• Country heading towards darkness amidst energy stakeholders tug of war
A modified version of Pastor Martin Niemoller’s indictment of the passivity and indifference of German society, especially the intellectuals and clergy which led to the holocaust is ringing true...
Torture and inhuman treatment a risk under the PTA
The arrest last week of Wasantha Mudalige, Convenor of the Inter University Students Federation, set off an avalanche of condemnation and protests demanding his release. A larger than life figure...
• Condemnation for GGG attack exceed congratulations
• President makes Sri Lanka a human rights pariah
John F Kennedy once said that those who make revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Ranil Wickremesinghe, the country’s new president by default, is on...
Gotabaya Rajapaksa, the failed president
The need for a president who will bring back the 19th A and abolish the executive presidency
Ranil’s political swan song?
Gotabaya Rajapaksa did not want to leave as a failed president. In an interview with...
The revelations about an alleged power plant deal at the highest echelons of government involving the heads of state of Sri Lanka and India would have sufficed to bring down governments in another continent. Even though in the two...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s interview with Bloomberg news last week was cathartic. He admitted he is a failed President, that the country should have gone to the International Monetary Fund six months to one year earlier and the difficulties of...
· A parliamentary election to break the political quagmire?
· Rapid rise in witch hunt of government critics
By Lankathilaka
The government is on the horns of a dilemma. The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) General Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam conveyed the party’s...
Will Mohamed Nasheed push for a parliamentary system in Sri Lanka too?
The legal lacuna in Ranil’s appointment on the national list
Weeks of struggle and strife have not brought any relief to the people whose frayed nerves...
Is a parliamentary majority simply a show of hands ?
Police arrest hundreds out of Colombo after the 9th of May
The new Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe ran into a storm hours before his swearing in last Friday...
The political deadlock has continued with no end in sight. The President who has ignored the peoples call for his own resignation, has been attempting to push Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa out of office instead. During a hurriedly convened...
Prime Minister tells Buddhist clergy that he will not resign until the certainty of a replacement
Will the Prime Minister oust the Leader of the Opposition?
It has been three weeks since the start of GotagoHome at Galle Face...
• Beleaguered President grapples with political tsunami
• Does Sri Lanka need a national airline?
Thousands of protestors have been thronging a make-shift village in the heart of Sri Lanka’s commercial capital Colombo as they try to oust the country’s ruling...
