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...
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...
