Breast cancer, Hollywood style: Was the media blitz on Jolie’s double mastectomy more harmful than it was helpful?
Breast cancer is often triggered by external factors, so perhaps the best prevention is a healthy world. There has been much recognition of Angelina Jolie’s public revelation that she has had a prophylactic...
Proportionality: A Legal basis for Judicial Review of Administrative Action in the greater public interest
We as judges of this land must take the lead from our departed friend and colleague, that no bullets of any calibre, knives of any depth, clubs of any weight, shall ever deter us from taking the exalted...
Like in Iran and Saudi Arabia, BBS wants to give Sri Lanka and the Rajapaksas a Sinhala-Buddhist religious police
Saudi Arabia is the perfect example of what can happen to a country, even in our own time, when a ruling clan combine religion with politics to perpetuate itself in power. “The BBS will take immediate...
Devolution, Sri Lanka’s defence and security
G.L Peiris and the unit of devolution Prof G.H. Peiris in his latest response (‘The Case against the Thirteenth Amendment’, The Island Midweek Review, May 22-23, 2013) to my article in The Island of...
Hate, dishonor and the agony of peace in Sri Lanka
“To change masters is not to be free” - Jose Marti (eddosrios.org ) The photograph is iconic; Alavi Moulana, 83 years old and an SLFP veteran of 52 years, bending down and kissing the hand of President...
SRI LANKA : Fourth Anniversary war victory celebrations will impede reconciliation and foment triumphalism
May 19 will mark the 4th anniversary of the end of Sri Lanka’s three decade long civil war, but with the absence of a joint commemoration to The body of the once elusive LTTE supremo Pirapaharan is carried...
A questioning people and a united opposition would be hell for Rajapaksa siblings
“Never will tyrants freely consent to the extirpation of servitude….” - Thomas Raynal Of all the spectres the Rajapaksas fear, Oppositional-unity would arguably be the most terrifying. The Rajapaksas...
Massive land grab of private land by Sri Lanka’s military deals death blow to reconciliation hopes
The acquisition of about 7000 acres of land in the Jaffna peninsula has become a major issue that impacts upon the post-war reconciliation Hundreds of Tamil protesters were met with riot police and Sri...
Resist Rajapaksa rule or be condemned forever to a life of servitude
“….instead of looking for necessary and sufficient conditions of change we must train ourselves to be on the lookout for unusual historical developments, rare constellations of favourable events, narrow...
The Azath Salley Saga: Amplifying a squeak
“And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?” - ‘The Second Coming’, WB Yeats (1919) The Asath Sally saga mask head of the Junior Vikatam When Sri...
Condemn the unlawful arrest and detention of Azath Salley and call for his immediate release
Statement May 7, 2013 We the undersigned, vehemently condemn the arrest and detention of Former Deputy Mayor and General Secretary of the Azath Sally National Unity Alliance (NUA), Azath Salley, by a team...
Government must be even-handed in the enforcement of the criminal justice system
The arrest of former Deputy Mayor of Colombo and leader of the newly formed Muslim Tamil National Alliance Azath Salley under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) highlights the vulnerability of those...
The Azad Sally arrest and the radicalisation of Sri Lanka
If Azad Salley is a terrorist in the making, a terrorist who has to be pre-empted by recourse to detention under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, or a promoter of fanatical, fundamentalist ethno-religious...
In the North,the Rajapaksa government is setting in motion a vicious cycle once again
LAND GRABBING The government has given notice of its plans to acquire lands belonging to private citizens in the North for public purposes that involve national security. The pasting of notices on trees...
The Government take over of large extents of people’s land must stop
The government has made moves to acquire over 6381 acres of privately owned land in the Jaffna peninsula, which it says is for a public purpose. The public purpose is presumably for the security forces....
On Azath Salley, NPC Election and the 19th Amendment
“You’re not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can’t face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.”- Malcolm X (Advice to Youth of Mississippi – 1964) Azath...
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