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Courtesy of The Island It is reported that the US Assistant Secretary of State, Nisha Biswal, is so ‘upbeat’ about the mechanism adopted by the Government for a Domestic Inquiry Mechanism into accountability and reconciliation issues relating to the final..

Let’s start from the beginning by answering some direct questions. No investigation can omit to investigate how armed militancy started in Sri Lanka. It was not home grown. The Vaddukoddai Resolution may have called for youth to take up arms,..

Ranil Wickremesinghe beat all odds and topped the list of preferences – a feat that was considered impossible earlier. At the base level, shorn off the rhetoric and the tinsel, it is an achievement  that reflects the combination of national,..

By Surya Valliappan Krishna The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was organizationally dismantled in 2009 during the Mahinda Rajapaksa term. The issue however continued to dominate the Sri Lankan political scene and sparked a massive debate in India, particularly..

(Courtesy oif Daily Mirror) On February 16 this year, at the request of the top United Nations rights official, the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council agreed to temporarily hold off its consideration of a long-awaited report into alleged rights violations during the..

With a bounty on his head for complicity that led to a million or more deaths an invasion based on lies and a dossier full of allegations of conflict of interest, Tony Blair declared guilty as a war criminal by..

Cyril Ramaphosa is the Deputy President of South Africa and the Deputy President of its ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC). He visited Sri Lanka in 2014 at the invitation of the Rajapakse Government and now immediately following the..

Kuldip Nayar www.thestatesman.com I am disappointed with my countrymen. The 69th anniversary of independence was celebrated with the usual enthusiasm. National flags were hoisted even in private homes. But there was no mention of the atrocities the British committed during..

If a government is supposed to be by the people and for the people why should MPs who have been rejected by the people be brought back into Parliament through the backdoor using the provision of the national list. What..

This is a very serious agreement. It will affect the national security of the country, future ethnic composition of the country, the livelihood & employment of Sri Lankans, the question of resources to meet a large flow of Indians arriving..