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From the UN Secretary General downwards a chorus of people are chirping reconciliation and plugging the word into every press release issued. The latest is a press release that follows secret talks between Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister, a Norwegian former..

Everything generally gets swept under the carpet due to legal technicalities but for us ordinary laymen it sounds rather bizarre to hear of a joint press statement issued by a UN Security Council banned LTTE front and a Member of..

(Courtesy of The Island)  Did you think that as a unitary state, there is only one, single government in Sri Lanka, though there are a number of Provincial Councils to which a measure of power has been devolved by that..

Pro-LTTE Ranil’s External Affairs minister who is a strong campaigner for Federal State in Sri Lanka; Mangala will meet representatives of the Pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists  front organization called Global Tamil Forum (GTF) in London. This is the first formal meeting..

By COLOMBO_TELEGRAPH “Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the Members to submit such matters to settlement under the..

The media has highlighted news of requests by LTTE-created-TNA to release LTTE prisoners. For whose benefit, why and for what reasons would a political party request to release hard core LTTE cadres into society when they had flatly refused to..

Vidura camp in Sampoor was closed to provide lands for the Tamil ‘refugees’ who rejected alternative lands offered to them due to the pressure exerted on them by TNA and pro-LTTE fronts. They were carrying on a political agitation on..

Organizations that had been functioning as conduits to channel funds, enable money launder, carry out illicit as well as legal international business and help procure arms are now the new saviors of the Tamils holding foreign passports and domiciled abroad…

The parliamentary traditions and practices have suddenly come under threat and questions need to be posed to the UNP as to whether it is embarking on a very detrimental path subjecting not only all norms of good governance but jeopardizing..

[Political buddies Ravi K and Upul J doing the same-old same-old?] By Malinda Seneviratne It is not news when some company takes a state institution to court.  It happens often enough.  In this world very few people if at all..