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If any country knows what it is like to be battered and humiliated by the world, it is Germany. Germany has come far. After 2 World Wars, once considered the enemy of the Allies, Germany is today the co-partners with..

Of late, there are video clips emerging of winter-clothes clad teen brats with heavy accents ranting on about Eelam from US, UK, Canada, France & other EU nations. We like to given them a simple message, you ain’t gonna create..

LTTE celebrated Valentine’s Day by killing. Many are led to believe LTTE represented Tamils. They may like to then explain why LTTE started its killing spree by aiming at Tamils first?LTTE’s first shot was fired at a Tamil in 1975.The victim..

By Dayantha Laksiri Mendis “Treaties and Non-treaty instruments are the bones and sinews of global politic, making it possible for states to move from talk through compromise to solemn commitment.” Professor Thomas M. Frank, Taking Treaties Seriously [1988] 82 AJIL..

Reviewed by Anushka Kahandagamage Harshana Rambukwella, The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity: A Cultural Genealogy of Sinhala Nationalism, 2018. 178 pages, London: UCL Press. ISBN: 978-1-78735-128-8. Open Access book: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/95138 The over-use of the concept, ‘Sinhala nationalism’ has made it..

It is true the Sinhalese are an ethnic majority in Sri Lanka, but it is also true that the Sinhalese are the only ethnic group in the world. The Tamils & Muslim may be ethnic minorities in Sri Lanka but..

Since terrorist LTTE was defeated in May 2009, UNHRC has been headed by 3 High Commissioners for Human Rights. Navi Pillay (Sept2008-Aug2014), Zeid Al Hussein (Sept2014 to Aug2018) & Michelle Bachelet (Sept2018 to Aug2022). While their reports & statements abounds..

  A UN member state is being accused of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity & even ‘genocide’.Sri Lanka has been the victim of an annual witch hunt sponsored by blood-money for 12 years. All of these allegations has credibility if..

History will one day be witness to the lies, deceit and hypocrisies taking place in the Halls of the UN and in particular the UNHRC. What Sri Lanka must repeatedly exert is that all of the resolutions since 2009 claiming..

In 2004, TNA manifesto boasted of securing a Tamil Nation for self-determinationled “under the generalship of the Tigers’ leader Hon. Pirapaharan”.It truly presented who TNA is and what their line of thinking is. It was as a result of the ISGA..