In this day of social media and the advent of information flow, Western countries and Western-government controlled UN are foolish to continue to project themselves as being morally above all others by making baseless allegations, refusing themselves to acknowledge and …

DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA

Mr. R. Sampanthan’s 90 minute (written) speech during the recent adjournment debate (Feb 22) on the Constitution was ‘historicist’, in the sense that he invoked a great deal of political history. But his argument was a-historical and …

Anglo-American influenced UN is going after Japan on the issue of ‘comfort women’ which took place in World War 2 but the UN is not taking any action against the victims of the human zoos set up by Europeans well …

By Malinda Senevirathna

Any discussion on claims which contain words such as ‘traditional’ or ‘historical’ can make sense only if assertions are backed by fact and not myth.  They should be buttressed by a corpus of evidence that are coherent …

It is a tragic state of affairs when an island nation boasting a written history of over 2600 years held together by Sinhalese Buddhist kings, a nation built by a clear majority would need to appeal to the world feeling …

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Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe was conferred an honorary doctorate by Deakin University, Australia. He’s not the first premier thus honored and he probably will not be the last. However, an honor it is and as such warranted media coverage. What …

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by M.L.Wickramasinghe

Neville Ladduwahetty’s well argued assertion that international humanitarian Law would be the relevant and applicable law (article titled ‘ International Laws in Armed Conflict’ published in the ‘Island’ of January …

Even Prabakaran would not have expected or dreamed that the rebel movement he formed would turn into a virtual global enterprise. You name it, LTTE supporters have a ready company for every associated ‘grievance’ ‘complaint’ ‘right’ generating both employment and …

By Milinda Senevirathna

Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekara’s recent comments on Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran contained valid observations, old news delivered as though it was new, half-truths and some uncalled for insults.  Wigneswaran’s response was, in contrast, quite sober …