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Leaders of the opposition Tamil National Alliance (TNA), including the leader of the official parliamentary Opposition, R.Sampanthan, boycotted Sri Lankan President Mithripala Sirisena’s visit to the Tamil-speaking Northern town of Jaffna on Saturday. They were protesting against the continued detention of 168 Tamil “political prisoners” who had been taken into custody during the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). While the Tamil parties …
Sunday, October 15, 2017 7:53 am,
by eyeadmin
Pope Francis met on Friday with members of an organizing committee for the journey that he made to Sri Lanka back in January 2015. Welcoming the group, the pope said his own visit to Sri Lanka was a moment of “special grace” at a time when the nation was “striving for reconciliation and healing” after years of suffering and strife. Religions and cultures united Pope Francis …
Saturday, October 14, 2017 7:16 am,
by eyeadmin
By Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka. Machiavelli said that the enterprise entailing the deadliest risk in politics is to try to institute a new order, and to be a new ruler while doing so (“a new prince in a new principality”). …
Wednesday, October 11, 2017 9:33 am,
by eyeadmin
The change in the political environment in Sri Lanka recently saw the head of a leading Tamil diaspora group visiting the country, his first visit since a ban on him was lifted. The President of the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) Father S. J. Emmanuel told The Sunday Leader there are some ‘good changes’ to be seen in the country, yet a lot more needs to be …
Sunday, October 8, 2017 8:00 am,
by eyeadmin
Two weeks have passed since the presentation of the Interim Report of the Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly to the parliament of Sri Lanka by Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe. As in the case of the release of the reports of the six sub- committees, this report also has created a furor among nationalist sections of the Sinhala polity that have always been in the forefront …
Saturday, October 7, 2017 7:51 am,
by eyeadmin
Sri Lanka’s government since 2015 was elected on a promise of a new constitution that would find a solution to the country’s national problems. On 21 September 2017, the Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly presented its report on the new constitution to parliament proposing the devolution of power within a unitary state. This proposal is far short of what the Tamils have asked for. The …
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 9:39 am,
by eyeadmin
Admitting that his organisation set certain wrong examples in the past, but having understood their mistake the BBS is planning a new journey in collaboration with all races and religions, said the General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) Ven. Galagodaaththe Gnanasara Thera. Participating in an interview with the Sri Lanka Guardian Editor Nilantha Ilangamuwa, Gnanasara Thera spoke about the organisations future plans and the …
Saturday, September 30, 2017 11:42 am,
by eyeadmin
Judges can no longer rely on the media to explain court decisions and should instead use the “golden opportunity” of social media to communicate directly with the public, the retiring Victorian supreme court chief justice Marilyn Warren has said. Warren was the first female chief justice of any state and territory court and the second female chief justice in Australia, following the former family court chief …
Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:50 am,
by eyeadmin
Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R. Sampanthan yesterday assured that constitutional making process would be done within the firm framework of a united, undivided and indivisible Sri Lanka. “This is the framework within which the Constitution will be evolved and which all of us will voluntarily acknowledge and accept,” MP Sampanthan said in parliament yesterday. The text of MP Sampanthan’s statement on the interim report on …
Friday, September 22, 2017 12:03 pm,
by eyeadmin
Tamils should not be obsessed with words such as federalism, the TNA leader and leader of the Opposition, R. Sampanthan, has said, adding that a political solution may or may not come. At a meeting of Tamil newspaper editors held at his working residence, the party leader said that while there may not be 100% satisfaction with the new constitution, it would still be an improvement. …
Thursday, September 21, 2017 9:39 am,
by eyeadmin
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