Letter to PM Rajiv Gandhi from TULF on 13th Amendment
28th Oct 1987 Shri Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, New Delhi. Dear Prime Minister, We thank you once again for all your efforts on behalf of the Tamil people. We repeat our deep...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Constitution Related / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Role of India / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 3rd October 2023
28th Oct 1987 Shri Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, New Delhi. Dear Prime Minister, We thank you once again for all your efforts on behalf of the Tamil people. We repeat our deep...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Constitution Related / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of India
by Shenali Waduge · Published 2nd October 2023
The Indo Lanka Accord proposes an interim-arrangement administrative system by merging North & East provinces & a referendum in the East one year after signing the agreement to continue merger or not (catch...
Chartering Our Future / Constitution Related / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Ethno-Religious Issues
by Shenali Waduge · Published 2nd October 2023
Who else is planning to do a Hamsa? Hamsa wanted asylum, C4 needed to boost revenue, West/UN needed a topic to politicize, foreign funded NGOs needed a topic for survival & funding &...
Constitution Related / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Role of India / Role of Media / Sri Lanka Politics / Tamil-LTTE Self-Determination/Eelam
by Shenali Waduge · Published 30th September 2023
Sri Lankans are being psychologically trapped into believing the Indo-Lanka Accord is still valid. It is not. It never was. It is not because it violated international norms by being signed under duress...
Chartering Our Future / Colonial & Neo colonial / Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties
by Shenali Waduge · Published 28th September 2023
The world faced 2 World Wars that killed over 70million people. Annually an estimated 60million deaths occur globally while global population is now close to 8billion. Global youth account for 1.2billion people (age...
Chartering Our Future / Ethno-Religious Issues / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 25th September 2023
An article by Ron Nixon written to the New York Times in April 2011 highlighted the following US democracy-building campaigns played a big role in fomenting protests Key leaders of the movements were trained...
Chartering Our Future / Crimes of the West / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Role of West & Alliances / West/Asian Politics / Western hypocrisy
by Shenali Waduge · Published 24th September 2023
Sri Lanka’s governments always apply ‘don’t look a gifthorse in the mouth’ logic and then lands up putting the country in trouble. We seem to be euthanized to think that countries that carry...
What SWRD Bandaranaike should have done in 1956 This would have reversed the historical injustices to the Sinhalese since colonial rule in denying the use of their language continued the English language Tamils would...
Chartering Our Future / Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Uncategorised
by Shenali Waduge · Published 21st September 2023
Was the interviewee evading accountability? Was the interviewer asking questions based on reading Commission Reports & ability to identify falsehoods & half-truths? Were the questions centred on the notions spread via social media? Can...
Chartering Our Future / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Role of Media / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 12th September 2023
Is truth dependent on who deems it as truth or the truth as prevalent with facts? What we see is a bunch of people throwing tantrums wanting everyone to believe what they claim...