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By Dayan Jayatilleka – “They lifted a rock against us which they will drop on their own feet”– Zhou Enlai “There is great disorder under heavens! The situation is excellent!” – Mao Zedong Look, there must be a reason why Mr. Ranil Wickremesinghe has been..

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1. The purpose of this memorandum is to provide my expert assessment regarding the widespread use of civilian human shields by LTTE forces in the final stages of the Sri Lanka civil war, which ended in May 2009. In particular,..

The ISLAND  Editorial Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has returned home after a successful overseas tour, of which the Sri Lanka leg had been very well planned. It was a diplomatic masterstroke. He paid a floral tribute to the statue..

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, June 4— Defying the Sri Lanka Government, India sent transport planes and jet fighters over the country’s northern territory today and dropped 25 tons of food and medicine by parachute into areas held by embattled insurgents. The..

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to take up the issue of growing Chinese influence in Sri Lanka when he meets the island nation’s leadership later this week in Colombo, even as experts remain cautious about giving overemphasis on the..

There are huge problems with the proposed 19th Amendment to the Constitution.  In this article I’ll focus on just the first and foremost of those, which has to do with the proposed changes to the Executive.  (I am using the..

Crowd at Nugegoda is a mini take of 58 lakhs of votes Mahinda Rajapaksa obtained. Frailty and fragility in Sirisena’s armory stand exposed. SLFP cannot hold a mammoth public meeting though President Sirisena heads the party and holds Presidential power…

The invitation to the Sri Lankan President to the UK coincides with the 200th anniversary since the Sinhale Nation was ceded to the British in 1815. If post-independent Sri Lankan leaders shied from reminding the British of their crimes during..

The name of the game is divide and rule, self-determination and balkanization all hallmarks of what India cannot ignore despite its efforts to avert or delay the inevitable. Importing Eelam from India to Sri Lanka managed to avert balkanization of..