By Bandu de Silva
The administration of any country trying to throw stones at others should look at skeletons in its own cupboards before speaking out. The United States of America, perhaps, with its three century old record, is the last country that could open its mouths about human rights or humanitarian considerations. We are not [...]

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By Garvin Karunaratne Ph.D.(Michigan State University)
Formerly of the Administrative Service of Sri Lanka

Not a day passes by without a dictate from the International  Super-Warlords. They have now to be called Warlords because now they have become dubious, are contradicting themselves and no longer uphold either democracy or human rights. They only know to be dictatorial. [...]

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By Charles.S.Perera
Human Rights Watch is Active Again. This is the vacation period and no wonder the Human Rights Globe trotters are looking out for vacations abroad. Human rights is their “gain pain” – their job. If there is no ethnic problem some where in the world specially in a place like Sri Lanka a coveted [...]

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S. Hewage
As all indications point to a dramatic failure of the Anglo-American hegemony around the world in the 21st century, the Anglo-American politicians seem frustrated and agonized by the increasingly violent resistant to occupying forces by the Iraqi and Afghan people. In an attempt to divert international attention away from this stark reality, the Anglo-American [...]

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Insight By Sunil Kumar
August 25th 2009
There seem to be a spate of opinions about the adverse effects that will prevail on the Nation by the unthinkable displacement through violent means of President Rajapaksha so much so that it probably needs to be put into proper perspective.Hopefully it is the brainchild of paranoia but as the [...]

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Media Release Public Communications Division Ministry of Foreign Affairs Colombo
Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama stated that Sri Lanka is the hub of the Asian Region and Kenya is the hub of African region and that both the countries have a great potential to enhance their commercial and business ties and also develop their economies. This was [...]

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By Vindya Amaranayake Courtesy The Nation (Sri Lanka)
Responding to accusations of undue delays made by representatives from several Western countries, a senior governmental spokesman said yesterday that unless complete safety in the former conflict areas is ensured, the government will not hasten to resettle civilians.
“Resettling civilians in a former conflict zone cannot and should [...]

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ආචාර්ය සෙල්ලකපු එස්. උපසිරි ද සිල්වා
ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ අතිගරු ජනාධිපති ෙජ්. ආර්. ජයවර්ධන මහතා සහ ඉන්දියානු ජනරජයේ අගමැති අතිගරු රජීව් ගාන්ධි මහතා කොළඹ දී 1987 ජුලි 29 දින  ඉන්දු-ශ්‍රී ලංකා ගිවිසුමට අත්සන් තැබුවේ ශ්‍රි ලංකාවේ සියලූ ජනකොටස් හි ආරක‍ෂාව, සුභසිද්ධිය සහ සමෘද්ධිය වෙනුවෙන් සාමය සහ සාමාන්‍යත්වය ස්ථාපිත කිරීම මගින් සියලූ ජනවාර්ගික ගැටලූ විසඳීම [...]

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