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by Senaka Weeraratna

In the light of the proposed changes to the Constitution of Sri Lanka now under consideration and growing accusations of contrived attempts to neutralise the applicability of Article 9 in the Constitution that imposes a mandatory duty …

Joint opposition alleged that the government was planning to introduce constitutional reforms which include the scraping of the unitary state and forming Union of Federal State in North, East, Central and Rest of the Island as South.  Further new constitution …

Widely believed to be pro-minority mind set Maithripala Sirisena pardoned a LTTE Tamil terrorist Genevan who had been accused of conspiring to kill Sirisena 10 years ago. Jenivan was arrested in 2005 in a passenger bus leaving Sirisena’s hometown of …

In response to my article on “The Resolution to Enact a New Constitution”, Laksiri Fernando has extracted a single sentence and expressed his ‘displeasure’. If the entirety of the paragraph from which he extracted it, as well as the previous …

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Joint Opposition and patriotic civil society groups and Human Rights campaigners   accused pro-minority  mind set Ranil’s and Sirisenan’s  the government of imprisoning officers of the army intelligence unit over the disappearance of journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda who is widely believe as …

Norwegian Foreign Minister Børge Brende was traveling to Sri Lanka on Wednesday, with the goal of re-establishing political contact through meetings with Sri Lanka’s president, prime minister and foreign minister.

By Shamindra Ferdinando 

(Courtesy The Island)

Had the UN acted swiftly, and decisively, Sri Lanka wouldn’t have had to experience terrorism for nearly three decades. In actual fact, the UN, and its agencies, deprived successive Sri Lankan governments of much …

The Sri Lanka Economic Forum is to be held under auspices of the Sri Lankan Prime Minister on 7 January 2015. Chief Guests at this event are George Soros and Prof. Joseph Stiglitz. The theme of the event is “steering …