Jaffna District TNA lawmaker pro-LTTE M.A. Sumanthiran, has argued that Sri Lanka is incapable and unwilling to deliver justice through domestic mechanisms, and there has to be international pressure. The MP said so at a webinar with former top UN …
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Of those who joined the Sri Lanka Air Force, 40 years ago, as the 9th Intake of Officer Cadets, three died in the initial phase of Eelam War III during Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga’s tenure as the …
Colombo, January 31: Sri Lanka is in discussion with India and other countries for support in the March session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva when Western nations bring an intrusive and punitive resolution against it for …
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President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s Office yesterday (15) strongly denied a claim by former US Ambassador for War Crimes and Global Criminal Justice Stephen Rapp (2009-2015) that wartime Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa had admitted to killing LTTE leaders …
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
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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 …
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ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ජීවත් වන දෙමළ ජනතාව වෙනුවෙන් තිරසාර දේශපාලන විසඳුමක් ලබාගැනීමට නම් ජාත්යන්තර මැදිහත්වීම මත උතුර නැගෙනහිර පළාත්වල ජනමත විචාරණයක් පැවැත්විය යුතු බවත් ඒ සඳහා ඉන්දියාව මූලිකත්වය ගෙන කටයුතු කළ යුතු බවත් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී සී. වී. විග්නේෂ්වරන් …