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  • India’s Plan to Capture Lanka Ports

    India’s Plan to Capture Lanka Ports

    With a pro-Indian government in Colombo, New Delhi is taking its advantage to building a harbour in Jaffna to combat China’s maritime presence in the Indian Ocean region.

    So far, India had been biding its time on putting pressure on …



  • Flip side of the US-Sri Lanka Resolution

    Flip side of the US-Sri Lanka Resolution

    It’s a mere change of venue – instead of Geneva or New York; the US-Sri Lanka joint resolution shifts the backdrop to Colombo to cast a false sense of domestication. Circus moves on with foreign actors in starring roles. The …



  • Co-Sponsorship Means Outright Capitulation

    Co-Sponsorship Means Outright Capitulation

    ‘It could have been worse’ is not a victory claim. It is but the whimper of someone who believes he got a consolation prize. President Maithripala Sirisena says ‘it could have been hundreds of thousands of times worse had Mahinda




  • UNHRC draft resolution: Govt. playing with fire

    UNHRC draft resolution: Govt. playing with fire

    (Courtesy of  The Sunday Island)

    The government should take great care with the American sponsored draft resolution that was tabled before the UNHRC on Thursday especially because they have decided to make it a consensus resolution. Dayan Jayatilleke recently said …