(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 …

A armed gang, presumably ex-LTTE Tamil terrorists with swords and clubs yesterday afternoon attacked two police officers near Nandavil Amman kovil in the Kopay area, causing severe injuries to them.

The attackers had come on motorcycles. The wounded policemen, identified …

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(This article as a reply to an article on this subject by a Prof. Fernando, to the Island newspaper. But it was not published by The Island)

This is an attempt to explain the question raised by Prof. Laksiri Fernando …

Rear Admiral (Dr.) Sarath Weerasekera VSV, RWP, USP  

An article appeared in The Island” on 10/7/2017 titled ‘Is there a Sangha State” behind the state?’, written by Laksiri Fernando ( LF). LF says that the Maha Sangha of the three …