(Courtesy of The Island)

In May 2009 Sri Lanka achieved what many had been saying was an ‘unwinnable war’. The ground force of the LTTE including its megalomanic leader Prabakaran were annihilated in a fair fight. Several times the GOSL requested the LTTE leadership …

H. L. D. Mahindapala

The Dutch, British and post-independent administrators have left behind in their records grim accounts of how the Saivite-Vellahla casteists distorted and perverted the Jaffna political culture. Modern scholars (Jane Russell and Prof. Bryan Pfaffenberger etc), who …

The question to the International Community is this. Is the voice of the TNA separatist elements more important than the Tamil people who just want to rebuild their lives, educate their children and live with the rest of the communities …

By Shenali D Waduge

This quote is taken from a letter to the Colonial Office in the UK. The lines are important for several reasons. Firstly, it proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that the British were bringing in …

Gauri Bhatia | Special to CNBC

Why China and Sri Lanka need each other Sri Jegarajah reports on the strategic ties between China and Sri Lanka, as China gets back to work on the huge Colombo Port City development.

Situated …

Shenali D Waduge

The Northern Provincial Council has boldly passed a resolution contravening its mandate claiming ‘Sinhalese colonization in the North’. Leaving aside what the Government should do about the NPC violations, the counter question is what about Tamil colonization …

Commencing with the ITAK in 1949 and its aims and objectives to the TULF and the Vaddukoddai Resolution of 1976 and the formation of the LTTE in the same year/month, to the demands made by LTTE (Thimpu Principles/ISGA as solutions) …