MALINDA SENEVIRATN​E

“That said, you really cannot ‘ban’ a word. You can indulge in ‘hate’ discourse with specific actions, ideological positions and intentions stated but when it comes to prohibition you are on shaky ground. If Jehan were to read …

The spokesman of the common opposition Dullas  Alahapperuma yesterday said President Maithripala Sirisena, the Free Media Movement, Western countries and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party should reveal their position over the statement made by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in …

By Ranjith Soysa

The Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe of Batalanda fame launched a bitter campaign in the Parliament against the journalists claiming that their hands are not clean. The main thrust of his speech was that the journalists are not …

The editorial by the New York Time on 28^th January 2016 in the head line of “Time for Justice in Sri Lanka”reflects a poor and only a superficial understanding of issues pertaining to Sri Lanka and shows …

The Missing Persons Commission, also known as the ‘Paranagama Commission’ says the figure of 40,000 civilians killed during the final weeks of the war is a myth.

A statement signed by the Chairman of the Commission, former justice Maxwell Paranagama, …

The Chief mock of the Sri Mangalaramaya Buddhist Vihara in Batticaloa, Ven. Ampitiye Sumanarathana thero, is reporting that Pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists backed Tamil villagers in Malayakaduwa village trying to chase away the resettled Sinhala families from their land. The Ven. …

Former External Affairs Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris, addressing a gathering of Buddhist monks and political activists in Aranayake over the weekend described the constitutional reform initiative as a smoke screen intended to mask other measures which the government was …

By Shenali D Waduge

While foreign envoys and even clueless Sinhala politicians and Government officials are chirping reconciliation and drawing up reconciliation plans and proposals, the organizations that the GOSL recently de-proscribed have issued a joint statement commemorating the …

(Courtesy of The Island)

By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana

Dear Father Pieris, after reading your wonderful piece titled ‘I am a war criminal’ in ‘The Island’ of 16th and 18th January, I said to myself, something which I never thought I …

By Dr Palitha Kohona

(Former Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations in NY, previously Head of the UN Treaty Section. Dr Kohona was closely involved with the Uruguay Round of Trade negotiations).

Q. 1. There is considerable …