Personal page and articles by Austin Fernando
Sri Lanka and Indian / American Agendas
The good Ambassador caught in a moment denying the existence of rape in Sri Lanka Having read a post by HE...
Continue reading »Responding to Geneva by Exemplary Restitution
Robert O. Blake has once said, “International mechanisms can become appropriate in cases where states are either unable or unwilling...
Continue reading »Messing in the maze: A response to Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka
Photo courtesy Reuters As my friend Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka is probably aware, I rarely miss his articles. Sometimes I have...
Continue reading »Is Power Sharing in Land Administration Practical in Sri Lanka?
Editors note: The author informs us that this Long Reads article is the result of many months of research, and...
Continue reading »Developing the ‘Under served settlements’ in Colombo: An Open Letter
Photo courtesy Prevention Web October 8th 2011 Dear Mr. Milinda Moragoda and Mr. AJM Muzammil, I wrote this open letter before...
Continue reading »India “Punishing Sri Lanka”: Myth or Reality?
Prof. Rohan Gunaratne- international terrorism expert- addressing the business community last week convincingly and openly cautioned that “India might ‘punish’...
Continue reading »LLRC: Evidence given by Mr. Austin Fernando, Former Secretary of Defense on 18th August 2010
September 30th 2010 Editor, Groundviews Dear Sir, Evidence given before LLRC on August 18th 2010 I gave evidence before the...
Continue reading »COLOMBO MUNICIPAL CORPORATISATION PROPOSAL
I support power sharing. Therefore, my attention is drawn to this proposal, irrespective of  the unacceptability or denial by any...
Continue reading »FROM VICTORY TO NORMALISATION IN SRI LANKA
No war is fought sans atrocity. It destroys everything. Even when a war is fought with the best adherence to...
Continue reading »Did the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) hand over the North to LTTE?
To one Mr. N. Ethirveerasingam, on a comment he made on an article I wrote (The Commissioner of Elections: A...
Continue reading »The Commissioner of Elections: A close friend’s critique
One evening we boisterously debated on the conduct of the last Presidential Elections. Some blamed the President and supporters, some...
Continue reading »Opportunity to make terrorism history
“The war will not end through war, through collective suicide or through international intervention. This is why a sober and...
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