Source:   A1 Overview On November 14, 2018, Sri Lankan attorney Senaka Weeraratna addressed a symposium at the Japanese Diet (Parliament). Invited by the Society for the Dissemination of Historical Fact, he delivered a keynote speech titled “Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbour ignited the liberation of Asia from Western domination – Time for Asia to express gratitude […]

Source: National WW11 Museum, New Orleans, USA https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/justice-radhabinod-pal-tokyo-war-crimes-trial At the Tokyo Tribunal, Justice Radhabinod Pal voted for the acquittal of all the defendants on all counts.  Pal’s dissent, more than 1,230 pages in length, reveals the fissures within the attempts to bring to justice Japanese war criminals. The last of the justices selected for the […]

Senaka Weeraratna (Concept) Clear Japan’s name from the records of the Tokyo Trials (1946 – 1948) of committing war crimes – A moral challenge for Sri Lanka to expose the hypocrisy and double standards of International Criminal Law as a follow up to J.R.Jayewardene’s breathtaking plea for love and compassion to be shown to Japan at […]

Senaka Weeraratna Justice Radhabinod Pal (1886–1967), the only judge at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal (1946–1948) to find all Japanese defendants not guilty, remains a towering figure in international law for his critique of “Victor’s Justice”.  The call for his posthumous felicitation in Sri Lanka centers on his rejection of retroactive laws and his stance […]

Senaka Weeraratna     The International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE), or the Tokyo Trial (1946–1948), remains a cornerstone for debating the legitimacy of international criminal law. While often overshadowed by Nuremberg, the Tokyo Trial’s “one-sided” nature and the radical dissent of Justice Radhabinod Pal have gained renewed relevance in contemporary legal discourse, especially […]

Senaka Weeraratna The fastest-conquering empire in world history took 75 years to fail in India. This is not a footnote. This is the most suppressed military story in medieval history. A forensic breakdown of 13 Arab expeditions, 5 dead commanders, and the Hindu kingdoms that broke the Umayyad Caliphate — backed by their own documents.  […]

Senaka Weeraratna  Sri Lanka’s Legal Education system values uncritically the inheritance of Roman – Dutch Law but nobody has ever complained that the very same Roman Dutch law was used by the Dutch East India Company to issue Placarts banning Buddhism and Hinduism as Cannibal faiths in 1711 and 1732.  Sri Lanka’s law schools have […]

Credits: Organised by the Sinhala Association (UK) Apr 12, 2026 #srilankahistory #Channel4 #RightToReply This rare archival footage captures a historic Channel 4 UK Right to Reply” programme (1986), featuring a response to the controversial documentary A Troubled Paradise” (1985), produced by Tim Cooper.  The programme presents a critical perspective from Douglas Wickramaratne, alongside Chandra Monerawela, […]

Senaka Weeraratna During the Dutch colonial period in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the Dutch East India Company (VOC) issued several Placaaten (decrees or edicts) designed to suppress non-Protestant religions, including Buddhism and Hinduism, with particularly severe actions taken in the 1710s and 1730s.  https://share.google/aimode/aCJIYyh6eZ13ncrN5 AI Overview ……………………………………. see also https://share.google/aimode/FZOdytx302xHxZLUx Several repressive placaarts (official proclamations) were […]

Senaka Weeraratna @SenakaWeeraratna 0 seconds ago Christopher Schweitzer was a German serving in the Dutch forces in Ceylon. The voyage of Christopher Schweitzer from Wurtenberg, Germany who spent time in Ceylon in the 1670s has left an interesting account.  While in Ceylon between 1676 – 1682 Schweitzer refers to the visit of a Persian Delegation […]

Source: AI Overview ICC is duty bound to uphold and promote the ‘ Spirit of Cricket’. ‘ Natural Justice ‘ is a cardinal component of the latter. ICC is mandated by its fundamentals to resolve the dispute on the ownership of Player Referral (DRS) Intellectual Property by invoking Natural Justice principles rather than misleading legal […]

