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H. L. D. Mahindapala It is hindsight that throws insights to create and illuminate foresight. That is the beauty  and value of history. It gives meaning. It also throws up warning signs for  those with 20-20 vision to read the..

Part III  Kanthar Balanathan, Australia Parochial Political Panorama As a third world country, we are superficial, and, lack in lateral thoughts and strategic vision. Most of the politicians are focused in selfish and self-centered matters only. Number of our politicians who..

The U.S. State Department annual Human Rights Report on Sri Lanka for the Year 2015 released by Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday April 13 was critical of Sri Lanka’s inability to eliminate ‘enforced disappearances’ and reminded that its..

(Courtesy of The Island) By Shamindra Ferdinando Had a veteran police investigator, temporarily stationed in Vavuniya, ignored a tip-off received from an informant, in late July/early August 2009, the mastermind of a spate of high profile killings, including the assassination..

It is no surprise when Britain the root cause of majority-minority conflicts, transporters of indentured laborers causing demographic issues now come forward to support self-determination claims by Tamils during local elections to muster minority votes. Some facts need to be..

The British invaded and occupied 171 countries round the world except for 22 countries. The British and fellow colonial rulers together with the Church have left a legacy of problems the world over. Divide & rule policy, dividing communities as..

Dr Palitha Kohona – Former Foreign Secretary of Sri Lanka and Permanent Representative to the United Nations   As Sri Lanka, with an administration now in power for over one year, begins to confront complex domestic and international challenges, Prime..

Sri Lanka already has a federal constitution following the 13th amendment. The provincial council system was introduced with arm-twisting by India. The TNA-controlled Northern Provincial Council already has 36 subjects devolved to it except land and police powers. So what is the TNA-India..

(By Courtesy of The Island) By Dr Kamal Wickremasinghe The literature on Sri Lanka’s thirty-year war is characterised by the undue preponderance of material on Norway’s failed operation outnumbering all other analyses by a ratio of 3:1. The evaluations have..

H. L. D. Mahindapala After the Dutch it was the British who had to police Vellahla violence erupting in Jaffna. Caste wars escalated to a new level. Jaffna under the British was a battleground for mini-wars waged by the Vellahlas against the..