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  • UK Surveillance Regime Violated Human Rights

    UK Surveillance Regime Violated Human Rights

    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 …


  • AGM of the Dharmavijaya Foundation

    AGM of the Dharmavijaya Foundation

    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. …


  • Credentials of Ranil Wickremasinghe

    Credentials of Ranil Wickremasinghe

    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 …


  • Buddhism and Human Rights

    Buddhism and Human Rights

    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 …


  • Sri Lanka betrayed

    Sri Lanka betrayed

    Naseby documents end up in dustbin

    President Maithripala Sirisena, who is also the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, pathetically shirked his responsibility at the recently-concluded United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) sessions. President Sirisena skipped Sri Lanka’s last opportunity to defend




  • The 20th amendment

    The 20th amendment

    (Courtesy of The Island)

    These clear and distinct provisions illustrate that the sovereignty of the People were to be exercised by separate and distinct organs of government namely, the Legislature and the Executive, both elected by the People. What the …