Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 30th September 2020
We are living in times when international companies are taking governments to courts and winning millions in compensation. Sovereign governments cannot afford to hold the tax payers to ransom with irresponsible decision making...
Chartering Our Future / Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE crimes / LTTE Diaspora / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam
by Shenali Waduge · Published 26th September 2020
How do vote-declining and fast-becoming irrelevant political parties and politicians return to limelight? Simple, they dig out a dead LTTE and create a tamasha and then try to force people to rally around them....
Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE Diaspora / Sri Lanka Politics / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam / UN & Sri Lanka / UN bias & corruption
by Shenali Waduge · Published 24th September 2020
United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Peaceful Assembly & Association and the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression are receiving letters to tell Sri Lanka to allow LTTE...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 20th September 2020
The Yahapalana Government & US Government finalized MCC (development arm of US Govt’s Pivot to Asia) in 2018. It was to create a dynamic market for land and was a key component...
Chartering Our Future / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of India / Role of West & Alliances / Sri Lanka Politics / West/Asian Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 16th September 2020
With much thought and strategy Sri Lanka has appointed Moragoda as Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to Delhi iced with cabinet ranking, the first such fringe benefit afforded to a high commissioner. No doubt,...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Constitution Related / Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sinhale Buddhist Heritage / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 11th September 2020
The August 2020 Parliamentary victory showed for the 2ndtime the power that ensues when the majority is united. The victors of 2015 openly declared their debt to the minorities which got translated into marginalizing...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Constitution Related / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 10th September 2020
On 28 June 2019, the Yahapalana Government tabled the State Lands (Special Provisions) Bill. The Bill, if enacted would have privatized 84% of land that belonged to the People (State). Sri Lanka would...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 2nd September 2020
The last government made several attempts to privatize State land. This would have left Sri Lanka with no state land. What good is a government without land? How can a government tax when it...
Chartering Our Future / Constitution Related / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Role of SL Govt / National Army / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 2nd September 2020
The best piece of legislation introduced by the yahapalana government is the clause related to dual citizenship. It highlighted the NATIONAL SECURITY aspect of a person who was a citizen of two countries contesting...
Colonial & Neo colonial / Constitution Related / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 1st September 2020
Nothing happens in this world without some geopolitical thrust or shove. In viewing any geopolitical incident, it is necessary to see the pattern in what culminated in an incident(s) and attempt to connect the...
