Posted on October 9th, 2018

Of all the migrants that stepped into Sri Lanka to make it their home only the Sinhala-Buddhists created, consolidated and sustained, the mainstream culture that shaped and dominated its history. No other minority has succeeded …

By  Arun Tambimuttu

I met a number of civil servants in the East, during past week or so. The discourses were very fruitful, and one topic that repeatedly emerged was the governors of provincial councils.

I think it is …

Stepping Stone to LTTE Child Soldering
(Courtesy of The Island)

Disturbing news has come from the North that schoolchildren and teachers were made to take part in a recent protest march, demanding the release of LTTE suspects in custody. Some …

Christine Karen Williams shared her experience as a journalist, rights activist and international critic on political matters with the gathering. Essentially, Williams justified the ongoing post-war reconciliation process undertaken by Sri Lanka though some shortcomings were pointed out.

Sirisena-Wickremesinghe created …

LTTE remains a banned terrorist organization not only in Sri Lanka but in 32 countries including India, US, UK, Canada, EU, Malaysia. The UNSC Resolution 1373 incorporated by the GOSL in April 2014 has listed 15 foreign-based organizations as LTTE …

I have just completed reading your Op-ed article titled ‘Why reconciliation in Sri Lanka matters to UK’ in a Sri Lankan newspaper, and decided to respond due to some glaring contradictions between what Britain preaches to others and what it …

On September 13, after a five-year legal battle, the European Court of Human Rights said that the UK government’s surveillance regime—which includes the country’s mass surveillance programs, methods, laws, and judges—violated the human rights to privacy and to freedom of …

This by a young woman who has spent much of her life abroad in studies and career. I was pleasantly surprised as we were at the AGM of the Dharmavijaya Foundation (DVF) at its headquarters in Sarana Road, Colombo 7. …

Pro-Federalist Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe’ s accusing Mahinda Rajapaksha and his election campaigners gave millions of rupees to the LTTE Tamil terrorists to secure Mahinda Rajapaksha’s win over the presidential election in 2005. Regardless of facts of the accuracy of …

October 4, 2018, 8:53 pm

Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, at the service of St. Matthew’s Roman Catholic Church in Ekala, recently said something along the lines that ‘human rights had become the latest religion in the West…Sri Lankans …