It is, at least it should be, impossible for India and Ceylon to quarrel” is a 1939 quote from Mahatma Gandhi that adorns the official website of the Indian High Commission in Colombo. Nevertheless, 23 years and 8 months ago in January 1987, the Delhi administration trespassed on Sri Lankan air space to air drop [...]
All government MPs have been advised to stay put in the country, expecting constitutional amendments to come up in parliament and what grand confusion there is, in the opposition. The JVP slams UNP for discussing constitutional changes with Rajapaksa. UNP wants MR to provide proposed changes in writing. Karu J as Senior Deputy Leader wants [...]
Last week saw the issue of war crimes committed in Sri Lanka hitting international headlines, despite the Sri Lankan government’s effort in answering them with its own “Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission” (LLRC) that sat down to hear major actors interpret the 30 year war. Two heavy weights in Bernard Goonetilleke and Austin Fernando, before [...]
It’s the ‘Miracle in Asia’, as the Rajapaksa regime wishes to brand Sri Lanka under its rule. It’s no miracle though, to be wholly contradictory and to be far from the ‘truth’ here in Sri Lanka, also under the Rajapaksa rule. External Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris declared at a media briefing on May 3, the [...]
Latest news on Mervyn caught every one off guard and in total surprise. There were frantic calls on Tuesday night by many who wanted to know, if the news was right. Some one left a comment for an online news on Mervyn’s removal that said, “Don’t do this. This would rob us, of our popular [...]
Make no mistake and this is no joke. This regime under President Rajapaksa would never allow any one to have Deputy Minister Mervyn Silva indicted, condemned or relieved of his political power, never mind the representations some government members made to President MR, as revealed by spokesman and Media Minister Rambukwella. For President Rajapaksa and [...]
The first university student murdered in post independent Sri Lanka was Weerasuriya in 1976 November, an undergraduate of the Peradeniya University. The Sirima Bandaranaike government was then in power. Investigations on this murder that numbed a whole society 34 years ago, ended with no one held responsible, but the riffle and the bullet, as Colvin [...]
It was exactly 27 years ago this day. The day was a Poya Sunday. Late Saumyamoorthy Thondaman, the respected plantation sector trade unionist and political leader, on a short visit to Chennai immediately after, was quoted in Tamil Nadu media as having said that in Sri Lanka, “It is Sunday sil – Monday kill”. It [...]
The death fast that turned into a big farce had to be called off saving face, not only for Weerawansa, but for Rajapaksa too. Defence Secretary ‘bro’ who was touted in the media as one who inspired Weerawansa, has in hindsight proved to be a political blunder. There was no option but for the President himself [...]
By Kusal Perera What’s a ‘cock and bull story?’ Ban Ki-Moon recalling Neil Buhne to New York and UNDP closing shop in Colombo? A well groomed man with a neatly trimmed beard, finely gelled and combed hair, sitting for a fast unto death? Many dictionaries said a “cock and bull story” is “a highly unbelievable [...]
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