The British invaded and occupied 171 countries round the world except for 22 countries. The British and fellow colonial rulers together with the Church have left a legacy of problems the world over. Divide & rule policy, dividing communities as …

Dr Palitha Kohona –

Former Foreign Secretary of Sri Lanka and Permanent Representative to the United Nations

As Sri Lanka, with an administration now in power for over one year, begins to confront complex domestic and international challenges, Prime Minister …

Sri Lanka already has a federal constitution following the 13^th amendment. The provincial council system was introduced with arm-twisting by India. The TNA-controlled Northern Provincial Council already has 36 subjects devolved to it except land and police powers. So …

(By Courtesy of The Island)

By Dr Kamal Wickremasinghe

The literature on Sri Lanka’s thirty-year war is characterised by the undue preponderance of material on Norway’s failed operation outnumbering all other analyses by a ratio of 3:1. The evaluations have …

After the Dutch it was the British who had to police Vellahla violence erupting in Jaffna. Caste wars escalated to a new level. Jaffna under the British was a battleground for mini-wars waged by the Vellahlas …

Canada’s Conservative-minority government domestically designated the LTTE/Tamil Tigers under Canada’s Criminal Code on April 10, 2006. The GOC did not, however, list the many Canadian front organizations for the Tigers, despite the fact that Canada’s anti-terrorism act allows the GOC …

(Courtesy by “Daily Mirror”)

By Gomin Dayasiri 

Look around and pick a leader capable of pulling the country fallen into an awful rot; landing in the bin is a responsibility shared. To reach a level of sensibility is the initial …

Are we seeing a re-enactment of the bullying policies of India against Sri Lanka? The first instance was under UNP ruled JR Jayawardena when India forced Sri Lanka to sign the Indo-Lanka Accord in 1987, change its constitution to add …

When a bearded Indian President was searched on suspicion at an US airport and later an Indian woman diplomat was stripped searched by US police, many in SL sympathized with …

There is an ongoing case filed by a petitioner who claims the ITAK constitution’s aims and objectives seeks a confederation to eventually separate. It is an invaluable and important case. Chief Minister Wigneswaran in an interview to an Indian newspaper …