By Bandu de Silva

            28^th April 1952 was the day on which the Japanese Peace Treaty officially signed by 48 countries from those which attended the San Francisco Conference of September held in the previous year came into force. …

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This is my fourth and hopefully final essay on the problems with the 19^th Amendment.  In this essay I focus on the mysterious entity designated the “Council of State,” which the amendment intends to insert as Chapter 7B of …

In this my third essay on the problems with the proposed 19^th Amendment, I focus on the benefits the amendment will have to the Eelamists.

The most obvious such benefit, once the President’s powers are transferred to the Prime …

Members of North East Sinhala IDP Association – NESIA has written to the Minister of Re-settlement Mr.  D M Suwaminathan requesting him to arrange proper settlement arrangement  for the Sinhalese who have been in IDP status in Nawakkuliya  in Jaffna …

Assistant Secretary Malinowski reiterates Sept deadline

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Having commemorated those who had perished, on Mullaitivu beach, US Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labour, Tom Malinowski, told a media roundtable, in Colombo, early this month, …

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Neville Ladduwahetty, in his article on the National Anthem raises a very valid point, namely that we are prepared to violate the Constitution for the sake of reconciliation. The LRRC whose main objective was reconciliation, was …

A mounting oppositions are being building up for the proposal made by TNA for the post of Leader of Opposition in the Sri Lankan parliament. TNA, a pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists political party formed with former Tamil terrorists  and extremist Tamil …

Numbers of patriotic organizations demanded Tamil terrorist leader and so called former chief minister of North and East provincial council to be arrested immediately for his treason charges and violating of immigration law of the country by traveling to India …