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MS gets tough, moves to take control of SLFP, denies nomination to MR,says “No 20A, no elections” No accord on electoral reforms package; UNP insists early elections as momentum gathers on No-Confidence motions against PM and two ministers Angry MR vows to contest General elections, even if SLFP denies him nomination, bid to form UPFA-led [...]
The circus in a flux
My dear Sarath, I am writing to you because no one seems to be able to keep you out of the news for long: somehow, you find a way of making headlines and stirring a new controversy, just when we think we have heard the last word from you! We heard you saying recently that [...]
Sustained economic growth the challenging task in the next decade
Sri Lanka’s economic growth that reached 8 per cent in the two years after the war declined to 6.4 per cent in 2012, increased to 7.2 per cent in 2013 and picked up to reach 7.4 per cent in 2014. The economy is expected to grow by only 6.5 per cent this year. Growth may [...]
Solheim’s tweet signals surprises in Lanka’s war-crimes report
A recent tweet by Erik Solheim, former Norwegian special envoy to Sri Lanka, has given an insight into the inquiry report on alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka that will be presented to the UN Human Rights Council in September. Mr. Solheim, a former Minister for International Co-operation and now head of the Paris-based Development Co-operation [...]
By Gad, Sir, has the Pukka Sahib of Lanka’s leftists flipped his lid?
Suddenly summoning a news conference as if to announce that Elvis is alive and has been spotted leaving the building — in the same way that the former president Rajapaksa told a temple crowd in Bibile last week that he had turned up there to show he was not dead and that ‘appachchi is still [...]
Government’s hypocrisy: Are Sri Lankan soldiers ‘peacekeepers’ or ‘war criminals?’
Criticising a Supreme Court order that prevented the arrest of former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who is under investigation for financial fraud, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe recently said that the Commonwealth should be consulted on this matter. In another case, the implementation of a presidential gazette order releasing land for resettlement of IDPs in Sampur, [...]
Governments under siege already stepping back
In his 1904 book titled One Step Forward, Two Steps Back focusing on the crisis in his party, Vladimir Lenin said that on the way to any eventual goal there must be temporary setbacks. Sometime later this saying was stood on its head to read two steps forward, one step back in an anecdotal reference [...]