OIC countries seek pro-active measures
Ambassadors and High Commissioners from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) met Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe here on Wednesday...
Islamic State was initially unaware of Easter attacks
The Islamic State (IS) may have claimed responsibility for the Easter terror attacks in Sri Lanka, but its chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was initially not...
Facebook adds new limits to address hate speech
As Facebook grapples with the spread of hate speech on its platform, it is introducing changes that limit the spread of messages in two countries...
Hiding the truth?
The head of the Catholic church in Sri Lanka on Thursday issued a scathing criticism of the government over the Easter attacks that killed more...
ISIS shift in Strategy may threaten India, Sri Lanka
India and Sri Lanka are likely to be under threat with terror group ISIS turning its attention to the Indian Ocean Region in the wake...
Military victory is seen as moral and racial vindication
I isolate the following two from an email message I received recently: “The anti-Tamil feeling began in 1949 with the de-citizenizing of Tamils” “In Kandy...
Government has abandoned a new Constitution.
Assistant Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate(CTED) Ms Michele Coninsx met with the leader of the Tamil...
US Representatives discuss radical Sinhala nationalism
United States Representatives from both main parties discussed the threat of radical Sinhala nationalism in Sri Lanka and the country's lack of progress on transitional justice...
The Charges sound silly but…
The charges sound silly but the consequences are not. One Muslim lady’s crime was to wear a shirt printed with a ship’s helm. Her accusers...
Significance of Modi’s visits
Thanks to former President Abdulla Yameen’s pro-China policies as also his crackdown on the opposition on the eve of Prime minister Narendra Modi’s March 2015...
UK will continue to press for further progress
The British Foreign Office released the 2018 Foreign and Commonwealth Office human rights report on 05 June 2019. The report said that the human rights...
Avoiding Sri Lanka’s next civil war
18 May 2019 was a doubly significant day in Sri Lanka. Not only did it mark the ten-year anniversary of the end of Sri Lanka’s...
Asia should brace itself for more IS terrorist attacks
The world appears to be witnessing a new phase in Islamic State's global war which began in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday. Shortly after the...
Sri Lanka And Terrorism
The massive ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) attack against Christians in Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon, just south of India) on April 21st...
Future Posture in the Indo-Pacific
Releasing the US Department of Defense Indo - Pacific Strategy Report Preparedness, Partnerships, and Promoting a Networked Region on 01 June 2019, the US Department...