MCC Nepal & Sri Lanka : Is MCC aligned to US Indo-Pacific Strategy?
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 / 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...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 2nd February 2020
The MCC is not just any ordinary agreement. It is an agreement that is signed between 2 Governments, passing 10 land registries to a newly created company called MCC Sri Lanka Pvt Ltd....
International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of West & Alliances / Sri Lanka Politics / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 2nd February 2020
The shift of balance from West to East is nothing anyone can deny except that it also means the challenges for the East are all the more overwhelming unless policy formulators derive ways...
Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Ethno-Religious Issues / LTTE crimes / Role of SL Govt / National Army / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam / UN & Sri Lanka / War on Terror / Separatism
by Shenali Waduge · Published 31st January 2020
A government with a will to defend the nation combined with the heroic efforts of Sri Lanka’s national army reunited every inch of land under one national flag on 19 May 2009. The LTTE...
The world has gone through much. Heterosexual AIDS, Ebola, the H1N1 swine flu and, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2003. We now have coronavirus. The death toll from the fast spreading virus...
LTTE crimes / LTTE Diaspora / Role of West & Alliances / UN & Sri Lanka / UN bias & corruption / War on Terror / Separatism
by Shenali Waduge · Published 26th January 2020
In a world of controversy & complications it is no surprise that we are still grappling to find answers to who is dead – who was killed & who is missing. The primary...
UN & Sri Lanka / UN bias & corruption / UNHRC Resolutions / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 26th January 2020
An eye for an eye is the Abrahamic view of justice. 9/11 resulted in bombing, invading & occupying Afghanistan but Afghanistan had nothing to do with 9/11 but the invaders have remained in...
Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / International Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of West & Alliances / UNHRC Resolutions / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 23rd January 2020
On 4th March 2011, the Sri Lanka Foreign Ministry responded to the adopting of Resolution (S. Res 84) by US Senate. What is poignant about US Resolution and Sri Lanka’s response is...
Lessons for Sri Lanka / UN & Sri Lanka / UN bias & corruption / UNHRC Resolutions
by Shenali Waduge · Published 23rd January 2020
Lt. Col. Anthony Gash was UK’s defense attaché to the British High Commission in Colombo from Feb2007 to Jun2009. He sent secret reports to the UK (upto 26 April 2009) which the UK...