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The Sri Lankan government was moving against armed jihadis, a new menace in the Eastern part of the island country, which just ended a long drawn out war against the LTTE, claimed a front-page report in the weekly Lakbimanews on Sunday. Official Indian sources told The New Indian Express that presence of jihadis had begun to cause concern to both …

The statement emphasized that the Election Law strongly protects the rights of the voters and the candidates. The Foreign Ministry on Wednesday in a communiquŽ said the cheap and lowly attitude of a few western governments cannot undermine the democratic nature of the presidential election. It called on the said regimes to review their faulty approach to Iranian developments. Part …

I refer to Kath Noble’s article in the Island of June 17, in which a whole paragraph is devoted to me. Before dealing with that paragraph, I must set out the background to it. In my article HRC Special Session in the Island of June 15, I described the   Westerners as the grand specialists in the art and science of …

In the six days after the presidential election the people have again seen the contradictory attitude of some western governments toward Iran. When it was announced that an unusually large number of people participated in the democratic exercise, most if not all western circles admired the political climate in Iran and confessed that such a development was unparalleled in the …

Sri Lanka Muslim conference was founded in 1977. Its singular vision was to bring together the Muslim Women’s organizations as one united body to work in solidarity to raise the status of women and add quality to their lives. The founder’s vision was manifested in action when initially 17 organizations came together as one in the year following 1976. The …

The concept of Responsibility to Protect has triggered resistance in many countries of the Global South precisely because of its potential misapplication to situations such as the Sri Lankan one. Lakshman Kadirgamar, the former Sri Lankan Foreign Minister, was one of the most incisive legal minds of his generation. A former president of the Oxford Union, he made significant contributions …