Courtesy: AI Overview ‘User pays’ principle must be applied with respect to use of Player Referral (DRS) in Cricket. Player Referral is an Intellectual Property Gold Mine for Sri Lanka. It has transcended Cricket and is now used in several other Sports. Not one red cent has so far been paid to Sri Lanka or its […]

AI Overview Many International Sports that now adopt the Player – Referral method are legally bound to pay Royalties to Sri Lanka (Home country of the inventor). These sums are not small.   Sri Lanka has a significant national stake in the global recognition of Senaka Weeraratna , a Sri Lankan lawyer,  as the true inventor of the Player-Referral […]

Source: AI Overview DRS Rule is exponentially far superior to DLS method, because DRS operates in all three formats of the game of cricket while DLS is confined to one small segment i.e., rain affected one day international games. Yet DLS authors have been granted naming rights while the name of the author of DRS […]

AI දළ විශ්ලේෂණය ක්‍රිකට් ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ තීරණ සමාලෝචන පද්ධතිය (DRS) ලෙස බහුලව හඳුන්වන ක්‍රීඩක යොමු කිරීමේ ක්‍රමය, ගෝලීය ක්‍රීඩා ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ ශ්‍රී ලාංකික නවෝත්පාදනයේ උච්චතම අවස්ථාව ලෙස පුළුල් ලෙස සැලකේ. තාක්‍ෂණය භාවිතයෙන් ක්‍රීඩකයින්ට පිටියේ විනිසුරු තීරණවලට අභියෝග කිරීමට ඉඩ සලසන මෙම පෙරළිකාර සංකල්පය මුලින්ම යෝජනා කරන ලද්දේ ශ්‍රී ලාංකික නීතිඥයෙකු වන සේනක වීරරත්න විසිනි. ක්‍රීඩකයින්ට විනිසුරු තීරණවලට […]

AI Overview The Player Referral System, more commonly known as the Decision Review System (DRS) in cricket, is widely regarded as a pinnacle of Sri Lankan innovation in global sports. This groundbreaking concept, which allows players to challenge on-field umpiring decisions using technology, was first proposed by Senaka Weeraratna, a Sri Lankan lawyer.  As an […]

Source: AI Overview Sri Lankan roots in the Player – Referral system of Cricket (DRS) and an increasing number of sports, involving use of Sri Lankan intellectual property by others without consent, has generated an untapped Revenue Bonanza. Act now and seize this income potential for Sri Lanka The Decision Review System (DRS), now a […]

Sports Mr. David Becker in his letter to Mr. Senaka Weeraratna dated May 09, 2010 says ” Finally, the idea of using a video referral system for decisions in sport goes back well beyond 1997, as is evidenced from Simon Gardiner’s article in Sport and the Law Journal Video Adjudication in Sport” [1999] 7(1) SATLJ […]

Senaka Weeraratna The ‘Spirit of Cricket’ is often cited as a moral compass for the game, emphasizing sportsmanship and the acceptance of on-field decisions. However, in the context of the Decision Review System (DRS), this ideal faces a complex challenge regarding intellectual property (IP) rights, particularly concerning the claims of Sri Lankan lawyer https://share.google/aimode/Sqbm3nkeVQCksMaQX .The […]

මූලාශ්‍රය: AI දළ විශ්ලේෂණය DRS බුද්ධිමය දේපළ අයිතිවාසිකම් හැසිරවීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ICC පරිපාලනය කරන ලද ක්‍රිකට් ක්‍රීඩාවේ ‘ක්‍රිකට් ආත්මය’ පිළිබඳ මිථ්‍යාව   ජාත්‍යන්තර ක්‍රිකට් කවුන්සිලය (ICC) විසින් සාධාරණත්වයේ සහ ක්‍රීඩාශීලීත්වයේ මූලික ගලක් ලෙස බොහෝ විට උපුටා දක්වන “ක්‍රිකට් ආත්මය”, ICC විසින් තීරණ සමාලෝචන පද්ධතිය (DRS) බුද්ධිමය දේපළ (IP) අයිතිවාසිකම් හැසිරවීම හා සසඳන විට, විචාරකයින් විසින් පහසු, […]

