Why would the Kandyan King Senarath dispatch a military expeditionary force under Mudaliar Attapattu to defend the Tamils against the Portuguese in 1619 AD? The answer is simple. The Jaffna province was a kinglet and tributary of the Kandyan Kingdom. …

By Sugath Samarasinghe

Prince Al Hussein has come and gone after a four days visit. Our big talking duo, who bragged to the BBC, Al Jazeera and the latter to the Indian Media a little earlier, that there would be …

The Sri Lankan communities in the UK, and around the world, have become disheartened by the current political instability taking place in their country of origin. After a 30-year war between government forces and the separatist group, the LTTE terrorists, …

(by Courtesy of The Island )

Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has interpreted the first step in security sector reform as withdrawal of a section of security forces from the Northern and Eastern Provinces.
The Northern Province comprises …

(Courtesy of The Island) 

Blunder of Yahapalanaya

The attempt by the SLFP parliamentarians in the Joint Opposition to become an independent group in parliament came to naught with Speaker Karu Jayasuriya refusing to grant them that recognition. The excuse he …

Shenali D Waduge

There is much ado about Sinhalese denying the status for Tamil post-independence. The better question is, did Tamil language have any official status from 1832 to 1948 to warrant a grievance? Was Tamil used at all in …

Sources reported that three Sinhala students of the University of Jaffna injured due to ongoing sectarian violence between the politically motivated Tamil extremist students. Violence fighting are still going one two groups of Tamil extremists’ students.

Some of these politically …

Pro-minority Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena who came to the power from the minority’s’ votes appointed Reginald Cooray, leftist federalist as Governor of the Tamil-majority Northern Province.

Ranil and Sirisena loyalist SLFP politician, Cooray succeeds former civil servant HMGS Palihakkara, …

By A Patabendige

Yahapalana Prime Minister (PM) in Parliament last week fired a thundering broadside at one of the most potent contributors to the 2015 regime change. The media had stepped out of line since then he alleged. Media, print …

 Kanthar Balanathan, Australia 

The sovereignty, democracy, national security, reconciliation process are growing to be under threat as a result of significant number of unnecessary, churlish, rash actions by India, the West and the UN. This is not a contention, but …