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United States has earned more enemies than friends during the last few decades Dr N. Janardhan Courtesy of Khaleej Times When Barack Obama won the presidential bid in 2008, it was tough to be even remotely critical of the first..

The history of this island can be read as an account of invasion, resistance, conquering and routing the enemy.  It is also a history of migratory waves and, in recent times, emigration as well. There are of course all kinds..

Neighbors are allowed a certain amount of license.  If the branches of your mango tree have strayed into your neighbor’s domain, some mangoes are bound to fall into his garden.  If you are not helping him sweep the fallen leaves,..

Now it is becoming clearer day-by-day that the final battle against the 30-year old LTTE Tamilterrorism was fought primarily to rescue the Tamils under the LTTE domination hence it was called ‘a Humanitarian Operation’. President Rajapaksa’s peace delegation had two rounds..

Courtesy of  Lankaweb by  Senaka Weeraratna The Indian general election scheduled for May 2014 would, if the forecasts are proved to be correct, result in a sea change in India’s relationship with the rest of the world as well as a..

Throughout 30 years bombs, suicide missions, assassinations, mass murder of civilians visibly took place for all the world to see. These atrocities carried out by the LTTE was viewed globally. None of the entities now calling for war crimes against..

A curse fell on Sri Lanka and its people with the arrival of the Portuguese in 1505 and it has continued to this day with the successive replacement of the Portuguese by the Dutch and the British with irreversible damage..

by Lt Col (Rtd.) Anil Amarasekera History is a methodical recorded of past events while traditional stories and myth coming down for generations is legend. Two thousand five hundred years of history from the advent of Prince Vijaya is recorded..

“This massacres is worse than My Lai. Then American troops simply ran amok. In the Sri Lankan village, the Indians seem to have been more systematic; the victims being forced to lie down, and then shot in the back’. This was..

The premeditated murder of innocent civilians was planned by LTTE on 31st January 1996. The time 10:45a.m.Premeditated murder is one of the most serious forms of homicide. The attack on Sri Lanka’s Central Bank was carefully planned, well thought out in advance..