Constitution Related / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 13th July 2018 · Last modified 1st March 2019
A crucial election is forthcoming. Since 1948 Sri Lanka has been a vibrant democracy evidenced by the stream of elections held. We’ve had 1 referendum, 5 local government elections since 2002, 7 provincial council...
Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of India / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 8th July 2018 · Last modified 1st March 2019
Governments are elected to power to protect the territorial integrity & sovereignty of a country not to sell it or privatize it to foreigners thereby reducing the country’s relevance globally as an independent &...
Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 7th July 2018 · Last modified 1st March 2019
Following the resignation of UNP MP Wijayakala following her public outburst of wanting to resurrect the LTTE, she was asked to resign from her Ministerial portfolio. However, there is news of posters being displayed...
Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 5th July 2018 · Last modified 1st March 2019
When a MP, not once but several times publicly & openly professes to revive a terrorist movement that murdered thousands of innocent people it is an act of treason that cannot be erased simply...
Crimes of the West / LTTE crimes / Sri Lanka Politics / War on Terror / Separatism
by Shenali Waduge · Published 4th July 2018 · Last modified 1st March 2019
The UNP leadership boasts of allocating Ministerial Portfolios to some scientific method which is yet to explain how or why the UNP gave ministerial portfolio of children to a woman who wants to revive...
LTTE crimes / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 3rd July 2018 · Last modified 1st March 2019
UNP MP Wijayakala Maheshwaran’s public speech revealing her desire to resurrect the LTTE needs to be looked at from a different angle. Certainly, her statement has violated the National Constitution, the oath taken by...
The West loves to self-appoint itself as the paragons of virtue, to bear the ‘white-man’s burden’ of ‘civilizing’ the world and point fingers of allegations believing itself to be the beacon of justice. Little...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Crimes of the West / Role of Media / Role of West & Alliances / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 6th January 2017 · Last modified 12th June 2021
What is the better human rights that EU boasts of that is not prevalent in other parts of the world? Does the EU member states not suffer crimes and violations of any kind? Is...
LTTE Diaspora / UN & Sri Lanka / UN bias & corruption
by Shenali Waduge · Published 12th October 2014 · Last modified 4th September 2023
Sri Lanka’s Unfinished War a BBC Documentary presented by Frances Harrison fulfilled every criteria of an attention-grabbing piece of fiction. Unfortunately, the story that emerges is very much a piece of fiction...
Lessons for Sri Lanka / LTTE crimes / LTTE Diaspora / Role of India / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam / War on Terror / Separatism
by Shenali Waduge · Published 27th February 2013 · Last modified 20th May 2020
India is getting its media to relay photos of Prabakaran’s dead son and interviewing Callum Macrae producer of the latest documentary tarnishing Sri Lanka’s image but has conveniently forgotten how India’s Central Government refused...
