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 …

It is true the Sinhalese are an ethnic majority in Sri Lanka, but it is also true that the Sinhalese are the only ethnic group in the world. The Tamils & Muslim may be ethnic minorities in Sri Lanka but …

Since terrorist LTTE was defeated in May 2009, UNHRC has been headed by 3 High Commissioners for Human Rights. Navi Pillay (Sept2008-Aug2014), Zeid Al Hussein (Sept2014 to Aug2018) & Michelle Bachelet (Sept2018 to Aug2022). While their reports & statements abounds …

A UN member state is being accused of committing war crimes, crimes against humanity & even ‘genocide’.Sri Lanka has been the victim of an annual witch hunt sponsored by blood-money for 12 years. All of these allegations has …

History will one day be witness to the lies, deceit and hypocrisies taking place in the Halls of the UN and in particular the UNHRC. What Sri Lanka must repeatedly exert is that all of the resolutions since 2009 claiming …

In 2004, TNA manifesto boasted of securing a Tamil Nation for self-determinationled “under the generalship of the Tigers’ leader Hon. Pirapaharan”.It truly presented who TNA is and what their line of thinking is. It was as a …

by Shamindra Ferdinando

(Courtesy of The Island)

Ahead of the 46th sessions of the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) scheduled to begin later this month, newly elected US President Joe Biden’s Democratic Party has raised Sri Lanka …

Sri Lanka has undergone 3 phases of mass killings against unarmed civilians. These were no individual incidents or spur of the moment killings. These were all premeditated murder. Colonial crimes in then, Sinhale covers the period from 1505 to …

(The original source: https://www.justsecurity.org) 

The U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) is gearing up to launch its 46th session virtually on Feb. 22. Although President Donald Trump relinquished the U.S. seat on the council, the upcoming assembly offers the new Biden …