(Courtesy of The Sunday Island)
The government should take great care with the American sponsored draft resolution that was tabled before the UNHRC on Thursday especially because they have decided to make it a consensus resolution. Dayan Jayatilleke recently said …
If the Rule of Law implies that every citizen is subject to the law including law makers themselves, how is it that the UN has given itself immunity through the UN Charter and the Convention on Privileges and Immunities of …
While the penumbra of the US resolution on Sri Lanka has softened, the core, the essence, remains. The Sri Lankan side has succeeded only in watering down the inessential, or to switch metaphors, in changing the décor. The crux of …
The resolution has been drafted craftily to make it marketable to public opinion in Sri Lanka and, thus, help Washington’s new-found ally, and also to ease the fears of developing countries in the Human Rights Council, who will otherwise object …
Rahul says,
Lichchavisation of Sri Lanka = Balkanization of Sri Lanka = Break up of the Nation of Sri Lanka= Creation of a Union of Federal States in Sri Lanka.
As John says, RW and Sambandan are speaking the same …
Courtesy of Daily Mirror
Tweedledum and Tweedledee are toilet-trained to share a common loo as newly weds in an era of same sex marriage. A streak that runs in a national government predominantly stuffed with members of the UNP and …
Insight By Sunil Kumar
This alarming recent post by an independent very credible source appears to throw light on what has been long suspected in typical fashion as betrayers and panderers who collude to Western sources to maintain their so …
With great fanfare and ballyhoo the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe (Siri-Wicky) government promised that they alone could conquer “the international community” (meaning the big power brokers of the West) which the previous regime of Mahinda Rajapakse had alienated. This promise to conquer the
By Ashley de Vos
Sri Lanka does not need it but RAW-driven Delhi with its bold statements is using the present political hiatus in Sri Lanka to drive and acquire as much mileage as possible; in the process Delhi is
…United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein holds a press conference on Sri Lanka at the UN Office in Geneva on September 16, 2015. The United Nations detailed horrific abuses committed in Sri Lanka’s civil conflict, …