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By KAMALIKA PIERIS   When the Udarata kingdom went under the British rulers in 1815, the flag of the Sinhala king, Sri Wickrema Rajasinha was ceremonially replaced by the flag of the British king, George III. The Udarata flag was..

MALINDA SENEVIRATN​E This is a selection from the ‘News Next Desk’ of Kekirilanthaya, Sri Lanka’s friendly neighbor, whose concern for the well-being of Sri Lankans knows no bounds. Who was caught with elephant-tail hair? It has been reported that a..

The economy is heading to a crisis, says politburo member of Mahajana Eksath Perumuna (MEP), Yadamini Gunawardena. Global economy, he points out, is yet again in a crisis, which Sri Lanka seems not to have taken into account yet. The..

Shenali D Waduge “On both visits of the UNHRC head to Sri Lanka none of the LTTE victims were even met and UN local office / local NGO representatives or even foreign envoys did not even bother to arrange meetings..

Why would the Kandyan King Senarath dispatch a military expeditionary force under Mudaliar Attapattu to defend the Tamils against the Portuguese in 1619 AD? The answer is simple. The Jaffna province was a kinglet and tributary of the Kandyan Kingdom. Just..

The IMF was created at a conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire in 1944. IMF is accountable only to the 188 countries that compose the IMF. IMF’s role is a conduit to bail out countries dishing out loan packages tied..

Shenali D. Waduge The time has come to raise the bar on accountability. Reconciliation cannot occur to knee-jerks nor can it close the eyes to over 450 years of persecution and discrimination meted out mostly to the Sinhala Buddhists of..

(by Courtesy of The Island ) Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has interpreted the first step in security sector reform as withdrawal of a section of security forces from the Northern and Eastern Provinces. The Northern Province comprises..

By H. L. D. Mahindapala The Tamils have a great culture. One of the best. But that is not found in Jaffna – the so-called heartland of the indigenous Tamils. Though they crow about their culture loudly and interminably, there..

(Courtesy of The Island)  Blunder of Yahapalanaya The attempt by the SLFP parliamentarians in the Joint Opposition to become an independent group in parliament came to naught with Speaker Karu Jayasuriya refusing to grant them that recognition. The excuse he..