How to get VISA to seek asylum in a Western country
The Swiss Embassy affair has shown how easy it is for people to get entry to live in a Western country and even have these Western countries arrange travel, air ambulance, hotel stay, a...
Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / INGO-NGO issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka
by Shenali Waduge · Published 7th December 2019
The Swiss Embassy affair has shown how easy it is for people to get entry to live in a Western country and even have these Western countries arrange travel, air ambulance, hotel stay, a...
Ethno-Religious Issues / LTTE crimes / LTTE Diaspora
by Shenali Waduge · Published 6th December 2019
It was the Illanka Tamil Arasu Katchchi party that gave birth to the concept of a separate Tamil State in 1949 a year after Ceylon was given independence hardly valid grounds to claim ‘discrimination’...
Chartering Our Future / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 3rd December 2019
Sri Lanka has elected a new President. The victory is nothing that the international community are too gaga over as seen by the manner they have chosen not to even extend congratulations as common...
Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / International Issues / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 1st December 2019
We sure hope the Swiss will not be caught doing a Rajitha on Sri Lanka’s new Govt? Doing a Rajitha is what we now call the fake white van story using a dressed up...
Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 1st December 2019
In 2015 regime change took place and common candidate Maithripala Sirisena was elected as President. Democracy and elections were ‘virtues’ handed to former colonies by former colonial invaders. Diplomacy is part and parcel of...
INGO-NGO issues / Role of West & Alliances / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 30th November 2019
Nothing they do is right. Everything right they do is wrong. What exactly is their problem? This is really puzzling to most patriots and nationalists who are grappling to...
Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 30th November 2019
There are 2 scenarios connected to Swiss Embassy Colombo. First is the asylum given by the embassy to a senior police officer along with his family & secondly is the alleged ‘temporary kidnapping’ of...
Chartering Our Future / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka
by Shenali Waduge · Published 28th November 2019
There’s never a dull moment in Sri Lanka. A crucial election is over. An outcome not liked or expected by those that manipulated regime change in 2015. It was expected that the country...
UK is holding general elections. Anyone contesting should be trying to represent the interests of the people in the UK and not issues relevant to other countries which the government of those countries should...
Ethno-Religious Issues / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam
by Shenali Waduge · Published 27th November 2019
Who can explain how communities can be brought together when the leaders representing them continue to drum racism? Have we heard any national sentiment from the present day Tamil leaders? When will they cease...