(Amended excerpts From the “Sunday Times” Political Column of February 11th 2018)

Just this week, a completely unrelated incident was to highlight the sharp and heightening divisions within Sirisena’s coalition. It came after Britain’s High Commissioner to Sri Lanka James …

(Courtesy of The Island)

Co-conveners of Purawesi Balaya, Gamini Viyangoda, K.W. Janaranjana and Saman Ratnapriya yesterday claimed that the outfit had received firm assurances from President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday (Feb. 12) that they wouldn’t …

ccording to the UK Terrorism Act of 2000 it is a crime to wear or carry any item portraying reasonable suspicion of support to a proscribed organization. In 2001, UK proscribed LTTE as a foreign terrorist organization together with 45 …

The best way to predict the future is to create it – Abraham Lincoln

 By Shenali D Waduge

10^th February 2018 will go down in history as a watershed moment in Sri Lankan politics. It beat previous startling …

(Courtesy of FT)

Last year, 2017, the Government and Opposition separately commemorated the centenary of the Russian revolution – actually of twin revolutions, liberal and socialist, of February and October, 1917. In an interesting twist, the result of the Sri …

Has the UN & its key bodies followed due process on UN member sovereign Sri Lanka? How does the UN system handle terrorist movements & what international laws are applicable to them? In what manner can the UN intervene …

For 3 years’ people’s democratic voice was stifled by denying elections. The so called international community kept silent not insisting on elections being held. However, finally after an island wide local government election, the People have spoken – the silent …

“We want truth & justice” – oh yes, so do we. But we need to get some facts cleared first. Can the British Government please explain to the world why LTTE remains banned in the UK since 2001 while LTTE …

When the members of the JO rushed to the President’s Office like a shoal of fish rushing to a fleshy bait (an apt simile from our classical literature) and when at the end of it Ranil Wickremesinghe announced that he …

The British ruled parts of Sri Lanka from 1796 and the whole of Sri Lanka from 1815 to 1948. Sri Lanka marks 4 February 1948 as its day of Independence. When our history is related by the very nations that …