Chartering Our Future / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 17th February 2020
There is much talk of late about Sri Lanka’s education system. It is definitely a prudent subject as the country’s assets are its citizens and it is the citizens that must protect and...
Chartering Our Future / Sri Lanka Politics / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam / War on Terror / Separatism / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 14th February 2020
We need a closure. We know how many Sri Lanka Armed Forces personnel died or were injured during the final phase of the conflict but the problem lies in determining the dead LTTE and...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Lessons for Sri Lanka / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 14th February 2020
MCC is one of the 3 pillars of US National Security Strategy initially rolled out in 2002 (Defense, Development & Diplomacy) ACSA and SOFA are clear US strategic military arrangements while MCC falls into...
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...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Crimes of the West / Role of India / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 9th February 2020
Indo-Sri Lanka relations have never been what either country would have liked it to be. What both countries should realize is that small as Sri Lanka may be, India cannot afford to bully...
Role of SL Govt / National Army / UN & Sri Lanka / UNHRC Resolutions
by Shenali Waduge · Published 8th February 2020
The Lessons Learnt & Reconciliation Commission in their November 2011 report gave some important numbers sourced from the Ministry of Defense. Poignant is the numbers of dead, injured and missing following the...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Role of SL Govt / National Army / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 6th February 2020
Interlinked to the MCC US Government grant of $480m are some crucial topics that the ruling government, the judiciary and citizens cannot ignore. 84% of Sri Lanka’s land belongs to the state. What happens...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties
by Shenali Waduge · Published 5th February 2020
People belong to the Land. Land doesn’t belong to the People. Land belongs to the State of Sri Lanka & no one else. Who owns Sri Lanka’s land? No one else but Sri Lanka....
Chartering Our Future / Role of India / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 4th February 2020
Nepal & Sri Lanka share similarities. Both countries have appointed teams to study MCC. MCC was signed by Nepal in 2017 – the state of MCC Sri Lanka has been kept a...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 3rd February 2020
What do we think we are celebrating on 4th February every year? Our independence from colonial rule. But did we really get independence on 4th February 1948? We didn’t because we became by choice a dominion...
