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December 11, 2013 “Information Clearing House – “This Cant Be Happening” – When Barack Obama, the first black president of America, delivered remarks Tuesday during a South African memorial service for that country’s first black president, he muffed a historic opportunity to right..

February 11, 2014 By Dr. S. I. Keethaponcalan The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) controlled Northern Provincial Council (NPC), which was reconstituted in September 2013, set in motion its political machination with what seemed like an honest intention to experiment politics of..

International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies of Nanyang Technological University Annual Threat Assessment  South Asia Sri Lanka There have been no incidents of terrorism in Sri Lanka since the Liberation Tigers of..

Although terrorism was defeated in the country in 2009, the threat still lurks as internal and external forces are still lobbying for a separate state and also still funding and fuelling separatist ideologies. According to the latest edition of the..

“Counting other people’s sins does not make you a Saint”. “Others will be more likely to take your advice if you practice what you preach”  Generally, anyone pointing fingers need to have a clean chit – in other words no..

Part II The Sri Lankan delegates assembled in Geneva to combat the US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC in 2012 were tense. Though they were lobbying frantically no one knew which way the voting would go. The most..

[In a parallel universe, of course] I read somewhere that some cabinet ministers are peeved that I am in the habit of inviting heads of state institutions for chit-chat over coffee, tea, wine or whisky.  They are upset, I heard,..

The mainstream news released what is said to be the script of the supposed Resolution (3rd) America is hoping to pass in Geneva next month. It is a calculated move to send 2 messages to Sri Lanka’s leaders – to..

The Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Lalith Weeratunga, has made a  bold and strategic move which was reported by Reuter at the end of his  diplomatic tour  of the West. He told Reuter’s: “If there is an international investigation, the whole period..

Courtesy of Ceylon Daily News 7th Feb 2014 As Geneva gets closer the so called educated people in Sri Lanka get paranoid. Some of them think of the UNHRC punishing Sri Lanka in one way or the other, and those..