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  • FM Samaraweera v General Guneratne

    FM Samaraweera v General Guneratne

    By A Patabendige

    Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera (FM Sam) has a reputation for launching surprise attacks as any Biswal could vouch for. He has done so again when with sanctimonious concern for the Army, he launched a desperate, much convoluted


  • Take Sampanthan to task

    Take Sampanthan to task

    Ranjith Soysa

    Media Spokesman

     

    Global Sri Lankan Forum

     
    Leader of the TNA and the official Opposition said at a recent counter terrorism conference in India that as many as 150,000 Tamils had been killed by the armed forces.


  • FM Samaraweera v General Guneratne

    FM Samaraweera v General Guneratne

    By A Patabendige

    (By Courtesy of Asian Tribune)

     

    Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera (FM Sam) has a reputation for launching surprise attacks as any Biswal could vouch for. He has done so again when with sanctimonious concern for the Army, …


  • Watching Syria, seeing Sri Lanka

    Watching Syria, seeing Sri Lanka

    (Courtesy of The Island)

     

    By Sanja de Silva Jayatilleka

     

     It was not easy to watch the proceedings on Friday April 7that the UN Security Council’s emergency ‘open session’ on Syria without thinking of Sri Lanka, although the


  • War Crimes

    War Crimes

    U.S. ‘backed plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad’s regime’

     

    • Leaked emails from defense contractor refers to chemical weapons saying ‘the idea is approved by Washington’

    • Obama issued warning to Syrian president Bashar





  • Repeating the Ginger for Chillie error

    Repeating the Ginger for Chillie error

    Malinda Senewiratna

    There was a time when victory over enemies was about bashing heads in, seizing their women and enslaving their children.  It still happens of course.  The cost-effective way is for the powerful to dictate, the weak to submit,