Courtesy of The Island blames HRC for unfair assertions as regards Mannar mass graves points out how LTTE tactics are adopted by international terror groups alleges evidence in favour of military disregarded explains extreme difficulty in setting up ‘hybrid court’ opposes move to open Office of the HC for Human...
By Neville Ladduwahetty (Courtesy of The Island) Despite the repeated and continuing references to war crimes and crimes against humanity alleged to have been committed during Sri Lanka’s armed conflict, the actual wording in Paragraph 6 of UNHRC Resolution 30/1 is as follows:” …a judicial mechanism with a special counsel...
By Shenali Waduge The news reports of Sri Lanka’s military cum humanitarian rescue operation is poignant for several reasons. It provides us some real time news sans politicization & influence and now 10 years on it helps us to understand the scale of lies & hypocrisies that have...
By Senaka Weeraratna (This is an edited version of a paper read out at a Public Seminar on the ‘ Kandyan Convention of 1815’ held at the University of Peradeniya, Arts Theatre, on March 09, 2019) The Kandyan Convention (‘Ingrisy – Sinhale Givisuma’) must be examined in the context of...
