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Author: Amali Wedagedara

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Colombo, Features, Human Rights, International, International Relations, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, War Crimes

Sri Lanka and the UNHRC: Implications for India and for Human Rights

Image courtesy India Ink blog by New York Times/Rajanish Kakade, Associated Press As the 19th session of the Human Rights Council progresses, the discourse on Sri Lanka with reference to Human Rights…

Amali Wedagedara Amali Wedagedara on 03/19/2012
Colombo, Features, Human Security, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

State of Emergency in Sri Lanka, with or without it

Photo courtesy JDS The decision of the Sri Lankan government to lift the Emergency Regulations (ER) is received in good faith by many. For example, the International Community has expressed its pleasure…

Amali Wedagedara Amali Wedagedara on 09/05/201109/08/2011
Colombo, Human Rights, Human Security, IDPs and Refugees, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Trincomalee, Vavuniya

End of the LTTE and future of the Tamil Struggle

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) which claimed to be the sole representatives of Tamil people, one of the most feared and considered as one of the most ruthless terrorist organizations…

Amali Wedagedara Amali Wedagedara on 05/20/2009
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

The Nationalist Epidemic

Nationalism, a decisive force of the modern and international politics is one of the most ambiguous terms existing due to lack of and difficulty in forming a proper definition. This difficulty is…

Amali Wedagedara Amali Wedagedara on 04/05/200904/02/2009
Colombo, Politics and Governance

Power of sovereignty, standards of life and education

In 1948, Sri Lanka attained independence from colonial domination of the British. Sixty years later, Sri Lankans are on the verge of declaring another form of Independence- defeating terrorism and assuring territorial…

Amali Wedagedara Amali Wedagedara on 02/06/2009
Colombo, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Aftermath of the Victory: whither Sri Lanka?

Heartland of Eelam is fallen. LTTE is now cornered to a narrow strip of land and in near future whole bulk of 65, 610 km2 of land would be under the control…

Amali Wedagedara Amali Wedagedara on 01/26/200901/21/2009
Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Defeating the result and the cause of war – Role of the mass movement

About a week ago, Dilan Perera, the Minister of Justice happened to say something of a timely need – that there should be a political solution with some form of devolution of…

Amali Wedagedara Amali Wedagedara on 12/07/2008

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