ISIS, as an ideology and group, has also attracted many crossovers: ideologically radicalised, predominantly youth, leaving behind more regional and hyper-local entities to join ISIS’s brand of pan-globalist jihad is a trend that continues even today.

The past half a …

When British MPs who are regular mouthpieces for pro-LTTE demands & regular visitors to pro-LTTE events & regularly read of LTTE prepared speeches, abuse their office to sanction individuals on conjectured crimes, the Govt of Sri Lanka must first of …

South Africa’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission was NOT a tribunal & therefore had no powers to prosecute individuals as there were no judges, no lawyers & no intention to declare who was guilty & who was innocent. It was nothing …

The recent “head to head” TV programme carried out by Al-Jazeera TV channel shows it’s biasness to the LTTE Tamil terrorism by forming a so-called expert panel with pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists.

One of the so-called experts, Madurika Rasaratnam is a …

Are you aware that there is a lake that comes only 2^nd to anothaththawila? It is majestic and sacred and that is none other than Seruwila located in Trincomalee District, East Sri Lanka. The lake is 7 ½ km …

Article 9 of the Sri Lankan Constitution grants Buddhism the “foremost place” and obligates the state to protect and foster the Buddha Sasana. This provision reflects the historical and cultural significance of Buddhism in Sri Lanka and underscores the state’s …

ශ්‍රී ලංකා ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවේ 9 වැනි වගන්තිය බුද්ධාගමට “ප්‍රමුඛස්ථානය” ලබා දෙන අතර බුද්ධ ශාසනය ආරක්ෂා කිරීමට සහ පෝෂණය කිරීමට රජය බැඳී සිටී. මෙම විධිවිධානය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ බුද්ධාගමේ ඓතිහාසික හා සංස්කෘතික වැදගත්කම පිළිබිඹු කරන අතර බෞද්ධ උරුමයන් සුරැකීමට සහ ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරීමට …

With the fall of the Kandyan Kingdom, the Kandyan Convention, ceremonially signed on March 10, 1815, completed the annexation of the island to the British Empire. This brought an end to the rule of Lankan Royalty.

How did the British …