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(Sunday Times – By Kishali Pinto Jayawardene)
A mere call for cohesive national unity is just words. Let us recognise the essentials first. Sri Lanka must not only respect the Rule of Law but must also be seen to be respecting the Rule of Law. In particular, the independence of Sri Lanka’s judiciary [...]
(gulfnews) Colombo cannot be forced to submit to a war crimes investigation while the UN ignores Israel’s transgressions
In the quest for power or the expansion of distorted ideologies, wars invariably target the poor and oppressed. Often killed or displaced in the hundreds of thousands, these helpless victims are quickly forgotten in [...]
(Lakbima – By Ranga Jayasuriya)
Sri Lankan politics, though notoriously prone to character assassination has never had a history of villifying its stakeholders based on their sexual orientation. That is a positive side of the political culture, which, the country could be proud of, though the political culture in this country in [...]
(Nation – By Ishtartha Wellaboda and Sarashi Samarasinghe )
A nation was shocked when a high ranking police officer was caught red handed dumping the body of an Indian youth into the sea. Though many loose ends remain to the mysterious circumstances that led to the young man’s [...]
(Sunday Island – by Izeth Hussain)
Since winning the war on May 18 last year one of our major preoccupations has been the question whether or not we can proceed to win the peace also. It would certainly be premature to attempt anything like a definitive judgment on this [...]
(Sunday Observer) Shortly after NATO missiles and bombs began killing civilians in Kosovo and Serbia, Michael Mandel, a law professor at York University in Canada, filed a complaint with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia alleging that NATO and key leaders in the US and Great [...]
(Sunday Times – By the Economist)
The IMF announced that it was continuing its standby facility of US$ 2.6 billion and restoring the delayed tranches. Its announcement on the eve of the 2010 mini Budget last Tuesday also praised the government’s economic policies and predicated a strong economic growth. The IMF statement, [...]
“The different responses to IMF and EU conditionalities are proof positive that what is really at stake is not national sovereignty but Rajapakse sovereignty. The IMF operates within the Washington Consensus and has no concerns about democracy or human rights.” “…tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in [...]
(Lakbima) UNP National List MP and economist Dr. Harsha de Silva says that he has been a constant critique of the UPFA government’s ‘shady’ economic policies despite now having to comment from the platform of the main opposition UNP. He described the budget presented to the parliament last Tuesday (June [...]
(Nation – by Gagani Weerakoon) The Budget 2010 was presented to Parliament this week few hours after the IMF announced its will to pay out the delayed third tranche of a $2.6 billion loan to Sri Lanka saying the government was planning to tackle its weak finances in the 2010 [...]
(Sunday Island – by Prof W. I. Siriweera)
By the early nineteen forties the Government and the Ceylon University planners had acquired the site of the New Peradeniya Estate, an unprofitable Tea and Rubber plantation owned by a British company, for the construction of the university infrastructure. But soon, [...]
An injured civilian in a state of shock after an aerial attack
(Sunday Observer) Afghan people continue to suffer widespread human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law more than seven years after the USA and its allies ousted the Taliban, the Amnesty International 2010 report disclosed.
It said that [...]
(Sunday Times – By Rypvanwinkle)
My dear Wimal, I thought I must write to you because you are in the news once again, this time asking that the staff of the United Nations office in Colombo be taken hostage, until UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon dissolves the committee that he has [...]
The Threat of Violence and Empty Bravado will Lead Sri Lanka as a Nation Nowhere! [Cartoon courtesy from Lankadeepa]( Sri Lanka Guardian – Written by Day) Can you believe this? WihuluWansa (WW) has just proved, contrary to popular belief, with his rhetoric and ‘empty bravado’ against the Colombo Office of UNthat [...]
(Lakbima – By Namini Wijedasa)
A powerful international federation of trade unions has in a petition to be considered by the US government delivered a scathing account of labour practices in Sri Lanka, alleging that worker rights in the country have deteriorated in recent years. The American Federation of Labour and Congress [...]
(Nation – By Ravi Randeniya )
The title reads harshly, but that is the reality we face for it has outlived its purpose and no longer resonates with our economic needs in business as usual. Sri Lanka no longer has any regional bragging rights for its export oriented foreign investment [...]
(Sunday Island – by Rajan Philips)
No previous Sri Lankan government has been as powerful as the present one. It has an elected Executive assured of tenure for another seven years. It just won a majority in the legislature that is incredible under proportionate representation. The judiciary is institutionally [...]
UN taking counter-measures following Weerawansa’s threat
US joins EU in placing conditions for economic concessions
(Sunday Times – By Our Political Editor)
United Nations Resident Representative Neil Buhne was in for a rude shock. He shot off an urgent SMS message to Economic Development Minister and Senior Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaksa to ascertain [...]
(Sunday Observer) Thirteen innocent civilians shot and killed by British troops:
Saville Report on Bloody Sunday in Northern Ireland:
On January 30th 1972, British paratroopers opened fire – or were forced to do so, according to their account, after being fired at, at first – on a civil right march in Londonderry [...]
(Lakbima) There is some jubilation in media circles and in the dovecotes of intelligentsia that the pressure that was exerted by them has been able to stave off immediate constitutional amendments, effecting changes in terms-limits for the presidency. The answer to the question, is this jubilation justified – – is a [...]
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