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We have almost 8 months until a possible election in Sri Lanka, and it is highly expected a presidential one, but in Sri Lanka elections, winning candidates have always been a surprise to the voters in recent years. As we..

We celebrate the 75th independence anniversary of Sri Lanka in 2023. We fail to say whether it is celebrating the independence of the country or the independence of the politicians or the independence of the people or the independence of the..

Member of Parliament Sivagnanam Sridharan was elected as the new leader of the Tamil National Alliance. A controversial leader, is Sridharan revitalising the cry for separatism? Sridharan was flagged after he allocated Rs 4 million out of his decentralised budget..

The UN was created in 1945 following the end of World War 2 promising to ensure no future world wars, to respect individual state sovereignty and to not interfere in internal affairs of sovereign states. Since 1945, only 10 countries..

Mahaveerar Naal is a LTTE mourning event – it does not mourn Tamils & certainly not Tamils killed by LTTE. Mahaveerar Naal is an event annually organized by LTTE supporters to commemorate all LTTE who died for terrorist cause. Other..

Sri Lanka’s sovereignty & territorial integrity is being questioned by a secretive deal between US & the Ranil Wickremasinghe Government pertaining to the Millennium Challenge Corporation & an ‘economic corridor” that will create a railway line from Colombo to Trincomalee leasing..

Gen Gwyn Jenkins, right, pictured with the former Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, received warnings about SAS raids. One of the UK’s most senior generals was warned in writing in 2011 that SAS soldiers were claiming to have executed handcuffed detainees..

It is a simple question but holding a wealth of meaning & essentially answers and distinguishes those that naturally come forward to defend the nation & those who chose not to. Some leaders are born, some are made by circumstance..

Before anyone takes out all the denigrative words & phrases in the dictionary, it would be wiser for them to check out where a God is officially referred in the Constitutions of other states that have a shorter history than..

The Israeli-Hamas standoff strangely has many bedfellows suddenly entering the scene & we cannot but highlight the hypocrisies at play on how the UN/UNHRC & international community reacted to Sri Lanka’s efforts against terrorism and the reaction of these entities..