Sri Lanka’s sleuths must conclude the investigation before Geneva sessions. Firstly, Sri Lanka must answer whether the abduction happened or not. Secondly, the Sri Lankan police must show if it didn’t happen the evidence to showcase this. Thirdly, if it …

By D.B.S. Jeyaraj
(Courtesy of Daily Mirror)

Recent events have focused the media spotlight on the Federal Republic of Switzerland known officially as the Swiss Confederation. The landlocked European nation is respected highly on a global scale due to its …

By Lakshman Ratnapala
(courtesy of The Sunday Island)

The Sri Lanka Presidential election of November 16 has proven some home truths.   The first of these is  that the  minority Tamil and Muslim voters in the North and the East of …

(Courtesy of The Sunday Island)

After the recent Presidential election, we were saddened to see, how the Tamil voting pattern reflected the division between us and that the Tamil Eelam map was drawn once again.

We know, there was significant …

(Courtesy of The Island)

Against the backdrop of a deepening crisis, caused by Switzerland providing political asylum to Inspector Nishantha Silva, his wife and three children, followed by accusations over alleged abduction of a local female Embassy employee, the writer …

Mario Arulthas writes to Al Jazeera on 8 Dec 2019 titled Trouble brews in post-election Sri Lanka”. What are the concerns he raises:

He refers to Gotabaya Rajapakse as a ‘hardliner’ exactly what does he imply by this?

He claims …

(Courtesy of The Island)

In what must surely be one of the strangest games of diplomatic brinkmanship to be played out in this country, the Swiss embassy in Colombo demands an investigation into an alleged ‘abduction’ of one of its …

(Courtesy of Lanka Web)

The Swiss Embassy affair has shown how easy it is for people to get entry to live in a Western country and even have these Western countries arrange travel, air ambulance, hotel stay, a job, a …

BY DR UPUL WIJAYAWARDHANA

Swiss cheese, called so because of distinctive holes, is known the world over. Though the holes in Emmental cheese originally were considered imperfections, these holes being created by the activity of bacteria in milk, cheeses …

By Malinda Seneviratne

Hostage Drama in Swiss Embassy in Sri Lanka

It is not advisable to believe one’s own propaganda. That’s a basic rule in political engagement. Blurs vision. Flaws calculation. Usually results in egg on the face.  Now consider …