(Courtesy of Ceylon Today)

By Prageeth Sampath

United People’s Freedom Alliance, Kandy District, Member of Parliament Keheliya Rambukwella said that the masses are displeased with this Government that is already very unpopular, and that ‘such a government will fall soon’.…

The signing of the Indo-Lanka Peace Accord in 1987

By G. H. Peiris

Several articles by Dr. Dayan Jayatilleke published in The Island during the past few days indicate that he is very definitely the most articulate and, arguably, the …

The 36th session of the UN Human Rights Council closed just a few days back, on the 29th of September. At that session, there were allegations of genocide, systematic discrimination, rape and torture in custody, extrajudicial killings and militarization …

Following is the speech delivered by Dr. Nalaka Godahewa at the 36th session of the UNHRC in Geneva in September under the banner of Global Sri Lankan Forum:

Mr. President,

a myth has been spread over the years, that there …

රට දෙකඩ කරන්නේ යයි ඇතැමුන් කියන්නේ බලය බෙදීම ගැන වරදවා වටහාගෙන බවත් බලය බෙදන රට නොබෙදන ව්‍යවස්‌ථාවක්‌ රටට උවමනා බවත් මල්වතු පාර්ශ්වයේ මහනායක අතිපූජ්‍ය තිබ්බටුවාවේ ශ්‍රී සිද්ධාර්ථ සුමංගල හිමියෝ පසුගියදා කළ ප්‍රකාශයට රට පුරා විරෝධය එල්ලවී තිබේ.

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Constitutional expert and eminent lawyer Manohara de Silva on Monday urged the public to reject the proposed constitution as it would turn the country into a federal state.

De Silva, addressing the media at the All Ceylon Buddhist Congress (ACBC), …

Global Sri Lankan Forum, GSLF a Forum of patriots of  Sri Lankans living in the UK, Australia, Middle East, Canada, France, Switzerland, Poland, Israel, Italy, and Ireland submitted a petition to high Commissioner of the UNHRC bring to his attention …

Admiral Sarath Weerasekara questions how UNHRC enforce certain unfair rules and conditions by force on Sri Lanka on country basis to satisfy cheap geopolitics playing by Western countries.

Admiral Sarath Weerasekara raised these serious concerns at the UNHRC general session …

Courtesy of The Island

What we witnessed last Wednesday was, not to put too fine a point on it, gang rape of democracy. The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) has frowned on the manner in which the yahapalana government …