There is much hype of late about the Tamil diaspora helping finance Sri Lanka’s development. While this may be music to the ears of some, it completely forgets to ask why the LTTE or LTTE diaspora did not develop the …
While India may have begun the initial training and arming of LTTE towards late 1970s, there is another player that often escapes the radar of accountability. Sri Lanka’s governments have failed to identify the crux of the problem and …
Four international human rights organisations yesterday (20) said that atrocities perpetrated during the deployment of the Indian Army, IPKF in Sri Lanka, too, should be properly investigated by the mechanisms proposed by the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).…
September is the month when the UN Human Rights Council presents its latest Resolution on Sri Lanka. It is reported that the latest version has graduated from violations of human rights and international humanitarian law to include violations of “economic …
Foreign Minister, Ali Sabry, PC, yesterday (05) said entire fighting divisions which had been deployed on the Vanni front during Eelam War IV (2006-2009) had been ‘blacklisted’ on the basis of findings made by the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights …
The pro-LTTE TNA politicians and politically motivated extremists Tamils are destructing the functioning of the historical Kurundumale Buddhist temple in Mulathiv district.
The harassments to the Buddhists devotees and function of the temple being regularly disrupted by very organized and …
Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh- This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood;” Merchant of Venice -Shakespeare.
India came to support Sri Lanka in our moment of utter despair ravaged by a unprecedented …
According to estimates by Pew Research Center, a major nonpartisan think tank based in Washington DC, in 2020, about 64% of Americans, including children, were Christian.
Pew cautioned that these are not the only possibilities, however, and that they were …
Sri Lanka has landed in trouble due to bad advice and silly policy decisions. We already have a Lessons Learned & Reconciliation Commission. We have had 3 successive UNHRC Resolutions. We have faced an UNHRC investigation. So far, while we …
Given that UN-US-India & other nations including the Church are asking for Truth & Accountability, are they prepared to own up to some hard truths? The citizens of Sri Lanka all know these facts. No country that had anything to …