(Courtesy of The Island)

The British Government this week acknowledged that wartime dispatches from its diplomatic mission in Colombo hadn’t been considered in the preparation of its Annual Human Rights Report 2017.

A British High Commission Spokesperson said that the …

by Rajeewa Jayaweera

UNP Member of Parliament and former State Minister for Child Affairs Vijayakala Maheswaran (VM) dropped her bombshell on July 03, during the ‘Janapathi Nila Mehewara’ gathering in Jaffna, in the presence of the Foreign Minister, Internal …

By REAR ADMIRAL (DR.) SARATH WEERASEKERA VSV RWP USP

(Courtesy of The Island)

The Island of July 12, 2018, published a communiqué issued by a group of academics condemning certain “statements” made by a group, led by “ex-military” personnel.

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By Major General (Rtd.) Lalin Fernando

(Courtesy of The Island)

“Himmler had something ‘simmler”

What a shindig in SL that excites itself thoroughly on the cheapest of thrills. An artless monk dropped a clanger at a private function telling the …

DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA, Attorney-at-Law

I read with amusement an article in The Island of 12^th July 2018 titled, ‘Dons condemn incendiary statements against HRCSL.’ It’s about a letter written by 50 academics condemning the conduct of a number of ex-military …

by: Admiral Ravindra C Wijegunaratne,
WV, RWP and Bar, RSP, VSV, USP, ndc, psn Chief of Defence Staff 

Twenty-five years ago, in Fort Hammenhiel, Karainagar, two officers and forty-two sailors, all volunteers from the Navy underwent a special training to …

By Rear Admiral (Dr.) Sarath Weerasekera 

(Courtesy of  The Daily Mirror)

There was a swollen headed Brahmin called Akkosha Bharadvaja” who, after studying a few Vedic stanzas and theories, thought that he was the only brilliant intellect in the country. …

This essay is an effort to unravel the whispers about an American military team’s secret mission to Sri Lanka at the height of the SL armed forces successful squeeze on the LTTE in 2009. The political significance of such a …

(Courtesy of The Island)

My former boss Tyrell Gunatillake, then Director CID has told me, whenever he took a tricky matter to the Late L.B.T. Premaratne, the then AG for advice, he would look at the law first, and then …

(Courtesy of The Island)

Political issues are like mushrooms in this land like no other. They appear in troops and die out fast. The last few weeks have seen quite a few issues, the main being some MPs receiving money …