(Courtesy of Eurasia Review)
By C. Raja Mohan
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi winds down an intensive phase of foreign policy activism, one surprising feature of his diplomacy has been the frequent evocation of Buddhism. In his outreach to leaders …
At the signing ceremony of the common presidential candidate by all political parties it was alarmed at the expression of former President Ms. Chandrika Kumaranatunge Bandaranayake used at the meeting for a “United Sri Lanka”; “Eksath” (United) but not an …
In May 1993 UN’s 1st war crimes court and 1st tribunal since the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals was created by the UN Security Council in accordance with chapter VII of the UN Charter. When ICTY officially shuts down …
Canada’s public safety minister said he was “shocked and appalled” after a New Democratic Party MP rose in the House of Commons to commemorate Tamil Heroes Day, which honours fallen LTTE Tamil terrorists. Steven Blaney urged Rathika Sitsabaiesan, a Sri …
(Courtesy of Asian Tribune)
The pieces behind the nomination of Maitripala Sirisena as the Joint Opposition presidential candidate are slowly moving to form a larger scenario pointing in the direction of an invisible hand of external maneuvering, a possible covert …
The politics of Maithripala Sirisena is bizarre, to say the least. He leaves the Rajapaksa regime because he was not given the premiership and his answer to his own problem is to abolish the presidency and appoint Ranil Wickremesinghe as …
Pro-LTTE terrorists Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Parliamentary group leader R. Sampanthan had made a deal with former SL president Chandrika Kumaratunga on supporting the common opposition candidate Maithiripala Srisena, unconfirmed sources reported. The deal include full implementing the controversial Indian …
Former diplomats and other political pundits are attempting to project a fear psychosis through the view that Sri Lanka should meekly allow a UNHRC investigation to conclude, silently watch the panel make its deliberations and announce its final report without …
Now Wickremesinghe goes on saying that with his Common Candidate 13th amendment to the Constitution would be implemented to the letter under a UNP regime to treat all citizens equally.
Who in their right mind will vote for the most …
Most seem to be of the opinion that the 3 decade conflict in Sri Lanka affected only the Tamils and that only the Tamils are victims and to only Tamils post-conflict dividends should be granted. It will become a grave …