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“The name of Christ has caused more persecutions, wars, and miseries than any other name has caused.” – John E. Remsburg Over hundreds and thousands of years the same nations that dictate how the world today functions have been responsible..

Screening for terrorists isn’t fear-mongering By Candice Malcolm The cargo ship MV Sun Sea, carrying about 500 hundred Tamil migrants sits in harbour at the Canadian naval base at Esquimalt on Vancouver Island after being escorted by the Navy, Aug. 13,..

It’s been over a week since the report  of the OHCHR investigation on Sri Lanka (OISL) was released to the public, but, to the best of my knowledge, not even a single evaluation of the report, in terms of whether..

It’s a mere change of venue – instead of Geneva or New York; the US-Sri Lanka joint resolution shifts the backdrop to Colombo to cast a false sense of domestication. Circus moves on with foreign actors in starring roles. The..

‘It could have been worse’ is not a victory claim. It is but the whimper of someone who believes he got a consolation prize. President Maithripala Sirisena says ‘it could have been hundreds of thousands of times worse had Mahinda..

Liberals Set off Row with Sri Lanka The Liberal party of Canada shamefully supported the LTTE purely to garner votes from those sympathetic to that outfit to win elections. They did not care about Sri Lanka or bilateral relations between..

(Courtesy of  The Sunday Island) The government should take great care with the American sponsored draft resolution that was tabled before the UNHRC on Thursday especially because they have decided to make it a consensus resolution. Dayan Jayatilleke recently said..

If the Rule of Law implies that every citizen is subject to the law including law makers themselves, how is it that the UN has given itself immunity through the UN Charter and the Convention on Privileges and Immunities of..

While the penumbra of the US resolution on Sri Lanka has softened, the core, the essence, remains. The Sri Lankan side has succeeded only in watering down the inessential, or to switch metaphors, in changing the décor. The crux of the..

 The resolution has been drafted craftily to make it marketable to public opinion in Sri Lanka and, thus, help Washington’s new-found ally, and also to ease the fears of developing countries in the Human Rights Council, who will otherwise object to a precedent..