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  Protecting Lankan people to overcome Covid-19

  Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on May 17, 2021

  THE sudden resurgence of the Covid pandemic in Sri Lanka was totally unexpected by people at large though it was expected and predicted by those...

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  Foreign policy means engagement with all

  Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on May 06, 2021

  THE fact that the economic crisis looms large in the government’s calculations can be seen in the decisions to save money by replacing the import...

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  Lankan port city model and provincial councils

  Jehan Perera | Updated at 10:27pm on April 28, 2021

  THE Chinese embassy was bold to question what the big fuss was about their invitation to parliamentarians to a tour of Colombo Port City which...

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  Even-handedness needed to stop Lanka radicalisation

  Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on April 22, 2021

  THE government was elected on a platform that stressed national security and unity. The elections took place in the aftermath of the Easter suicide bomb...

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  Overzealous Lanka crackdown to divide unless mitigated

  Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on April 14, 2021

  ONE of the definitions of reconciliation is to move from a divided past to a shared future. The arrest of the Jaffna mayor Viswalingam Manivannan...

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  Cost of not complying can be high in Lanka

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on April 02, 2021

  Sri Lanka’s encounter with nationalism has been central to its existence as a democratic polity and Sri Lanka has not been able to relegate nationalism...

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  Guard against rousing extremism through immoderate laws

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on March 24, 2021

  THE draft resolution on Sri Lanka sponsored by a group of countries led by the United Kingdom is to be put to the vote in...

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  Int’l consensus not possible without internal one

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on March 17, 2021

  A BOOK titled Geneva Crisis: The Way Forward compiled by the Ambassadors’ Forum of Sri Lanka was launched at the foreign ministry. The inspiration behind...

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  Narrow nationalism can unfairly discredit Sri Lankan state

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on March 11, 2021

  SRI Lanka is currently being discussed at the level of the UN Human Rights Council along with notorious countries such as North Korea, South Sudan...

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  Lanka needs to show results to ensure closure

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on March 04, 2021

  THERE are two aspects to the process unfolding in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva at the present time. The first is the outcome...