“Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.”– P. J. O’Rourke American political satirist
Only a symptom
What happened on the afternoon of the Election Day, Saturday, […]

The shoot out in broad day light in Mulleriyawa area on the day of the elections (08 October, 2011) between MP Duminda Silva, also the Supervisory
MP of the Defence Ministry and Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra, Presidential Adviser and Director General for Trade Unions, that led to the death of Premachandra and 03 others, is no issue, the government can be […]

The head of Amnesty International has personally urged Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd to get behind calls for an independent international
investigation into Sri Lankan war crimes.
Amnesty secretary-general Salil Shetty told Mr Rudd during a meeting in Canberra on Tuesday that the Sri Lankan government’s own inquiry into the country’s civil war was a sham.
“We know what […]

In late September, the government of Sri Lanka released 1,800 former Tamil Tiger fighters. Colombo claimed they had been rehabilitated as President
Mahinda Rajapaksa told them at a ceremony in the capital:
“I hope you will work for peace and ethnic harmony in this nation of ours. We must not dwell on the bitter past, but look to […]

LONDON – British Prime Minister David Cameron on Saturday demanded an urgent report into claims his defence minister involved a friend in government business concerning Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Libya.
Liam Fox denied that national security was compromised by his ties to Adam Werritty, who was best man at his wedding but has no official government […]

In Sri Lanka the Constitution may be supreme but its articles are increasingly only observed in the breach. In a nation where human life has been so devalued and the rights of its people have become disposable commodities to its political leaders, this article is a foreigner’s perspective of Sri Lanka.
I cannot boast of having […]

Recent developments in the Middle East remind us that freedom remains a question of
critical concern for the billions of people living under nondemocratic regimes. At the same time, events in the region show us just how difficult the attainment of democracy really is, there and elsewhere.
How to develop a press that is free
Ridding the world […]

 
Journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge visits the Maharajah Television Station in Sri Lanka in the dawn hours of January 6, 2009 as the station
is attacked in a commando style operation. Two days later on January 8, 2009 Wickrematunge is also killed by assassins on motorcycles who surround his car as he travels to work. Watch Lasantha speak […]

“How long yet will the madness of despots be called justice, and the justice of the people barbarity or rebellion? How tenderly oppressors and how severely the oppressed are treated!” – Maximillien Robespierre
The informal discussion held in Geneva on the 21st of September regarding Canada’s proposal to debate the outcome of Sri Lanka’s ‘Lessons Learnt and […]