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 …

February 11, 2014

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

“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 …

[In a parallel universe, of course]

I read somewhere that some cabinet ministers are peeved that I am in the habit of inviting heads of state institutions for chit-chat over coffee, tea, wine or whisky.  They are upset, I heard, …

The mainstream news released what is said to be the script of the supposed Resolution (3^rd) America is hoping to pass in Geneva next month. It is a calculated move to send 2 messages to Sri Lanka’s leaders …

The Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Lalith Weeratunga, has made a  bold and strategic move which was reported by Reuter at the end of his  diplomatic tour  of the West. He told Reuter’s: “If there is an international investigation, the …

Courtesy of Ceylon Daily News 7^th Feb 2014

As Geneva gets closer the so called educated people in Sri Lanka get paranoid. Some of them think of the UNHRC punishing Sri Lanka in one way or the other, and …