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By Shenali D Waduge Canada should be ashamed for several reasons. Firstly, Canada takes pride in throwing egg at other nations quoting human rights, democracy & freedoms but back home, Canada has been treating the natives of Canada inhumanely where assimilation schools have ended up graveyards of slain & buried...

Lord Michael Naseby on Wednesday (19) questioned why wartime dispatches from Colombo-based UK Defence Attaché Lt. Col. Anthony Gash had been heavily censored, if both the Defence Ministry and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) believed reports were useless. In a hard-hitting speech delivered in the House of Lords during...

By Shamindra Ferdinando Yahapalana President Maithripala Sirisena recently contradicted former Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando as regards the latter’s statements before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (P CoI) probing 2019 April 21 Easter Sunday attacks. It was, in fact, Sirisena who appointed the P CoI several weeks before the end of...

By Dr Palitha Kohona We have been hearing lengthy and, at times learned, discussions on Treaties in the last few months, especially in the lead up to the Presidential election. This rich discourse, occasionally not well informed, has not ceased. The Millennium Challenge Compact (MCC) was the main focus of...