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SLPP — THE PIVOTAL POLITICAL MOVEMENT OF THIS CENTURY
To place on record the political significance of the SLPP, is not to belittle the SLFP. The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna is a political phenomenon. Its historical significance will be of tremendous scholarly import in the future, for both the student of politics, and the regular political chronicler. But, what would be the future role of the SLPP? Would it be the political...
23 February, 2020
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Michelle Bachelet needs a tutor
A year ago, UN Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet made the following observation in her report on Sri Lanka (tabled on March 8, 2019): ‘On 29 May 2018, human skeletal remains were discovered at a construction site in Mannar (Northern Province). Excavations, concluded with the support of the Office on Missing Persons, revealed a mass grave from which more than 300...
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Provocative abuse of American power
With incontrovertible evidence gleaned from unimpeachable international sources Daya Gamage, by far the most knowledgeable analyst of America’s role in Sri Lanka – he once worked in the American Embassy acquiring detailed insights into the operations of the mission – has revealed that the decision to place a travel ban on Lt. Gen. Shavendra Silva originated from the...
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UNP, no challenge to SLPP led alliance - Minister Bandula Gunawardana
Cabinet Spokesman and Information and Mass Media, Higher Education, Technology and Innovation Minister Dr. Bandula Gunawardana...
Educated MPs vital for good governance - D.E.W. Gunasekera
Education - only passport to Parliament?In April, the country will again head to the polls to elect MP’s for the ninth Parliament...
Paper qualifications alone will not make a good politician- Vijitha Herath
Education - only passport to Parliament?In April, the country will again head to the polls to elect MP’s for the ninth Parliament...
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Live and Let Die
They say that two things in life are inevitable: Death and taxes. People go to extraordinary lengths to dodge taxes, but the same...

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