Shenali D Waduge A correction needs to be made. If wars are declared between two countries and with Sri Lanka’s conflict described as a non-international armed conflict, the terminologies currently been applied to wives of LTTE widows need to be immediately corrected. War widows can be described as only those whose soldier husbands have died […]

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Shenali D Waduge The War on Terror divided people into those with us or against us. The war effort in Sri Lanka divided people as those against terror and those indirectly/directly supporting terror. The post-war scenario finds the same sets of people who supported terror now camouflaged as conflict-resolutionists encouraging a bogus reconciliation. That a […]

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By Svobodnaya Pressa Russia is avidly hoping for a rapprochement between India and China after the ongoing, high-profile visit of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi to China. If political tensions between India and China decrease, then the Russia, India, China (RIC) combine can begin to function as the world’s economic and a strategic powerhouse, getting […]

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ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න සිංහල දේශයේ සිටින 75% ක් වන සිංහලයෝ  රටේ ඒකාධිකාරියක් පවය්හ් වා ගෙන යමින්   සුළු වාර්ගිකයන් තලා පෙලන හෙයින්   ඉන්දියානු හා බටහිර උපදෙස් පරිදි  උන්ගේ ප්‍රධාන සේවිකාව වන රටේ චව්ර රැජිණිය විසින් ජනතාව  අකමැති රනිල්  මගින් මාවෙත දෙනලද උපදෙස්   පිළිගැනීමට  පරම සත්‍ය  බව මගේ ගොන් මොලයට වැටහේ  එනිසා වහාම බලපැවැත්වෙන පරිදි  පහත දැක්වෙන  සැමරුම් […]

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නලින් ද සිල‘්වා අද (2015 මැයි 17) පොළොන්නරුවේ පැවති රැස්වීමක දී මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන වැදගත් ප්‍රකාශ දෙකක් කර ඇත. ඉන් එකකින් කියැවෙන්නේ විධායක ජනාධිපති ක්‍රමය අහෝසි කරන බවට ශ්‍රී ල නි පක්‍ෂය අවුරුදු ගණනාවක් දෙන ලද පොරොන්දුවක් තමා විසින් ඉටු කරන ලද බව ය. එය සත්‍ය නම් මේ වන විට විධායක ජනාධිපතිවරයකු සිටිය නො හැකි ය. […]

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Mahinda Gunasekera May 6, 2015 His Excellency, Maithripala Sirisena President of Sri Lanka Copy to:  Hon. Ranil Wickremasinghe Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Your Excellency, Unauthorized Clearing of Forest Cover and Grazing Land in Ampara-Bakmitiyawa – Thimbirigolla Forest Reserves Further to my letter dated April 27, 2015 regarding the ‘Rape of Wilpattu’, I have now […]

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By  Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec, Canada It was the Buddha who, some twenty six centuries ago presented a system of moral action indicating  what humans OUGHT to do if they are to escape from the malaise of suffering associated with life, leading to old age, sickness  and death. The Buddha taught that because conditioned phenomena are […]

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By  Malinda Seneviratne Courtesy The Nation Sometime late last year Maithripala Sirisena effectively left the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP).   As predicted, he was installed as the leader of the party he ‘left’ the moment he was elected President.  He became the leader of a party whose entire membership almost campaigned against him.  It certainly didn’t […]

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Courtesy  The Nation  USAID seeks to consolidate control of Bar The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) is contemplating a change in its structure which is likely to put the organization under the control of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), according to high ranking sources of the Association. The envisaged restructuring will […]

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