ECT : Prostituting Sri Lanka’s best Port
Sri Lanka is never short of controversy. Colombo East Container Terminal is at the centre of a major national crisis which would decide the future of the current government and would decide the...
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by Shenali Waduge · Published 24th January 2021
Sri Lanka is never short of controversy. Colombo East Container Terminal is at the centre of a major national crisis which would decide the future of the current government and would decide the...
Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE crimes / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam
by Shenali Waduge · Published 23rd January 2021
Was TNA created by the LTTE in 2001? Yes.Press release on 22 Oct 2001 was signed by Sampanthan for TULF, N.Kumarakuruparan for ACTC, N. Srikantha for TELO & K.Premachandran for EPRLF. Why was...
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by Shenali Waduge · Published 23rd January 2021
The Tamil National Alliance was formed in 2001 by the LTTE and became known as LTTE’s political wing. The rationale to create a political wing was probably the outcome of 9/11 and the...
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by Shenali Waduge · Published 15th January 2021
Despite decades of development of formal laws and tools for modelling legal knowledge for land rights by lawyers in developed countries, Sri Lankan lawyers stagnated preferring to work with statues of 1888 to 1927,...
Ethno-Religious Issues / INGO-NGO issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE crimes / LTTE Diaspora / Role of India / Sri Lanka Politics / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam
by Shenali Waduge · Published 10th January 2021
The University of Jaffna is a State university. It is funded by the Government of Sri Lanka and Faculty are paid salaries by the GoSL. Therefore, all staff are bound by rules &...
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by Shenali Waduge · Published 1st January 2021
The controversy associated with covid-19 remains unanswered. We still don’t know how it came and the root cause for its spread. But we do know that over 1.78million are dead. It’s a shocking number....
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by Shenali Waduge · Published 19th December 2020
Globally, there is a hurry to grab land & resources and it is a factor that any Third World country/Govt must be aware of. On the guise of development and aid, international agencies try...
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by Shenali Waduge · Published 19th December 2020
While the international community is preoccupied demanding to know how & how many LTTE were defeated instead of being happy that LTTE was defeated, Sri Lanka has chosen to concentrate instead on developing Sri...
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by Shenali Waduge · Published 18th December 2020
The Justice Ministry, the land ministry, the AG’s department & the Cabinet are either drafting new laws, amending existing laws, appointing committees or with one nod eliminating existing statutory laws. This is a new...
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by Shenali Waduge · Published 14th December 2020
Till late October 2020, Sri Lanka prided itself in its covid-19 response with only 13 deaths and reducing numbers of covid cases. Restrictions in flights, imports and various other precautions were taken and the...