‘A sound mind in a sound body, is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.’ – John Locke-Thoughts Concerning Education
This column dedicated to the notion of making Sri Lanka the Wonder of Asia turns its spotlight to day on The Drug Menace and its ill effects on Sri Lankan Society. in […]

“The prince who neglects or violates his trust is more a brigand than the robber-chief” – Byron (The Two Foscari)
The long-awaited LLRC report is, finally, ready. But can it promote accountability or assure justice in a country where contempt for law is a hallmark of governance?
Rajapakse readiness to protect loyal criminals
Until last month, those who felt […]

2011- Nov. 05: The Ministry of Mass Media and Information has been receiving many complaints from various individuals who
have been subjected to defamation and character assassination by certain reports published in several websites. These websites in question are continuing to publish defamatory and damaging reports aiming at selected individuals. Some of the reports directly violate the […]

Oct. 27: Raj Rajaratnam, the hedge fund billionaire at the centre of history’s biggest insider trading case that has also snared Rajat Gupta, has said
that “every bloody Indian co-operated” with US authorities to entrap him.
“Every bloody Indian co-operated ‘ Goel, Khan, Kumar,” Rajaratnam told Suketu Mehta, the author, in an article published in Newsweek magazine.
But […]

 
The Commonwealth risks becoming ‘irrelevant’ if its leaders allow Sri Lanka to become its next host, Amnesty International said today ahead of the organization’s biennial summit.
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) begins in Perth, Australia today, with Sri Lanka due to chair the next summit in 2013 despite an appalling human rights record.
“It’s absurd […]

Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse was snubbed by New Zealand, when he tried to include the Rugby World Cup Finals in Auckland as part of
an official trip. Sources in New Zealand told Lanka Standard Prime Minister John Key had refused to meet President Mahinda Rajapakse. Failing to secure any meetings with the World cup host […]

MELBOURNE, Oct. 25 (UPI) — Australian Attorney General Robert McClelland has ruled out a war crimes case against Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse, saying he has diplomatic immunity.
Sri Lankan-born Australian Jegan Waran filed charges against Rajapakse, who is in Perth for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting,
the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported Tuesday. Waran, who now […]

Wednesday, 26 October 2011, 11:31 am: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its Sri Lankan affiliates in condemning the continued blocking of the news portal Lanka-e-News by internet service providers in Sri Lanka since October 18.
According to information received from IFJ affiliate the Free Media Movement (FMM), two major internet service
providers in Sri Lanka, the […]

OCTOBER 24, 2011:Just days after Sri Lanka’s chief diplomatic envoy to Australia former Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe was named in an extensive war crimes dossier now being deliberated upon by the
Australian Federal Police,  its President Mahinda Rajapakse has been slammed with another war crimes suit – this time in Victoria, Australia.
Already grappling with war crimes cases […]

The war in Libya has something in common with the last phase of Sri Lanka’s own war, and can provide perspective on how Sri Lankan society must deal with its fallout. Like it happened in Sri Lanka with the LTTE, the remnants of the former Libyan army were encircled in the city of Sirte where, […]