For months Geneva was the main topic of conversation in this country. But last week, the bottom seemed to fall out of the whole issue. One reason was that when the first draft of the resolution against Sri Lanka was …

The anti-Sri Lanka moves in Geneva began in 2009. People have not let up. They are as busy as they always were. Some names have changed; there’s Michele Sison now, whereas earlier there was Patricia Butenis and Robert O. Blake. …

By Kanthar Balanathan, Melbourne, Australia

It is a pity that writers, Journalists, politicians from the west and India in particular, are quite interested in nailing down SriLanka in an international forum (UN), which is located in the US. First of …

Do we know how India will vote on the anti-Sri Lanka Resolution? Manmohan Singh says his experts are studying the document.  Yeah right!  Here in Sri Lanka there are no prizes for predicting India’s position.  And yet, right here in …

[Go through this — written 3 years ago — and you will find the guys making noises are the same guys who’ve always made noises when they batted for the LTTE.  The exception is of course Sunila Abeysekera, now no …

March 4, 2014, 7:04 pm

(Courtesy of The Island)

Two hundred and five Tamil Christian priests in the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka including Bishop Rayappu Joseph have written to the members of the United Nations Human Rights …

This is not THE resolution.  Let’s keep that in mind.  It is not even a ‘draft’. It is a leaked draft, at best.  But in these days of leaks and gushes when the key political issue that bothers the …

When public sentiments against international public officials are voiced internationally there is an urgent need to investigate why the world public should openly find an international public official unsuitable. Thus, the UN Secretary General is duty bound to listen and …

On 8^th September 1951, 51 nations gathered at the War Memorial Opera House in San Francisco to officially end World War 2 and to formally end Japan’s position as an imperial power, and to allocate compensation to Alliedcivilians and …

The Christian Inquisition in Europe, Goa and other parts of the Portuguese Empire of Asia including Sri Lanka, goes down in history as one of the most horrible crimes against humanity. The Inquisition launched by the Vatican, Catholic Church, civil …