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A memorandum by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to set up a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, part of an assurance given to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), has triggered many issues. When the matter came up for discussion at last Tuesday’s weekly Cabinet meeting, President Maithripala Sirisena asked why, despite all measures now being [...]
Await: Mahinda magic!
My dear Mahinda maama, I thought I must write to you, when I heard that you had been sworn in by Maithri as Prime Minister. The news came as a surprise to most of us in Paradise, though we knew something was afoot when both of you began meeting behind closed doors a few weeks [...]
Yahapalanaya’s four times blessed Supreme Court
It’s not often fortune falls upon Lankan Presidents to bless them with the opportunity to appoint a chief justice to the Supreme Bench not once, not twice, not even thrice but four times during his first tenure in office. And all within not even four years at the helm. One Chief Justice per year, so [...]
Are the economic fundamentals sound? Strengths and weaknesses of the economy
Fiscal consolidation, low inflation and export growth are fundamental strengths of the economy. On the other hand, economic growth is slow, foreign indebtedness is high, business confidence is low, export growth is inadequate, foreign investment, though increasing, is inadequate and the large trade deficit is weakening the external finances. The economy is vulnerable owing to [...]
An audaciously conscienceless extra-constitutional gamble
If just a quarter of the time reserved by the United National Front (UNF) for juggling with the 19th Amendment by mediocrities of the day professing to be constitutional experts, cosseting Colombo’s privileged inner circles and crooning over applause by the ‘international community’ had been spent in reaching out to Sri Lanka’s rural and provincial [...]
Hypocrisy and this murder most foul
Journalists have died on assignment, caught in the middle of wars and conflicts. But this was not always by accident. They have been targeted by those who did not want witnesses to their foul deeds or to coerce them into silence. Some might recall tank shells fired by US troops at a hotel in Baghdad [...]
Friday night political bombshell: The breaking point of Yahapalana regime
Maithri-Mahinda deal kept a top secret; SLFP stalwarts learnt of Sirisena’s shocker only post facto President in address to nation today to reveal unity govt’s alleged large-scale corruption and details of plot to assassinate him Law and Order Ministry to come under President, Police Chief faces axe Ranil to prepare affidavits to show he has [...]
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