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We run on this page today an article written by a retired Major General of the Sri Lanka Army who argues forcefully that the Aragalaya protesters were NOT repeat NOT peaceful. Over the weeks and months of the protest, which now appears to be fizzling out, although contrary claims that it will continue persist, the […]
- CBK: Ranil fears electoral defeat (Category: Breaking News)
- As UN General Assembly Convenes, Leading Senators Unveil Resolution Urging International Coopera... (Category: Breaking News)
- British MP calls for global arrest warrant against Gota (Category: Breaking News)
- Sajith visits Stalin in police custody (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Did Bankruptcy Of Sinhala Language Help Push The Country Off The Cliff appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Clifford ‘Cliff’ Lee Gagnon (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Clifford ‘Cliff’ Lee Gagnon (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Lasantha Wickrematunge’s Assassination: Empty Promises Of Accountability (Category: Breaking News)
- Manslaughter By Proxy (Category: Breaking News)
A close aide to Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan will face sedition charges, accused of inciting mutiny in the military, the interior minister has said.News agencies say the charges are related to comments made by Khan adviser Shahbaz Gill and aired on ARY TV on Monday night, which the minister, Rana Sanaullah, said was […]
- Indo-Lanka tie up on the cards to undertake small arms production (Category: Breaking News)
- Pakistan court grants interim bail to former PM Imran Khan (Category: Breaking News)
- ABC report surfaces many discrepancies in Easter investigations: Catholic Church (Category: Breaking News)
- Expect more Easter Sunday type attacks: minister (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Truth Is An Abyss appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- What Is The “System Change” We Anticipate? How Can It Be Achieved? (Category: Breaking News)
- Prosecuting Aragalaya Protestors; A Legal Perspective (Category: Breaking News)
- Sovereign People, Legal Despotism & Aragalaya (Category: Breaking News)
- Well, It’s Legal! (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post The Aragalaya & Morality appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Why I Don’t Support The Aragalaya (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil-Gota Twosome: One Gone, The Other Is Acting Up (Category: Breaking News)
- Futility Of Transforming A Nation Built Over A Political Cesspit (Category: Breaking News)
- Saying No To Authoritarian Governance (Category: Breaking News)
… won’t expect miracles from new Prez By Shamindra Ferdinando The ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) didn’t expect miracles from UNP leader Ranil Wickremesinghe but strongly believed he could meet the growing threat posed by fascists, lawmaker Sagara Kariyawasam, General Secretary of the party, said on Monday night. Appearing on ‘Salakuna’ a live political [...
- SLPP defends PTA, calls for probe into ‘terror’ angle (Category: Breaking News)
- GL: Govt. not concerned about corruption despite Geneva warning (Category: Breaking News)
- Presidential poll: Chief Govt. Whip steps up pressure on SLPP on behalf of Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
- Probe into country’s bankruptcy: Ex-COPE Chief going ahead with own inquiry (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Sri Lanka – Survive Or Perish? – An Open Letter To The President appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Thank You Gota (Category: Breaking News)
- The First Step Of Aragalaya Is Completed: What Is Next? (Category: Breaking News)
- Transfer Of Formal Power Vs People Power During Societal Transition (Category: Breaking News)
- Political Hawks Can Hijack The Post-Aragala Agenda! (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Pelosi’s Pivot As Cold War & Colonialism Rebound: Blue-Greenwash In The Indian Ocean appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Ripples In The Indian Ocean: Yuan Wang 5 & Easter Sunday 2019 (Category: Breaking News)
- Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan completely justified: CTA’s Penpa Tsering (Category: Breaking News)
- China to skip meeting with US Secretary in Cambodia amid tensions over Pelosi’s visit (Category: Breaking News)
- Climate Colonialism At CoP 28: Carbon Laundering Via Green Bondscams? (Category: Breaking News)
Friday 5th August 2022 Sri Lanka’s struggle to shore up its crumbling economy continues, and there are no signs of promised foreign assistance materialising anytime soon. The Cabinet has just retained the services of some foreign firms for external debt restructuring, which is one of the main conditions for the IMF bailout package. When the […]
- Sri Lanka relaxes dollar conversion requirement for service exporters (Category: Breaking News)
- CBSL relaxes mandatory conversion requirement on service export proceeds (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka exporters say committed to repatriating funds (Category: Breaking News)
- Why record export earnings may not be good news (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Is Sri Lanka Becoming A Police State? Government Efforts To Delegitimise Aragalaya appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Is Sri Lanka Heading Towards The Myanmar Model Of Governance? (Category: Breaking News)
- Government’s Attempt To Redefine The Political Discourse & Direction Through Suppression (Category: Breaking News)
- The Police & Aragalaya Activists In A Time Of Social Upheaval (Category: Breaking News)
