By H. L. D. Mahindapala –
H. L. D. Mahindapala
One of the oddities that casts a slur on the Tamil nationalist movement is the fact that it was not launched in Jaffna – the holy peninsula hailed …
Part I
H. L. D. Mahindapala
December 18, 1949, which happened to be aSunday, has been ignored by social scientists who should have evaluated it critically, at least for its bloody consequences which ended eventually in Nandikadal. It was the …
This is what happens when LTTE tiger cubs are adopted and given asylum in Canada. First they would start establishing ‘Eelam areas’, then they would begin to appoint ‘Eelam’ MPs fooling the Canadian voters and thereafter they would begin celebrating …
In Monsoon, by Robert Kaplan, senior adviser to American foreign policy makers, in the chapter on SL, Prabhakaran was deliberately referred to as Roman Catholic not once but three times. That was a deliberate act of disinformation – he …
The efforts to bring down the curtain to the investigation on Sri Lanka will be to pin the argument of command responsibility thus enabling key heads already named to be indicted for war crimes, crimes against humanity and so forth. …
(Courtesy of Asiantribune.com)
Maithripala Srisena, the newly emerged UNP presidential candidate (the so called Common Opposition Candidate) has disclosed that he would have discussions with the Tamil National Alliance and it is learnt that already TNA is in touch with …
H. L. D. Mahindapala
The joint opposition was desperately looking for a common candidate to (1) end, if possible,its divisive, internecine conflicts and (2) present a formidable and acceptable candidate who could stand up to the incumbent, Mahinda Rajapaksa. On
…The impression given to the public is that the country has had enough of President Rajapakse and his family rule – if the country hated President Rajapakse so much why did the main Opposition and the Opposition parties need to …
Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, is reported by a spokesman, to have had the following exchange with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin during the Brisbane G-20 summit: “Well, I guess I’ll shake your hand, but I only have one thing to …
The new head of the UN Human Rights Council deems fit to insult a democratically elected UN Member country for bringing to the attention of the Human Rights world body the arrest of an unrehabilitated LTTE cadre collecting blank forms
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