Ben Emmerson responds to the media at UN compound in Colombo on the afternoon of July 14, 2017.UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative Una McCauley looks on.

By Shamindra Ferdinando

Ben Emmerson, QC, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion …

There are clear indications in Prof. Laksiri Fernando’s  response to my comment that he suffers from the common disease that affects some academics in the professoriate : they can’t hold two thoughts together and balance both in their pinheads to …

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The former Navy Spokesman Commodore D.K.P.Dassanayake was arrested last week on charges of causing the disappearance of 11 persons in 2008. Dassanayake, a highly decorated Naval officer who played a major role in the war, is …

The white man said Cecil Rhodes built Africa. However, Africans disagree and Africans are bringing down the statues of Cecil Rhodes. Ironically, in Sri Lanka the reign of the kalu suddas is such that we are celebrating the tea industry …

U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Central and South Asia, Robert Blake addresses reporters in Colombo on December 9, 2009. Blake, a former ambassador to Sri Lanka, urged the country to improve on its human rights record and political reconciliation …

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Lenin once said that Bernard Shaw was a good man fallen among the Fabians – a group of wishy-washy left-wingers whose airy-fairy politics was neither in capitalism nor in any kind of scientific socialism. It was, …

The Maha Sangha has rejected the new constitution in toto. It is a blow to the TNA and the Government that has made assurances to bring a new constitution to those that brought them to power. The Sri Lankan populace …

During the course of a speech to the Law Society in London on June 26, 2017 the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein stated that Britain’s Prime Minister had “…called for human rights laws to be …

A most significant development happened at the same time as the Buddhist movement began to spread and that was the opening of a new way through, from India to China.

Today, we call this way “the Silk Road”, and we …

Justice Minister Wijedasa Rajapakshe is right when he says that no Christian Churches had been attacked by Buddhists. Cardinal Malcolm Ranjit confirmed that no Catholic Churches had been thus attacked. However, Professor A N I Ekanayake of Peradeniya University and …