Chartering Our Future / International Issues / Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism / Lessons for Sri Lanka
by Shenali Waduge · Published 22nd September 2025
Buddhism entered the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent (today’s Pakistan) around the 3rd century BCE through Emperor Ashoka’s patronage after the Kalinga War with Gandhara (present-day Peshawar Valley and Taxila region) and Sindhu (Sindh) becoming...
Colonial & Neo colonial / Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties
by Shenali Waduge · Published 20th September 2025
Afghanistan is today remembered for suffering, oppression, war, militancy, opium, and foreign occupation. Yet for over 1,200 years Afghanistan was a center of Buddhism, known for its monasteries, universities, art, and trade. Few...
Chartering Our Future / Ethno-Religious Issues / Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism / Lessons for Sri Lanka
by Shenali Waduge · Published 16th July 2025
On April 21, 2019 — Easter Sunday — Sri Lanka suffered its deadliest terror attack since the defeat of the LTTE. Coordinated suicide bombings by the National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ), an ISIS-inspired Islamist...
Chartering Our Future / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Ethno-Religious Issues / Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism / Lessons for Sri Lanka
by Shenali Waduge · Published 13th June 2025
Nearly six years after the devastating Easter Sunday suicide bombings that claimed over 270 lives in Sri Lanka, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith is still asking, “Who masterminded the attack?”—fully aware that eight Islamic suicide bombers carried out...
Chartering Our Future / Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Role of SL Govt / National Army / Uncategorised
by Shenali Waduge · Published 5th June 2025
Sri Lanka is once again standing at the edge of a political and national security precipice. A bold and disturbing statement made by Member of Parliament Archuna inside Parliament has triggered ripples far beyond the...
Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism / Lessons for Sri Lanka
by Shenali Waduge · Published 24th April 2025
On April 21, 2019, Sri Lanka witnessed its deadliest attack since May 2009—a series of coordinated suicide bombings targeting three churches and three luxury hotels, killed over 250 innocent people. Eight suicide bombers,...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Ethno-Religious Issues / Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism / Lessons for Sri Lanka
by Shenali Waduge · Published 20th April 2025
21st April marks the 6th anniversary of the Easter Sunday Mass Murders on 21 April 2019, exactly a decade after 30 years of terror was militarily defeated. The attacks on 3 churches &...
Colonial & Neo colonial / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism / Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE crimes
by Shenali Waduge · Published 17th March 2025
The Cardinal maybe a citizen of Sri Lanka, but he reports to the Vatican not to the Sri Lankan President. Thus, his orders are based on what the Vatican issues. His address relayed by...
Colonial & Neo colonial / Crimes of the West / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism
by Shenali Waduge · Published 15th January 2025
Whether Rohingyas are leaving Myanmar as genuine refugees or are part of a larger global human smuggling nexus,, third party countries that are not even signatory to the Refugee Convention cannot be saddled...
Chartering Our Future / Crimes of the West / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Ethno-Religious Issues / Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism / Lessons for Sri Lanka
by Shenali Waduge · Published 29th December 2024
The Daily Mirror carried an article on the Rohingyas. As per the article Rohingya “asylum seekers” had held a protest in front of the UNHCR Colombo in early 2024 demanding permanent solution...
