Articles

Time to re – write our history books August 15 is the day Japan commemorates the war’s end. Soon it will be 70 years after that day in 1945 when two Atomic Bombs dropped from American planes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki..

Sunday Times 2 By Lt Col (Retd) Anil Amarasekera The general elections on 17th of August will decide which political party will rule this country for the next five years. The two main contending political parties are the UPFA and..

It was the time when terror enveloped the whole of Sri Lanka. The JVP’s second insurgency was raging. Many were the sacrifices made to appease the demons in human form. They were celebrating and enjoying life while murder squads under..

Ira de Silva London “It is imperative that the UNP, SLFP and all other parties clearly state their intentions and attitudes regarding the TNA manifesto without confusion, obfuscation and half truths and include them in their manifestos and  public speeches. There..

Sri Lanka’s geopolitical positioning has been both a blessing and a curse. Despite 17 invasions from South India, 3 Christian Western colonial occupations over 410 years at no time did Sri Lanka fall except to be handed over to the..

The impression made with each commemorative year of the 1983 riots is that the violence and mayhem were committed by the Sinhalese public. This is far from the truth. The Sinhala public have been declared guilty by default for lack..

(Courtesy of – Asian Tribune)  The recent UPFA Anuradapura meeting did not see hundreds of CTB buses transporting supporters as were the case in the presidential election. But the crowds appeared bigger and were definitely larger than the UNP meeting..

President Maithripala Sirisena’s speech, covering several key aspects of his six-month rule, was timed to be a critical political intervention on the eve of election. The broad overview of his stewardship was angled to undermine his bete noir, Mahinda Rajapaksa. Though it..

By Milinda Senawiratna So finally the President has spoken.  That’s good.  He was correct when he said that he had been vilified no end during the past few weeks.  He added for good measure ‘as no other president before me..

If the sovereignty of Sri Lanka is inalienable and lies in the People that a set of people are brought into Parliament given strategic portfolios is a violation of that franchise. This is one argument to do away with the..