Torture wasn’t the sole monopoly of repressive regimes
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS (IDN) – According to a joke that was circulating in Washington political circles in a bygone era, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s notorious torture chamber in the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad — once held up as a symbol of barbarity — was never shut down. After the US invasion and [...]
2023: An Annus Horribilis with computer Jilmart
Queen Elizabeth II called the year 1992 her ‘Annus Horribilis’ — Horrible Year. It was the year the marriages of three of her four children went on the rocks. To add to her woes, Windsor Castle was ravaged by a fire with the initial damages estimated at $ 90 million. Since Covid-19 broke out in [...]
Graveside memorial service to mark 14th anniversary of Lasantha’s assassination
Sunday, Jan 8|9 am |Borella Kanatte The 14th anniversary of the assassination of The Sunday Leader founder Editor-in-Chief Lasantha Wickrematunge, which falls on 8 January, will be marked with a service at his graveside. Family, friends, former colleagues and others will gather at Borella Kanatte at 9 a.m. to mark the anniversary and remember Lasantha. [...]
Zamreen gets Youth Motivator award
Zamreen Zarook was awarded ‘International Youth Day 2022 – Best Sri Lankan Youth Motivator’ at the SUNFO Global Village Summit held at the BMICH, Colombo on United Nations Day. He is involved in motivating and training youth of Srilanka to contribute and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals – UN Vision 2030. Mr Zarook is an [...]
Whose rule of law?
By Antara Halda, Project Syndicate, Exclusively to the Sunday Times in Sri Lanka In the early 2000s, there was a near-unanimous consensus among academic lawyers that the absence of the rule of law was strictly a “Third World problem”–meaning one that the advanced economies of the Global North had solved. Yet, just over a decade [...]