Archive for November 18th, 2014

DID JHU COMMIT POLITICAL SUICIDE?

Tuesday, November 18th, 2014

By M D P DISSANAYAKE With fewer  members in Parliament, the JHU’s decision to leave the government  will not cause major political drama.   However, the JHU’s constant inability to work in a coalition goverment in  a constructive manner was visible from the very early stages. Former Minister Patali Ranawaka was appointed as  the Minister of […]

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Why the JHU Strategy is Right in the Scheme of Things

Tuesday, November 18th, 2014

Dilrook Kannangara There is a delicate difference between the desirability of executive presidency (EP) and clipping the EP powers that are not used for the betterment of the country. Sri Lanka had five (5) executive presidents and four (4) serious aspirants since the forcible enactment of 13A. None of them tried to remove 13A. In […]

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Constitutional Amendments To  Prevent  Division of the County  Is Much More Urgent Than Presidential and General Elections

Tuesday, November 18th, 2014

Dhammasiri Ranwalage   Analysis of  the Current Situation Election mania has hit the country yet again barely after elapse of two months since provincial council elections and just a year after provincial council election in the Northern Province to show off to CHOGM participants. Even though the elections in the north created more problems and gave more […]

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Kandyan “Peasants’ A people on the verge of extinction from the map of Sri Lanka due to the fault of those who have governed Sri Lanka since Independence

Tuesday, November 18th, 2014

Dr Sudath Gunasekara President Mahnuwara Jesta Purawesiyange Sanvidhanaya In this essay I refer to all those people who lived and their descendants presently living within the territory known as the Kandyan Kingdom at the time of signing the Kandyan Convention in 1815. This area at present roughly constitutes about 1/3 of the territory of the […]

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“UN human rights investigators are trained to spot fraudulent submissions” Prince Zeid –   How come UNHRC was mum on the ‘doctored’ forms sent by LTTE-TNA against Sri Lanka?

Tuesday, November 18th, 2014

Shenali D Waduge   The new head of the UN Human Rights Council deems fit to insult a democratically elected UN Member country for bringing to the attention of the Human Rights world body the arrest of an unrehabilitated LTTE cadre collecting blank forms with signatures and handing them to a Tamil National Alliance member […]

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PRESIDENT MAHINDA RAJAPAKSA WAS ONLY CORRECT WHEN HE STATED THAT NORWAY FUNDED THE LTTE DURING THE ISLAND’S THREE-DECADE CIVIL WAR. ERIK SOLHIEM SHOULD NOT DENY

Tuesday, November 18th, 2014

By Noor Nizam, Peace and Political Activist and Political Communication Researcher. President Mahinda Rajapaksa demanded on Sunday, November 16th, 2014 that the Norwegian government must probe the funding of the LTTE during the island’s three-decade civil war, alleging that Norway financed the ethnic Tamil militant group while addressing a political gathering in the northwestern town […]

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A global strategy required to stop radicalization – Ahmadiyya Supreme Head.

Tuesday, November 18th, 2014

By A. Abdul Aziz.  According to our Press Department U.K., on 8 November 2014, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivered the keynote address at the 11th National Peace Symposium hosted by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK. During his address, His Holiness categorically condemned […]

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Solheim as the common candidate of the banana intellectuals

Tuesday, November 18th, 2014

By Nalin de Silva Sri Lanka is not an Arab country and the west finds it difficult to impose its will on us. The western policy with respect to Asia, Africa and South America can be partially summarized in one sentence knowing very well that summaries do not often convey the meaning of the original. […]

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