“The Commission also states that “Leaders of all sides should reach out to each other in humility and make a joint declaration, extending an apology to innocent citizens who fell victim to this conflict, as a result of the collective failure of the political leadership on all sides to prevent such a conflict from emerging.” […]

WASHINGTON DC, DECEMBER 19:  Former US Ambassador to Sri Lanka and Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Robert O Blake has not always been Colombo’s darling. He has earned the wrath of many an extremist pen-pusher in the government controlled press for his comments on human rights issues and his name […]

WASHINGTON DECEMBER 17: Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse who has consistently avoided the service of summons, yesterday (December 16) filed motion in the war crimes suit against him in the District Court of Washington DC, Lawyers said.
Mr. Rajapakse’s motion filed through Patton Boggs preempted an outstanding motion filed by the Plaintiffs in the case
calling on […]

International human rights groups criticized a Sri Lankan report Friday on the island’s civil war and called for more
accountability after the commission cleared the military of key charges.
The Sri Lankan government commission, in a 400-page report, concluded that the military did not deliberately target civilians during the final stages of the conflict as forces wiped […]

‘O cursed lust of gold\, to what canst thou not compel the heart of man!’ – Virgil Aenid (greed)
This column dedicated to the notion of making Sri Lanka the Wonder of Asia turns its spotlight today on the dreadful
suffering of Sri Lankans due to the fraudulent activities of persons masquerading as great philanthropists thereby building public […]

This is the way the World ends; Not with a bang but a whimper –T S Elliot, The Hollow Men
Is it possible that our planet is heading for a worldwide apocalypse that will ravage humankind? Some of the best minds on the subject of nuclear holocaust met in the year 2007 to outline their plans for curtailing […]

The book that I wrote entails reflections on the ethics of violence as part of political transformation. It did not come entirely out of an academic exercise. It came as the result of an attempt to apply ideas and also to reflect on action and the deflection of those ideas by reality. Sri Lanka as […]

“They will capture me,
They will put me In jail;
They may torture me and they may even kill me.
Then they will have my dead body, not my obedience”
(Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in South Africa in early 1900s)
Ever since the beginnings of chronicling our history, while it’s the survivor who always pens it, the written tale of our […]

Amidst some attempts to sabotage the initiative by internal elements opposed to him, opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe  last week took the lead in organising a massive demonstration in Colombo
against the continued incarceration of former army Commander General Fonseka, .
In parliament Last Tuesday the UNP leader removed his tie bearing the logo of the Commonwealth Parliamentary […]

1. In the meeting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government in Trinidad and Tobago in 2009 agreed to the “Affirmation of Commonwealth Principles”. They also mandated the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group to report on making the Commonwealth more relevant to its times and its people.
The Report of the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group recommended the appointment […]