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 …

The petitions filed by eight persons challenging the constitutionality of the proposed 19th Amendment to the Constitution will be called before the Supreme Court on 1^st of April 2015.

The petitioners are Attorney-at-Law Gomin Dayasri, leader of  Pivithuru Hela …

Sri Lanka’s new government today warned that there is a real danger that the LTTE could regroup and wage another war for an independent Tamil homeland, six years after they were militarily defeated. Earlier pro- LTTE Ranil pretend that no …

Pro-LTTE Rauf Hakeem, leader of SLMC who supped and shook hands with LTTE Tamil terrorist leader Prabakaran demanding a separate district in the Eastern Province for Muslims to create a separate country in the future

Leader of the Tamil National …