Personal page and articles by Shakya Lahiru Pathmalal
How Sri Lanka Defeated Terrorism, Defence Seminar: Observations from a participant
From the 31st of April to the 2nd of May I attended the Defense Seminar organized by the Sri Lankan...
Continue reading »Much ado about nothing: Is Sri Lanka in danger of being held accountable by the International Criminal Court?
Image from Joe Klamar/AFP/GETTY Early last year I set about examining, as a recent graduate, the feasibility of any citizen of...
Continue reading »Democracy, Economic Growth And Terrorism: The Sri Lankan Case
Photo courtesy Vikalpa This article will briefly discuss alternative explanations to the two youth insurrections and the separatist movements that...
Continue reading »Who Guards the Guards? – The Need to Move Swiftly on Removing the ER/PTA from the Sri Lankan Constitution
A year after the defeat of the LTTE the Sri Lankan government announced that it will be relaxing some of...
Continue reading »Is Sri Lanka in danger of being held accountable by the International Criminal Court?
There has been much debate about the issue of war crimes in Sri Lanka. Both major political parties contesting the...
Continue reading »The vicious cycle that is eating away Sri Lanka’s healthcare: The Sri Lanka Pharmaceutical Corporation (SPC), the Ministry of Health and the Treasury
There has been a lot written about the blunders of the Ministry of Health after the death of two young...
Continue reading »The post-Prabhakaran government strategy in Sri Lanka and overseas
In the post-Prabhakaran scenario in Sri Lanka there is an immediate need for the GoSL to engage both the Sri...
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