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Diplomatic rogue to pay back Rs. 45 m A Sri Lankan diplomat who served in a foreign capital has been strongly admonished over allegations of financial misconduct.He was ordered to pay back US$ 350,000 (more than Rs. 45 million) he has helped himself after a building was bought outright to house the mission. Suspicions had [...]
Total U-turn: Govt. Commission to probe ‘war crimes’
After resisting for almost five years, the UPFA Government has eventually capitulated to the relentless Western spearheaded international pressure to conduct a domestic inquiry into alleged war crimes during the final stages of the separatist war in May 2009. The move came this week as President Mahinda Rajapaksa trained his guns on three of his [...]
A gamble that bit off more than it can chew
My Dear Dayasiri, I thought of writing to you when I heard you were in the news again — after a long time. I wrote to you last nearly one year ago when you surprised many people by leaving the Green camp and joining Mahinda maama and the Blues just before contesting the Wayamba provincial [...]
War crimes issue: “India and Sri Lanka can find an amicable solution”- Dr. Seshadri Chari
India will not see any need to take the issue of alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka to an international forum if Sri Lanka properly addresses the core issues relating to the North and East, according to BJP ideologue Seshadri Chari. Commenting on a range of issues relating to Indo-Lanka relations Dr. Chari in an [...]
Can the economy recover from setbacks to achieve economic expectations?
This year’s trade deficit was expected to be much lower than in recent years and the balance of payments was expected to be in a significant surplus. The economy was projected to grow at more than 8 per cent. The prolonged drought in the first half of the year and the mid June communal violence [...]
One verdict as against a culture of savagery
The Government’s boast this week that the Colombo High Court’s conviction of a local authority chairman and three of his henchmen for the 2012 Christmas Eve murder of a British tourist and the brutal rape of his girlfriend ‘proves’ the independence of Sri Lanka’s judiciary is grossly inappropriate in the context of the case. Coyly [...]
Ranil’s adios to demos, aloe to revolt
Have twenty nine election defeats in a row with another possible disaster in the offing made United National Party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe go off his rocker? Have the long traumatic years trapped in the tunnel of debacles with the promised light at the end never shining, made him give up the ghost? Turned this apostle [...]