Friday November 18, 2011 was important for more than two reasons. It was President Rajapaksa’s 66th official birthday and was also the First Anniversary of his Second Swearing in, as President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. Yet the third was the most important reason for Opposition politicians. The delivery of the judgement [...]
It is not for a Monk to handle or deal in money and wealth, and which hinders attainment of mind’s supreme peace,” from Pratimoksha Sutra (Code of Conduct) of Buddhist monks. Probably the first of the three petitioners to go to Courts against the “expropriation bill” by this Rajapaksa regime, was leading Buddhist monk Thinyawala [...]
Rajya Sabha MP, Dr. Sudharshana Natchiappan visiting Jaffna on 27 October, with a team of ‘international parliamentarians’ was pointedly asked by Jaffna media, if he is part of the Delhi agenda in ‘colour washing’ the Rajapaksa regime, neat and clean. A difficult task, with other reports getting on the public domain. A working visit to [...]
I will work towards the elimination of child abuse, rape, underworld and organised crime.” Mahinda Chinthana – p-05 The week that lapsed, had more than Bharatha and Duminda to talk of. More than Lansa and Basil too. The capture of Colonel Qadaffi, a non aligned head of State till eight months ago, a close ally [...]
It is a shock that the incident that took place last Saturday happened under President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government. We have to enforce the law against the ‘barbarians’ who assassinated former parliamentarian and Presidential Advisor Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra and social justice needs to be put in place as a tribute to him.” General Secretary of the [...]
The third segment of Local Government(LG) elections for the last remaining lot of 23 local authorities that includes some of the largest, would be over by the time this column is read, but not so, while this is being written. While this is being read, the next round of possible conflicts within political parties for [...]
Last Wednesday (28) afternoon saw two adjacent public interventions, one at the Colombo Public Library auditorium and the other, a hop, step and a jump away at the New Town Hall. The first was held by the JVP official group led by Somawansa and the other by the JVP dissident group of Premakumar Gunaratnam a.k.a [...]
Some one asked, what the Ceypetco brand logo means. Another said, in school, they used to show that logo in a big, white, circular plate hung on a tall post in the petrol shed opposite college, to those classmates who used to go behind teachers expecting favour and say, “that’s what you are…” A nude [...]
Samantha Power? Who? A Bollywood model?” No. But she could be discussed about, a while later. First, these snippets related to Sri Lanka and its status in the international ring. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon sent his Advisory Panel Report on Sri Lanka’s war, to the President of the UN Human Rights Council for follow [...]
The LLRC is the latest in a long line of failed domestic inquiries. Impunity has been the rule rather than the exception, now exacerbated by a post-conflict triumphalism that rejects all responsibility for abuses, carried out by government forces,” Sam Zarifi / AI, Asia Pacific Director at the release of the AI Report on LLRC. [...]
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