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Sri Lanka: A new Ministry of Law and Order in a lawless Land 25 Aug 2013 | 08:10 pm
“In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph and self-abasement…. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is help...
Navi Pillay is a Human Rights Fundamentalist says Dayan 25 Aug 2013 | 07:59 pm
This week will be a crucial week for Sri Lanka, or more precisely for the Government, as the woman seen as the UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay says she hopes the UN Human Rights Council (UNH...
Ghosts of 1994 hovering over Gamini’s son: Attempt on Mayantha’s ’s life 25 Aug 2013 | 07:48 pm
“Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.” ~Thomas L. Holdcroft Gamini Dissanayake, one of the patriarchs of Sri Lanka’s modern day politics was a victim of a...
Poignant lament of a nation’s soul: The regime’s insensitivity to the melancholy of the ordinary 23 Aug 2013 | 07:28 pm
“My grief lies all within, and these external manners of lament are merely shadows to the unseen grief that swells with silence in the tortured soul” ~William Shakespeare Mending roofs Darmasena wa...
Planned introduction of religious censorship yet another measure of divide and rule, Rajapaksa-style 22 Aug 2013 | 08:37 pm
“Lies are believed amongst every race; And was any race ever the sole possessor of Truth?” Abdallah al-Mar’arri (973-1057) Religious bigotry When Martin Wickremesinghe’s Bhavatharanaya was first p...
Reflections on “Long War, Cold Peace” 22 Aug 2013 | 10:37 am
“Sri Lanka faces a crisis of transition and transformation… Sri Lanka has been unable to make the transition from war to sustainable peace; from what I believe was fundamentally a just war to a just p...
The TNA the TGTE and the UNP 22 Aug 2013 | 12:00 am
While it is by no means the place of a uniformed officer, however highly placed, decorated or both, to comment on the peaceful political conduct of members of parliament and/or of academics, the story...
The Lies They Tell Us 21 Aug 2013 | 11:56 pm
“The most alarming aspect of the video to me was the seemingly delightful bloodlust they appeared to have. They….seemed not to value human life…” Bradley Manning (Statement at the Trial – referring t...
Sinhala colonization in Mannar and large scale militarization of civil administration 21 Aug 2013 | 11:38 pm
REPORTS FROM THE GROUND Some staff members of the Sri Residents of Musali in the Mannar District have raised concerns over a ‘special resettlement’ programme in their area, under which 1,300 Sinh...
UN must investigate the TGTE and its call to create an Independent State of Tamil Eelam 21 Aug 2013 | 11:01 pm
Let the memory of these dark days of Black July instill in us the conviction that the one and only means by which Tamils can reach a life of safety and dignity would be the creation of an independent ...
