Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 2nd August 2020
Have we learnt lessons? Don Juan Dharmapala not only baptized himself but even gifted Lanka to the Portuguese. Rajasinghe II learnt a bitter lesson when he thought the Dutch was better than the Portuguese...
Chartering Our Future / International Issues / Role of India
by Shenali Waduge · Published 27th July 2020 · Last modified 28th July 2020
“Opportunity for Sri Lankan Tamils to revisit their priorities”by N S Venkataraman certainly raises the question, if India is rolling out a new modus operandi, towards Tamils & Sri Lanka. If that...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of India / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 24th July 2020 · Last modified 25th July 2020
There is much controversy over East Terminal of Colombo Port with India & Japan claiming that a Memorandum of Cooperation signed in May 2019 with the previous Government, binds the present government from giving...
Chartering Our Future / Crimes of the West / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / INGO-NGO issues / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of West & Alliances / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 18th July 2020
Regime Change in 2015 was quick to roll out plenty of good governance initiatives. One such was the $13.7m Strengthening Democratic Governance & Accountability Project (SDGAP) to reform Sri Lanka’s public sector. USAID...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / International Issues / Role of India
by Shenali Waduge · Published 17th July 2020
Colombo East Terminal is generating much controversy these days for reasons that should clearly showcase the need for a sovereign government to take a hold of the situation & uphold its sovereign status....
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / International Issues / Political Parties / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 16th July 2020
While ACSA was signed in August 2017, the contents of that agreement has not been made public and no one in Government appears to know either. There is a leaked SOFA agreement while MCC...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of West & Alliances / War on Terror / Separatism / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 16th July 2020
In May 2009 Sri Lanka sighed with relief as its armed forces defeated the internationally proscribed terrorist-LTTE bringing to an end 30 years of terror. It took the 5thPresident to order his troops...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Constitution Related / INGO-NGO issues / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 4th July 2020
There is a notion that MCC has nothing to do with Title Registration because it was a project started well before MCC Compact was introduced. The answer is only half correct. Yes, Title Registration...
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by Shenali Waduge · Published 29th June 2020
MCC is a US Govt foreign aid agency which is funded by US Govt and the top US representatives’ sit’s on its Board. When $480m MCC Compact was announced immediately after the jihadi terror...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Crimes of the West / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 29th June 2020
Third World country policy makers as well as their citizens need to understand that ‘independence’ for former colonies is just a cliché and nothing else. All that happened under colonial rule continues under...
