Interlinked to the MCC US Government grant of $480m are some crucial topics that the ruling government, the judiciary and citizens cannot ignore. 84% of Sri Lanka’s land belongs to the state. What happens if this 84% state land is …

It is a great fallacy that the demand for the National Anthem to be sung in Tamil is about ‘Tamil – the language’.

It is not about the Tamils not being able to generate ‘da feeling’ when they sing the …

What do we think we are celebrating on 4^th February every year? Our independence from colonial rule. But did we really get independence on 4^th February 1948? We didn’t because we became by choice a dominion of the …

The MCC is not just any ordinary agreement. It is an agreement that is signed between 2 Governments, passing 10 land registries to a newly created company called MCC Sri Lanka Pvt Ltd. So a government to government agreement creates …

A government with a will to defend the nation combined with the heroic efforts of Sri Lanka’s national army reunited every inch of land under one national flag on 19 May 2009. The LTTE held a shrinking area of 100 …

(Courtesy of the Asian Tribune)

The U.S. State Department’s Deputy Assistant Secretary Alice Wells officially described Sri Lanka a “real estate” in the Indo-Pacific region when she addressed the foreign media in the Department’s Foreign Media Center in Washington Friday, …

Mahinda Gunasekera

The UN and UNHRC experts tend to advocate a strict form of retributive justice in the case of Sri Lanka with the intent of punishing her apparently misled by the lies and propaganda of the well funded Tamil …

By K. Ratnayake
(Courtesy of https://www.wsws.org)

US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Alice G. Wells delivered a letter from President Donald Trump to President Gotabhaya Rajapakse during a one-day trip to Sri Lanka last …

By Prof. Chandre Dharmawardana
(Courtesy of The Island)

The so-called  Millenium Challenge Compact (MCC)  of the USA  proposes to grant nearly half a billion dollars to Sri Lanka’s development. Sri Lanka has already received over 2.5 billion in Chinese aid, …

His task will be tell the UNHRC session in February-March 2020 what Sri Lanka can and cannot do in the matter of accountability for alleged war crimes.

Veteran Sunday Island columnist, C.A.Chandraprema, has been appointed as Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative …