Day: 14 May 2016

Sri Lanka’s New government is under international pressure to ignore celebrating the seventh anniversary of killing of more than 40,000 Tamil Civilians in May 2009 by the governments Sinhala Army, former president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s brother Basil Rajapaksha had claimed. When Rajapakshas were in government, ambassador’s pressurised them not to celebrate the killing of more than 40,000 Tamil Civilians by the government forces as ‘War Victory’ as the some of these western governments had helped the Rajapaksha government forces to kill the Tamil Civilians and killing of more than 1000 LTTE leaders and their…

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Sri Lankan Tamil expatriates in the UK have been asked to be open to political compromises as the island nation undergoes constitutional reforms.  It is important to make the most of the opportunity as it is the first time that Sri Lanka’s two main political parties had come together to form a government, Jayampathy Wickramaratne, head of a committee providing technical support to the Constitutional Assembly to draft Sri Lanka’s new constitution, told a gathering of Non Resident Tamils of Sri Lanka (NRTSL) here last week. “It is impossible and…

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By Yudhanjaya Wijeratne – Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Every newspaper in the country seems to have visited the ICIJ website and published the names of the 65 Sri Lankans named in the Offshore Leaks and Panama Papers (both sets of names exist in one list). Being on this list or being associated to it, however, does not make anyone a criminal. Yes, four Avante-Garder are there, but Emma Watson is also on that list; so are two Hirdramani’s. I don’t want to believe that Hermoine Granger, after all she went through with…

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