By H. L. D. Mahindapala
In 1968 Jaffna was facing an internal caste war which was threatening to tear it apart. The simmering caste conflict in Jaffna exploded with the low-castes, spurred by N. Shanmugathasan, head of the Peking-wing of …
India demands Sri Lanka holds a “credible investigation”. Sri Lanka must oblige India. That investigation must cover two important aspects. Firstly, it must cover India’s role in creating, training, financing and supporting the LTTE as a terrorist movement and India’s
Following SLMC demand for separate state for Muslims in the Easter province Trincomalee-based pro-LTTE Tamil terrorist funded and TNA backed NGO called Social Development and Research Organization (SDRO) has demanded the establishment of a separate province for Tamils in Eastern …
(Courtesy of The Sunday Times)
Last week, our INSIGHT team went to the International Maritime Boundary Line (IMBL) that separates Sri Lanka from India to follow up on an earlier investigation into the continuing rape of the country’s sea resources …
MALINDA SENEVIRATNE
“And there’s history. A history of India meddling in the affairs of Sri Lanka. There’s the whole story of supporting terrorism with arms, money and training (before the idea backfired). Then there’s the Indo-Lanka Agreement. That’s important and …
Most of the Sri Lankan widely believe that singing of national anthem in Tamil is not appropriate and not necessary at all. They mostly think it is a political requirement of current pro-minority government lead by Ranil and Sirisena to …
Our sister paper “Sunday Times”revealed details last week about an incident of friction between a senior cabinet minister and a senior
The Sunday Times Political column scored a scoop by referring to an exchange of words
…The expatriates Sri Lankans group called, Global Sri Lankans Forum, GSLF established with Sri Lankans living in various countries to safeguard the Unitary status of the Island, recognizing the imminent danger of singing Economic and Technical Agreement (ETCA) with India …
The OHCHR/UNHRC Head have used successive resolutions/reports and statements to claim that one Prageeth Ekneligoda a journalist and cartoonist had disappeared. A joint submission by NGO at the UPR in 2012 also claimed Prageeth to be a cartoonist and writer …
By KAMALIKA PIERIS
When the Udarata kingdom went under the British rulers in 1815, the flag of the Sinhala king, Sri Wickrema Rajasinha was ceremonially replaced by the flag of the British king, George III. The Udarata flag was then …