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Blunder of Yahapalanaya

The attempt by the SLFP parliamentarians in the Joint Opposition to become an independent group in parliament came to naught with Speaker Karu Jayasuriya refusing to grant them that recognition. The excuse he …

Shenali D Waduge

There is much ado about Sinhalese denying the status for Tamil post-independence. The better question is, did Tamil language have any official status from 1832 to 1948 to warrant a grievance? Was Tamil used at all in …

By A Patabendige

Yahapalana Prime Minister (PM) in Parliament last week fired a thundering broadside at one of the most potent contributors to the 2015 regime change. The media had stepped out of line since then he alleged. Media, print …

 Kanthar Balanathan, Australia 

The sovereignty, democracy, national security, reconciliation process are growing to be under threat as a result of significant number of unnecessary, churlish, rash actions by India, the West and the UN. This is not a contention, but …

The best example to showcase US, UK & UN complicity to a murderous guerrilla force is the case of Cambodia’s Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge. In Sri Lanka, the elite circles love to praise the West. Obviously they have …

By Shenali D Waduge

US President Obama, Hillary Clinton and the Heads of the US Armed Forces actually watched live while US Navy Seals killed enemy Osama bin Laden. The entire world lit crackers in jubilation. Just 1 attack …

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TAMARA KUNANAYAKAM,

It should by now be obvious to any keen observer of events in Geneva and vacillations of Sri Lanka’s ruling class that the ‘human rights’ game being played out has little to do with …

By Shenali D Waduge

A weekend newspaper brought the news of an 11 member Consultation Task Force to enforce provisions of the US-backed resolution which Sri Lanka co-sponsored in 2015. UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of Truth, Justice, Reparations …

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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Al Hussein said nothing new on Tuesday. He only reiterated, more or less, what the architects of the UNHRC resolution had said prior to its passage in Geneva last …

Winston Churchill said “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion”and that they were ‘breeding like rabbits’ so what did the British do, they transported them all over the world to be used as labor …