Dilrook Kannangara Corruption allegations were big business during the 2015 January election. It was one of the biggest political slogans played by the UNP-Sirisena camp. However, now there is conclusive proof of their absurdity. Mahinda administration was far less corrupt than the present UNP-Sirisena regime. To quantify, the UNP-Sirisena regime is $7 billion-a-year more corrupt […]

Dilrook Kannangara UNHRC report is out. It recommends Sri Lanka comply with its dictates. However, if Sri Lanka refuses to comply with them and disregards all dictates, nothing will happen. UNHRC cannot enforce its decisions as Sri Lanka is not a party to the Rome Statute and doesn’t come under the International Criminal Court. The […]

Dilrook Kannangara Singapore and India succeeded in disrupting the development of Hambantota and Colombo port development projects. Had these gone ahead, a substantial amount of prosperity would have shifted to Sri Lanka depriving India and Singapore. That was why India and Singapore engineered the regime change operation. Now they are satisfied Sri Lanka’s Chinese funded […]

Dilrook Kannangara I’m appalled by hateful comments made by a prominent local NGO activists to foreign newspapers justifying political victimisation of Rajapaksa family members. He has justified using coercion and prosecution to force Mahinda into retirement. He also proposes prosecution of his brothers, wife and children to force him to retire from politics or shut […]

Dilrook Kannangara Previously no less than four (4) honeymoons between these actors ended in misery. UPFA Sirisena round hole does not fit UNP square peg. History shows the only stable governments are where the president and the PM are from the same party. A vote for the UNP is a waste. If UNP wins, its […]

– දිල්රුක් කන්නන්ගර  සිරිසේන ජනාධිපති වූයේද, ආතක් පාතක් නැති රනිල් අගමැති වූයේද සිරිසේනට ලැබුණු දෙමළ ඡන්දයෙනි. ඡන්දය දිනූ දා සිට කළේ දෙමළ ජනතාව පිනවීම මිස වෙන කිසිවක් නොවේ. අද සිංහල තරුණයන් අතර දෙමළ තරුණයන්ට වඩා සේවා වියුක්තිය සහ ඌණ සේවා නියුක්තිය දක්නට ලැබේ. විශ්ව විද්‍යාල තුලද මෙම අසාධාරණ ව්‍යාප්තවාදය දක්නට ඇත. මෙම නින්දිත පරිහානියට සිරිසේනගේ […]

Dilrook Kannangara Local folklore has it that if a night heron (Kana Koka) cries while in flight over a house it is a sure warning that death will come soon to an inmate of the house. So is Tony Blair. Wherever he has stepped in, doom and gloom followed. Now he is in Jaffna while […]

Dilrook Kannangara August 17, 2015 will be a turning point in Lankan history. It will either make or break the nation and its economy. This time voters, not soldiers will have to do their work. Although much downplayed, the May 2009 war victory saved 31,250 lives so far at the rate of 417 lives per […]

දිල්රුක් කන්නන්ගර වසර හතරක යුධ අපරාධ මගඩිය දැන් අවසන් අදියරට පැමිණ ඇත. දකුණු අප්‍රිකානු දෙමළියක යටතේ පැවැති ලෝක මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලය 2011 දී පටන්ගත්  යුධ අපරාධ මගඩිය මහින්දගේ දඩබ්බර දේශප්‍රේමී ක්‍රියා තුලින් යටපත් විය. එනමුදු 2015 දෙමළ ඡන්දයෙන් බලය ඇල්ලූ එජාප ආණ්ඩුව ඒ සියල්ල කණපිට හරවා ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ලෝක මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයට යටපත් කෙළේය. දැන් […]

Dilrook Kannangara January 2015 election brought together all strange bedfellows to defeat Mahinda. However, they contest separately in General Elections. If the January 2015 election was a General Election, UPFA led by Mahinda would have cruised home with 108 seats (still falling short of 113). But UNP would have won just 91 seats, JVP 10 and […]

Dilrook Kannangara Working without fear or favour is a term that identifies the duel impact of fear and favour on decisions. If one favours another, the first person cannot work objectively. Similarly, if one fears another, the first person cannot work objectively. Volumes have been written about foreign conspirators and those who favour them. Attacking […]

Dilrook Kannangara The SLFP is on its last legs. Formed in 1951 from the consolidation of various political groups including the Sinhala Maha Sabha (formed in 1936), the SLFP ruled the country for 34 years sharing terms with the UNP (33 years). These were with the UNP until then. It faced two previous near death […]

Dilrook Kannangara Who is the most frustrated politician in the island today having lost so many elections? And why that person is desperate after the 19th Amendment was diluted by SLFP MPs? What if the decoy works? A news item was floated by pro-UNP websites of a purported conversation President Maithripala had with his party stalwarts. He […]

Dilrook Kannangara Use them and dump them is the doctrine used by the global policeman towards its non-European allies. It can be seen right throughout the history it has teamed up with a nation or a group, particularly after 1945. Interestingly, one of its first captives was Sri Lanka (Ceylon) which signed the Anglo-Ceylon Defence […]

