We are watching a miscarriage of justice unfold if we remain silent to the irregularities, illegalities, irreversible and irreparable damage likely to take place. Sri Lanka must not agree to any Tribunal that only covers 3 months or the last …

Carlo’s cockeyed logic

By Gunadasa Amarasekera

My friend Carlo either lacks the common sense to understand simple statements or distorts them to his advantage, resorting to cunning, obfuscating it with illogical quibbling in the name of logic. His reply is …

(Courtesy of The Island)

By Shamindra Ferdinando

Skills Development and Vocational Training Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe yesterday stressed that foreign participation in a judicial inquiry into alleged accountability issues during eelam war IV would be contrary to the Constitution.

Therefore, there …

By Senaka Weeraratna 

As the symbolic head of the UN, the Secretary-General serves as both its top diplomat and its chief administrative officer. The UN Charter postulates, that he / she is responsible for performing various functions entrusted to him/her …

Prior to January 2015 the propaganda was directed at ‘white van kidnappings’ but names of the kidnapped kept conveniently omitted. Fear psychosis propaganda sufficed. Lack of a police commission became the reason for all ills. Now even after the establishment …

H. L. D. Mahindapala

After enduring the indignities and humiliations of oppression and persecution of the Vellahla supremacists, the “Minority Tamils” – a euphemism for the untouchables — launched their first organised revolt in 1968 at Maviddipuram Temple. Earlier attempts …

Kanthar Balanathan, Australia

For readers to understand the line of action by the Tamils, it would be appropriate to identify certain actions by the Tamil politicians since independence in 1948.

SJV Chelvanayagam (SJVC) started his blindfold demand of federalism with …

The question arises following a study that reveals Christianity influences the United Nations. This immediately takes us back to the age of discovery and the manner colonials together with Christian missionaries set out to ‘civilize’ the world by taking over …

(Courtesy of The Sunday Island)
by Padraig Colman

In my rebellious youth, I did not have much respect for the military and was grateful that I was born just late enough to escape doing two years National Service in the …