AI Overview The statement that Christianity entered Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) on top of a cannonball during the Portuguese reign (1505-1658) is a powerful metaphor frequently used by historians and commentators to describe the violent and forced conversion methods used to propagate Roman Catholicism in the maritime provinces. The mass introduction of Catholicism by the […]

Source : AI Overview The “Spirit of Cricket”—often cited by the International Cricket Council (ICC) as a cornerstone of fairness and sportsmanship—is viewed by critics as a convenient, selectively applied “myth” when contrasted with the ICC’s handling of the Decision Review System (DRS) intellectual property (IP) rights. The controversy centers on allegations that the ICC […]

AI Overview https://share.google/aimode/imFpAa9y6gHnVP8IN The period from 1505 to 1948, marking 450 years of colonial rule in Sri Lanka by Portuguese, Dutch, and British powers, is often described by historians and scholars as a time of intense pressure and systematic efforts to dismantle the traditional Buddhist and Sinhalese culture . Despite these attempts, which included the […]

Courtesy: AI Overview Historical accounts from both Portuguese chroniclers and contemporary researchers document a systematic campaign of religious ( mainly Buddhist and Hindu) destruction in Sri Lanka during the Portuguese colonial period (1505–1658). Portuguese historians like Fernão de Queiroz in his work The Temporal and Spiritual Conquest of Ceylon and Paulo da Trinidade in [Conquista […]

Source: AI Overview The Christian Church cannot claim a glorious history in Sri Lanka because it entered the country in collaboration with foreign invaders i.e., Portuguese, Dutch and the British, and then joined hands with them to dislodge Buddhism as the dominant religion through forcible religious conversions and wholesale destruction of Buddhist Temples leaving a […]

Source:  https://caricomreparations.org/ Ever since slavery was abolished in the Caribbean in the 1830s and in the broader Americas in the 1860s and 1880s, the victims of slavery and their progeny have been struggling for justice to repair the damages wrought by this most horrific of crimes against humanity. This struggle has ebbed and flowed over the […]

Senaka Weeraratna Attorney-at-Law Senaka Weeraratna has called for the sharing of revenue earned by Western colonial countries from exhibiting stolen artifacts with former colonies, particularly within the context of the 2023 repatriation of stolen artifacts from the Netherlands to Sri Lanka .  Key Details of the Call and Context: The Sri Lankan Archives (National Museum […]

By Senaka Weeraratna Hony Secretary, German Dharmaduta Society බුදු දහමේ හරය වටහාගත් ජර්මනියේ සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකාව’’˜‘Divaina’, June 10, 2025 උදේශ් සංජීව ගමගේ, zදිවයින කතෘZඅංක : 223, බ්ලූමැන්ඩල් පාර, කොළඹ 13. මහත්මයාණනි,වර්ෂ 2025 ජුනි මස 10 වෙනි දින දිවයින පුවත්පතේ කතුවැකිය පිටුවේ (4 වැනි පිටුව) පුජ්‍ය රඹුක්වැල්ලේ දේවානන්ද හිමි විසින් ලියන ලද —බුදු දහමේ හරය වටහාගත් ජර්මනියේ සහ ශ්‍රී […]

Senake Weeraratne  The Reply of David Becker (Head of Legal, ICC) to Senaka Weeraratna was dismissive, disrespectful and patently wrong in the interpretation of law. The reply of the South African lawyer David Becker (Head of Legal, ICC) to Senaka Weeraratna in May 2010 on the question of the intellectual property rights over his brainchild ‘Player Referral’ […]

Senaka Weeraratna The Netherlands occupied parts of Ceylon from 1658 – 1796 as a Dutch Colony. Its legacy as an occupying power is a mixed bag. Ceylon was administered by the Dutch from Batavia (Indonesia), until the British replaced the Dutch in 1796. As a Colonial power the Dutch vandalized the treasures of the native […]