by Gomin Dayasri “In the past the United States and India stood against us. However, in the favourable circumstances that have now come about, the United States and India are to a great extent supporting our position” -Sampanthan (2012) at ITAK Convention- R.Sampanthan’s road map of a long march to bifurcate Sri Lanka is routed [...]
Archive of entries posted on 26th June 2012
Double standards adopted by Britain in the cases of protests against Bush and Rajapaksa
By Ayesha Zuhair Sarah Mann, Spokesperson for the British High Commission in Colombo has informed us that Britain respects the legitimate right of UK citizens to protest. “We respect the legitimate right of UK citizens to protest, but this has to be balanced with the right to free speech,” she said in response to accusations [...]
‘The LLRC had made recommendations and the President had wanted these implemented’
by Prof.Rajiva Wijesinha M.P. One of the saddest aspects of the last three years has been the corrosive distrust between all political players. This is almost relentlessly exacerbated by several factors. The first, and perhaps the most worrying, is what I term a failure of rationalism, the practice of judging situations not in terms of [...]
Tackling corruption ought not to be left to Sarath Fonseka
By Kath Noble I’m no fan of Sarath Fonseka, but he’s got one thing right. Something has to be done about the corrupt political culture in Sri Lanka. At his first press conference after being released from prison, the former Army Commander identified tackling corruption and nepotism as his top priority. These are issues the [...]
‘Starve them, jail them and kill them and call it globalization with a human face’ – Arundati Roy
by Panini Anand No individual critic has taken on the Indian State like Arundhati Roy has. In a fight that began with Pokhran, moved to Narmada, and over the years extended to other insurgencies, people’s struggles and the Maoist underground, she has used her pensmanship to challenge India’s government, its elite, corporate giants, and most [...]
FUTA Expresses concern over threat faced by Dr. Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri and family
University academics in Sri Lanka have been exercising their rights of freedom of thought and expression, association and peaceful assembly and articulating broader issues of national concern for many decades. Academics have also exercised trade union rights during this period. The Federation of University Teachers’ Associations (FUTA) is the umbrella trade union of nearly 43 [...]
