On 31st March 2022 people gathered outside the President’s residence appealing for a solution to the economic crisis prevailing across the country. This soon erupted into altercations resulting in the burning of a military bus & police vehicles. No …
Sri Lanka is experiencing an unprecedent state of events. Taken as a whole, there is much to analyze. Sri Lanka has seen governance pass from one colored party to another. Opportunistic politics has been the hallmark of governance of every …
March 2015: President Maithripala Sirisena shaking hands with GTF spokesperson Suren Surendiran in London. The late Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera looks on. The meeting took place during Sirisena’s first overseas visit after the presidential election in Jan. 2015. Last year, …
29 People enter Parliament without contesting elections & without the franchise of the People. This negates the principle of parliamentary democracy where the will of the People has been digressed without the consent of the People. The principle behind including …
මෙරට ජාතික ආරක්ෂාව පසුබිමේ සිදුවන්නේ කුමක්ද? ඉන්දියාව මෙරට ආරක්ෂාවට සෘජුව මැදිහත් වී ඇති අයුරු පහත දැක්වෙන ව්යාපෘතිවලින් තහවුරු වී ඇත.
After 74 years of independence & 40 General Elections since 1947 (1stParliament) & 7 Presidents since 1978, the erosion of governance is no understatement. Every election people vote with much hope that the representatives they send to power, …
This news is upsetting for several reasons as there are many Sri Lankans who selflessly defended the nation with their own funding in the halls of Geneva against the lying machine of the LTTE Diaspora inspite of successive governments offering …
Fund collection and maintenance by the expatriate Tamil groups were essentially to promote Anti Sri Lanka propaganda to undermine the sovereign Sri Lankan state. Hardly any funds from this source were spent on developing or repairing the damages caused to …
It was the first time India had sent its troops beyond the seas to Sri Lanka in July 1987 to engage the very militants India had trained, armed & funded. The Indian Army Chief Gen. Sundarji declared “if the LTTE …
I was at the Naval Detachment Talaimannar attached to Special Boats Squadron as Squadron Commander in the early 1990s and carried out ambushes at sandbanks against the LTTE. That was a Sunday afternoon. The OIC of Talaimannar informed me, over …