It is hilarious that a group of EU & Non-EU envoys have gone to meet Muslim leaders at the Dewatagaha Mosque in Colombo. These ambassadors must take the people of Sri Lanka for fools or else they are living in …

(Courtesy of The Island)

By Neville Ladduwahetty

The UNHRC Resolution A/HRC/34/L.1 of 15 March 2017 “requests the Government of Sri Lanka to implement fully the measures identified by the Council in its resolution 30/1 that are outstanding”. While the language …

TO:- All Joint Opposition Members of Parliament and all constituent political parties of the Joint Opposition

Should Not The Joint Opposition Totally Disengage Itself From The Treacherous Constitution (Eelam) Making Process Which Will Divide Sri Lanka And Create An Eelam?…

The Presidential 9-day foreign tour of Donald Trump has been perhaps the most successful first such tour for any US President. Not only has he visited a friendly country but also countries which many thought were his adversaries, and he …

By Gandara John

It was in 1998 when the US executed a major coup in Sri Lanka and succeeded in passing a US propelled Australian Land Law (Torrens Law) through Sri Lanka’s Parliament; this was ‘The Registration of Title Act …

Rajpal Abeynayake

(Rajpal Abeynayake was the former Editor in Chief of the Sunday Observer, the Daily News and the Lakbimanews English weekly.)

This week’s terrorist attacks in Manchester would remind most Sri Lankan’s of attacks in buses and trains and …

Source; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3820659/At-justice-troops-Ministers-pledge-suspend-human-rights-laws-wartime-stop-soldiers-dragged-courts.html

Lawyers will no longer be able to chase British soldiers with ‘vexatious’ claims of human rights abuses, Theresa May  said today” at the Tory conference in Birmingham this morning. She told troops: ‘We are on your side.’  She …

So called nationalist political party, Jathika Hela Urumaya, JHU who came to power over the Ven. Soma thero’s coffin is now working against Sinhala Buddhists. JHU are now working tirelessly with officers of Housing Ministry of Sajith Premadasa to change …

13 A to Federal

(Courtesy of The Island)

Only a few things stand between devolution under the 13th Amendment and federalism. Among them are the unitary character of the state, the executive presidency and the powers of the provincial Governors …

Gunadasa Amarasekara.

Ranjith Soysa asked ‘Can the Prime Minister square a circle’ (6/5/Island).

My friend Ranjith should have no illusions about the capabilities of our Prime Minister. He may not be a statesmen or a visionary, but he is certainly …