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Yahapalanaya and silence of international community
Vociferous to Silent:
Does the international community’s silence during the rule of Yahapalanya mean Sri Lanka is finally on the ‘right’ path, or that we’re finally doing what we’re told to do.
From 2009 to 2014, Sri Lanka was so …
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බ්රිතාන්ය මන්ත්රීවරු කොටිහඬ නගද්දී නේස්බි සාමි ගෝලීය ශ්රී ලංකා සංසදය (GSLF) හමුවෙයි
බ්රිතාන්යය තුළ කොටි සංවිධානය තහනම්ය. එහෙත් බ්රිතාන්ය රජය කොටි මිනීමරුවන්ට කොටි ධජය සහ ප්රභාකරන් නමැති මිනීමරුවාගේ ඡායාරූප ප්රදර්ශනය කරමින් විරෝධතා පැවැත්වීමට ඉඩදී ඇත. මේ හැර තෙරේසා මිලර්ස්, රොබට් සැල්පන්, පෝල් ස්කලි, එඩ්වඩ් ඩේව්, ජෝන් රයිස්, ස්ලොබද්රනා මැක්ඩොනා ඇතුළු බ්රිතාන්ය මන්ත්රීවරු …
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Mandate lost: no two words about it
Mahinda Rajapaksa, after losing the Presidential Election, making his now infamous from-the-window speech, blamed it ‘on the Tamils’. It was a crass, knee-jerk conclusion which was racist and a complete disavowal of his own and significant flaws. He has since …
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Sinhalese settlement rights in Jaffna
Supported by the Sri Lankan government, Sinhala nationalist and Buddhist monks from Colombo and Jaffna, a group of over 50 former Sinhalese families who were in Jaffna prior of the LTTE Tamil terrorism have settled in Navakkuliya village, along the …
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Ranil Suspended Brig. Priyanka
(Amended excerpts From the “Sunday Times” Political Column of February 11th 2018)
Just this week, a completely unrelated incident was to highlight the sharp and heightening divisions within Sirisena’s coalition. It came after Britain’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka James …
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Last ditch attempt to prevent collapse of govt. Civil society outfit says it has assurance from Prez and PM
(Courtesy of The Island)
Co-conveners of Purawesi Balaya, Gamini Viyangoda, K.W. Janaranjana and Saman Ratnapriya yesterday claimed that the outfit had received firm assurances from President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday (Feb. 12) that they wouldn’t …
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What next for President Rajapakse & the SLPP
The best way to predict the future is to create it – Abraham Lincoln
By Shenali D Waduge
10th February 2018 will go down in history as a watershed moment in Sri Lankan politics. It beat previous startling …
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වෙට්ටුව, මට්ටුව හා පොහොට්ටුව
2015 ජනාධිපතිවරණය සඳහා එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය කේන්ද්ර කරගත් “එක්සත් ජනතා පෙරමුණින්” පොදු අපේක්ෂකයා ලෙස වත්මන් ජනාධිපති මෛත්රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා ඉදිරිපත්වීම දේශපාලනික “වෙට්ටුව”කි. ඒ සමගින් මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා 2015 ජනාධිපතිවරණයෙන්ද, එතුමාගේ ආණ්ඩුව 2015 මහමැතිවරණයෙන්ද පරාජයවීම අපි දකින්නේ දේශපාලනික “මට්ටුවක්” ලෙසිනි. ප්රස්තුථ …
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LTTE Terrorists Attack of the Month
LTTE Tamil terrorists carried out a suicide car bomb attack at the Colombo main central bus terminal on April 21st , 1987 in Sri Lanka killing 113 civilians.
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13th Amendment
