(Courtesy of The Daily Mirror)

 By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka

How is it that the much-celebrated peace agreement heralding national reconciliation in Colombia between its FARC guerrillas and Columbia’s President Dos Santos just signed in Havana in the presence of President …

Courtesy The Nation

As the UK Permanent Representative explicitly stated when addressing the Human Rights Council on Oct 1, the US-UK resolution is firmly founded upon Zeid al Hussein’s report. As Zeid al Hussein made amply clear in his video …

One thing I’ll say for Prince Zeid al Hussein: he’s a straight talker, clear, firm, strong and pointed, i.e., effective in his expressions of opinion, however unfair, absurd and frankly ridiculous they are. It’s a pity I cannot say the …

My unambiguous opinion is that R. Sampanthan is a gentleman of the old school, one of the finest Parliamentarians we have and ranks high among the few such left such as Dinesh Gunawardena. As an individual, he is streets ahead …

(Courtesy of The Island) 

Did you think that as a unitary state, there is only one, single government in Sri Lanka, though there are a number of Provincial Councils to which a measure of power has been devolved by that …

By COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH

“Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the Members to submit such matters to settlement under the …

“…he also underestimated badly the Rajapakse regime as well as the armed forces. Prabhakaran did not expect the armed forces to keep on progressing relentlessly as they did. But despite heavy losses the military juggernaut kept on rolling forward. …

John Kerry was right, but only half right, when he commended Samaraweera for noting that true sovereignty can only be protected by asserting our multiethnic, multi-religious, multi lingual character. Both Kerry and Samaraweera forgot the flip side, namely that the …