Chartering Our Future / Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics / War on Terror / Separatism
by Shenali Waduge · Published 5th May 2020
Violent extremism is easier to deal with. Authorities can locate venues of training and gather groups being trained and even rehabilitate them. However, the task is not simple when the masterminds of violent extremism...
Chartering Our Future / Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties
by Shenali Waduge · Published 23rd April 2020
On 21st April 2019 multiple suicide attacks claimed the lives of over 300 innocent persons. These attacks took place despite 97 intel warnings from India the last coming hours before the first suicide bombing,...
Chartering Our Future / Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of Media
by Shenali Waduge · Published 22nd April 2020
A pandemic engulfs the globe with deaths nearing 200,000 and millions of confirmed cases documented. So far no one, not even the World Health Organization can firmly say what caused the virus, how the...
Chartering Our Future / Ethno-Religious Issues / Political Parties
by Shenali Waduge · Published 20th April 2020
On 21st April 2019 the people of Sri Lanka stood shocked. Exactly 10 years after defeating 30 years of terror Sri Lanka was to face a new form of terror. What is peculiar...
Chartering Our Future / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 18th April 2020
The multiple attacks launched by the Islamic Jihadis on April 21, 2019 on a number of selected targets including places of worship and leading hotels in Sri Lanka resulting in mass murder were...
Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Ethno-Religious Issues / LTTE crimes / Role of SL Govt / National Army / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam / UN & Sri Lanka / War on Terror / Separatism
by Shenali Waduge · Published 31st January 2020
A government with a will to defend the nation combined with the heroic efforts of Sri Lanka’s national army reunited every inch of land under one national flag on 19 May 2009. The LTTE...
Chartering Our Future / Ethno-Religious Issues / INGO-NGO issues / International Issues / LTTE Diaspora
by Shenali Waduge · Published 9th December 2019
Mario Arulthas writes to Al Jazeera on 8 Dec 2019 titled Trouble brews in post-election Sri Lanka”. What are the concerns he raises: https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/trouble-brews-post-election-sri-lanka-191208094903589.html He refers to Gotabaya Rajapakse as a ‘hardliner’ exactly what does he imply...
Ethno-Religious Issues / LTTE crimes / LTTE Diaspora
by Shenali Waduge · Published 6th December 2019
It was the Illanka Tamil Arasu Katchchi party that gave birth to the concept of a separate Tamil State in 1949 a year after Ceylon was given independence hardly valid grounds to claim ‘discrimination’...
Ethno-Religious Issues / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam
by Shenali Waduge · Published 27th November 2019
Who can explain how communities can be brought together when the leaders representing them continue to drum racism? Have we heard any national sentiment from the present day Tamil leaders? When will they cease...
Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 17th November 2019
Sri Lanka re-reversed a regime change orchestrated in January 2015 which spiraled Sri Lanka towards a wave of catastrophic changes unbeknown to most, outcomes which will be felt only as the new administration now...
