By Ravi Perera
The trials and travails of Sarath Fonseka, ex commander of the army and unsuccessful candidate at the presidential election this January, seems the stuff of Greek tragedy, if the rather sorry scene here bears such comparisons ever.
Without doubt Sarath Fonseka was a capable commander of an army which was finally able to overcome [...]
January 28, 2010
Dear Mr. President,
Congratulations on your landslide victory which, like most Colombo elites, I was stunned by. Your spokesperson Dr. R. Wijesinghe quite rightly described us as shallow and lacking foresight and the common touch unlike the rural polity who rightly judged your true capability and potential based purely on your good governance and [...]
An Article By The Asian Human Rights Commission
By Basil Fernando
On January 26 the election for the position of Executive President was held in Sri Lanka and the Election Commissioner declared the incumbent President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, as the winner. The common candidate for the opposition, retired General Sarath Fonseka, rejected the results stating that the announced [...]
By R.M.B. Senanayake
I have had first-hand experience as a Presiding Officer, Counting Officer (Assistant Registering Officer) and as Returning Officer in past elections in Vavuniya, Nuwara Eliya, Matara, etc. The procedure then was for the counting centers to be set apart for each electorate. After the count the results for that electorate were announced by [...]
By Rohan Samarajiva
I had the same reaction watching the former Chief Justice Sarath Silva discussing the “Rata Karawana Liyavilla” on Sirasa as I did watching Mervyn Silva judging talent on Swarnavahini: a sick feeling in the stomach about the judgments being exercised by the producers. Then you feel like watching a few minutes more to [...]
By Charles Sarvan
Over and over, one reads of the patriotic soldiers who laid down their lives fighting the Tigers. This mantra is repeated and repetition, as we know, transforms a statement into fact. Over time, it becomes truth, is no longer examined but handed down as axiomatic.
This is not to deny that the army displayed [...]
Sunday January 10, 2010
Dear Mr. Gotabaya Rajapaksa,
It is indeed opportune that I write to you exactly one year since the founder Editor-in-Chief of this newspaper and my predecessor, Lasantha Wickrematunge was assassinated.
This letter in no way intends through innuendo or otherwise to implicate you in his murder. Nor, for that matter, is this [...]
By S. V. Kirubaharan
As a person involved in international human rights advocacy for the last two decades, I would like to share my personal analysis on the forthcoming election for the Sixth Executive President of Sri Lanka. Good analysis should be based on realities and practicalities. British mathematician and philosopher, the late Alfred North [...]
Let The Presidential Election Pay Real Homage To Lasantha
By Rajasingham Jayadevan
The presidential election cannot come at a more opportune moment than in January 2010. January 2009 was a month that recorded some dastardly deeds of the state intelligence service, paramilitary groups and government backed underworld gangsters that savaged the lives of our responsible citizens to [...]
Lasantha Wickrematunge Killing
By Ranjan Ratwatte
One full year has lapsed without hearing anything from the government or any other responsible authority on the brutal assassination of Lasantha Wickrematunge, a world renowned, international award-winning media personality and editor-in-chief of The Sunday Leader. The police have failed to submit the full investigation reports into the murder, and are [...]
