MEN & EVENTS BY Sugeeswara Senadhira

The United Kingdom, the mother of the Westminster model of democracy functions without a written Constitution. It has successfully carried on a democratic Constitution based on traditions and conventions very smoothly without running into …

Sri Lanka United National Association of Canada better known as SLUNA was a tower of strength to me during my assignment in Toronto. There isn’t any other organisation like SLUNA in Canada which has supported Sri Lanka throughout. The organization …

DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA

A proposed Amendment to the Buddhist Temporalities Act was published in the Government Gazette on 4 December 2015.  On 21^st December 2015, the Government submitted a motion to Parliament outlining its plan to convert Parliament to a …

Kalutara District UPFA MP Jayantha Samaraweera (NFF)  warned the government of dire consequences unless it immediately stopped persecuting military officers on trumped-up charges.

Samaraweera was addressing the media at the Kottawa junction in the wake of a group of monks …

The government had omitted certain significant Articles of the 1978 Constitution, including those on upholding the Unitary State of the country and giving foremost place to Buddhism from the new Constitution, Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) MP Dinesh Gunawardane charged …

Allaying misgivings about a request he had made to the army, pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists Northern Province Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswaran insist that army to clean the drainage system in Jaffna as Army has nothing to do in North as no more …

By Keerthi Waranakulasuriya – Defence Columnist, SundayDivaina (translated  by Ranjith Soysa)

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By Bandu de  Silva

In an article I published in 2013/2014, discussing the relevance of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation model (TRC) to Sri Lanka I concluded as follows:

“One should see that behind this projection of the …

By Michael Hudson

The nightmare scenario of U.S. geopolitical strategists seems to be coming true: foreign economic independence from U.S. control. Instead of privatizing and neoliberalizing the world under U.S.-centered financial planning and ownership, the Russian and Chinese governments are …