By Jamila Husain
(Courtesy of Daily Mirror)

• 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
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(Courtesy of The Island)

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 …

(Courtesy of The Island)

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 …

Dr. Murugar Gunasingam is a path-breaking and indefatigable Tamil historian who earned his doctorate based on his exploratory history of the Jaffna Tamils of Sri Lanka. He undertook this mission of discovering the history of Jaffna when he first realised …

(Courtesy of Asian Tribune)

Despite it sounded like the decision to impose travel restrictions on Commander of the Sri Lanka Army Shavendra Silva as solely originated from Washington, and reacting to Sri Lanka’s Minister of Foreign Relations Dinesh Gunawardene’s request …

By Marlise Simons and Megan Specia
(Courtesy of New York Times)

The United States has revoked the visa of the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor because of her attempts to investigate allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan, including any that …

(By Courtesy of The Island)

The country was in such a constitutional mess that a President elected by an overwhelming majority couldn’t remove an IGP arrested over the Easter Sunday carnage that claimed the lives of nearly 300 persons nor …