By DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA

(Courtesy of The Island)

We have already had a bitter experience with Mr. Wigneswaran and we mustn’t repeat or compound it. Mr. Sampanthan is a cultured gentleman, a superb speaker and fine parliamentarian in the old …

Reference the statement by Mr. Ajith Perera, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs that “new evidence of the LTTE activities overseas was the basis for the EU’s ban” and that Mr. Ranil Wickremesinghe had as the Opposition Leader written to the …

(Courtesy oif Ceylon Today)

The United States has no genuine interest in accountability or reconciliation in Sri Lanka, but is seeking a strategic military base in Asia, says Tamara Manimekhalai Kunanayakam, onetime Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the …

BY DR DAYAN JAYATILLEKA

“…The Government has invited Mr. Pablo de Greiff, the Special Rapporteur on truth, justice, reparations and guarantees of non-recurrence to visit Sri Lanka for consultations. He has proposed to visit us at the end …

People belonging to religious minorities specially Christians in Pakistan and Afghanistan had been increasingly seeking help from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHRC) in Sri Lanka. They were hoping that the UNHCR would assist them to settle in …

With the defeat of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa the country is moving backwards, Sri Jayawardenapura University senior lecturer Ven. Medagoda Abhayatissa thera said.

Under the so called good governance the gap between communities are widening day by day …

(Courtesy  of  The Island)

By Gunadasa Amarasekera

The conspiratorial powers-the CIA, the RAW, the MI 6 and their agents, some NGOs and separatists had a fourfold agenda to be achieved.

– firstly to oust Mahinda Rajapaksa

– secondly to install …

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
The SLFP participation at the Ratnapura rally trumped the cooptation (‘National Government’) tactic of the SLFP Rightwing.  The anti-Mahinda tendency of the SLFP is now caught in the coils of its own contradictions. If it follows the …

(Courtesy of  The Island)
D. Chandrasiri Unawatuna
According to news item appearing in the island of March 13, 2015, the Northern Provincial Chief Minister, Mr. C. V. Wigneswaran has said that the time has come to move ahead of the …

Numbers of Sri Lankan patriotic expats, groups have expressed their displeasure on the Government decision to lift the ban of LTTE Tamil terrorists’ front organizations. Pro-LTTE and anti-Sinhala Ranil and his allies like Mangala, Rajitha, Ravi, Mano, Bahu are …