By Wade Shepard
The story goes that in 2011 Sri Lanka’s then-president Mahinda Rajapaksa looked out from the land reclamation site of Colombo’s emerging South Container Terminal and had an epiphany: why not just keep going and build …
By H. L. D. Mahindapala
I am neither surprised, nor overly worried about the Tamil students of the Jaffna University beating the Sinhala students. Intermittent inter-ethnic conflicts in various locations have occurred in the past and will continue to happen
…Shouting coarse expressions in protest against the government seems to be the main task of the joint opposition led by former President, MP Mahinda Rajapaksa. A new constitution for the country was among the key promises of the Yahapalana government …
Courtesy of The Island
By Shamindra Ferdinando
Against the backdrop of President Maithripala Sirisena’s repeated declarations that the government of Sri Lanka hadn’t accepted foreign judges to inquire into accountability issues, it would be pertinent to examine the stand taken-up …
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said it was high time Africa set up a criminal court which would seek justice for “serious” war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the West, particularity during the colonial era. International Criminal Court was …
Slobadan Milosevic was arrested in 2001. In 2002 the UN Tribunal charged him of crimes against humanity and war crimes. He spent 5 years in prison defending himself against allegations of war crimes & genocide. He was found dead in …
Richard de Soysa was a well-known journalist, actor and activist. Yet, we are still to establish if Ekneligoda is even a journalist. Daily Mirror’s News Editor Sandun Jayasekera says “I have been serving as a journalist for 30 years now. …
We need to come to terms with reality that the Western model of world governance has failed, the West has messed up its own countries and the world. The Western adventure is coming to a close. The curtain is coming …
Sinhalanet Note;
The writers of the below article; Academics from University of Jaffna are trying to paint a picture that the reason for the recent racially motivated attack on Sinhala students by the extremist Tamil students seems initiated by the …
By Senaka Weeraratna
The inquisitorial type proceedings we are witnessing today at the UNHRC in Geneva in the name of Human Rights are nothing but a sham. In a nutshell the UNHRC sessions are full of hypocrisy and humbug.
An …