Mahinda Gunasekera

Moves by western powers and their subservient UNHRC to harass Sri Lanka for defeating the Indian trained Tamil Tiger Terrorists whom they nourished by permitting the Tiger front organizations to raise funds within their jurisdictions, to arm and …

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Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mangala Samaraweera tipped to be removed from his portfolio soon. Samaraweera, widely popular as man of the Tamil Diaspora. In several occasions, Mangala tried to organized Tamil diaspora carnival in Colombo Sri Lanka to hurt sentiments …

Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara, who lonely fought at LTTE Tamil tigers’ dens of UNHRC HQ in Geneva arrived in Sri Lanka on 30th March after attending number of meetings, workshops, introductory sessions and demonstrations in UNHRC meetings in Geneva. Mr. …

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that though the President and Prime Minister have repeatedly stated that no foreign judges will be brought to try Sri Lanka’s armed forces, the pledge given in Geneva last week is exactly the opposite.

“The …

By Milinda Senevirthna

A highly successful lawyer was once asked why he was not interested in becoming a judge.  He had laughed, ‘I would rather talk a load of rubbish all day than listen to a load of rubbish.’  Judges …

By Asoka Bandarage

(Courtesy of  https://asianstudies.georgetown.edu/sites/asianstudies/files/documents/gjaa_3.2_bandarage.pdf)

In May 2009, the Sri Lankan military defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

(LTTE), a “most lethal and well-organized terrorist group in the world,” which had

fought for nearly thirty years to establish …

(Courtesy of The Island)

By Shamindra Ferdinando

Having received two additional years to fulfill the Oct 1, 2015 Geneva Resolution 30/1, the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government last Friday (March 24) thanked those who had brought a second resolution 34/1 to give time …

By Neville Ladduwahetty

Although the separatist armed conflict ended in May 2009, the first UNHRC Resolution on “Promoting reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka” was in April 2012. This was followed by Resolutions in March 2013; March 2014 and September …

Coutersy of The Island

by Shamindra Ferdinando

The UN mission in Colombo yesterday said that it would soon respond to The Island query whether a report received from the Federation of National Organizations (FNO) on ‘A factual appraisal of the …