Dilrook Kannangara  දෙමළ ජනතාවගේ දේශපාලන, ආර්ථික, සංස්කෘතික සහ සමාජ ආකල්ප බොහෝ දෙනෙකුට ගෝචර නොවේ. ජාතිවාදියා යයි හංවඩු ගැසීමේ බියෙන් බොහෝ දෙනා ඇස් පනාපිට ඇති යථාර්තය සඟවති. දෙමළ ජනතාවගේ ආකල්පය නම්, “අපේ දෙය අපේමය; ඔබේ දෙය අප සැම සමගියෙන් බෙදා ගත යුතුය” යන්නයි. අද කොළඹ සහ අනෙකුත් ආර්ථික කේන්ද්‍ර වල දෙමළ ජනපද සැදී හමාරය. එහෙත් සිංහල […]

Dilrook Kannangara 19A is another Indian imposed constitutional gimmick aimed at empowering Indian origin minorities. It serves the wider Indian hegemonic project of turning part of the island into another Andaman, Nicobar, Wheeler, etc. type island to be used for Indian military purposes. 19A must be defeated. However, merely rallying MPs and the people to defeat […]

Dilrook Kannangara When a Chinese submarine docked in Colombo for supplies, India was needlessly worried. In retaliation India regime changed the Rajapaksa administration installing a puppet regime. This follows India applying the Monroe Doctrine to dominate the Indian Ocean Region (IOR). To assist in its empire building work, India has bought an outdated Soviet aircraft […]

Dilrook Kannangara King Soththisena is an Anuradhapura era king who ruled in the 5th century AD. His rule was marked by weak governance and atrocities against Buddhism. As a result he didn’t last for more than a year. Unfortunately the same is enacted again in Sri Lanka. The incumbent president is bending over backwards to […]

Dilrook Kannangara Chandrika claiming credit for war is both hilarious and malicious. It is a tragicomedy. During her term the LTTE leader Parabakaran was recognized by the Asiaweek magazine as Asia’s 48th most powerful person. Interestingly Chandrika was ranked 49th. Such is her record of winning the war! The Asiaweek volume was published in June […]

Dilrook Kannangara Victory has many fathers but defeat is an orphan! So goes the war victory claims by many even those remotely associated with the war. Strangely those who believed the LTTE problem had a political solution are also claiming credit for war victory! Under Chandrika’s feeble leadership, Sri Lanka lost most battles costing men, […]

Dilrook Kannangara It is absolute plunder of weakening foreign reserves. Although they promised good governance, their dud governance has proven a corrupt disaster already. When the Rajapaksas left office, country’s foreign reserves stood at $7.8 bn. Thanks to unlimited plunder of foreign reserves, it has now fallen to $6.8 bn. What is noteworthy is reserves […]

Dilrook Kannangara Defeat of Mahinda was caused by his neglect of his core Sinhala voters since 2010 but the victory of Sirisena was not automatic. Casting two votes each by certain Tamil and Muslim sections in western, northern, eastern and central provinces helped Sirisena achieve the required 50% at the January presidential election. He was […]

Dilrook Kannangara South Africa is already beaten by both India and Pakistan. It stands to be beaten by the other South Asian giant, Sri Lanka. However, Team Sri Lanka must gear up for this do-or-die game well. Having only beaten minnows, Bangladesh and a hopeless England, Sri Lanka’s prospects are not good going into the […]

Dilrook Kannangara Based on my own calculations based on regression analysis, Mahinda received 58% of Sinhala votes confirming media reports to the effect. However, what those media reports fail to say is Mahinda received 68% of Sinhala votes in 2010 and 61% of Sinhala votes in 2005. It is clear that falling below the 60% […]

Dilrook Kannangara Those who don’t learn from history are condemned to repeat their mistakes. Signs are up on the horizon that history is about to repeat in eerie coincidence. Déjà vu! Following the death of King Mahanama of Anuradhapura, his son Soththisena became king in 434 AD. He was born of a lesser queen of […]

Dilrook Kannangara Team Sri Lanka played to lose. It was obvious from the very onset. Team selection was not appropriate for the match. It was not only the selectors that picked the team of the day; it was the captain in consultation with the coach and the selectors. The smart captain who thought it best […]

Dilrook Kannangara Despite some key inputs from the President, the budget was basically a UNP affair. The lies made to the public by the interim government are shocking! Any numerically literate person would see at a glance that the UNP is not keen to abolish or change the executive presidency, give the promised salary increase […]

Dilrook Kannangara As predicted by the senior Indian diplomat Badrakumar, in the long term, Sirisena’s policies are closer to Mahinda than the UNP. What lies underneath the popular budget is not Royal College thinking but Maxim Gorky thinking of Sirisena. The Port City Chinese project was resolved the way Sirisena wanted, not the UNP way. […]

Dilrook Kannangara Team Sri Lanka made it to the Final of the world cricketing event in the last two occasions in 2007 and 2011. However, this time its chances look slim as disastrous India and New Zealand fixes show. Team Sri Lanka was mercilessly beaten on both ODI series. The trend continues and there is […]

Dilrook Kannangara Sri Lanka is in a dismal state of lawlessness under the Sirisena-Wickramasinghe interim government. The law has indeed gone to dogs! Chief Justice Mohan Pieris was properly appointed. There was absolutely no flaw in his appointment. If there was a flaw, why not the Supreme Court consulted in his removal? The decision to […]