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Retired Senior DIG The predicament of those in the highest echelons of defence and police bring to my mind past serious failures, not entirely dissimilar to the massacre on “Easter Sunday” in 2019. Somewhere in the mid 1980s, an LTTE group, led by their Mannar leader Victor Fulgencius ,entered the …

Educated persons, sports people, the upper and middle classes in Pakistani society and those sick of the run-of-the-mill South Asian politician greeted Imran Khan being elected Prime Minister of Pakistan in 2018 with gladness. This was echoed in our country and worldwide. Yes, he is a new type of western …

This commission recommended criminal proceedings against the person who appointed it Wahhabism was the ideological factor behind the April 21 attack, according to the PCoI’s conclusions When the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) was appointed in 2010 by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, the New York based Human Rights Watch (HRW) said …

“Pakistan is an Islamic nation, where there is no Buddhist population. Buddhism was discouraged and Buddhists     forcibly converted to Islam and that is the reason behind an absence of a flourishing Buddhist population in Pakistan.” These and others are some of the common statements that I hear from …

Barely a few months ago, with the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was safely ensconced in power and with the ruling party SLPP having won a two-thirds majority in Parliament, the foreign policy interlocutors of the new government outlined its foreign policy. Sri Lanka would follow an equidistant foreign policy. …

Recommends criminal proceedings against Fmr. Prez Sirisena, Pujitha, Hemasirii and others Says lax attitude of RW towards Islamic extremism as the reason for failure to prevent the attack Recommends action under the Bribery Act against Bathuideen for copper supply to Ibrahim Says Thowheed groups are indirectly connected and Thowheed ideology …

Sajith, Ranil meet to work out a common strategy Pakistan Premier’s visit runs into controversy US joins Core Group to formulate new Resolution US Ambassador Teplitz on US position post-UNHRC sessions The Covid-19 pandemic has exploded to uncontrollable proportions. The proof, escaping the secrecy on the issue, is the average …

A group of Human Rights rapporteurs slam Sri Lanka! Sri Lanka has known not only inter, but intra-communal violence for decades, with victims in every community (Picture AFP)    In 2009 the international community failed Sri Lanka A consensus has emerged on the need to broaden and to upstream prevention work …

The process set in motion by the appointment of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry to investigate alleged political victimisation  during the time of the Yahapalana Government has raised questions with regard to its impact on the Rule of Law in particular and Democracy in general. It has been a common …