Once again talks are underway to deal with minority issues which had turned this paradise island, a proud role model for the third world during independence in 1948, into Asia’s worst killing field. However, despite all destruction and killings, even today, talks are confined to issues facing the Tamils, ignoring the plight of the Muslims, the third largest community …

Dictatorship:- When People fear the Rulers. Democracy/Islamocracy:- When Rulers fear the people. Bakeer Markar (former Speaker of Sri Lanka’s  Parliament  ) Memorial Lecture by Senior Journalist and Author Latheef  Farook on Thursday 12 May 2011 at  the All Ceylon Union of Muslim League Youth Fronts at KG 7,Elvitigala Flats. Colombo-8 Political uprising sweeping Middle East and North Africa has taken …

Arms traders (merchants of death), oil tycoons and all other businessmen are ready with their bags to reconstruct Libya? By Latheef Farook The NATO military strikes on Libya, claimed to free Libyans from Gaddafi’s 42 year long dictatorship, were supposed to be “humanitarian intervention”. However more than three weeks later, killing scores of civilians, Gaddafi’s forces continue to advance forcing …

The international justice collapsed and the evil, war mongers, ravaging today’s world triumphed. This is how one could describe the plight of   South African Jewish Judge Robert Goldstone’s effort to retract his own, United Nations, Report on Israeli war crimes in Gaza during its December 2008-January 2009 war. His U Turn speaks volume for the extreme blackmail to which …

The unprecedented, peaceful and historic popular uprisings raging in the Middle East and North Africa remain clear indictment on the United States led Europe and their media   known for spreading lies. It was with the support and blessings of the west and its media that tyranny which caused untold to misery to millions in the region flourished for decades.   …