The people of Sri Lanka have spoken, both on Jan. 08, and now on August 17. The North has backed the TNA while the South has supported the UNF and the UPFA to varying degrees. The country has apparently returned to the politics of the 1960s, with the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi (ITAK) holding the balance of power.
What the UNF-led national government has done may well be legal but it is not legitimate. Illegitimacy masked by mere legality is bad enough, but when illegitimacy is combined with an overriding of political reality.....
Human beings are essentially selfish animals and regardless of professions of serving the people we hear ad nauseam at election time, most are hell bent on serving themselves and their supporters and also of ensuring their re-election.
While Wigneswaran accuses Sirisena government of been unsympathetic to Tamils, Anandasangaree appreciates the personal concern MS showed Vithya's grieving family...
The Island Editorial, October 18, 2015 About 130 families affected by the 1983 anti-Tamil violence had been given freehold land, Cabinet Spokesman Dr. Rajitha Senaratne informed the media on Thursday. This is a baby step in the right direction belated as it may be. Thousands of Tamil civilians perished or lost their property at the […]
As published in The Island, October 18, 2015 By Shamindra Ferdinando ‘Release of convicted terrorists not possible unless govt takes policy decision’ Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe yesterday emphasized that convicted LTTEers couldn’t be released unless the Maithripala Sirisena-Wickremesinghe administration took a policy decision to that effect. Minister Rajapakshe said that about 60 convicts were among […] ...
Most of the ministerial crooks blamed for having helped themselves to public funds, abused power and brought about Rajapaksa’s downfall are now in the new government.
Udaya Gammanpila, UPFA candidate for the Colombo district and leader of Pivithuru Hela Urumaya speaks to The Island staffer C. A. Chandraprema about the controversial statement made by President Maithripala Sirisena
President’s Counsel Romesh De Silva says the imminent arrest of Tiran Alles would be illegal, but President’s Counsel Yasantha Kodagoda asserted that a person could be arrested without a warrant if there is reasonable grounds to believe that person has committed a crime....
"I wonder sometimes if I should feel guilty about having in a small way promoted change......no one could have anticipated the contempt with which decision makers in this government treated its election pledges," Prof Rajiva Wijesingha
*The transcript of the speech was provided by the President’s Media Division. The Special Statement of the President Maithripala Sirisena on the Current Political Situation 14-07-2015 at the President’s Office; This is the first time I am making a statement to the media since 21st of November. My main objective today is to make a […]
The day has dawned again for the political leaders to gather and discuss who should represent the swans, the bells, the elephants, the betel leaves, the weighing scales and such symbols and we the minions like fools await the dawn of reckoning on 17th August...
The UNP government is in a hurry to dissolve the Parliament and call for elections before the consequences of their decisions catch up with them, but the Opposition only wants the cabinet to be replaced...
Former LTTE group leaders, fighters and war-widows, along with veteran politicians, have handed over nominations to contest elections in the Northern (NP) and Eastern Provinces (EP).
Gotabhaya retained Romesh de Silva, PC, the present chairman of the Law Commission, and the Supreme Court decided to stay the arrest of Rajapaksa. The order is now known in Hulftsdorp as Gota’s Law.
UPFA leaders had asked about the President’s stand on the proposal to nominate Mr. Rajapaksa as the UPFA prime ministerial candidate. President Sirisena is reported to have declined to nominate MR...