Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / INGO-NGO issues / International Issues / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 18th July 2022
In April 2021, Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapakse banned chemical fertilizer. The decision was sudden & no one really knew who advised the President. It now emerges that the President was advised by...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Ethno-Religious Issues / INGO-NGO issues / International Issues / Political Parties / Role of SL Govt / National Army / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 17th July 2022
Democracy is all about electing people to office as people’s representatives. However, people have to put up with them until their term is complete to change them. Either there has to be a mechanism...
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by Shenali Waduge · Published 17th July 2022
In Sri Lanka a series of protests are taking place with central location set up in Galle Fact Green. The original grievances have got diluted in a plethora of other slogans automatically questioning a...
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by Shenali Waduge · Published 16th July 2022
An 11 member far-right militia group “Oath Keepers” are charged with seditious conspiracy for January 2021 while another group was also charged in January 2022 attacks on the US Capitol. More than 725...
Chartering Our Future / Constitution Related / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Role of India / Role of Media / Role of SL Govt / National Army / Role of West & Alliances / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 13th July 2022
13th July 2022 will be remembered as the day an elected President resigned becoming the only President since 1978 to do so. He was the 7th President of Sri Lanka but one who...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Constitution Related / Crimes of the West / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Role of India / Role of Media / Role of West & Alliances
by Shenali Waduge · Published 12th July 2022
The political system has collapsed. Mob rule has taken over. Where lies the People’s mandate? Is Sri Lanka a functioning democracy or is life to function as per protests, protestors & their demands? What...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Constitution Related / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 9th July 2022
We are in the midst of a political crisis emerging out of an economic crisis. People’s emotions are high as a result of the sufferings they have to undergo affecting their homes &...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Constitution Related / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 7th July 2022
The public are listening with interest & shock to the questions and answers emerging from the COPE sessions. COPE & COPA are regarded as the Parliamentary WatchDog. Members of Parliament sitting on both...
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by Shenali Waduge · Published 7th July 2022
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith is calling for justice for Easter Sunday, we all want justice, but why didn’t he call for justice for the victims of LTTE crimes? He doesn’t do so because the...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Lessons for Sri Lanka
by Shenali Waduge · Published 7th July 2022
Leaving aside the global crisis as a result of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, Sri Lanka’s Govt is doing a pretty good job adding to the crisis. Is there any truth in the allegation that...
