Personal page and articles by Kalana Senaratne
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...
Continue reading »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)...
Continue reading »Our Sri Lankan Identity: Another Case of ‘Being Nobody, Going Nowhere’?
(AP Photo/Manish Swarup, from JDS) The 2011 MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture delivered by Kumar Sangakkara was indeed a...
Continue reading »Sri Lanka ‘Killing Fields’: Will there be progress and what does that mean?
‘Killing fields’ can be a phrase used to describe a most mundane fact known to humanity, or it could be...
Continue reading »UNSG Panel Report on Sri Lanka: Revisiting ‘Accountability’
Original photo from JDS Ensuring ‘accountability’ is important, but doing so is a complex task. Who is to ensure accountability,...
Continue reading »The Curious Case of Diplomats & that ‘Internal Conflict’
We are in the USA, far away from Sri Lanka. Dr. Palitha Kohona, Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the UN...
Continue reading »Sri Lanka and war crimes investigations: Nothing to Lose, but a World to Win
To rephrase the words of Marx and Engels: a spectre is haunting Sri Lanka – the spectre of an international...
Continue reading »Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Second-Term: A New Beginning?
When the LTTE showed, consistently and convincingly, that it did not understand the language of ‘peace’, President Mahinda Rajapaksa, correctly,...
Continue reading »‘Sarath Fonseka’: the Grand Plaything of Sri Lanka’s Politicians
“This is the way the world ends, Not with a bang, but a whimper.” (TS Eliot) Sarath Fonseka’s emergence as...
Continue reading »Internal Armed Conflicts, Humanitarian Laws and the Curious Transformation of Dr. Jayantha Dhanapala
Photo courtesy Global Zero Numerous reports suggest that Dr. Jayantha Dhanapala had some interesting things to say when he appeared...
Continue reading »Getting lost in The Hague: UN, Sri Lanka and an ICJ-Advisory Opinion
Dr. Lakshman Marasinghe (Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Windsor) in an article titled ‘Some Random Thoughts on the UN...
Continue reading »Learning Old Lessons from a New ‘Lessons Learnt’ Commission: the ‘Home-Grown’ Way?
One year after the war, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has established another commission; known as the ‘Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission’....
Continue reading »Will ‘Peace’ Arrive Before Death?
It was, unfortunately, a necessary war, for terrorism had to be defeated, eliminated. After some thirty long years, on or...
Continue reading »Aroused by Akon’s Sexy Bitch: the Rise of Sinhala-Buddhist Fundamentalism?
Could it be that the sight of the Buddha statue was a complete turn-off to those who were utterly aroused...
Continue reading »Revisiting former Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva’s views on the ICCPR
The arrest of General Sarath Fonseka marked the beginning of an unfortunate episode in Sri Lanka’s contemporary political history (or...
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