Sri Lanka is at it again; playing games to Delhi’s distress. The use by date to SL of Shiv Shankar Menon‘s ‘Anti-Tamil dialogue… (with) Rajapakse’ passed once the LTTE was decisively defeated and North SL sufficiently militarized to silence the Eelam Tamils into total subjugation. SL never imagined this level of success for its genocide.  [...]

Military forces across South Asia are flexing their commercial muscles to create ventures that rival private firms and threaten to militarise civil society. In Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indian and Sri Lanka defence chiefs have interests in everything from airlines to sugar factories, banks to bakeries, from power plants to ports. Investments worth billions of dollars are [...]

The DSG in charge of the ACF case (The gruesome execution-style murders of 17 aid workers with the French organisation Action Contre La Faim in 2006) was asked about the case. The DSG replied that there were two strong witnesses in Australia. President Rajapaksa’s younger brother Senior Presidential Advisor Basil Rajapaksa who was present then [...]

What else can we expect from a product of a barbaric society, to absolve all responsibility to heinous mass scale crime?

Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Defence Secretary of Sri Lanka’s highly callous and repulsive remark aired on Headlines Today (India-August 9th,  2011)  based upon the  Channel 4 Documentary “Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields”, has brought about outrage in the International Tamil Community, and to Women’s organisations around the world. Gotabaya questions the integrity of a witness’s statement about the [...]

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” — Julius Henry, Groucho Marx, American comedian and film star (1890-1977). When life is smooth and everything goes in the right direction, normal civilians can become President, Prime Minister or other powerful leaders. For some reason, [...]

Sri Lankan Mahinda regime deployed army soldiers to quell unrest sparked by a fear of nighttime prowlers known as “Grease Devils”, after at least five died over the past two weeks in a wave of vigilantism and clashes with police across the island nation.

Britain’s MI6 officers have been engaged in drilling Libyan rebels, helping them to establish a proper military plan for an assault on the capitol Tripoli.

The anti-Kadhafi revolution in Libya may serve as an inspiration but is unlikely to be copied in the Arab world with its armed revolt and foreign military intervention, analysts say.

Although the Sri Lankan government has evaded calls for an international probe into alleged excesses while militarily defeating Tamil separatism in 2009, it may yet be called to account at the September session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC).

In a bid to prevent the Tamils from prospering in future, the Sri Lankan State is systematically destroying the self reliant local economic structures built over the years. As the local economy is being systematically dismantled, the hold of the Sinhalese businessmen is increasing in the region.

Sri Lanka’s growing ties with China have received a shot in the arm during President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s visit to that country. Economic and military ties have grown at a rapid pace in recent years.

Last Saturday, when the fifth-generation Japanese ship Chikyu started ‘spudding’ or drilling a new well, Cairn India formally opened their new frontier, down south in the deep waters of Sri Lanka.

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa would have returned from China a relieved man. The Chinese promised Sri Lanka more investment in infrastructure projects and to enhance, two-way trade and strengthen cultural and personnel exchanges.