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A senior State Department official told a Congress Sub Committee last Tuesday that Washington had made clear to President Maithripala Sirisena and other senior officials that Lt Gen. Shavendra Silva’s promotion to Commander “will significantly curtail bi-lateral co-operation with the Sri Lanka Army under the US law.” The reference was made by Alice G. Wells, [...]
The spectre of fear raised to stalk the land
Ever since Maithripala Sirisena was elected President of this country in January 2015, for four years this island nation never witnessed a single terrorist attack or for that matter the many civilian marches held in exercise of their right as enshrined by Article 14 in the Constitution, never heard the sound of a single shot [...]
Some food for thought for new Green man
My dear Sajith, I thought I must write to you this week even as you try to cover the entire country in a few weeks while campaigning for the big race. It must be a difficult task, especially when you are up against the entire ‘R’ family, the blues and the purples, not to mention [...]
Will presidential poll ensure political stability and economic growth?
On November 16, a new pesident will be elected. Will the election usher in political stability or will the post-election period be one of confusion and chaos? Are there prospects of an economic revival? Would the election lead to a period of political instability? The worst scenario would be another constitutional crisis. Constitutional experts have [...]
The struggle for Sri Lanka’s democratic heart
This week, a citizen called into a popular (Sinhala) political programme on national television and asked the Minister being interviewed as to why it was that, one year following the 52-day old ‘coup’ in October 2018 installing former President Mahinda Rajapaksa as Prime Minister, no legal action had been taken against rowdy parliamentarians who smashed [...]
Sorting out this holy mess
It was a damning report by all accounts. It answered some questions that had been troubling Sri Lankans of many, if not all, communities and religions since that dastardly terrorist attack on Easter Sunday, killing many innocent people, some of them at prayer on this holy day for Christians. This act of indiscriminate terror revives [...]
Sirisena wants to enter parliament as national list MP after November 16 polls
Dilan Perera declines to resign as MP and take over as Uva Province Governor Uva Province Governor Maithri Gunaratne too refuses to resign Drop in tempo of NDF campaign as candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa announces his manifesto The passionate love of politicians for democracy is echoing far and wide with just 19 days for [...]
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