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  • 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,




  • Foreign Minister, Mangala Removed?

    Foreign Minister, Mangala Removed?

    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


  • Hero Welcome

    Hero Welcome

    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. …