The offer of a Cabinet post to a political novice such as Jeevan Thondaman with hardly any impressive credentials is nothing but political.
Worse still is the appointment of Pavithra Wanniarachchi. This lady is an avowed Rajapaksa loyalist...
If there is a prize for diplomatic idiocy, Sri Lanka’s conduct leading up to the annual sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva will be a sure winner.
The UNHRC has been hounding Sri Lanka ever...
It was President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s uncle J.R. Jayewardene who
was known as the ‘Old Fox’ of Sri Lankan politics, a sobriquet earned by
his maturity in age when he became the country’s leader and also his
reputation as a scheming Machiavellian politician....
In the lead up to the 2019 presidential election, a major theme of the then opposition which was promoting Gotabaya Rajapaksa as its candidate was ‘one country, one law’.
The reference, of course, was to the Muslim community which had...
By Kassapa
The talking point in political circles last week was whether President Ranil Wickremesinghe is trying one last-gasp trick to stay in power by abolishing the Executive Presidency.
This concept first came to light several months ago when it...
Finally, it is official: it was the Rajapaksas- and a handful of officials who did their bidding- who are responsible for the current economic calamity Sri Lanka is faced with.
This comes from no less an institution than the highest...
Just when you thought it cannot get any worse, it did.
That is the general public’s perception about the special presidential pardon accorded to R. Duminda Silva, former parliamentarian and convicted murderer.
The act of pardoning Silva is disgusting but not...
Does the government know whether it is coming or going? Or is it following the old adage, ‘those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make them mad’?
That is the question on the minds of many after the...
By Kassapa
As Sri Lanka awaits what might be a historic general election- in as much the last presidential election was- there is a great deal of speculation about the outcome of the poll. The discussion is not so much...
This rebellion is different: it is not politically motivated; it is devoid of racist undertones and it calls for a change of systems instead of a mere change of the party in power. It also has the backing of...
Anyone who has read Ms. Gamage's recent speeches will recall that her main target is the SJB, with vitriol directed specifically at its leader, Sajith Premadasa. Her aim is to diminish the SJB and its leadership in the eyes...
By Kassapa
The elections in September and November have turned Sri Lanka’s political world topsy-turvy. The hitherto untried Jathika Jana Balavegaya (JJB) is in power, with a parliamentary majority in excess of two-thirds, to boot. Theoretically at least, they can...
