Easter Sunday attacks – Justice de Alwis Report (Sept 2024)
Easter Sunday – Justice De Alwis Report – Sept 2024
Category: Islamic Terrorism – Fundamentalism
RETURNING TO EASTER SUNDAY: WHAT THE PSC REPORT FATALLY FAILS TO ADDRESS – AND WHY THIS ENDANGERS SRI LANKA
On 21 April 2019, exactly ten years after the defeat of the LTTE, eight Islamic extremists carried out a coordinated mass-casualty suicide operation across Sri Lanka. The Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) report...
Registering the ‘Muslim Left Front’: The Danger of a New Ethnic Party threatening Sri Lanka’s Unity”
Sri Lanka’s media has reported on the application by the Muslim Left Front for registration with the Election Commission. A careful review of historical, regional, and global patterns shows that political parties — when built...
South Asia under Siege: LTTE Narco-Networks to Rising Islamist Extremism
In May 2009, Sri Lanka achieved a historic victory: the military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), ending decades of terror, death, and disruption. The heroic war heroes eliminated one...
The Silent Genocide: How the Chittagong Hill Tracts Buddhists & Hindus are being erased
The Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), in southeast Bangladesh, has been home to the Chakmas, Marmas, Tanchangya, Tripura, and other indigenous communities for centuries. For over a millennium, these peoples lived in peace, cultivating Buddhist...
The Evolution of ‘Palestine’: From Roman Province to Modern Political Identity
The ongoing conflict and humanitarian catastrophe enable us to go back in time, sift through histories records and build a chronology of the past. This helps us to figure out who lived in...
Two-State Solutions cannot be built with guns: Lessons from Kosovo & South Sudan for Palestinians
It cannot be emphasized enough for people to know not only their national past, but also global history. Only then can they understand current developments and visualize the future. It is precisely the failure...
Understanding the Israel–Palestine Issue — Q&A for Outsiders
There is an overwhelming amount of information on social media about Israel and Palestine—stories, theories, and opinions that often confuse rather than clarify. Many keyboard campaigners spreading these narratives do not even know...
Buddhism in the Land now called Pakistan
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...
Afghanistan: from Buddha’s Dhamma to Battlefields
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...
