Author Archive for Shenali Waduge

India prevented food-fuel-medicines to Nepal in 2015 – Sri Lanka doesn’t learn lessons

Tuesday, March 5th, 2024

Shenali D Waduge How many are aware of the 2015 economic embargo imposed by India on Nepal simply because Nepal was including clauses in its new constitution in September 2015 that India did not like! It was the very year that US-India orchestrated a regime change to depose Mahinda Rajapakse & place on the throne […]

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Connecting North & East Sri Lanka (Part 2)

Tuesday, January 30th, 2024

by Wimal Patabandige – Academician, Lawyer, Retired Solicitor Before 1833, the nearest land between Yapapatuna (Jaffna Peninsula*) and the Eastern Province was the land belonging to Kurundugamurata Disavani (Mulativ District*). It is necessary to look into the historical information & archaeological facts related to this piece of land says the author Wimal Patabandige.  Reporting on […]

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Connecting North & East Sri Lanka (Part 1)

Monday, January 29th, 2024

by Wimal Patabandige – Academician, Lawyer, Retired Solicitor translated by Shenali D Waduge There is no difference in not knowing one’s mother tongue or history or choosing to forget one’s history or ridiculing one’s heritage & not wishing to know one’s parents & their ancestor’s history & heritage. So says, Wimal Patabandige. This aptly fits […]

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Will IMF/WB ruin rice production in Sri Lanka as it did in Haiti

Sunday, January 21st, 2024

Shenali D Waduge There are a few things Sri Lanka & Haiti have in common – that is production of rice. Within 20 years Haiti turned from a self-sufficient rice producing country to one having to import rice after IMF & WB pressurized Haiti to cut import tariffs on rice from 50% to 3% & […]

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India’s annexation of Sikkim & Lessons for Sri Lanka

Thursday, January 18th, 2024

Shenali D Waduge Recently, Dr. Wasantha Bandara declared that Sri Lanka was fast on its way to becoming the 29th State of India on the lines of what happened to Sikkim. Obviously, many may be unaware of what happened to Sikkim & how it was annexed to be worried as to how Sri Lanka can be […]

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South African Truth & Reconciliation Commission was a waste of Tax Payers money – so will Sri Lanka’s!

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024

Shenali D Waduge Any truth & reconciliation commission that shies from exposing the true players who trained, armed and funded militancy in Sri Lanka as well as provide covert & overt support that led to the 3 decade bloodshed should be denounced, named & shamed. These players include foreign nations, foreign politicians including the Church […]

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US illegally “annexed” Hawaii: Will Sri Lanka’s fate be same with MCC?

Wednesday, January 3rd, 2024

Shenali D Waduge Hawaii was annexed by US in 1898. The reason for Hawaii to be annexed was the fear of Hawaii becoming part of European empire. US doesn’t want to see Sri Lanka tilt to China and is exerting tremendous pressure via Quad partners. Are we interested enough to protect our sovereignty? Before that […]

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ජනාධිපති කඩිමුඩියේ ගොවියන්ට රජයේ ඉඩම් වලට සින්නක්කර ඔප්පු දෙන්නේ ඇයි

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023

ෂෙනාලි ඩී වඩුගේ පුද්ගලික ඉඩම් අයිතිය පිළිබඳ සංකල්පය බටහිර න්‍යායවාදීන් විසින් යටත් විජිතකරණයෙන් පසුව නිර්මාණය කරන ලදී. කිසිවකුට අයත් නොවූ භුමිය, හදිසියේම තෝරාගත් පුද්ගලයන් අතළොස්සකට ලබා දුන් අතර යටත් විජිත වකවානුවෙන් පසුව තේරී පත් වූ රජයන් භූමියේ භාරකරුවන් බවට පත් විය. පැහැදිලිව තේරුම් ගත යුත්තේ – භුමියේ අයිතිය පුද්ගලයින්ට හෝ ආණ්ඩුවකට හෝ ජනාධිපතිට අයත් නැති […]

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The deal behind giving land ownership certificate to Sri Lanka’s farmers

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023

Shenali D Waduge The Govt PR channels and clueless politicians are not surprisingly going to town about the magnanimous gesture about farmers getting deed ownership to lands that were given to them by the State as a lease. While a government has no constitutional ownership to the land of a nation, a Government, President or […]

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Mahaveerar Naal (Great Heroes Day) / ‘Maaveerar Vaaram’ (Great Heroes Week)– Is it a LTTE event?

