Lt. Col. Lawrence Smith was the US Defense Attache to the US embassy in Colombo during the conflict. Lt. Col. Anthony Gash was the UK Defense Attache to the UK High Commission in Colombo during the conflict. Both were privy …

By Ajantha Premarathna

(Courtesy of The Sunday Morning)

Foreign Secretary Admiral Prof. Jayanath Colombage revealed that the Government was having discussions with the Core Group for Sri Lanka in a bid to explore the possibility of reaching a consensus on …

We have 4 international figures serving in the international ‘justice & world peace’ system now closely associated with the TGTE. Ramsey Clark’s association with LTTE goes back to 1996, Stephen Rapp after retiring is now buddy buddy with TGTE …

The LTTE Diaspora are very much in action of late. This is nothing to be surprised. Every Geneva session their adrenalin gets pumped and LTTE kitty is put to use. Several videos are being relayed of girls and boys speaking …

Separatist Tamil politicians, the LTTE and the LTTE Diaspora have been painstakingly building up an argument that conforms to the UN definition criteria for self-determination to claim a separate state. That bid has now come to a standstill with India …

If any country knows what it is like to be battered and humiliated by the world, it is Germany. Germany has come far. After 2 World Wars, once considered the enemy of the Allies, Germany is today the co-partners with …

Of late, there are video clips emerging of winter-clothes clad teen brats with heavy accents ranting on about Eelam from US, UK, Canada, France & other EU nations. We like to given them a simple message, you ain’t gonna create …

LTTE celebrated Valentine’s Day by killing. Many are led to believe LTTE represented Tamils. They may like to then explain why LTTE started its killing spree by aiming at Tamils first?LTTE’s first shot was fired at a Tamil in …

By Dayantha Laksiri Mendis

“Treaties and Non-treaty instruments are the bones and sinews of global politic, making it possible for states to move from talk through compromise to solemn commitment.” Professor Thomas M. Frank, Taking Treaties Seriously

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Reviewed by Anushka Kahandagamage

Harshana Rambukwella, The Politics and Poetics of Authenticity: A Cultural Genealogy of Sinhala Nationalism, 2018. 178 pages, London: UCL Press. ISBN: 978-1-78735-128-8. Open Access book: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/95138

The over-use of the concept, ‘Sinhala nationalism’ has made it …