Category: Lessons for Sri Lanka

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Chartering Our Future / Constitution Related / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Ethno-Religious Issues / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Role of West & Alliances / Sri Lanka Politics / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam / War on Terror / Separatism

GOSL: We demand action against Vaddukoddai Resolution for separatism & ban on LTTE insignia

GoSL cannot pooh pooh the issue any longer. We have on the one hand a terrorist group continuing efforts to revive terrorism & we have another set of Tamil politicians who wish to separate...

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Don’t sell my Mother: Are Portuguese-Dutch-British being replaced by India-China-US?

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...

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MCC – English ONLY is OK – Sinhala/Tamil is Not OK – where are the Hooles & the Howlers?

  Section 4.1 of MCC says all documents & communications are to be in English.Section 6.4 of MCC says the Government Law is to be ‘international law’(not Sri Lankan laws). The Ministry of Finance...

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Sri Lanka has already prepared the E-Land Register – We do not need MCC $67m Land Project

  Sri Lanka has almost completed the E-Land Register.Do we need MCC funds with demands that require constitutional changes?This supposed ‘gift’ comes with a set of conditions & pre-conditions that even warrants the MCC...

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Colombo East Terminal – why Sri Lanka can never trust India

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...

Yahapalana, USAID & DAI – Democratic Governance & Accountability Scorecard! 0

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

Yahapalana, USAID & DAI – Democratic Governance & Accountability Scorecard!

  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...

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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

From LTTE to USA – Does Sri Lanka need a new war?

  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...