Wednesday, November 22nd, 2023

Shenali D Waduge Mahaveerar Naal is a LTTE mourning event – it does not mourn Tamils & certainly not Tamils killed by LTTE. Mahaveerar Naal is an event annually organized by LTTE supporters to commemorate all LTTE who died for terrorist cause. Other Tamil militant groups are not allowed to commemorate their dead on this […]

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Unholy alliance: AKD – America’s newest political “sweetheart” in Sri Lanka

Monday, November 6th, 2023

Shenali D Waduge The JVP-plugged NPP is not the JVP that Rohana Wijeweera created. The rank & file of those that survived insurrections in 1972 and 1980s will no doubt agree. Many of these today feel disillusioned, having sacrificed their lives & even members of their family for a cause that has cheated them of […]

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Blinken without blinking says “Collateral damage” is to be expected in Israeli-Hamas staffoff – Sri Lanka says “Oh really”!

Saturday, November 4th, 2023

Shenali D Waduge The Israeli-Hamas standoff strangely has many bedfellows suddenly entering the scene & we cannot but highlight the hypocrisies at play on how the UN/UNHRC & international community reacted to Sri Lanka’s efforts against terrorism and the reaction of these entities on the unfolding Gaza crisis. Though the standoff is between Israel & […]

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Justice for SSP Keertiratna & 3 Constables falsely accused of Rambukkana shooting in April 2022

Friday, November 3rd, 2023

Shenali D Waduge The Parliamentary Sectoral Oversight Committee on National Security headed by Rear Admiral (Dr) Sarath Weerasekera has released an interesting report addressed to the State Defense Minister on the Rambukkana shooting that brings to question the HRCSL Commission of Expert report & the intrusive interference by the US envoy to Sri Lanka. The […]

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Is the new draft constitution giving powers to the Provincial Councils beyond 13th amendment asks Dr. Wasantha Bandara?

Friday, October 20th, 2023

Shenali D Waduge Some points highlighting the dangers to Sri Lanka’s national sovereignty is highlighted by Dr. Wasantha Bandara. The sinhala version of his article is attached.   Dr. Wasantha claims 26 countries have been divided to fulfil strategic objectives of Western imperialists with the intervention of UN making the necessary demarcations in territory that have […]

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Is Sri Lanka YOUR MOTHERLAND or simply the LAND OF YOUR BIRTH?

Wednesday, October 18th, 2023

Shenali D Waduge  ශාසනාභිමානි-දිරියවනිතා-දේශශක්ති  It is a simple question but holding a wealth of meaning & essentially answers and distinguishes those that naturally come forward to defend the nation & those who chose not to. Some leaders are born, some are made by circumstance & rise to the occasion but inherently they do so because […]

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Sri Lanka must declare itself a Buddhist State with Buddhism as State Religion

Tuesday, October 17th, 2023

Shenali D Waduge Before anyone takes out all the denigrative words & phrases in the dictionary, it would be wiser for them to check out where a God is officially referred in the Constitutions of other states that have a shorter history than Sri Lanka. In the name of God the Father, the Son & […]

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Debt Colonization by IMF/WB: Sri Lanka take lessons from Argentina

Thursday, October 5th, 2023

Shenali D Waduge US-India Regime change in Sri Lanka in 2015 & multinational corporations promoting Mauricio Macri as President of Argentina also in 2015 have similarities. IMF/WB began playing key roles after the regime change. IMF & World Bank have a history of turning poor Global South nations into LOAN ADDICTS & then saddling them […]

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Letter to PM Rajiv Gandhi from TULF on 13th Amendment

Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023

Sri Lanka News 28th Oct 1987 Shri Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, New Delhi. Dear Prime Minister, We thank you once again for all your efforts on behalf of the Tamil people. We repeat our deep anguish at the tragic turn of events in Jaffna. We feel it is our duty to also express our […]

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TULF letter to Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi on 28 Oct 1987 confirms 13th amendment was drafted by Sri Lanka not India & Sri Lanka has every right to repeal it.

