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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..

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..

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..

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..

In response to my article on “The Resolution to Enact a New Constitution”, Laksiri Fernando has extracted a single sentence and expressed his ‘displeasure’. If the entirety of the paragraph from which he extracted it, as well as the previous..

By Shamindra Ferdinando  (Courtesy The Island) Had the UN acted swiftly, and decisively, Sri Lanka wouldn’t have had to experience terrorism for nearly three decades. In actual fact, the UN, and its agencies, deprived successive Sri Lankan governments of much..

By PATRIOT  In 2015 David Cameron declared ‘Britain is still a Christian country‘, Christianity is the official religion of Britain. Germany’s Angel Merkel from the Christian Democratic Party says Germans must stand up for Christian values. There are only 58% Christians in Germany…

MEN & EVENTS BY Sugeeswara Senadhira The United Kingdom, the mother of the Westminster model of democracy functions without a written Constitution. It has successfully carried on a democratic Constitution based on traditions and conventions very smoothly without running into major..

By H. L. D. Mahindapala Tamil Theology Upgraded Prabhakaran & Downgraded Jesus: Part II The mainstream Churches of all denominations aligned themselves with the LTTE in varying degrees of connectivity. In particular, the clergy in the Tamil-dominated Churches threw their full..

 (Part 2). By Bandu de  Silva In an article I published in 2013/2014, discussing the relevance of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation model (TRC) to Sri Lanka I concluded as follows: “One should see that behind this projection of the..