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The 19th amendment empowera the Constitutional Council to set up independent commissions. The 10 member Constitutional Council comprises 3 permanent positions – the Speaker (Chamal Rajapakse), the Prime Minister (Ranil Wickremasinghe), the Leader of the Opposition (Nimal Siripala de Silva), 4..

One of the most remarkable achievements of the UN system is the amount of time and money they spend in compiling reports / statistics /charts / creating terminologies and preparing plans and processes of coordinating and monitoring them. It is..

The US State Departments ‘Country Reports on Terrorism 2014’ confirms that LTTE’s international support network and financial network is alive inspite of LTTE’s defeat in May 2009. While LTTE leader and core leaders perished what must always be remembered is that the..

Posted in Local News With just days for the UNHRC Panel to conclude accepting submissions it has emerged that the UNHRC has been cheating the system by providing UNHRC war crimes forms to only one party and that too clandestinely..

(Final Part) (Courtesy of The Island) Moreh, as Verghese mentioned, had easy access not only to the Golden Triangle, but also to nearby Ukhrul and Senapati within India which had assumed importance as producers of exceptionally high quality cannabis (ganja)..

No domestic inquiry should take place before the People of Sri Lanka are told by the UN & the International Community of what actions they will take against the LTTE for the following list of war crimes and Geneva Convention..

(Courtesy of The Island) LTTE and Narcotics: According to a report published in the 10 June 2015 issue of The Island, the Hon. C. V. Wigneswaran, Chief Minister (CM) of the Northern Province, has asserted that the presence of Sri..

The crowd at the pro-Mahinda rally held in Matara last Friday was even larger than the crowd in Nugegoda. The number of parliamentarians on the stage was variously mentioned as 76, 77 and 78. As far as the pro-Mahinda camp is..

Lazing on a Sunday morning on 17 May 15 many readers of a popular weekly were shaken from their weekend lethargy by the front page banner headline that screamed of hidden Swiss bank accounts operated by 40 odd Sri Lankans. The piece was an..

(Source : www.economist.com) The military playing field is more even than it has been for many years. That is a big problem for the West SINCE the end of the cold war one simple geopolitical rule has endured: do not take..