Monday, October 2nd, 2023

Shenali D Waduge The Indo Lanka Accord proposes an interim-arrangement administrative system by merging North & East provinces & a referendum in the East one year after signing the agreement to continue merger or not (catch was the inclusion of the postponement clause by the President of SL). The Accord does not refer to administrative […]

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Western embassies in Sri Lanka – please open a desk for political asylum seekers

Monday, October 2nd, 2023

Shenali D Waduge Who else is planning to do a Hamsa? Hamsa wanted asylum, C4 needed to boost revenue, West/UN needed a topic to politicize, foreign funded NGOs needed a topic for survival & funding & a bunch of others needed a reason to cover their guilty conscience regarding knowing but not doing anything to […]

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Indo-Lanka Accord does not exist & never did

Saturday, September 30th, 2023

Shenali D Waduge Sri Lankans are being psychologically trapped into believing the Indo-Lanka Accord is still valid. It is not. It never was. It is not because it violated international norms by being signed under duress thus violating Article 51 & 52 of Vienna Convention. The Accord was never valid because India failed to fulfil […]

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Sri Lanka needs a Happy-Economic Model & so does the world

Thursday, September 28th, 2023

Shenali D Waduge The world faced 2 World Wars that killed over 70million people. Annually an estimated 60million deaths occur globally while global population is now close to 8billion. Global youth account for 1.2billion people (age 15-24) while global senior citizens stand at around 771million. Global extreme poverty has risen from 8.4% in 2019 to […]

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Sri Lanka’s Galle Face Protests & Egypts Tahrir Square protests

Tuesday, September 26th, 2023

Shenali D Waduge An article by Ron Nixon written to the New York Times in April 2011 highlighted the following IRI Sri Lanka supports  IRI receives funding from US State Dept, USAID, NED https://www.iri.org/iri-around-the-world/asia-pacific/sri-lanka/ The National Endowment for Democracy created in 1983 received $100m annually from Congress. Egypt’s protests & strikes began on 25 January […]

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What is USAID upto in Sri Lanka?

Sunday, September 24th, 2023

Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka’s governments always apply ‘don’t look a gifthorse in the mouth’ logic and then lands up putting the country in trouble. We seem to be euthanized to think that countries that carry out regime change, colored revolutions, election fraud, funding youth unrest & even carrying out political assassinations in other countries, […]

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Questions rising from Janahanda interview with former CID Chief RaviS 

Thursday, September 21st, 2023

Shenali D Waduge ·      Was the interviewee evading accountability? ·      Was the interviewer asking questions based on reading Commission Reports & ability to identify falsehoods & half-truths? ·      Were the questions centered on the notions spread via social media? ·      Can a tv show with an interviewer asking weak questions enabling the interviewee to evade accountability & pass the […]

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Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday – An International Investigation was done

Friday, September 8th, 2023

Shenali D Waduge Easter Sunday murders took place on 21 April 2019. 269 innocent people died & over 500 were left injured. Immediately following the attacks at least 6 countries came forward to assist Sri Lanka in investigations. Their foreign intel agencies arrived to help carry out investigations. The FBI, Australian Federal Police, UK’s Scotland […]

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Cardinal’s Congratulatory Dispatches to C4

Thursday, September 7th, 2023

Shenali D Waduge Not only is Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith the opening batsman in the C4 documentary, he has also decided to be the night watchman having prepared a 3 page letter in English and even going the mile to translate it into Sinhala. The letter is dated 6thSeptember. Channel 4 program was aired on 5th September […]

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Cardinal-C4-Hamsa – did you check Maj. Gen. Salley’s immigration/phone records

Thursday, September 7th, 2023

Shenali D Waduge Let us get to the bottom of this drama without engaging in any more sensational entertainment. The latest Channel 4 video opened with Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith talking about someone “above” Zaharan and Hamsa claiming to have met Maj. Gen. Suresh Salley in February 2018 & alleging discussing a plot to commit Easter […]

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Is Gotabaya the head of ISIS to indoctrinate 8 Muslims to commit Easter Sunday murder?

Tuesday, September 5th, 2023

Shenali D Waduge On Easter Sunday 21 April 2019 – 8 bombs went off in churches & hotels in Colombo & Batticoloa. Why churches – who decided ? Why Batticoloa, why 3 particular hotels & why have 2 bombers target 1 hotel? 269 innocent people died, for whose objective? Why a jihadi attack, when LTTE […]

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Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday: Loopholes in Hamsa Asad Maulana allegations against Maj. Gen. Suresh Salley

Monday, September 4th, 2023

Shenali D Waduge Every year when it gets closer to Geneva Sessions, expect a blockbuster thriller to become breaking news”. Keep this in mind for 2024 Sept/Oct too. As expected, 2023 breaking news” is by UK’s private funded broadcaster Channel4.  An article by Catherine Philip ” Rajapaksa officials ‘linked to Easter Sunday Sri Lanka bombs’ […]

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