Articles

US Ambassador Michele Sison got it wrong.  Addressing a media briefing following the UNHRC vote on Sri Lanka, Sison dismissed allegations that the US-backed resolution was ‘against’ Sri Lanka.  In other words it was ‘for’ Sri Lanka, she implies. Now..

The Queen of England, Queen Elizabeth 2 has made her choice. She has picked General Peter Cosgrove as the Governor General of Australia. Peter Cosgrove is incidentally a former defence forces chief. Though the appointment was officially endorsed by the..

With India’s abstention vote, it would seem that South Block is wresting back control of its decision-making authority from that domestic sphere that has ridden roughshod over several foreign policy decisions Sometimes, the loudest sound can emanate from the sidelines. At..

Indian policy towards Sri Lanka is caught between the national interest and serving domestic interest groups. By Ankit Panda for The Diplomat In a controversial move, India abstained from a U.S.-sponsored resolution on human rights in Sri Lanka at the United Nations..

Sri Lanka can claim a moral victory on the basis that 2014 UNHRC Resolution was adopted against Sri Lanka with 23 votes while a majority comprising 24 nations did not support the Resolution by either voting against or abstaining with..

Britain’s call for a Sierra Leone type tribunal against Sri Lanka and that utopian organization in the sky without a country called TGTE (Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam) organizing in Geneva a press conference presided by the 1stPresident of the..

H. L. D. Mahindapala Of the many contradictions, misinterpretations, distortions and perversions in the political culture of the north the role of religion, in all its dimensions, is the least explored and understood. In contrast, Buddhism has been explored almost..

The days following the elimination of the LTTE leadership were justifiably joyous for a nation that had been plagued and held hostage by terrorism for three decades. Joy, however, is relative to place and person. I am thinking about the..

Dr Noel Nadesan The war radicalized Jaffna and it was inevitable that we could never again return to the good old Jaffna we knew.  There were signs of a new Jaffna emerging imperceptibly even during the war years. I have visited Jaffna..

So that is the expert report! Navy Pillai came but never visited the Sinhala massacre villages, nor found out about the ethnic cleansing of the Sinhalese and Muslims- over 200,000. by the LTTE! So much for the ‘Pillai Navy’! NAVI..