MOURNING THE DEAD: A Soldier & a terrorist can never be equal
A soldier of a National Army cannot be put on par with terrorist. Similarly, a mother of a solider cannot be put on par with a mother of a terrorist too. A war widow...
Chartering Our Future / Ethno-Religious Issues / INGO-NGO issues / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE crimes / LTTE Diaspora / Sri Lanka Politics / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam / War on Terror / Separatism
by Shenali Waduge · Published 20th May 2020
A soldier of a National Army cannot be put on par with terrorist. Similarly, a mother of a solider cannot be put on par with a mother of a terrorist too. A war widow...
Chartering Our Future / Ethno-Religious Issues / LTTE crimes / LTTE Diaspora / Sri Lanka Politics / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam
by Shenali Waduge · Published 17th May 2020 · Last modified 18th May 2020
We have only guestimates of Tamil children kidnapped by LTTE and turned into child soldiers. We don’t really know the exact numbers of Tamil children kidnapped, how many died during LTTE training, how many...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE crimes / LTTE Diaspora / Political Parties / Role of India / Sri Lanka Politics / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam / War on Terror / Separatism
by Shenali Waduge · Published 16th May 2020
“I am a traitor to Tamils” A slipper garland – Jaffna (May 2020) Tamil nationalism bordering separatism was birthed by Tamil political leaders and not LTTE. LTTE only hijacked it as a camouflage to...
Crimes of the West / INGO-NGO issues / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE crimes / Role of SL Govt / National Army / Sri Lanka Politics / War on Terror / Separatism
by Shenali Waduge · Published 8th April 2020
A Vietnamese civilian with a gun pointed at the side of her head. There is much hullabaloo over the pardoning of Corporal Sunil Ratnayake by President Gotabaya Rajapake. The usual set of culprits are...
Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE crimes / Role of SL Govt / National Army / Sri Lanka Politics / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam / UN & Sri Lanka / UN bias & corruption / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 10th February 2020
The Lessons Learnt & Reconciliation Commission Report of November 2011 declared 22,247 LTTE dead of which 11,812 had been identified by name. However, 10,435 LTTE dead had not been identified by the time...
Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Ethno-Religious Issues / LTTE crimes / Role of SL Govt / National Army / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam / UN & Sri Lanka / War on Terror / Separatism
by Shenali Waduge · Published 31st January 2020
A government with a will to defend the nation combined with the heroic efforts of Sri Lanka’s national army reunited every inch of land under one national flag on 19 May 2009. The LTTE...
LTTE crimes / LTTE Diaspora / Role of West & Alliances / UN & Sri Lanka / UN bias & corruption / War on Terror / Separatism
by Shenali Waduge · Published 26th January 2020
In a world of controversy & complications it is no surprise that we are still grappling to find answers to who is dead – who was killed & who is missing. The primary...
Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE crimes / UN & Sri Lanka / UN bias & corruption / UNHRC Resolutions
by Shenali Waduge · Published 16th January 2020
There are some important clauses in the May 2009 Resolution passed which are noteworthy in the context of all the successive resolutions on Sri Lanka & behoves the new Government to return to...
Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE crimes / UN & Sri Lanka / UN bias & corruption / UNHRC Resolutions
by Shenali Waduge · Published 13th January 2020
In November 2019 Sri Lanka voted a President giving him 6.9million votes. The voters pledged faith in Gotabaya Rajapakse to take Sri Lanka & its People on the correct path. There are some...
Chartering Our Future / Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE crimes / Sri Lanka Politics / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam
by Shenali Waduge · Published 31st December 2019
Sri Lanka’s conflict was TERRORIST & ETHNIC Sri Lanka’s conflict was TERRORIST not ‘CIVIL’ (GOSL must request all media releases to correct that Sri Lanka did not suffer an ethnic or civil war...