Britain has appealed against the de-proscription of the LTTE Tamil terrorist Organization in the EU, the visiting British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Office Hugo Swire said in Sri Lanka. Minister further assured that the LTTE would not …

A case has been filed in the Appeal Court seeking a prohibitory order on passing the Constitutional changes as an `Urgent Bill’.

The argument that Constitutional changes cannot be made through an ‘Urgent Bill’ was presented by Dharshan Weerasekara in …

Must be done through procedure prescribed in the Constitution   —

 On 27^th January 2015, a group within the Sinhala Nationalist Movement (SNM) filed a Writ application in the Court of appeal requesting the Appeal Court to issue directives to …

Prof. Nalin de Silva was a regular writer of nationalism and unitary status of Sri Lanka to “The Island” newspaper in the recent past. However, with the formation of new government lead by Ranil Wickramasinghe, who is a famous champion …

Day-Light Robbery By Ranil and Maithree

The manner in which the Chief Justice was removed resembles Pakistan under General Zia-Ul-Haq or Pervez Musharraf. Mohan Peiris was not removed from his post by legal means. The threats he faced while serving …

With the formation of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party in 1951, the majority Sinhalese became a near non-entity in Sri Lankan politics. Sinhala polity got bifurcated and each half went of separate ways in a manner suicidal to each other. …

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka

Who and what do we take more seriously? Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s promise made to the Sri Lankan parliament of ‘the implementation of the 13th amendment within the unitary state’, or that which his …

Out of total population of Sri Lankans, less than 40% of Sinhalese, 75% of Tamils and  75% of Muslims voted for Maithreepala Sirisena to remove the President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Maithreepala won with a narrow margin of 51%!

This reflects that …

It has been revealed details of an alleged “understanding” involving among others the current Foreign Affairs minister pro-Federalists Mangala Samaraweera and Pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists political party Tamil National Alliance (TNA)national list parliamentarian MA Sumanthiran that was arrived at in Singapore …

By K. Ratnayake

Fresh evidence has emerged pointing to a concerted international effort behind the defeat of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse in the country’s presidential election on January 8. Reuters reported on Sunday that the Colombo station chief for …