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Prerogatives following the Geneva Kangaroo Court decision

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Few countries can boast of anything close to the track record of Britain when it comes to gross human rights violations. Genocide...
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Wanted: An International Center on Vexatious Persecution

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The vote on the resolution against Sri Lanka was adopted on Tuesdays at the 46th Session of the UN Human Rights Council...
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Give him a breather

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By Rohana R. Wasala Sri Lankan Catholics, led by His Eminence Malcom Cardinal Ranjith, Bishop of Colombo, marked Black...
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Sri Lanka can win the admiration of the world by resisting the UNHRC ‘ Inquisition’

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By Senaka Weeraratna Cuba is one of the most admired countries in the Global South. Cuba stood up for...
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Has Geopolitics Virus infected UNHRC?

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The pile-on over Sri Lanka by UNHRC is a blatant use of human rights as a political weapon in the geopolitics of...
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Loquacious ‘pro-Muslim’ campaigner in a soup

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By Rajpal Abeynayake This article attempts to chart the current course of Sri Lankan politics within the meaning of...
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What accountability, transparency at UNHRC?

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The UNHRC is an intergovernmental organisation, reporting directly to the United Nations General Assembly, with a mandate to promote and protect human...
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No compromise on Sovereignty

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Ending an unnerving month-long wait, the 46th United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Session culminated in Geneva...
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UN Resolution Against Sri Lanka – Partisan and Unfair

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Sri Lanka government had to face  strong separatist and militant groups for several years, who were  fighting bloody war demanding separate state...
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Ferdi grills Lord Naseby: How the Colonel Gash Reports became Public ….. Late in the Day

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Shamindra Ferdinando, in Island, 25 September 2019, where the title runs ““Naseby disappointed in Lanka’s collective failure to use ‘Gash reports’ for its defence”
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The international perspective on Lanka and the gaps therein

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BY FRANCES BULATHSINGHALA On March 16, an online event was hosted by an international human rights organisation- the Universal...
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The critics have gone bananas

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BY RAJPAL ABEYNAYAKE The method of the propagandists attempting to vilify the Government is to try and caricaturise the...
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‘UK suppressed wartime HC dispatches unfavorable to Western strategy at UNHRC’

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… 20-year UN ban on examination of accusations travesty of justice: ex-CJBy Shamindra Ferdinando Former Chief Justice Sarath Nanda...
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Sri Lanka claims allegations raised in Geneva are politically biased

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Sri Lanka today claimed that allegations raised against the country at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva are politically biased
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March 22 will come and go, Sri Lanka will remain resilient

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By Malinda Seneviratne Tomorrow (that is Monday, March 22) a vote will be taken in Geneva on a resolution...
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Burqa ban and European double talk

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At a time when Sri Lanka commenced a serious dialogue on the need for banning the burqa (face veil) and the nikab...
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Pro-LTTE demonstrators ordered to pay costs to Maj Gen Priyanka Fernando

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Pro-LTTE demonstrators who staged protests in front of the Sri Lanka High Commission in London on Sri Lanka’s 70th Independence Day on...
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CID to probe statement made by MP Nalin Bandara on SIS Director

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Director of the State Intelligence Services (SIS) Major General Suresh Salley lodged a complaint with the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) against SJB...
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UK High Court acquits Maj. Gen. Priyanka Fernando

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Allowing the appeal made to the UK High Court by Major General Priyanka Fernando, the former Minister Counsellor (Defence) of the Sri...
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Has the UNHRC become a marionette show?

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Ranjiv Goonawardena of International Consultants who is an ardent defender of Sri Lanka had a virtual meeting with Lord Naseby on March...
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A challenging week for Sri Lanka

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Sri Lanka faces a challenging task at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) next week as it takes on Western nations...
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Cheerio EU, hello EA (and more, hopefully!)

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By Malinda Seneviratne Here’s a lovely headline: ‘40 countries join resolution on SL as co-sponsors and additional co-sponsors.’ Forty...
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Does Geneva matter to Sri Lanka?

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Any action matters only if the motive is genuine and not clouded by double standards and inconsistency. The UNHRC, from top to...
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UNHRC: ‘When the end justifies the means…’

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By Malinda Seneviratne In Geneva, essentially, it will be a West vs East battle, considering the key players. It...
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Military action had to be taken as all efforts to persuade LTTE to accept political solution failed – SL Permanent Rep to UN

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Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations, Mohan Peiris, said on Friday that Sri Lankan governments had done its best...
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The mishandling of a national problem and the predicament of war heroes

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By Major General Nirmal Dharmaratne A glance at the last four decades of the military history of Sri...
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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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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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