Courtesy of Daily News 14th Feb. 2014
David Cameron, the Prime Minister of England has a second job. It is not a part time spring job as he is supposed to be active in the second job as well …
Part IV
H. L. D. Mahindapala
Col. R. Hariharan is, perhaps, the most authoritative Indian source speaking publicly about the role played by the IPKF in the north and east of Sri Lanka. He played a key role in all …
[Sri Lanka has had elections since 1931. We got ‘monitors’ only recently. The need was produced by palpable election malpractices, many but not all eliminated by the introduction of new laws and adoption of fraud-resistant techniques. With the need to …
LANKA WEB- Posted on February 11th, 2014
Between 1987 and 1990 – the three years of Indian military rule in the north – the Jaffna Tamils were faced with the most unexpected turn of events: the Indian Peace Keeping Forces
…December 11, 2013 “Information Clearing House – “This Cant Be Happening” – When Barack Obama, the first black president of America, delivered remarks Tuesday during a South African memorial service for that country’s first black president, he …
International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies of Nanyang Technological University
Annual Threat Assessment
South Asia Sri Lanka
There have been no incidents of terrorism in Sri Lanka since the Liberation Tigers of
…Although terrorism was defeated in the country in 2009, the threat still lurks as internal and external forces are still lobbying for a separate state and also still funding and fuelling separatist ideologies.
According to the latest edition of the
…“Counting other people’s sins does not make you a Saint”.
“Others will be more likely to take your advice if you practice what you preach”
Generally, anyone pointing fingers need to have a clean chit – in other words no …
Part II
The Sri Lankan delegates assembled in Geneva to combat the US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC in 2012 were tense. Though they were lobbying frantically no one knew which way the voting would go. The most …