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 […]

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 […]

Periodically there are strong statements made by members of foreign governments on the issues of war crimes and human
rights violations in Sri Lanka. But it ends there unless the Sri Lankan government chooses to answer. While the international rhetoric of war crimes and human rights abuses still prevails, there is little or no manifestation of […]

Exposed: Public relations firm’s dealings with some of the world’s most controversial regimes
Senior executives at Bell Pottinger told undercover reporters that they were so influential that they had written a key speech
given by the Sri Lankan President to the United Nations.
During the address by President Mahinda Rajapaksa last year, which the company said was used […]

Can I see another’s woe and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another’s grief and not seek for kind relief? ( William Blake’s Sorrow)
The story of 17 year old Rizana Nafeek who went to Saudi Arabia on fabricated papers to hide her actual age to serve as a maid in order to bring happiness to […]

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 […]

There is a hope that Sri Lanka is on the verge of economic take-off, which is yet to happen. The government takes the public position that all is well with its plans to make the country an economic success story. The growth figure of 7 to 8 percent is given as proof that development is […]

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 […]

 
The Sri Lankan army ordered extra-judicial killings and assassinations during the final days of the country’s civil war,
according to allegations made by a former member of the army. The source made the statements in an affidavit, obtained by The International as a part of an investigative report on the civil war, published today. The allegations […]

POSITIVE CHANGES NEED TO BE SUPPORTED BY PROPER PROCESSES
Although commentators not affiliated to the government are inclined to be severely critical of it for its many lapses, there is another side to the story. This can be seen in the government media which presents a story that is fulsome in praise of the
present developments in […]