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By Neville Ladduwahetty After several contradictory statements from the President, the Prime Minister, and spokespersons, finally the Prime Minister has very correctly stated that the “Constitution does not permit foreign judges to sit in judgment” (The Island, February 2, 2016)…

The West has very little to say about its crimes and they are many and the victims run into millions. The West that is responsible for horrendous crimes across all the continents of the world escape justice and are never..

Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka is facing a very critical juncture of its history. Apart from a handful, the nation appears euthanized and incapable to understand that the nation is nearing the precipice and the collapse unlikely to be reversed…

(Courtesy of The Island) by Rear Admiral (Dr.) Sarath Weerasekera, VSV RWP USP   Independence Day is the day a country gained freedom from a foreign rule. In any country, the citizens, irrespective of their religion and race, recites the..

 Dr.  Daya Hewapathirane It was in the last quarter of the 20th century that the name Sri Lanka was inappropriately imposed upon our motherland, known historically for centuries as ‘Sinhale’, ‘Sihala-deepa’,   or ‘Heladiva’, all of which mean the land or..

By Shenali D Waduge   There is no better time than now to look back and recall the traitors of Lanka. Just as a terrorist is a freedom fighter to some, even traitors are somebody’s hero. It was always a..

By Dharshan Weerasekera  According to the newspapers, UN Human Rights High Commissioner Rights Zeid Al Hussain is scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka on the 5th of February.  The purported purpose of the visit is to urge the Government to..

(Courtesy of The Sunday Times) Sri Lanka celebrates her 68th anniversary of Independence next Thursday and it seems someone has a twisted sense of humour or timing to have the UN Human Rights chief arrive the next day to discuss..

H. L. D. Mahindapala The loud bravado with which Ms. Sharmini Serasinghe challenged the Sinhala Buddhists to give “a valid answer” to her question – a question which was aimed deliberately at denigrating the Sinhala-Buddhists – stands in stark contrast..

(By Courtesy of The Island) By Prof. G. L. Peiris If I am asked to isolate the single most potent factor underlying the anxiety felt by large sections of the Sri Lankan business community, I would answer without hesitation that..