Dr. Asoka Bandarage

Significant efforts have been taken towards reconciliation and integration of the Tamil minority in the Sri Lankan political system since the defeat of the LTTE in May 2009. However, the Tamil separatist movement has not been halted. …

H. L. D. Mahindapala

If there is one slogan that swung the political pendulum and placed Donald Trump in the presidential seat it is the one that screamed : MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. It summed up in a simple and …

Courtesy of Daily Mirror 

A  few months ago, it could have been treated as a cynical joke, but now Donald Trump is the President of the world’s most powerful democracy. His hate-filled and polarizing campaign has left deep scares in …

Over the next few weeks, the International Criminal Court (ICC) could open an investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Afghan war, including those allegedly committed by American troops, Foreign Policy magazine reports.

Citing “several knowledgeable sources,”…

When a non-politician enters the White House as President there is bound to be major changes and surprises. First up has been the announcement that he will abandon the Obama administration policy on Syria and seek consensus with Russia for …

By Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune Political Note

When asked about the implications of the ongoing purge – immediately following the abortive military coup in Turkey – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump echoed: What right do we in the United …

There will never be an election as the 2016 US Presidential Election. It completely devastated predictions by all types of political pundits, it rose above the ridiculing, sneering, lies and exaggerations by mainstream media (foreign & local) who projected him …

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe

(Courtesy of Ceylon Today)

“Every civilization rests on its heroes,” stated Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka at the book launch of “War Heroes Killed in Action” by General Gerry de Silva. Civilizations and even communities, he explains, “attract barbarism, …

The aims and objectives of All Ceylon Tamil Congress, ITAK in 1949, the TULF & the Vaddukoddai Resolution of 1976, formation of LTTE in the same year/month, demands of LTTE in Thimpu Principles/ISGA solution and India’s Indo-Lanka Accord and 13…