Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Crimes of the West / INGO-NGO issues / International Issues / Role of West & Alliances / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 16th May 2020
Canada’s National Inquiry into Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls in June 2019 confirmed that Canada has committed and CONTINUES to commit colonial genocide. The 2015 Truth & Reconciliation Commission report evaded...
Chartering Our Future / Constitution Related / INGO-NGO issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 15th May 2020
The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute has written an open letter on 13 May 2020 to Sri Lanka’s Minister of Justice urging Sri Lanka to abide by due process in the case of...
Chartering Our Future / INGO-NGO issues / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of Media / Role of West & Alliances
by Shenali Waduge · Published 11th May 2020
Sri Lanka is placed one among five countries successfully dealing with COVID-19 crisis, in a world, that as of 11 May 2020 has 4.1million COVID-19 cases, 283,868 deaths & just 1,493,401 recoveries. Sri...
Chartering Our Future / INGO-NGO issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka
by Shenali Waduge · Published 13th April 2020
On 5th April 2020, a group of 163 civil society activists & 17 organizations placed their names on a letter to H E President Gotabaya Rajapakse on behalf of the Muslims appealing to grant burial...
Crimes of the West / INGO-NGO issues / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE crimes / Role of SL Govt / National Army / Sri Lanka Politics / War on Terror / Separatism
by Shenali Waduge · Published 8th April 2020
A Vietnamese civilian with a gun pointed at the side of her head. There is much hullabaloo over the pardoning of Corporal Sunil Ratnayake by President Gotabaya Rajapake. The usual set of culprits are...
INGO-NGO issues / UN & Sri Lanka / UN bias & corruption / UNHRC Resolutions
by Shenali Waduge · Published 2nd January 2020
This is not to question whether Israel is right or wrong or whether Sri Lanka is right or wrong but to question whether UN is treating all Members EQUALLY as the UN Charter is...
Chartering Our Future / INGO-NGO issues / International Issues / UN & Sri Lanka / UN bias & corruption / UNHRC Resolutions / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 31st December 2019
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon commissioned 3 members (Ban Ki Moon Panel of Experts) selected personally by him to submit a personal report on the ‘final months’ of Sri Lanka’s conflict....
Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / INGO-NGO issues / UN & Sri Lanka / West/Asian Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 13th December 2019
Part of Sri Lanka’s problem has been not to challenge some of the lies being propagated by the power of funding sources both legitimate and illegitimate. There are plenty of diplomatic avenues to...
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...
Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / INGO-NGO issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka
by Shenali Waduge · Published 7th December 2019
The Swiss Embassy affair has shown how easy it is for people to get entry to live in a Western country and even have these Western countries arrange travel, air ambulance, hotel stay, a...
