Shenali D Waduge There is an overwhelming amount of information on social media about Israel and Palestine—stories, theories, and opinions that often confuse rather than clarify. Many keyboard campaigners spreading these narratives do not even know where Israel, Palestine, or the Gaza Strip is on a map—and some may struggle to locate their own countries. […]

Shenali D Waduge Buddhism entered the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent (today’s Pakistan) around the 3rd century BCE through Emperor Ashoka’s patronage after the Kalinga War with Gandhara (present-day Peshawar Valley and Taxila region) and Sindhu (Sindh) becoming major centers of Buddhist culture that prevailed for over 1200 years running parallel to Afghanistan’s Buddhist era. Ancient Buddhist […]

Shenali D Waduge 21 September 2025 To: The President, United Nations Human Rights CouncilThe High Commissioner for Human Rights, OHCHRPermanent Mission of Switzerland to the UN, GenevaPresident, United Nations General AssemblyPresident, United Nations Security CouncilMembers of the UN Human Rights CouncilThe Government of Sri LankaDear Excellencies & UN Member States Terrorists laugh at the UN […]

Shenali D Waduge Afghanistan is today remembered for suffering, oppression, war, militancy, opium, and foreign occupation. Yet for over 1,200 years Afghanistan was a center of Buddhism, known for its monasteries, universities, art, and trade. Few realize that the same land which today exports narcotics, terrorists and violence once produced statues of the Buddha, manuscripts […]

Shenali D Waduge Sri Lankan Citizen   18 September 2025 Subject: Urgent Legal Inquiry Regarding Public Display of LTTE Symbols Near UNHRC, Geneva To:Swiss Federal Authorities / Permanent Mission of Switzerland in GenevaOffice of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)UN Geneva SecurityPermanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the UN, Geneva Dear Sir/Madam, I write […]

Shenali D Waduge The Government of Sri Lanka’s recent announcement on granting voting rights to expats is a gamble with sovereignty. Handing the ballot to millions who neither live under Sri Lanka’s laws, nor share its daily burdens, nor pay its taxes, opens the door to forces that are already destabilizing the State from abroad. […]

Shenali D Waduge The Yahapalana government, installed in 2015 after a US–India regime-change operation to remove Mahinda Rajapaksa, promised “good governance,” anti-corruption, and democracy. Instead, it systematically dismantled Sri Lanka’s post-war gains. Between 2015 and 2019, it undermined sovereignty, destabilized the economy, weakened national security, and enabled unprecedented foreign interference. This exposé consolidates the failures, […]

Shenali D Waduge There is no perfect template for governance, yet when comparing the two great powers of our time, the contrast is undeniable. One — the United States — has long boasted of liberalism, freedoms, and human rights, presenting itself as the world’s moral compass. The other — China — has quietly implemented a […]

Shenali D Waduge Since 2009, the UNHRC has overstepped its mandate, pushing demands that strip Sri Lanka of sovereignty — imposing foreign-run courts, forcing constitutional changes, and erasing LTTE crimes. These are political agendas, not human rights. Sri Lanka has also faced externally funded regime change. Nepal shows where this path leads: elected rule replaced […]

Shenali D Waduge Nepal’s unrest has exposed the mask of youthful heroism. Each day, footage exposes looting, vandalism, and arson. The very youth who claim to rally for anti-corruption” cannot even control the chaos they unleash. Yet, they stand on podiums declaring themselves champions of the people, blind to the truth that their own hands […]

Shenali D Waduge Across Europe (the Colored Revolutions), the Arab world (Arab Spring), and parts of Asia (the Asian Spring”), movements that appeared as spontaneous youth uprisings often bore the fingerprints of external intervention and local opportunism. Genuine grievances existed, but they were amplified and redirected to produce political outcomes that benefited external powers and […]

 Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka has rarely been treated as a sovereign nation in international geopolitics. Sri Lanka had very few leaders able to read geopolitical shifts well enough to spin it to Sri Lanka’s advantage. Sri Lanka has been positioned as a pawn on the chessboard of great powers. Today, we see another dimension unfold. […]

Shenali D Waduge The demand for full implementation of Sri Lanka’s 13th Amendment has once again surfaced — but it is important for India to pause and examine who is really making this demand, and why. This demand does not come from India or even Sri Lankan Tamils on the ground — it is being pushed […]

Shenali D Waduge Why Sri Lanka Should Not Ratify the ICC 1. Sovereignty at Risk ·      External ICC jurisdiction would override Sri Lanka’s Constitution, domestic courts, and national security decisions. ·      Even functioning national mechanisms would be sidelined, undermining judicial independence. 2. Politically Motivated Targeting ·      ICC disproportionately targets smaller or weaker states while ignoring powerful nations. ·      Sri […]

Shenali D Waduge The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) was established in 2006 (GA Resolution 60/251) with noble intentions: to promote universality, impartiality, and cooperation protecting human rights. Yet in practice within less than 2 decades, the Council has become a political arena where blocs of states advance strategic interests, discipline weaker nations, and […]

