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UNP: The party that couldn’t build highways or bring justice

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BY RAJPAL ABEYNAYAKE Roads, and roads to justice are two different things. But, we’ll get to that. The opening...
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THE ECONOMY AS A SUBJECT, SPEAKS FOR ITSELF

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BY RAJPAL ABEYNAYAKE If there is an economy worth talking about, there is no need to crow about it...
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President’s top priority: Ensuring long term progressive policies

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BY RAJPAL ABEYNAYAKE The President knows that tax cuts have have led to lost revenue, but he considers that...
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The British will not learn English, let’s not kid ourselves

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The UK and others hell-bent on censuring Sri Lanka for imagined war crimes frequently refer to documents that are based on a...
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Violation of due process in international commitments

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By Neville Ladduwahetty Referring to his role in the 2015 UNHRC Resolution 30/1, Mr. Mangala Samaraweera as the Foreign...
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Ultra right wing ‘protests’ don’t fool anybody

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BY RAJPAL ABEYNAYAKE All the environmental crusaders, and the coconut oil crusaders — where were they when there was...
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“Wigneswaran was a failure in the North” Public Security Minister slams PC system

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BY ANANTH PALAKIDNAR Minister of Public Security Rear Admiral (Retd) Sarath Weerasekera lambasted the Provincial Council system in the...
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After Geneva Resolution: What Next?

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By Dr Laksiri Fernando The adoption of the UNHRC resolution against Sri Lanka is a setback not only to...
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UNHRC March 21 sessions -Britain turns a Coveted Eye at its Ex. Colonies

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Britain, no longer Great, and75 years after it was forced to renounce its colonies with imperialism identified to be the cause of...
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The New Old Left turns 50

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By Malinda Seneviratne Revolutionaries, self-styled or otherwise, are hard to imagine as old people, the exception of course being...
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UNHRC leaves out Gash dispatches, Swiss embassy abduction drama and India’s accountability

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By Shamindra Ferdinando Veteran journalist Tim Sebastian interviewed Foreign Secretary, retired Admiral Prof. Jayanath Colombage, in the immediate aftermath...
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‘Human rights’ and ecological crisis in Sri Lanka

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Dr. Asoka Bandarage The recent UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Resolution A/HRC/46/L.1/Rev.1 of March 16 has brought extensive charges...
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Organised forces propagating falsehoods, misconceptions – President

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President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Saturday said that the group which spread falsehoods about white vans, crocodiles and sharks are now trying to...
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History is ‘news’, did you know?

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Six years ago, Sri Lanka was about to elect a new Parliament. The campaign threw up its regular quota of howlers. I...
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The government’s foreign affairs

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One of my favourite Archie (from the comic strip) stories has Archie Andrews trying to land a...
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Serious flaws in Geneva resolution

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By Neville Ladduwahetty Resolution A/HRC/46/L.Rev.1 dated 16 March 2021 has been adopted by the UN Human Rights Council based...
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GL calls on all Lankans to have united stand on UNHRC resolutions against SL

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All Sri Lankans should have a united stand on the UNHRC resolutions against Sri Lanka, Minister of Education Prof. G. L. Peiris...
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UNHRC resolution: Subverting truth about Sri Lanka

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The UNHRC resolutions on Sri Lanka in the past and present, are characterized by their duplicitous and treacherous attempt to subvert the...
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UK schools record more than 60,000 racist incidents in five years

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UK schools recorded more than 60,000 racist incidents in the past five years, the Guardian has found, as experts accused the government...
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UNHRC’s Sri Lanka Resolution viewed as ‘intrusive intervention’

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“The Core Group chaired by the UK tabled a shoddy motion based on a hostile UNHRC Report...
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Inquiries, justice and reality

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A visitor to Sri Lanka will be struck by the very large number of persons employed in...
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UK Government has brought UNHRC into disrepute

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It has become apparent that the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva did not take into consideration documents and reports...
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Indian hypocrisy is Himalayan

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BY H.L.D. MAHINDAPALA In a lofty speech delivered via video to the 75th General Assembly of UN (September 2020)...
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Sri Lanka: The case for Neutrality

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There are sound domestic and strategic reasons for Colombo to pursue a strategy of neutrality Sri Lanka has been...
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UNHRC Resolution: ‘An unwarranted, unjustified interference in the sovereign affairs of Sri Lanka’

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The text of the speech made by Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena in Parliament yesterday: “The United Nations Human Rights...
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Govt committed to protect those who helped crush terrorism – Dinesh Gunawardena

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Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena told Parliament that the Government remains committed to protect those who have made immeasurable sacrifices to neutralise terrorism,...
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British Parliament must also discuss payment of reparations for colonial crimes committed in Ceylon

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By Senaka Weeraratna(The writer is an Attorney-at-Law.) It is one of the great ironies of our time that the...
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Truths, untruths and Sri Lankan commitment

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BY FRANCES BULATHSINGHALA The international community, through its peculiar insistence on harping on alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka...
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The mishandling of a national problem and the predicament of war heroes

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Provocative abuse of American power

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H. L. D. MAHINDAPALA With incontrovertible evidence gleaned from unimpeachable international sources Daya Gamage, by far the most knowledgeable...
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UNP: The party that couldn’t build highways or bring justice

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THE ECONOMY AS A SUBJECT, SPEAKS FOR ITSELF

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BY RAJPAL ABEYNAYAKE If there is an economy worth talking about, there is no need to crow about it...
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