Category: Lessons for Sri Lanka

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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

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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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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...

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Who says MCC is not linked to Bim Saviya (Title Registration)

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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Yasmin Sooka/ITJP blurring distinction of ‘civilian’ & slurring Sri Lanka Army when LTTE had Armed Civilian killer units.

  The whole ‘war crime’ ‘genocide’ sing song is based on an unsubstantiated allegation of intentional mass killing of some blown up figures ranging from 40,000 to 200,000 CIVILIANS by various third party groups...