Featured image courtesy constitutionnet The constitutional reforms proposed by the new government have not been made public as yet, but already the likes of Wimal Weerawansa, Udaya Gammanpila and Dinesh Gunawardena from…
Picture courtesy Vice News Violent crimes, rape and murder seem to be on the increase. Public outrage is understandable. But the demand – “Impose the death penalty with immediate effect” is equally outrageous. …
Image courtesy New Security Beat A regime change takes place only if the majority of people in a country want a change. In Sri Lanka today not many people would want it….
Tissa Vitharana eats the President’s cake, courtesy . Extremist Sinhala nationalists within the parliament and outside who do not believe that the minority communities have or ever had any grievances see no…
Photo courtesy Deshan Tennekoon, The UN panel report or the Darusman report was condemned and rejected. The stand taken by the government was that “not a single civilian was killed during the…
South Africa had a Truth and Reconciliation commission presided over by Desmond Tutu. Human Rights activists who looked forward to Reconciliation and peace at the end of the civil war in 2009,…
Photo credit: Eranga Jayawardena / AP, taken from Peace in our country cannot last long without reconciliation. And there can be no reconciliation until the people in the North and East and all…
LTTE terrorism ended with the death of its leader Prabakaran in May 2009. But other forms of terrorism seem to have erupted in the country to keep the government busy waging many…
Reams have been written on the two main topics widely discussed in Sri Lanka today. One is the fate of the army commander who chose to defy the authority of the Rajapakse…
“I define Justice or Right as what is in the interest of the stronger party – the ruling class in any state, but I can see you don’t agree” says Thrasymachus, the…
The present Sri Lankan government has proved that though Sri Lanka is a small country, it has been able to achieve many things that other countries, specially in the West have not…
The moment the TNA announced its support for the opposition presidential candidate, General Sarath Fonseka, the ruling party and the forces that back President Mahinda Rajapakse have begun to smell an international…
