By Malinda Seneviratne

Small nations typically do not have much by way of bargaining power vis-à-vis powerful nations; ‘small’ meaning economically and militarily weak rather than land size. Weak, however, does not mean helpless. Indeed there are very few if …

The Joint Opposition, JO  has written to Speaker of the parliament, Mr. Karu Jayasooriya  on the matter of Office of Missing Person, OMP  Bill’s inconsistency with constitution  and standing orders. The very controversial Bill, widely drafted to frame the War …

“Now that the US has undertaken the examination of some of the former LTTE cadres, according to Wigneswaran, the onus is on Washington to reveal the findings of its investigations if it fulfils its promise to the Northern CM; the

(Courtesy of The Island)

By Shamindra Ferdinando

Chairperson of the Office for National Unity and Reconciliation Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga during a two-day visit to Jaffna beginning Aug. 11, 2016 took credit for scoring impressive battlefield victories during her tenure as …

A high profile state function attended by Americans, US army officers, US Ambassador, Government Ministers, Pro-LTTE TNA MPs and high ranking security forces officers had ignorance to discriminate Sinhala language in Jaffna.

Jaffna Army Commander and others government officials had …

By Daya Gamage – Former Political Specialist at U.S. Mission in Colombo

(Courtesy of the Asiantribune.com)

Since the advent of the Sirisena-Wickremasinghe administration in January 2015, the American Embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka has adopted an extremely partisan diplomatic / …

With the recent enactment of controversial and highly anti-Sri Lankan  so called Office of Missing Person Act in the parliament by TNA, JHU, JVP and the Government, the Kandy Police discovered some LTTE propaganda materials of T-shirts. Tamil Terrorists LTTE …

Pro-LTTE Tamil terrorist political party, TNA and Tamil extremists vigorously opposed to religious harmony in Northern and Eastern two provinces. Following several number of violence against the Sinhala Buddhists, Buddhist temples, and Buddhist worships places in North and East the …

One-time nationalistic political party formed with Sinhala Buddhists, the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) hailed the passage of the Office of Missing Persons (OMP) Bill in the Parliament on Friday.  JHU said that the Act could be used to find out …

Courtesy the Island

The passage of the Office of Missing Persons Bill in parliament once again saw the worst characteristics of the so-called yahapalana government on display last Thursday. All the decisions concerning the Bill was made by the yahapalana …