Military deployment that may stay on, came after a merciless suppression and a cold blooded murder in the Katunayake FTZ, under this patriotic regime. That indicates the fear this regime has, when the political equation changes with a new denominator, the organised urban workforce. This regime that insists it can not be bullied by the [...]
Intruder At Dorchester Enrages President A Horrible Week For Sri Lanka The week that has just ended will undoubtedly go down in history as the singular most disastrous one for Sri Lanka internationally. President Mahinda Rajapaksa took on the challenge and accepted the invitation to address the Oxford Union in a show of faith that [...]
The Supreme Court heard the government’s arguments and the arguments of six intervening petitioners on Tuesday, September 1. These changes have not been discussed in the public domain and they are sought to be made in secret. It is important to note that even at the Supreme Court hearing the intervening petitioners were only given [...]
There are times when one simply cannot believe the attitude of the government. It acts with an impunity never quite before seen and unlikely to be seen elsewhere either. They send out signals to the international community with no apparent care in the world for what our overseas trading partners think. The case of stripping [...]
By Faraz Shauketaly Rather like tethered goats, democrats in Sri Lanka stand watch over a complete breakdown of popular concern for the plight that has befallen the pearl of the Indian Ocean. The people clearly are immature or as a colleague put it last week, mere by-standers. They elect – time after time – at [...]
“We must start from scratch on northern development” “No resurgence of LTTE in our lifetime” “There was no deal: I did not control vast sums and give it to The Brothers” The LTTE chief renditioned by Sri Lanka from Malaysia, has spoken from being under house arrest and declared that “in our lifetime, there will [...]
In the most far reaching of changes ever proposed since the formation of the United National Party (UNP), the Working Committee of one of the oldest political parties in Sri Lanka has voted to implement strategic reforms of the party’s constitution. In a contentious Working Committee meeting held earlier in the week, there were those [...]
Cabinet meets at Iranamadu at great cost but with huge commitment value Killinochchi takes on carnival atmosphere with arrival of President and his men By Faraz Shauketaly In Killinochchi – Photos by Chanaka Ratnaweera / MEDIA Colombo In a trailblazing move, the Cabinet of Ministers held its weekly pow-wow in the northern town of Killinochchi. [...]
By Kalana Senaratne The recent appointment of a Panel of Experts by the UN Secretary General (UNSG) is a disturbing development, even though it was bound to happen. The panel and its mandate The statement attributable to the UNSG’s spokesperson, issued on June 22, refers to the fact that the UNSG had appointed a panel [...]
President: We Must Not Rely On Foreign Aid Gl: “No Government Would Like To Be Dictated To” Sri Lanka has a new dimension: it has the world’s largest concentration of God’s Forgotten Children. A government that has won a 30-year old bloody uprising that saw the mindless slaughter of its own people by its own [...]
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