Ever since western colonial invaders arrived on our island the policy of the western administrators was to eliminate Buddhism and indoctrinate the Sinhala Buddhists. Buddhism stood in the way of totally controlling the people & the island. They divided the …

U.S. ‘backed plan to launch chemical weapon attack on Syria and blame it on Assad’s regime’

• Leaked emails from defense contractor refers to chemical weapons saying ‘the idea is approved by Washington’

• Obama issued warning to Syrian president Bashar

S, Akurugoda

In an article titled “War crimes: Lanka overwhelmed by Sampanthan’s unsubstantiated allegations” appeared in The Island dated March 28, 2017 , its writer described what the leader of the TNA, Sampanthan, has claimed against the Sri Lankan  security …

DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW

I read with interest an article in The Island of 1^st April 2017 titled, ‘Full Implementation of Geneva Resolution 2015 reaffirmed – GTF.’ The article quotes the GTF as saying inter alia:

‘The GTF cautiously …

Malinda Senewiratna

There was a time when victory over enemies was about bashing heads in, seizing their women and enslaving their children.  It still happens of course.  The cost-effective way is for the powerful to dictate, the weak to submit, …

Mahinda Gunasekera

Moves by western powers and their subservient UNHRC to harass Sri Lanka for defeating the Indian trained Tamil Tiger Terrorists whom they nourished by permitting the Tiger front organizations to raise funds within their jurisdictions, to arm and …

Shenali Waduge

India has strained relations with virtually all of its neighbors. India functions as the modern Asian imperialist. All of India’s neighbors will have dossiers of issues related to incursions, interventions, interferences and covert operations to relate about India. …

By Milinda Senevirthna

A highly successful lawyer was once asked why he was not interested in becoming a judge.  He had laughed, ‘I would rather talk a load of rubbish all day than listen to a load of rubbish.’  Judges …

By Asoka Bandarage

(Courtesy of  https://asianstudies.georgetown.edu/sites/asianstudies/files/documents/gjaa_3.2_bandarage.pdf)

In May 2009, the Sri Lankan military defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

(LTTE), a “most lethal and well-organized terrorist group in the world,” which had

fought for nearly thirty years to establish …

(Courtesy of The Island)

By Shamindra Ferdinando

Having received two additional years to fulfill the Oct 1, 2015 Geneva Resolution 30/1, the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government last Friday (March 24) thanked those who had brought a second resolution 34/1 to give time …