- Political engagement with Aragayala necessary (Category: Breaking News)
The secret vote on the new President as well as the Emergency sharply divided the SLFP. In spite of talks among members of its parliamentary group, the party, led by one-time President Maithripala Sirisena, has not been able to reach a consensus on a strategy to deal with the new President. Of the 14 SLFPers, […]
- Gevindu faults Prez, PM over deferred 22 A (Category: Breaking News)
- Prez makes headway amidst deepening turmoil (Category: Breaking News)
- Rebels to launch new alliance, initiate talks with GL-Dallas group (Category: Breaking News)
- Absence of dialogue among MPs unfortunate – Gevindu (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post BASL; Altruistic Union That Does Not Stand For Its Members’ Sake But For The People appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- 9th July Revolution Ousted Rajapaksa Dynasty; So, Let It Imprimatur (Category: Breaking News)
- Is The IMF Mad To Give Loans To A Murderous Government? (Category: Breaking News)
- Bar Association of Sri Lanka strongly condemns attack on Galle Face protesters (Category: Breaking News)
- President Wickremesinghe, The Current Pohottuwa Government & The Way Forward – A Call From Citiz... (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Poor Governance: Lack Of Policies To Overcome The Crises appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- The Current System & Unlawful Actions (Category: Breaking News)
- Options For Interim Govt. To Overcome The Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
- Aragalaya: Manufactured Economic Crisis & Peoples’ Suffering (Category: Breaking News)
- President Must Resign Now! (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s Time-Machine appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Aragalaya After Ranil: Re-Booting The Revolution (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Ranil Resign!’: Awaken Aragalaya 3.0 (Category: Breaking News)
- How To Stop Ranil’s Constitutional Coup & Counter-Revolution (Category: Breaking News)
- Defeating Gota-Ranil: Re-Thinking The Aragalaya & Left Strategy (Category: Breaking News)
Newspapers, TV programmes and video presentations have been dealing with the terrible incident that occurred in the premises of the Presidential Secretariat and on the steps leading to it, at predawn on Friday 23 July. Cassandra feels compelled to present her opinion though it is one week from that day. Experts have dissected it and […]
- Catherine W. ‘Cass’ Amiss (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Catherine W. ‘Cass’ Amiss (Category: USA, Indiana)
- Cass County divorces (Category: USA, North Dakota)
- Cass County divorces (Category: USA, North Dakota)
British Politics and Ours Both Sri Lanka and the UK have experienced an unprecedented political upheaval of late. It is interesting that both leaders agreed to resign within a day of each other. Everybody else saw the ‘the end is nigh’ sign for quite a while. They didn’t or didn’t want to see it until […]
- Laksiri, Issadeen win open men’s and women’s titles (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka set to play ten Tests next year (Category: Breaking News)
- Lochana, Warangana clinch singles titles (Category: Breaking News)
- Mihiran, Malshani adjudged best boxers at Nationals (Category: Breaking News)
India is maintaining an in depth watch throughout its southern neighbourhood following a report that a Chinese scientific analysis vessel ‘Yuan Wang 5‘ will enter Hambantota port on August 11 to allegedly conduct satellite tv for pc management and analysis monitoring within the Indian Ocean Region. What has raised eyebrows right here is the timing […]
- Chinese Survey Vessel Yuan Wang 5 reaches Port of Hambantota in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Chinese “spy ship” leaves Hambantota Port (Category: Breaking News)
- Prime Minister Modi has given us a breath of life: Ranil says addressing Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka says China survey ship can dock in its port (Category: Breaking News)
By Sanath Nanayakkare There is still possibility for Sri Lanka to arrive at a staff level agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by August 2022 to qualify for an extended fund facility, but the new government will need to demonstrate its ability to implement the required policies within an agreed upon time frame.” the […]
- Central Bank eyeing USD 8 -10 billion currency reserves in 3-4 years (Category: Breaking News)
- Diesel shipment that arrived in Colombo on 16 July still not paid for want of dollars (Category: Breaking News)
- USD 2.9bn IMF loan facility: Govt. confident of completing process early next year (Category: Breaking News)
- Asian Century will not happen if China and India could not join hands – Jaishankar (Category: Breaking News)
warns electorate not to expect early general election By Shamindra Ferdinando Veteran politician DEW Gunasekera (22) said that there must have been a tacit understanding between the new Sri Lankan administration and the Western camp, regarding the deployment of the military and the police to remove Galle Face protesters in the early hours of yesterday. […]
- CP Chief calls for re-alignment of political forces to thwart Ranil (Category: Breaking News)
- Devananda throws his weight behind RW’s candidature (Category: Breaking News)
- DEW disappointed over disruption of COPE; AG acting in terms of Standing Orders (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil likely to go for presidential poll first – sources (Category: Breaking News)
He lost the election, but became the president using the bonus seat.
