The Insurgency Of April 1971 - Colombo Telegraph
Apr 4, 2021 · September 1971 – First Amnesty International Mission to Sri Lanka.(Report published March 1972). 4 & 5 April 1972 – Act creating Criminal Justice Commissions to try insurgent suspects debated and passed. 22 May 1972 – New Constitution adopted.“Ceylon” becomes “Sri Lanka”, a Republic. 12 June 1972 – Trial, under Criminal Justice Commissions Act, of alleged leaders of the April ...
A Contrarian Review: The Seven Moons Of Maali Almeida
Nov 15, 2022 · A Contrarian Review: Shehan Karunatilaka, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida, London: Sort of Books, August, 2022. The book under review is authored by one described as one of Sri Lanka’s foremost literary authors. According to the blurbs on the book, he emerged on to the global literary stage in 2011, when he won the Commonwealth Book Prize, the DSL [sic.] and Gratiaen Prize for his debut ...
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chiv on Two Thirds Or Simple Majority, It Doesn’t Matter Hope NPP can form their own govt without any opportunistic alliance, like. Thanga on Integrity Against Unfettered Authority: Lessons For The NPP & The Federal Party H. Hoole as usual writing rigmaroles. Strangely he is …
සිංහල Archives - Colombo Telegraph
Oct 26, 2024 · SJ on Integrity Against Unfettered Authority: Lessons For The NPP & The Federal Party SAV I fully agree with the wider point made, and was only
Gota Continues Witch-Hunt Against Nishantha Silva: AG Orders …
Apr 9, 2021 · The warrant for Silva’s arrest, the second warrant issued for the former CID detective, will be on a murder charge. Lawyers said the move would allow the Government to make a case to the Swiss Government for extradition, while also discrediting former IP Silva as a potential witness and his investigations into human rights abuses, by painting him out as a man wanted on a murder charge.
The Duminda Silva Pardon - Colombo Telegraph
Feb 5, 2024 · The Duminda Silva Pardon. By Nihal Jayawickrama –. Dr Nihal Jayawickrama. The Attorney-General had indicted 13 persons on 17 counts including murder following the death of one Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra in 2012. In September 2016, in the High Court of Colombo, at the conclusion of a Trial-at-Bar before three Judges, in a majority judgment ...
Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s Accomplishments & Challenges
Feb 25, 2024 · The upcoming presidential appears to be narrowing to become a contest between Ranil Wickremesinghe and Anura Kumara Dissanayake.The political house of Sajith Premadasa is a house divided according to insiders and outsiders, and he will have to first put his house in order before he can be a serious contender in the presidential election. The impending contest between Ranil Wickremesinghe and ...
The Wahhabi Invasion Of Sri Lanka - Colombo Telegraph
Mar 27, 2013 · Sheihul Mufliheen M.S.M. Abdullah (Rah) died on December 6, 2006. Wahhabi preachers from the Thawheed network and the armed “Jihad” incited the local clerics and politicians (Jamiathul Ulama Kattankudy, the Muslim Federation of Mosques, and the Urban Council of Kattankudy) to oppose his burial according to Islamic rites, in the Meditation Centre, as he was a supposed “apostate.”
Why The LTTE Was Defeated - Colombo Telegraph
May 14, 2014 · The short-sightedness of the LTTE leadership in failing to avert an internal split, however, helped seal its fate ten years later. Disposing of theories two and three. Second in my list was the theory that the LTTE was defeated because it degenerated into terrorism and lost the moral high ground.
President Anura Kumara Dissanayake? - Colombo Telegraph
Feb 22, 2015 · It seems like most Sri Lankans think that Anura Kumara is not only an honest, intelligent, educated, hard-working, sincere leader, but also an intrepid orator and skilled-politician; he is an out-of-the-box thinker, who has the ability to stir the spirit of our nation, because he approaches burning topics like corruption, murder, freedom of ...