Chartering Our Future / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Role of SL Govt / National Army
by Shenali Waduge · Published 20th May 2025
Let May 18 be a day of Honor, not Revenge or Amnesia As Sri Lanka reflects on the significance of May 18, the Government must ensure that all future Victory Day commemorations are...
Crimes of the West / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE Diaspora
by Shenali Waduge · Published 16th May 2025
“Go back to Colombo….you are not welcome in Brampton”, Mayor of Brampton chants racist slurs on anti-Genocide supporters. It is truly unbecoming for a Mayor to be making such wild statements. On what basis...
Crimes of the West / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE crimes / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 13th May 2025
The Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) was established in 2002 to oversee the implementation of the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) between the Sri Lankan government (GOSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE),...
Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of Media / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 10th May 2025
A 15-year-old girl named Amshi—brilliant, talented, and full of promise—is dead. She took her own life after being sexually abused three times by her teacher at Ramanathan Hindu Ladies College in Colombo. Instead of...
Two young lives lost—one a university student, the other a schoolgirl in Kotahena. These are not isolated tragedies. They are searing warnings that Sri Lankan society is spiraling into a moral crisis....
The persistence of ragging in Sri Lankan universities is a multifaceted issue that intertwines socio-economic backgrounds & political affiliations resulting in an institutional culture. Understanding this complex cycle is crucial to formulating a plan...
Chartering Our Future / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of India
by Shenali Waduge · Published 28th April 2025
It is shocking that Sri Lanka’s stature in the global arena & among the diplomatic community has stooped to an all-time low. When a proud Sri Lanka proposed in 1971 the Indian...
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,...
Too many self-less individuals have come & gone, they have dedicated their lives, time & wealth to defending the Nation but they have never or rarely been appreciated. Let us change the status quo....
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 &...
