Indian Ocean
Mauritius ruling a ‘tool’ for Cyprus on UK bases
February 25, 2019
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Latest on the status of the Chagos Islands (all times local):
9:10 p.m.
Cyprus’ attorney general says a...
US military logistics hub in Sri Lanka: duplicity and doublespeak
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
While Sri Lankan politicians were distracted by apower struggle between the president and prime minister in December, the world’s superpower pulled off...
Indian Ocean geopolitics behind Western diplomatic behavior in Sri Lanka
Jan.9, 2019
By LasandaKurukulasuriya
Sri Lanka’s seven-week political impasse towards the end of last year, caused by a clash between the executive and legislature, was resolved...
Sri Lanka: An urgent case for conflict prevention
By Jeffrey Feltman *
October 31, 2018
No one following Sri Lanka could pretend that the partnership forged in 2015 between President Maithripala Sirisena...
Sri Lanka’s parliamentary crisis and Western ‘concern’ for democracy
Sri Lanka’s legislature has been in disarray since 26th Oct. when President Maithripala Sirisena sacked his prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, replacing him with his...
Titlos Lettre de Colombo
Par Jean Pierre Page
Cet article ci dessous est à l’image de la campagne internationale des médias et de l’ingérence systématique des gouvernements occidentaux en...
Sri Lanka: «rétablir» la vérité !
Par Jean-Pierre Page
10 novembre2018
« Ce sont les masses qui font l’histoire » Karl Marx
« Rien n’est absolu, tout est changement, tout est mouvement, tout est révolution, tout...
The West is upset about Sri Lanka, but not about democracy
Prevailing media narrative does not reveal the internal tensions and external pressures that saw former PM Ranil Wickremesinghe sacked -New leader Mahinda Rajapakse’s budget,...
“Security cooperation” in the Indian Ocean: Does it make sense?
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriiya
International conferenceson maritime affairs in the Indian Ocean region have seen a spike in recent times. Sri Lanka has invariably figured in...
Sri Lanka in the cross-currents of shifting power alignments in the...
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
The Indian Ocean has been the focus of frequent and intense diplomatic activity in the past few years. These interactions have had...