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Let us view some of the comments made by the Office of the UN Secretary General in relation to Sri Lanka. STATEMENTS ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE SPOKESMAN OF THE UN SECRETARY GENERAL New York, 12 September 2011 – ON UN PANEL OF EXPERT REPORT..

According to learned opinion Mahavansa was written in the fifth century by a Bhikku named Ven. Mahanama. Mahavansa may not be the most authoritative book on history in the Western tradition, but it is definitely the most hated book on..

by  Malinda Seneviratne [The grimace referred to here materialized on Peter Hayes’ face a little more than three years ago.  The article was published ‘Sunday Lakbima News’ on December 26, 2010. Back then, I hadn’t known what RAB meant.  I don’t think..

By Blind Spot The names, Tim Macpherson, Deirdre Higham and Iona Macpherson obviously mean nothing to the Right Honourable Prime Minister of Her Majesty’s Government, David Cameron. But, maybe it is time to remind Cameron as to who they were…

H. L. D. Mahindapala (Courtesy of Daily News 22 Jan 2014) The failure of UN to be the broad, universal umbrella for all 192 member states, protecting the big and the small evenly and fairly, without being a tool of..

No post-independent Government has faced such a barrage of disputes as the current Government many of which have been as a result of its own making.  The momentum brought about by the patriotic forces following the LTTE’s closure of the..

That empty glass When a glass that can contain 50 ml of water contains 25 ml, you can say it’s half full or half empty.  That’s the difference between negative and positive.  But what if there’s say 60 ml or..

The country that proclaims to be the shining example of freedom of every kind cannot escape the harsh realities that questions how far Americans are living in a free state. Tragically, most Americans do not know or realize how successive..

Lord, let me start with a disclaimer.  I am frail, M’Lord.  That’s because I am human, M’Lord.  I falter, M’Lord.  That too because I am human, M’Lord.  I err, M’Lord.  That’s human too, M’Lord.  M’Lord, I am blinded by ignorance and arrogance and this myopic condition is..

Posing for pictures with skeletons and even an enemy soldier’s remains being eaten by a dog as Pentagon launches probe The explosive photographs, reportedly taken in Fallujah in 2004, have sparked a Marine Corps investigation However, many of the 41..