Kalana Senaratne

Personal page and articles by Kalana Senaratne

5 May, 2012
Kalana Senaratne
57 Comments
Colombo,
Features,
Identity,
Kurunegala,
Politics and Governance,
Post-War,
Reconciliation,
Religion and faith

Mobs, Monks and the Problems of Political-Buddhism

Original photograph REUTERS/Damir Sagolj It is always a curious and odd little matter, to witness how even Buddhists become so...

25 Mar, 2012
Kalana Senaratne
35 Comments
Colombo,
Diplomacy,
Features,
Human Rights,
International,
International Relations,
Jaffna,
Peace and Conflict,
Politics and Governance,
Reconciliation,
War Crimes

The Geneva II debacle

Photo courtesy Vikalpa, from protest against US resolution in Colombo, 27 February 2012 The US-sponsored resolution at the UNHRC had...

5 Mar, 2012
Kalana Senaratne
55 Comments
Colombo,
Features,
Human Rights,
Peace and Conflict,
Politics and Governance,
Post-War,
Reconciliation,
War Crimes

Sri Lanka and its ‘Geneva-problem’

Maria Otero, US Under Secretary, Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights meets Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Secretary of Defence in February 2012....

20 Feb, 2012
Kalana Senaratne
27 Comments
Colombo,
Constitutional Reform,
Peace and Conflict,
Politics and Governance,
Post-War,
Trincomalee

In Search of Something More than the 13th Amendment

Photo courtesy First Post During his recent visit to Sri Lanka, India’s External Affairs Minister, Mr. SM Krishna reminded that...

18 Dec, 2011
Kalana Senaratne
15 Comments
Colombo,
Features,
Jaffna,
Peace and Conflict,
Politics and Governance,
Reconciliation

The LLRC Report: A Critical Reading

Photo credit Ada Derana For quite sometime, ever since the establishment of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC), the Government...

23 Nov, 2011
Kalana Senaratne
64 Comments
Colombo,
Features,
Peace and Conflict,
Politics and Governance,
Post-War

Lessons from a TV interview on the state of political resistance in Sri Lanka

These are revolutionary days, days of resistance. Especially in Egypt. Not in Sri Lanka. In Sri Lanka, the situation is...

6 Nov, 2011
Kalana Senaratne
3 Comments
Colombo,
Features,
Foreign Relations,
International,
International Relations,
Politics and Governance,
Post-War,
War Crimes

CHOGM-2011: HOW DIPLOMATIC VICTORIES END IN DISGRACE

[Editors note: As noted by the author below, an example of the distressingly bad propaganda of the Sri Lankan Government,...

5 Oct, 2011
Kalana Senaratne
15 Comments
Colombo,
Features,
Jaffna,
Peace and Conflict,
Politics and Governance,
Post-War,
Reconciliation,
War Crimes

Waiting for the end of the LLRC

Image courtesy LLRC Another session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva has come to an end. Sri Lanka...

2 Sep, 2011
Kalana Senaratne
49 Comments
Colombo,
Features,
Jaffna,
Peace and Conflict,
Politics and Governance,
Youth

Should Sri Lanka’s Youth Get Ready To Confront Armed Intervention Two Years After The War?

Image from Radio Netherlands Worldwide The proposal (decision?) made by President Mahinda Rajapaksa to repeal the Emergency Regulations (ER) was...

10 Aug, 2011
Kalana Senaratne
46 Comments
Colombo,
Constitutional Reform,
Features,
Jaffna,
Peace and Conflict,
Politics and Governance,
Post-War

TNA’s withdrawal from talks and the emerging political paralysis

R Sampanthan is a Member of Parliament and leader of the Tamil National Alliance andIllankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi. The recently concluded Local Government (LG)...