The U.S. State Department’s overseas diplomatic mission in Colombo had all the liberty in the first several months of this year – due to Washington’s unusual delay in preparing the Annual Country Reports on Human Rights …
Police officers expressed their dissatisfaction over Colombo Mayor’s ethnically and politically motivated decision to allow pavement hawkers to conduct their businesses on certain streets in Colombo city.
Police officers has told that this decision would lead to violation of several …
Colombo Mayor A. J. M. Muzammil who opened the Colombo pavement hawkers to get the Muslim and other minority’s votes in the general election could find himself in serious trouble from both Muslim religious quarters and political supporters, after he …
The American acknowledgement and confirmation of the continued existence of LTTE’s global network of sympathisers and finances should be a cause for concern as much for neighbouring India as much for Sri Lanka. In ways, it should also be a
…The World Alliance for Peace in Sri Lanka (WAPS) views with alarm the recent actions of the unelected Prime Minster Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe and his Foreign Minister Mr Mangala Samaraweera, who have embarked on a strategy of appeasing the local
…The Foreign Minister of Mangala Samaraweera has met the pro-LTTE front organization; Global Tamil Forum in the United Kingdom and has discussed the possibility to delist those pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists organizations and Tamil diaspora individuals from ban imposed in accordance …
Shenali D Waduge
Is it only in Sri Lanka’s case or does it happen elsewhere too that soldiers are treated as dirt by the supposed guardians of peace while internationally proscribed terrorists are white-washed at every stage? Ever …
Shenali D Waduge
UN Secretary General’s 3 member panel appointed to personally appraise him of the last 3 months (final stages) of the conflict declared LTTE as the “most disciplined and most nationalist of the Tamil militant groups”. That …
Very few countries can claim to be homogeneous. Most countries are made up of diverse communities often based on factors of birth, such as race, ethnicity, religion, language and caste or a combination of any of …