(Courtesy of The Island)

By C. A. Chandraprema

The government had planned to take up the ‘Bill to give effect to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance’ for debate in Parliament in early …

(Courtesy of Ceylon Today)

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered a judgment recently annulling measures against the LTTE, namely the designation of the LTTE as a terrorist organization. In spite of the ECJ’s ruling, the European Union (EU) stated …

The visit of arrogant, unprofessional and un-diplomatic UN Special Rapporteur Ben Emmerson had been strongly condemned by the Global Sri Lanka Forum., GSLF  by issuing a strongly worded Press Release by them.

GSLG identified that  Emmerson has diverted from his …

Courtesy of Daily Mirror

Aggregated vote difference between the candidates, stood at a meager 1.8% votes [50.2.to 48.4]; going for the second round preferences, winner vaulted over the cross bar at 28,632 votes. 8527 braved to vote in Jaffna District, …

(Courtesy of Ceylon Today)

When a number of political parties and civil society movements with different ideologies, joined forces to defeat President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the 8 January 2015 election, it was a clear sign that some invisible forces were …

By Neville Ladduwahetty

(Courtesy of The Island)

The visit of Ben Emmerson Q.C., aUN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism, to Sri Lanka from July 10 to 14 was concluded with a statement to the media in which he …

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe

(Courtesy of Ceylon Today)

When Mahinda Rajapaksa became Sri Lanka’s sixth President in 2005, we were up against three wars – terrorism, poverty and corruption. We won the war against terrorism in 2009. By 2014, the key …

(Courtesy of The Island)

The government is reported to have said the controversial Hambantota Port lease agreement, signed amidst protests, on Saturday, will be presented to Parliament. It is an exercise in futility in that the pact is now a …

(Courtesy of Daily FT)

Sinhala Jathika Peramuna, SJP has lodged a complaint in November 2016 with Scotland Yard, the UK’s top crime investigation department to arrest the LTTE Tamil terrorists’ war criminal Adel Balasingham who is currently hiding in the UK after wiped out …