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Claims Of Chinese Debt Trap Diplomacy Are Propaganda - (Told You So) In June 2018 we debunked a New York Times piece which accused China of financial imperialism. NYT piece was about the Chinese financed development of the Hambantota port in Sri Lanka: Chinas financial imperialism is a relatively new genre in western journalism. China is providing loans to other countries to build infrastructure. If those countries can not pay back the loans, China offers to lease and manage the infrastructur...

Posted on February 6th, 2021 By Camellia Nathaniel/Daily News Colombo, February 6: The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) accuses Sri Lanka of being in a ‘state of denial about the past’, details how the failure of domestic mechanisms has further entrenched impunity, exacerbating victims’ distrust in the system. Among a litany of failures, the report addresses the rollback of 2015 reforms that offered more checks and balances on executive power, the erosi...

Victim Community Endorses strong recommendations of High Commissioner Bachelet  GENEVA – February 02, 2021: We, members of the Tamil diaspora spread across the world call on the states gathered to deliberate at the 46 th Human Rights Council session to pass a new resolution on Sri Lanka following the recommendations laid out in the January 2021 report by the High Commissioner for Human Rights.  The report clearly confirms that, in the twelve years since the end of the war, Sri Lanka has fai...

Prof. N.A. De S Amaratunga in his piece “Is government in self-destructive mode? in The Island of 22 Jan. said more than 60% of people who voted for this government were poor rural people and he has emphasized the need to focus on these people. The livelihood of nearly 70% of those living in rural areas is farming. As per the policy manifesto of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, ‘Vistas of Prosperity and Splendour’ ( ‘Rata Hadana Saubhagyaye Dekma’), one of the main objectives of the gov...

Ambassador Malraj de Silva presented Letters of Credence to Vice President and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum at the Qasr Al Watan Presidential Palace, Sri Lankan Embassy in Abu Dhabi said. The presentation of credentials was followed by a courtesy call on Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum during which the Ambassador conveyed greetings from President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa and the People of Sr...

Tamil Diaspora Calls on UNHRC Member States to Pass New Resolution on Sri Lanka Victim Community Endorses strong recommendations of High Commissioner Bachelet News provided by Share this article Share this article GENEVA, Feb. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The following statement was jointly issued by the Australian Tamil Congress (ATC), British Tamils Forum (BTF), Irish Tamils Forum (ITF), Solidarity Group for Peace and Justice in Sri Lanka (South Africa), and the United States Tamil Action Group (...

Last Updated: India Asks Sri Lanka To Abide By Its Commitments On ECT Deal India on Monday asked all sides to abide by the existing understandings and commitment of a trilateral agreement involving Sri Lanka and Japan to develop the strategic Colombo Ports Eastern Container Terminal (ECT). India on Monday asked all sides to abide by the existing understandings and commitment of a trilateral agreement involving Sri Lanka and Japan to develop the strategic Colombo Ports Eastern Container Ter...

by Lalin Fernando After reading Shamindra Ferdinando’s sparkling review (Island Jan 13 with a follow up a week later) of retired Senior Deputy Inspector General of Police (SDIG) Merril Guneratne’s third book, ‘Perils of a Profession’, this may appear to be like shoveling salt into the sea. No gazetted police officer has shown his ability to write as lucidly as Guneratne to highlight the real concerns of the police from professional competence to welfare of the beat constable. This book ...

Last Updated: Colombo Port Trade Unions Hope SL Govt Will Decide On ECT Deal On Monday Sri Lankas strategic Colombo port trade unions said on Sunday that they were hopeful of a decision by the government on Monday on a proposed joint venture involving India and Japan to develop the Eastern Container Terminal (ECT). Sri Lankas strategic Colombo port trade unions said on Sunday that they were hopeful of a decision by the government on Monday on a proposed joint venture involving India and Ja...

Saturday 30th January, 2021 The trouble-torn UNP shows signs of further disintegration with some of its rebels giving up their positions and criticising their leader in public. Curiously, some of them have already stressed the need to field a common Opposition candidate at the next presidential election. There is much the UNP will have to […]