that the present government is in power following a regime change. It is also clear that those holding various..

(Courtesy of The Island) By C. A. Chandraprema   The government had planned to take up the ‘Bill to give effect to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance’ for debate in Parliament in early..

Courtesy of Daily Mirror Aggregated vote difference between the candidates, stood at a meager 1.8% votes [50.2.to 48.4]; going for the second round preferences, winner vaulted over the cross bar at 28,632 votes. 8527 braved to vote in Jaffna District,..

(Courtesy of Ceylon Today) When a number of political parties and civil society movements with different ideologies, joined forces to defeat President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the 8 January 2015 election, it was a clear sign that some invisible forces were..

None of the 3 colonial powers invaded our island. But our island did fall because of the betrayal of our own people. It happened in 1815 and it is happening again exactly two hundred years later. In fact, the similarities..

By Neville Ladduwahetty (Courtesy of The Island) The visit of Ben Emmerson Q.C., aUN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, to Sri Lanka from July 10 to 14 was concluded with a statement to the media in which he..

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe (Courtesy of Ceylon Today) When Mahinda Rajapaksa became Sri Lanka’s sixth President in 2005, we were up against three wars – terrorism, poverty and corruption. We won the war against terrorism in 2009. By 2014, the key..