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Apropos to Dayan Jayatilake’s “Why Mangala must exit……” in what he calls a ‘Mexit’ moment the suggestion is both valid and timely. The Foreign Minister of Sri Lanka must be change. In fact he should be impeached for treason and..

“…noting that Sri Lanka had made a commitment to include some international participation in the investigation.”  – US Asst. Secretary Malinowski (Reuters, July 15)    Sooner, rather than later, there will have to be a ‘Mexit’: Mangala Samaraweera’s exit from..

The world is in turmoil. Chaos and mayhem is spreading with no end in sight. No amount of sophisticated technology can stop a man with a gun or suicide vest and able to equal any expensive drone. The Muslims have..

War crimes By Shamindra Ferdinando About three weeks before the Army had breached LTTE defences on the Vanni east front, to rescue over 100,000 Tamils, the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator (R/HC) in wartime Sri Lanka, Neil Bhune, estimated the..

There are over 1000 foreign US military bases and installations. The 4 losers of World War 2 host the biggest bases located in Germany, Italy, Japan and Korea. The newest strategy is to set up smaller detachments across the nations..

When the views of the majority populace of a country are ignored and they react after enduring with patience they cannot be ridiculed as being xenophobic & racist. Going against the established system manipulated and well controlled by a handful..

Like it or not the Sri Lankan public will have to come to terms with some hard realities. Our political leaders have failed the nation since independence, their policies have been inconsistent and with the overall aim to only come..

Shenali D Waduge The only difference was the French terrorist shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ while Sri Lanka’s LTTE terrorists shouted ‘Separate Tamil State’. In France between 1914 and 2014, some 150 people were killed in bombings, targeted assassinations, and plane hijackings…

By Senaka Weeraratna http://www.vgweb.org/unethicalconversion/port_rep.htm   The Portuguese while pursuing a policy of destruction and plunder of Buddhist Temples held out various inducements for Buddhists to convert to Christianity. Conversion meant a sure means of exemption from taxes due to the..

(Courtesy of The Island) By Neville Ladduwahetty Sri Lanka is currently engaged in the process of replacing the existing executive presidential system with a Parliamentary system of government. The compulsion for the change is primarily because executive presidential systems are..