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It is hilarious that a group of EU & Non-EU envoys have gone to meet Muslim leaders at the Dewatagaha Mosque in Colombo. These ambassadors must take the people of Sri Lanka for fools or else they are living in a..

(Courtesy of The Island) By Neville Ladduwahetty The UNHRC Resolution A/HRC/34/L.1 of 15 March 2017 “requests the Government of Sri Lanka to implement fully the measures identified by the Council in its resolution 30/1 that are outstanding”. While the language..

A 44 page report by Amnesty International declares that the US Government gave $1.3billion worth of arms to ISIS in 2016. This comes in the backdrop of Hillary Clinton admitting that the US created Al Qaeda. . $4 trillion dollars..

In 1985 the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation was initiated to unite India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal & Maldives with Afghanistan joining in 2007. India’s 1.3billion populace plus the populations of the other 7 members made SAARC..

The Presidential 9-day foreign tour of Donald Trump has been perhaps the most successful first such tour for any US President. Not only has he visited a friendly country but also countries which many thought were his adversaries, and he..

H. L. D. Mahindapala  Scholarly narratives tracing the brief history of the Tamils agree that the itinerant migrants from S. India turned into an organic and  distinct entity of their own in Sri Lanka only after they decided to be..

By Gandara John It was in 1998 when the US executed a major coup in Sri Lanka and succeeded in passing a US propelled Australian Land Law (Torrens Law) through Sri Lanka’s Parliament; this was ‘The Registration of Title Act 21..

Rajpal Abeynayake (Rajpal Abeynayake was the former Editor in Chief of the Sunday Observer, the Daily News and the Lakbimanews English weekly.) This week’s terrorist attacks in Manchester would remind most Sri Lankan’s of attacks in buses and trains and on office..

Historically Christianity & Islam has been at odds. Both remain engaged in a historical endeavour to overrule & over power the other while at another level both join to influence other religions and their status quo. Both Vatican/Holy See and the stricter..

13 A to Federal (Courtesy of The Island) Only a few things stand between devolution under the 13th Amendment and federalism. Among them are the unitary character of the state, the executive presidency and the powers of the provincial Governors to..