Role of West & Alliances / Sri Lanka Politics / War on Terror / Separatism / West/Asian Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 28th April 2019
On 21st April 2019 Sri Lanka experienced 9 multiple terror attacks killing over 250 innocent people. The actions & reactions of the government is leaving citizens seriously anxious. The frightful prospect of a...
In early March the Daily Mirror reported the arrest of a blind man by the Railway Security Service – his crime begging on the train. That arrest resulted in a sensational story that...
The news reports of Sri Lanka’s military cum humanitarian rescue operation is poignant for several reasons. It provides us some real time news sans politicization & influence and now 10 years on it...
There was much fanfare over implementing the Constitutional Council. The moment the nominees were announced, many clearly pointed out the likely outcome & it was nothing that anyone can today deny. In...
Role of SL Govt / National Army / Sri Lanka Politics / UN & Sri Lanka / UNHRC Resolutions
by Shenali Waduge · Published 23rd January 2019
We finally have an opposition that doesn’t support the government in power. However, this Opposition has a major role to play. Sadly, 10 years after the victory over terrorism, that too Sri Lanka...
Removing Rajapakse corruption & restoring democracy was the campaign slogan that brought Yahapalana to power in January 2015. There is little to debate that what the voters got was nowhere near good governance...
President Sirisena in an emotional address to the nation & pouring out how he weathered 3 1/2 years until it came to a breaking point, President Sirisena addressed the Nation on 28 October 2018...
There is a notion being spread that the Sinhale Buddhists are a privileged lot in Sri Lanka & that Buddhism’s foremost place is responsible & therefore should be removed. This notion is being peddled...
by Shenali Waduge · Published 29th December 2018 · Last modified 4th January 2019
The inclusion of the clause to deny any Member of Parliament or the President to be a dual citizen looks rather silly if we have to trust in the MP to be honorable enough...
by Shenali Waduge · Published 23rd November 2018 · Last modified 8th January 2019
Adding to piling examples of flouting parliamentary democracy by the UNP leadership was the removal of civic rights of Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the world’s first female Prime Minister on frivolous & cooked up corruption...
