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(Sunday Island  By – Dushy Ranetunge in London) The pressures that the Sri Lankan state is under at present are its own creation in failing to strategically position Sri Lanka in a rapidly transformed post LTTE landscape. It is remarkably similar to the predicament of the LTTE, which was also its own creation.

Long before May [...]

(Sunday Observer) We did send shock waves across the globe on May 18, 2009!

Sri Lanka won the most dreadful challenge of defeating one of the ruthless terrorist organisations in the world. Sri Lanka has the utmost right to remember and rejoice the victorious past equally filled with joy and grief. The righteous owners of this [...]

(Sunday Island By -Kamalika Pieris ) The first three Presidents of Sri Lanka made no effort to win the war, though victory was possible. J.R. Jayewardene was forced by India to halt the Vadamarachchi operation (1987) which would have permanently ended the LTTE offensive. Premadasa handed over arms, ammunition, cement and cash to the LTTE. The [...]

(Daily News) Neville Ladduwahetty’s book must contain one of the most, if not the best, readable, detailed analysis of Sri Lanka’s national question. There cannot be any questions that have not been probed or plausible answers missing in it, to resolve the question.

With flowing facts, reasoning and sustained logic, it unravels what was once thought [...]

(Sunday Observer) Their eagle eyes watched every movement of the enemy. Be it the unmanned surveillance aircraft or the beech-craft with the team of battle hardened officers and airmen, they became sharp for their flying fighter aircraft and to Sri Lanka Army’s ground troops. They became the warriors of the Sri Lanka Air Force defeating [...]

(Sunday Observer By – Raj Gonsalkorale) Tamil civiliances rushing to the safety of the Armed Forces

The International Crisis Group, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are relentlessly pursuing Sri Lanka about alleged human rights abuses by the military during the final phase of the war against the LTTE last year. If what they say is [...]

(Sunday Observer) The current trends in international affairs relating to Sri Lanka with the war against terrorism and how the world looks at us owing to the accusations made against us by vested interests and whether we have overcome the difficulties and convinced the world that we were justified in doing what we had to [...]

(Sunday Times By Kumudini Hettiarachchi and Dhananjani Silva) One year on, after the end of the war, child-victims are shedding their past and [...]