By

D.B.S.JEYARAJ

Outgoing UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Ms. Navanetham Pillay known as Navi Pillay has presented a “fait accompli” as her parting gift to an unreceptive Sri Lanka!

Navi Pillay, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights at …

C. A. Chandraprema,

(Courtesy of  The Island)

When this writer logged onto the Colombo US Embassy website at 8.30pm on Friday June 20, we found a statement issued on 16 June 2014 which went as follows: “The U.S.  Embassy condemns …

By Malinda Senevirathna

The United Nations General Assembly on Monday has unanimously approved Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein of Jordan as the new High Commissioner for Human Rights, succeeding Navi Pillay of South Africa.  Zeid is not filling big shoes.  …

By  Dr. Roslyn Fuller

A fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) holds an ISIL flag and a weapon on a street in the city of Mosul, June 23, 2014. (Reuters / Stringer)

Africa, Conflict…

There are time-tested ways to embarrass a country. Rape, torture, kidnapping, genocide are just a handful and with mainstream media, roped in journalists, puppet UN officials, money-hungry NGOs forming a team to project ‘allegations’ & ‘stories’ without evidence or proof, …

Dr Kamal Wickremasinghe

(Courtesy for Daily News)

The international media frenzy that followed the recent ethnic disturbances in Aluthgama and Dharga Town gave the distinct impression that the cabal of news editors of Western wire services based in New Delhi, …

India is likely to pursue a pragmatic approach toward Sri Lanka, one less shackled by Tamil Nadu politics.

Does Free Speech connote to mean that the media can say what they like, against whom they dislike and as often as they like generating an influence over those they capture across their media channels? In Sri Lanka we have …

Nigerian military leaders have been meeting with their counterparts from Sri Lanka (an island nation off the southern coast of India) to discuss how the Sri Lankan security forces defeated the LTTE Tamil terrorists there. The destruction of the LTTE …

leader subjected the pride of the mighty British Raj to ridicule it has to be Tony Blair. Why would any leader just to get a pat on the back by the US, ignore British intelligence advice and to go …