Category: Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka

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From Europe’s Colored Revolutions – Arab Spring to Asian Spring: The Repeat Playbook of Youth Manipulated Regime Change

  Across Europe (the Colored Revolutions), the Arab world (Arab Spring), and parts of Asia (the “Asian Spring”), movements that appeared as spontaneous youth uprisings often bore the fingerprints of external intervention and local...

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Sri Lanka does not need a Truth & Reconciliation Commission — Terrorists need to reconcile with us, not the other way around

The recent statement by Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister at the UN Human Rights Council outlined the government’s commitment to domestic reforms in human rights, justice, and reconciliation. While many of these initiatives — anti-corruption...

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What the UN Secretary-General, Security Council, and UNGA President must investigate in the UNHRC’s Resolutions on Sri Lanka

  The United Nations Charter enshrines principles of sovereign equality, non-intervention, and adherence to mandates. Yet for over sixteen years, the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has passed a series of resolutions on Sri Lanka...

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What International Media must ask the UNHRC on Resolutions against Sri Lanka

  For over sixteen years, the international media has largely abandoned its role as a global watchdog. Instead of questioning bias or demanding accountability from the UNHRC, it has allowed one-sided narratives to dominate...

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Sri Lanka at the crossroads of a US–India standoff

  Sri Lanka has rarely been treated as a sovereign nation in international geopolitics. Sri Lanka had very few leaders able to read geopolitical shifts well enough to spin it to Sri Lanka’s advantage....

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Why India must Stop Sri Lanka from implementing 13th Amendment

  The demand for full implementation of Sri Lanka’s 13th Amendment has once again surfaced — but it is important for India to pause and examine who is really making this demand, and why. This...

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If the LTTE had not been defeated in 2009: Sri Lanka in 2025

  Let us look at the “what if” scenario based on pattern of LTTE terror – where they killed, who they targeted, Tamil children kidnapped, impact on tourism & investment, people’s peace of mind...

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Human Rights or Geopolitics? Sri Lanka Exposes the UNHRC’s Double Standards

  The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) was established in 2006 (GA Resolution 60/251) with noble intentions: to promote universality, impartiality, and cooperation protecting human rights. Yet in practice within less than 2...

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Sri Lanka’s Rebuttal to OHCHR 2025 Report A/HRC/60/21

  The OHCHR Report A/HRC/60/21 is illegitimate, selective, and legally void. For 30 years of LTTE terror — assassinations, suicide bombings, ethnic cleansing — the UNHRC and its High Commissioners remained silent. Only when terrorism...

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Sri Lanka’s 2015 Yahapalana Government turned non-binding UNHRC Resolutions into National Law

    Although UNHRC resolutions are non-binding, since 2009 the Council has effectively acted as a mouthpiece formalizing overseas LTTE lobbyist demands into intrusive resolutions. A Council that failed to act against LTTE over...