Indian Ocean
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...
Return of the Peace Corps: Another dimension of US penetration of...
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
The available information on the return of the US Peace Corps (USPC) to Sri Lanka on the stated mission of ‘English language...
US quits Human Rights Council wearing the emperor’s new clothes
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
The US quit the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday (19th June) with rhetoric intended to assert the moral high-ground, slamming the...
Sri Lanka, Independent Republic to Vassal State
By Tamara Kunanayakam
former Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva
April 3, 2018
The question repeatedly asked of me, a major preoccupation of...