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By Sugath Samarasinghe This is a response to the letter to the Editor published in the Opinion page of The Island of August 22, 2017 titled New constitution a must . I do not agree with the opening statement of the Friday Forum which states: “The peoples’...
By Kanthar Balanathan, Australia History reveals that Tamils of various dimension have migrated out of Tamil Nadu and SriLanka, several centuries ago. Recent, legal and illegal migration over a 40-year bandwidth has been on a theoretical accusation/allegation podium of war and human rights violation, which is not the real truth....
By Shenali D Waduge We challenge the UN Rapporteur Izsak Ndiaye to give a list of rights that legally & constitutionally are denied to the minorities in Sri Lanka which are legally & constitutionally given only to the Sinhalese majority. Name any instance where a law or judgement has been...
By Neville Ladduwahetty A petition (SC SPL 03/2014) was filed in the Supreme Court claiming that the “aims” and “objects” of the Illankai Thamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) was to establish a separate state under terms of Article 157A (4) of the Constitution. Since the petition has to be judged...