Category: Constitution Related

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If Nicaragua could take US to international court & win – shouldn’t Sri Lanka do same to India?

In April 1984 Nicaragua referred the US Government to the International Court of Justice claiming the US violated international law by supporting the Contras. The ICJ ruled in favor of Nicaragua in 1986 &...

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UNHRC is a toothless tiger – will Sri Lanka play its cards right in Geneva?

  UNHRC Resolutions are legally non-binding. Its mandate covers only human rights not international humanitarian laws. Whether all 47 members vote against Sri Lanka, or whether all 47 Members vote for Sri Lanka, UNHRC...

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GLOBAL SOUTH must STOP UNHRC creating precedents using Sri Lanka: “Today Sri Lanka, Tomorrow Your Country”

“Today Sri Lanka, Tomorrow Your Country”is the message that countries of the Global South must internalize from the intrusive nature of the OHCHR Report and unprecedented precedents attempted to take place via Global North...

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How representative of the Tamils is the ITAK/TNA?

  The Tamil National Alliance was formed in 2001 by the LTTE and became known as LTTE’s political wing. The rationale to create a political wing was probably the outcome of 9/11 and the...

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The Attorney General’s Department owes an explanation to the GoSL – the Public & the US Government

The Attorney General of Sri Lanka is the Sri Lankan government’s chief legal adviser, TheAttorney General has now declared that the MCC Compact and the Program Implementation Agreement & Articles of Association of MCA...

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Foreign funders, clueless Parliamentarians modernizing land laws with technology risking Sri Lanka’s Land Sovereignty 

Despite decades of development of formal laws and tools for modelling legal knowledge for land rights by lawyers in developed countries, Sri Lankan lawyers stagnated preferring to work with statues of 1888 to 1927,...

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Sri Lanka Covid Crisis – How National decisions are manipulated to fuel ethnic tensions?

The controversy associated with covid-19 remains unanswered. We still don’t know how it came and the root cause for its spread. But we do know that over 1.78million are dead. It’s a shocking number....