When the European powers invaded Africa they brought with them their systems of private property. Laws were established based on these systems, in order to justify, entrench and facilitate the takeover of lands from local communities. But such laws were …

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Aeshea Jayasinghe (right) and Naseema Qureshi at the Sri Lanka Independence Day celebration in Los Angeles: Church of Scientology International 

By Hassina Leelarathna

In a message published in the Sri Lanka America Association of Southern California’s (SLAASC) …

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Having received the appointment as Foreign Relations Minister last November, Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) leader Dinesh Gunawardena, MP, experienced a torrid time, with his ministry under siege, following the Swiss bombshell accusations that government agents, on …

By Rajan Philips
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Last Monday, Modi’s India ‘bowed to the divine in’ (Namaste) Trump. The namaste turned nasty even before President Trump left India after his whirlwind trip. Deadly serious Hindu-Muslim clashes broke out in New …

By Jamila Husain
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• The military carried out the world’s most intense and best humanitarian operation
• Atrocities committed by LTTE ‘barbaric’
• We have to put our house in order
• Yahapalanaya has done a lot of damage
• I

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During Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa’s recent visit to India the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi standing by his side is reported to have stated: “I am confident that the Sri Lankan government will …

By Dr. Palitha Kohona

First and foremost, the co-sponsorship of HRC Resolution 30/1 in 2015 was ill-considered, divisive domestically and was inimical to the national interest. Sri Lanka voluntarily slung a millstone around its own neck and has been engaged …

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Foreign Affairs Minister Dinesh Gunawardena must have been diplomatically polite when he conveyed the Sri Lanka Government’s displeasure and objections with regard to the travel ban to the United States imposed on the Sri Lanka Army …

The President, the Foreign Minister and the Government deserve a big bouquet of thanks from the people of Sri Lanka for the stand taken to disassociate with the UNHRC resolution 30/1 which was co-sponsored by the previous Government.

The said …

Sainthamaruthu is the Sri Lankan equal of Kandahar of Afghanistan and Idlib of Syria – the Sunni extremist capital. It was the safe haven of Zaharan and his band of terrorists and his birth place. Creating a separate Urban Council …