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  • Baffling leniency

    Baffling leniency

    (Courtesy of The Island)

    Government leaders were cock-a-hoop in Parliament, on Tuesday; they bragged that most of the terror suspects had been arrested and normalcy restored. Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan, as the saying goes. …






  • Racist Sumanthiran!

    Racist Sumanthiran!

    ANTON M PILLAI

    (Courtesy of The Island)

    After the brutal crime committed by the Muslim terrorists on the Easter Sunday, killing more than 250 innocent civilians, all the leaders, especially Muslim leaders, condemned the brutal terrorist attack. The Muslim leaders …



  • Suicide bombers fuel fears among Buddhists

    Suicide bombers fuel fears among Buddhists

    by Amal Jayasinghe and Alexandre Marchand

    (Courtesy of The Island)

    Soldiers guarded the gate, but Colombo’s landmark Gangaramaya temple was virtually empty, a potent sign of anxiety felt by Sri Lanka’s majority Buddhist community since the Easter Sunday suicide attacks.…



  • Island Editirial: Concentrate on bigger picture

    Island Editirial: Concentrate on bigger picture

    Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando lost his job, the other day, after admitting, in a brief interview with the media, that though he had received intelligence warnings of possible terrorist attacks, he did not anticipate terror strikes of such a magnitude. …