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Ethnic Tamil leaders told a visiting U.S. diplomat on Tuesday that Sri Lanka’s new government is not moving fast enough to free prisoners detained without trial and return private land seized by the military during a decades-long civil war. U.S. Assistant Secretary..

The British ruled parts of Sri Lanka from 1796 and the whole of Sri Lanka from 1815 to 1948. Sri Lanka marks 4 February 1948 as its day of Independence. When our history is related by the very nations that..

As we approach what we are told is to be our ‘independence’ day it is good to ponder exactly how independent we are and what we connote to mean as being an independent nation. Are we to celebrate the symbolism..

Sri Lankans in Australia has launched an on-line petition to convince the new government of Sri Lanka “Reconsider the recall notice to the Sri Lankan High Commissioner of Australia Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe”. Patriotic Sri Lankans think that the sudden recall..

Britain has appealed against the de-proscription of the LTTE Tamil terrorist Organization in the EU, the visiting British Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Office Hugo Swire said in Sri Lanka. Minister further assured that the LTTE would not..

A case has been filed in the Appeal Court seeking a prohibitory order on passing the Constitutional changes as an `Urgent Bill’. The argument that Constitutional changes cannot be made through an ‘Urgent Bill’ was presented by Dharshan Weerasekara in..

Must be done through procedure prescribed in the Constitution   —  On 27th January 2015, a group within the Sinhala Nationalist Movement (SNM) filed a Writ application in the Court of appeal requesting the Appeal Court to issue directives to the..

Prof. Nalin de Silva was a regular writer of nationalism and unitary status of Sri Lanka to “The Island” newspaper in the recent past. However, with the formation of new government lead by Ranil Wickramasinghe, who is a famous champion..

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka     Who and what do we take more seriously? Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe’s promise made to the Sri Lankan parliament of ‘the implementation of the 13th amendment within the unitary state’, or that which his Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera has..

Out of total population of Sri Lankans, less than 40% of Sinhalese, 75% of Tamils and  75% of Muslims voted for Maithreepala Sirisena to remove the President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Maithreepala won with a narrow margin of 51%! This reflects that..