C. Wijeyawickrema A Frenchman’s burden ƒ”š‚ Five hundred years of West European colonialism (white man’s burden) rested on a strategy of humiliation of the natives it conquered. This took place by way of both physical (guns) and psychological (primitives, barbarians, savages, infidels, idol worshippers and widow-burners who should be saved) means. Thus, the Portuguese came to […]

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By Stanley Perera My dear Rajapakse brothers and Sarath Fonseka, I salute you honourable people for making me a proud Sri Lankan. Your courageous efforts in wiping out the terrorism from my mother land is something that the west and the church never expected to happen. The previous governments since independence ruled my motherland with […]

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By Walter Jayawardhana Sunitha Wickramasingha who was an expert on red blood cell formation and the diseases connected with the process when it goes wrong and the eldest brother of Professor Chandra Wickremesinghe has died. ƒ”š‚ Dr. Wickremasinghe was the son of a famous Cambride mathematician and the brother of other top academic men, Dayal Wickremesinghe […]

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Sri Lanka News The British High Commission has done it again. This time it has knocked back a visa application by the Foreign Secretary on the same day that it refused Arjuna Ranatunga. All efforts by the Chief of protocol of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to contact the High Commissioner or his deputy were […]

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Media Sec. for Justice and Law Reforms. More than 500 drug addicts imprisoned due to crimes related to drug dependency were recently transferred to a new rehabilitation centre set up at the Pallekelle Prison Camp. There, they will receive counseling and treatment for drug addiction while they serve their sentences for the offences committed. This […]

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By: Anwaar Ahmad The United States has again showed its trust deficit in its relationship with Pakistan when it accused the latter with doctoring of Harpoon missiles ranges recently. The petty dispute is reflective of a deeper split in US administration that still appears to be looking for a sustainable benchmark as to how far […]

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Prof. Hudson McLean Until May 2009, Sri Lanka was known for Tea and Terrorism. Suddenly, despite political, socio-economic interference by leading buccaneeringƒ”š‚  EU, USA, Norway and many other countries, the limping Tea and Terrorism merchant has destroyed Terrorism and stands upto the Big Political Guns of USA, EU. The Proof of the Pudding is in […]

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By Walter Jayawardhana Mahinda Samarasinghe , Sri Lanka’s Minister for Disaster Management and Human Rights in a telephone interview from Colombo with this correspondent said when experts ran Channel 4 video shot of a supposed killing field in Sri Lanka at a 50 percent less speed in a laboratory one of the so called corpses […]

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