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http://www.island.lk/index. php?page_cat=news-section& page=news-section&code_title= 55 Australia has denied Maj. Gen. Chagie Gallege a visa, as we reported yesterday, though it now claims his application, which was submitted in September, 2016, is still under assessment. It has cited, as the reason for..

By Malinda Senevirthna These are UNHRC days.  These are Yahapalana-UNHRC days which are therefore very different from the Rajapaksa-UNHRC days.  Both regimes use the same lexicon when it comes to ‘reconciliation’.  Back then too we heard talk of truth, reconciliation..

 A grave miscarriage of justice is taking place in front of the UN General Assembly members and UN Security Council. The UNHRC and the OHCHR head is violating the UN Charter and abusing the office in an unsubstantiated and malicious..

   Shenali D Waduge When organizations and individuals banned as LTTE fronts in particular those that openly provided material support to the LTTE over the years and have unabashedly commenced websites seeking donations and support to create the very Eelam..

Kosovo was illegally created using lies to enable West to establish a NATO base. Today, people living in Kosovo are struggling to survive. Very few countries will deal with them. They have to beg to the very countries that supported..

R Chandrasoma Ancient Sri Lanka paid heavily for its misfortune in being very close to that politico-geographic behemoth called India. Indeed, the history of our land is – broadly speaking – coterminous with our encounters with our dangerous neighbour. The..

US & Western Governments needs to wake up to the fact that terrorists are not only Islamic & Jihadists. LTTE remains banned by the US, UK, Canada & EU. If the US State Department declares LTTE international network is alive..

By Malinda Seneviratne Not too long ago, there was a call for an international inquiry into allegations of war crimes. The call came from both within the country and without. From within it was the usual suspects, the rights-fixated NGOs..

By KAMALIKA PIERIS When Mahinda Rajapakse became President of Sri Lanka in 2005, Ajit Samaranayake said the event ‘opens a new chapter in post independence history, where a leader unburdened by either dynastic trappings or the stigma of elitism find..

(Courtesy of Ceylon Today) BY SHIVANTHI RANASINGHE The focus of the West, UN, civil rights groups and like-minded politicians, is to engineer reconciliation in Sri Lanka. Their agenda is to reconcile the Sinhalese with the Tamils. Unfortunately, this is not..