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By Roshni Thomas* When the new government of Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena decided to review every Chinese investment approved by the previous President Mahinda Rajapakse’s government – including the Colombo Port Expansion Project (CPEP) – many believed this would..

(Courtesy of Sunday Leader) Six years since the end of the war, Sri Lanka has seen many changes, especially in recent months. While the current government is pursuing a path that is friendlier towards the west, the former regime is..

The War on Terror divided people into those with us or against us. The war effort in Sri Lanka divided people as those against terror and those indirectly/directly supporting terror. The post-war scenario finds the same sets of people who..

Courtesy of Island The Supreme Court in its determination on the 19th Amendment stated that it “… came to a conclusion that the transfer, relinquishment or removal of a power attributed to one organ of government to another organ or..

John Kerry was right, but only half right, when he commended Samaraweera for noting that true sovereignty can only be protected by asserting our multiethnic, multi-religious, multi lingual character. Both Kerry and Samaraweera forgot the flip side, namely that the..

This is my fourth and hopefully final essay on the problems with the 19th Amendment.  In this essay I focus on the mysterious entity designated the “Council of State,” which the amendment intends to insert as Chapter 7B of the..

In this my third essay on the problems with the proposed 19th Amendment, I focus on the benefits the amendment will have to the Eelamists. The most obvious such benefit, once the President’s powers are transferred to the Prime Minister..

The efforts to frame war crimes changes has been an ongoing affair for the past 6 years. Other than emotionally charged outbursts, ridiculous guestimates not a single name has been given for the dead. As of 9 April 2015 only..

Assistant Secretary Malinowski reiterates Sept deadline Courtesy of The Island Having commemorated those who had perished, on Mullaitivu beach, US Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labour, Tom Malinowski, told a media roundtable, in Colombo, early this month,..

Courtesy  of  The Island Neville Ladduwahetty, in his article on the National Anthem raises a very valid point, namely that we are prepared to violate the Constitution for the sake of reconciliation. The LRRC whose main objective was reconciliation, was..