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“The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of IRAQ … I mean of the Ukraine ….Iraq too, anyway … (he laughs) …I’am 75 (audience laughs) …”. The man former US President George Bush was..

Sri Lanka is a resilient nation. That’s almost a given. A constant. All talk of peace, human rights, democracy, good governance, reparations  and other such goodies emanating from Washington, London and other empiric capitals are disingenuous and laughable. Constant. Meddling,..

We are somewhat puzzled. Perhaps the Western diplomats – the UN & UNHRC may care to answer and put our doubts at rest. We are more than a little curious to know why the UN/UNHRC & Western diplomats attention is..

There is much hype of late about the Tamil diaspora helping finance Sri Lanka’s development. While this may be music to the ears of some, it completely forgets to ask why the LTTE or LTTE diaspora did not develop the..

  While India may have begun the initial training and arming of LTTE towards late 1970s, there is another player that often escapes the radar of accountability. Sri Lanka’s governments have failed to identify the crux of the problem and..

Four international human rights organisations yesterday (20) said that atrocities perpetrated during the deployment of the Indian Army, IPKF in Sri Lanka, too, should be properly investigated by the mechanisms proposed by the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)…

September is the month when the UN Human Rights Council presents its latest Resolution on Sri Lanka. It is reported that the latest version has graduated from violations of human rights and international humanitarian law to include violations of “economic..

Foreign Minister, Ali Sabry, PC, yesterday (05) said entire fighting divisions which had been deployed on the Vanni front during Eelam War IV (2006-2009) had been ‘blacklisted’ on the basis of findings made by the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights..

The pro-LTTE TNA politicians and politically motivated extremists Tamils are destructing the functioning of the historical Kurundumale  Buddhist temple in Mulathiv district. The harassments to the Buddhists devotees and function of the temple being regularly disrupted by very organized and..

Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh- This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood;” Merchant of Venice -Shakespeare. India came to support Sri Lanka in our moment of utter despair ravaged by a unprecedented..