Articles
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Dissolution of parliament or impeachment to bring Sirisena to heel?
(Courtesy of The Island) Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was attending the World Economic Forum in the Swiss ski resort of Davos while back in Colombo the stock market was setting records in the wrong direction and the promised addition of..
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Monsignor Rayappu Joseph: “Controversial” Catholic Bishop Emeritus of Mannar Diocese
Sinhalanet Note Rayappu among other leading Tamil Christian church leaders such as Jaffna Bishop were working for LTTE Tamil terrorists and promote Tamil terrorist’s activities like killing of innocent Sinhala Buddhists, attacking to Buddhist’s holiest places like Sri Dalada Maligawa,..
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Sri Lankan PM beckons Chinese investors as rupee takes a beating
In an effort to boost the country’s economy, Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has extended a fresh invitation to Chinese investors to invest in his country. Addressing a news conference on Wednesday in Davos, Switzerland, at the World Economic Forum, Wickremesinghe..
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Rhetoric and reality
The naked truth about ‘foreign judges’ for so called “War Crimes” to gain political gains at the local authority election by Ranil and Sirisena. President Maithripala Sirisena has told BBC (Sinhala Service) that foreign judges and prosecutors should not be..
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Does President Sirisena realize he is going to be jobless if the new constitution is implemented?
By Shenali D Waduge When Gen. Fonseka failed in 2010, another candidate had to be selected for the 2015 Presidential election. That quest was outsourced to CBK who cherry-picked the most least-expected choice as President. To get rid of the..
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Educating Ms. Rumpay Sera-singhe on the uniqueness of Sinhala-Buddhism
H. L. D. Mahindapala Without any reservations I must concede that the Buddhist clowns must be reined in, as stated by Ms. Rumpay Sera-singhe (a.k.a, Sharmini Serasinghe). In this survey of her version of Buddhism, I wish to state that..
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A REBUTTAL TO THE OHCHR REPORT, 1: OUTRIGHT LIES
DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA To my knowledge, the Government has to date not commissioned an official assessment of the OHCHR report (also called the OISL report) or at any rate if it has, such report is not available to the public.[1] And..
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Mahinda Rajapaksa warned of dire consequences over war crimes
One-time Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka, Gopalkrishna Gandhi, the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, declared, in Colombo, on January 8, that former President Mahinda Rajapaksa would be remembered for eradicating the LTTE. Former President Rajapaksa brought the war to a..
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Sri Lanka President hints a federal Constitution
By Daya Gamage (Courtesy of Asian Tribune) President of Sri Lanka Maitripala Sirisena addressing the parliamentary on January 9 session that moved a resolution to transform the legislature into a constitutional assembly to draft a new constitution declared that there..
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Protection of Buddhism – Sine qua non in any Constitutional reform
by Senaka Weeraratna In the light of the proposed changes to the Constitution of Sri Lanka now under consideration and growing accusations of contrived attempts to neutralise the applicability of Article 9 in the Constitution that imposes a mandatory duty..





