Photo: Collage of the book cover and Kalinga Seneviratne’s picture at a railway station in a Southeast Asian country.

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BANGKOK (IDN) — A new report released by the Sydney-based Lotus Communication Network (LCN) on February 26 warns …

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On Feb. 11, India and China reached an agreement to de-escalate a long-standing border dispute that erupted into a clash in the spring and summer of 2020. The agreement, which involves both sides pulling back along the …

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At the UNHRC meeting the true friends of Sri Lanka emerged to speak and defend the country battered mercilessly for defeating the world most brutal terrorist organization, i.e., Tamil Tiger terrorists in 2009, who held 20 …

‘If you are not with me, I will assume that you are against me,’ is a prudent rule of thumb, but only in certain situations. Not all questions can be answered with either ‘yes’ or ‘no.’ Complex realities don’t often …

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In February, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg dismissed the appeal of Abdul Hanan, a farmer from Kunduz, against the Federal Republic of Germany over a 2009 massacre in Afghanistan. …

The suicide bomber who killed President Ranasinghe Premadasa on May 1, 1993, was Kulaveerasingam Veerakumar (23) alias Babu, from Jaffna and a suicide bomber known as Kalaivani Rajaratnam alias Dhanu killed former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on May 21, …

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As the COVID-19 death toll mounts, Tamil nationalist parties in Sri Lanka are appealing to India’s ruling Hindu-supremacist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). This comes amid growing war tensions driven above all by US imperialism. The …

Lord Naseby President of the UK all party British-Sri Lanka Parliamentary group has questioned the failure on the part of the UK to prosecute senior LTTE leader Adela Balasingham, wife of the outfit’s late theoretician Anton Balasingham. Lord Naseby said …

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අතීතය පිළිබඳ කුතුහලාත්මක දෘෂ්ඨියකින් බැලීම, අතීත දේ පිළිබඳ ඇති ඇල්ම (අතීතකාමය – Nostalgia) නොහොත් පුරාසක්තවාදී (Antiquariesm) දෘෂ්ඨිය සරලව ගත් කල පුරාවිද්‍යාවේ න්‍යායාත්මක එළඹුම සම්බන්ධයෙන් කතා කිරීමේදී මූලාරම්භකම අවස්ථාවයි. අතීතය පරිකල්පනය කිරීමට පෙළඹීම ගෝලීයකරණයත් සමග ලෝකය දේශගවේෂණයට …

We are told there is a War against Terror. Sri Lanka should know, we suffered various forms of terror, the LTTE being the most heinous. That terror lasted 30 decades. We wasted decades following Western/UN templates of ceasefires, negotiations, peace …