Why have 32 countries banned the LTTE and continue to do so even after its demise in 2009? Obviously its intelligence feels there is sufficient threat to maintain the ban overseas. A ban becomes meaningful only if these countries enforce …

At some stage or the other the people of Sri Lanka would need to sit down and carefully deliberate over exactly what and who contributed and continues to contribute towards steadily reversing the great victory of the Ranaviru in defeating …

By Malinda Seneviratne
[IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE CLAIMANTS DO NOT WANT TO VISIT]

I’ve been here long.  Longer than those who claim me.  Their earliest ancestors, i.e. those who hadn’t coined a name for me, had to first make their …

Lawyer Mr. Dharshan Weerasekera’s highly analytical and insightful article titled “Illegality of UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s approach to Sri Lanka’ appearing in ‘Foreign Policy Journal’ of 19 March 2013 and published in several Lankan internet websites and mainstream …

The best of British we were told would arrive in Colombo to participate in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting hosted by Sri Lanka. We didn’t have to say ‘Bob’s your uncle’ for Cameron made quite clear all the way …

The importance of culture, values, traditions, customs are all integrated into how a country’s identity is identified. It is this identity that gets passed down from generation to generation continued to preserve and protect what is held precious to the …

Are organizations banned to give them opportunity for more publicity? It seems this is the case with the LTTE. Banned by 32 nations it is bewildering how its fronts are able to hob-nob with foreign parliamentarians who seem to care …

Sun, 2013-11-24 12:11 — editor
Major General (Retd) Lalin Fernando
(Courtesy of – Asian Tribune -_

David Cameron as a guest of SL, ostensibly to attend CHOGAM, threatened to put his host in the dock at the UNHRC in Geneva. …

British PM David Cameron, his conservative party and the opposition Labour party have become the puppets of the LTTE rump. LTTE rump rules UK now and what a shame for once a big Empire. British citizens may be crying in …

In 1987, after the Indo-Sri Lankan accord, the Indian Peace-Keeping Force (IPKF), comprising units of the Army, Navy and Air Force, was deployed in Sri Lanka to prevent a civil war between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the …