Shenali D Waduge The OHCHR Report A/HRC/60/21 is illegitimate, selective, and legally void. For 30 years of LTTE terror — assassinations, suicide bombings, ethnic cleansing — the UNHRC and its High Commissioners remained silent. Only when terrorism was militarily defeated in May 2009 did Geneva suddenly awaken, not to commend Sri Lanka for restoring peace, but […]

Shenali D Waduge Although UNHRC resolutions are non-binding, since 2009 the Council has effectively acted as a mouthpiece formalizing overseas LTTE lobbyist demands into intrusive resolutions. A Council that failed to act against LTTE over 30 years of terror has, since 2009, issued 11 resolutions against Sri Lanka—outside its original mandate and without UNGA or […]

by Shenali Waduge · 1st September 2025 The Association for Relatives of the Enforced Disappearances has issued a letter to the UNHRC Head on 30 August 2025 appealing to the international community”. Claims of enforced disappearances” in Sri Lanka are being weaponised to construct a one-sided narrative that erases LTTE atrocities and unfairly blames the State. Any serious […]

Shenali  D Waduge All Parents & Religious Heads must rise to prevent inclusion of LGBTQIA curriculum & condoms in schools – Let children be children … dont turn them into sex objects 

Shenali D Waduge Political Analyst May 2009 – 30-year terrorist conflict ends ·      Unlike 9/11, a single incident resulting in immediate bombing & occupation of several nations, Sri Lanka’s decision to military deal with LTTE was taken after failure of internationally promoted peace talks, cease fires, negotiations & when LTTE denied water to 40,000 farmers in the […]

Shenali D Waduge Switzerland, long celebrated for neutrality, serenity, and banking secrecy, has also quietly served as a discreet hub for global capital, both legitimate and controversial and the safe haven of dictators’ wealth. Street riots or public unrest has never been linked with Switzerland. Yet, the recent killing of a 17-year-old migrant during a police […]

Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka Political Analyst 1. Actions of then UNSG Ban Ki-moon immediately following end of Sri Lanka’s Conflict A. Unprecedented Unilateral Action ·      First occasion in UN history that a Secretary-General personally appointed the 2011 Panel of Experts (PoE) and separately commissioned the Petrie Report, both without UNGA or UNSC mandate, after a conflict had concluded. ·      These […]

Shenali D Waduge Following US exiting UNHRC calling it a cesspool of political bias”, the United Kingdom has come forward to head the Sri Lanka Core Group which comprises of Canada, Malawi, Montenegro and North Macedonia – a cluster that aligns purely based on influence by either UK, Canada or both. Had UK & Canada […]

Shenali D Waduge The people elected Sri Lanka’s second female leader Chandrika Bandaranaiake, the daughter of the world’s first prime minister Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaiake and assassinated Prime Minister S W R D Bandaranaiake, with much hope. Her policies were a direct opposite to that of her parents. During the late 1990s, Sri Lanka embarked on […]

Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka’s current economic collapse cannot be understood in isolation. It is tied to the 2015 regime change, orchestrated with heavy involvement of the United States and India, which removed the Mahinda Rajapaksa government (though not without its share of faults). The Yahapalana” coalition that came to power in January 2015 was a patchwork alliance of: […]

Shenali D Waduge Subject: UNHRC Mandate Overreach and the Dangerous Precedent Using Sri Lanka Excellency, I write to respectfully draw the attention of the African Union to an issue of grave concern that extends far beyond Sri Lanka and directly impacts the sovereignty and security of all nations represented in the African Union. Following the defeat […]

Shenali D Waduge Since the defeat of the LTTE in May 2009, Sri Lanka has faced continuous demands—mainly from international actors, NGOs, and local separatist lobbies—for the return of lands in the North and East said to be occupied” by the military. Much of the narrative has been driven by propaganda and not fact. Even […]

Shenali D Waduge Sri Lankan Analyst, and Advocate for National Sovereignty  Your Excellencies, I write to you as a concerned voice from Sri Lanka — the first nation to be made the testing ground of a dangerous precedent by the UNHRC, one that threatens every country in the Non-Aligned Movement. The Non-Aligned Movement was founded […]

Shenali D Waduge Non-Binding but Deadly: How UNHRC Resolution A/HRC/60/21 (2025) could destroy Sri Lanka’s Sovereignty UNHRC resolutions are technically non-binding. Yet for Sri Lanka, ending terrorism has been met with relentless scrutiny—a witch hunt targeting select war heroes and commanding officers. Every Resolution since 2009 has been a ticking time bomb, made worse by the 2015 […]

Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka’s position should stand firm: The 2025 UNHRC report systematically alleges state misconduct while bypassing its original mandate, due process, impartiality, and sovereignty. Despite pages and pages of reports or statements, condemnations or allegations, that the UNHRC churns annually, it is dangerously diverting from its original mandate given in Resolution 60/251. The […]