- Whither Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- Has Harin Fernando Lost His Credibility? (Category: Breaking News)
- Abeywardana fills vacant seat of Wickremesinghe after Sri Lanka president vote (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil likely to go for presidential poll first – sources (Category: Breaking News)
by Dr. Sumedha S. Amarasekara Sanja De Silva Jayatilleka’s (SDJ) article, ‘Why Ranil Wickremasinghe cannot be my President in The Island 18.07.2022, discusses elegantly the constitutional issues and the fact that ‘sovereignty is in the people and is unalienable’. SDJ goes on to exemplify why RW cannot be PM as well. The editorial of the […]
- Political engagement with Aragayala necessary (Category: Breaking News)
- Abolishing The Presidency – Two Cunning Foxes Plan The Unexpected! (Category: Breaking News)
- Cat among the pigeons (Category: Breaking News)
- Aragalaya At The Cross-Roads & In The Cross-Hairs (Category: Breaking News)
CIVICUS, a global civil society alliance, is concerned with the declaration of a State of Emergency by the Prime Minister’s office in Sri Lanka on 13 July and again by the Acting President on 18 July. The organisation urged the Sri Lankan authorities to refrain from using the State of Emergency to stifle dissent and respect […]
- Rights groups urge strong UN resolution on Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- UN experts sound alarm on economic crisis in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s proposed internet law threatens upcoming polls (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil urged to end use of counter terror laws on protesters (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post JVP Proposal Points To Consensual Way Forward appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Rise & Fall Of Nationalism In North & South (Category: Breaking News)
- Don’t Disregard The Less Privileged (Category: Breaking News)
- Weaponising Of The Law (Category: Breaking News)
- Criminalising Public Protest Will Only Delay The Inevitable (Category: Breaking News)
By Jehan Perera Acting President Ranil Wickremesinghe has been nominated by the SLPP general Secretary as the ruling party’s candidate for election to the Presidency to take place in Parliament on 20 July. There is controversy over this nomination as the SLPP Chairman and other party members have denied this. The controversy extends also to […]
- Dons condemn suppression of Aragalaya movement (Category: Breaking News)
- Aragalaya through political lenses (Category: Breaking News)
- FUTA asks Ranil to go home (Category: Breaking News)
- FUTA urges govt. to stop suppressing people’s rights (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post From Frying Pan To The Fire: Ranil Will Make Gota Look Like A Boy Scout! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Is Ranil Creating The 2nd Batalanda? (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Gota Come Home’ – The New Paradigm: I Repeat; RW Will Make GR Look Like A Boy Scout! (Category: Breaking News)
- Song Of The Betrayed (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil’s Choices (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Transfer Of Formal Power Vs People Power During Societal Transition appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Adopting A Humanist Approach To Empower Youths For National Development (Category: Breaking News)
- Election Of A New President: Old Wine In A New Bottle Or System Change? (Category: Breaking News)
- Competing Interests For Power To Govern Sri Lanka For A Better Society (Category: Breaking News)
- Is Sri Lanka Becoming A Police State? Government Efforts To Delegitimise Aragalaya (Category: Breaking News)
[…]The post Disorderly Order Of A People’s Movement appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- From Frying Pan To The Fire: Ranil Will Make Gota Look Like A Boy Scout! (Category: Breaking News)
- Song Of The Betrayed (Category: Breaking News)
- Ranil’s Infidelity To Truth & Fair Play (Category: Breaking News)
- Aragalaya: People’s Response To Rajapaksa-Made Crisis (Category: Breaking News)
Ranil W appointed Acting President Curfew declared in WP as armed forces, police receive orders to ‘clear’ protesters Party leaders’ decision to elect new Prez on 20 July stands By Shamindra Ferdinando The crisis took an unexpected and violent turn as President Gotabaya Rajapaksa left the country without resigning. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is functioning […]
- Avert bloodbath (Category: Breaking News)
- Pressure mounts on PM to quit as Prez reneges on promise to resign on 13 July (Category: Breaking News)
- Diplomats concerned by state of emergency in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Gotabaya: Only Ranil could have restored law and order (Category: Breaking News)
President goes to Maldives
- Kamala Harris' VP win is huge for HBCUs, Tougaloo president says (Category: USA, Mississippi)
- Shribman: Gorman, summoned to participate, is celebrated (Category: USA, Massachusetts)
- Shribman: Gorman, summoned to participate, is celebrated (Category: USA, Massachusetts)
- Shribman: Gorman, summoned to participate, is celebrated (Category: USA, Massachusetts)
[…]The post Dammika Perera Antics – Only Oligarch In Sri Lanka! appeared first on Colombo Telegraph.
- Shocking & Damaging Performance Of BOI In Front Of COPF: Sack All The BOI Senior Staff To Save T... (Category: Breaking News)
- Good Bye Ranil; “Welcome” President Dulles Alahapperuma (Category: Breaking News)
- A Janus Moment (Category: Breaking News)
- Abolishing The Presidency – Two Cunning Foxes Plan The Unexpected! (Category: Breaking News)
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