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  Siren call of postponing Lanka elections yet again

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:01am on July 15, 2020

  THE containment of COVID-19 spread in Sri Lanka relative to other countries, including its immediate neighbours, put the government on a strong footing to face...

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  Delays that erode confidence in Lanka reconciliation

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on July 08, 2020

  THE government last week responded to the concerns of those countries in the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva which have been taking a special...

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  More representative decision-making bodies required

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on July 01, 2020

  THERE has been a trend of president Gotabaya Rajapaksa making senior appointments in which those who are outside the established administrative systems are being brought...

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  Reliance on security forces for failure of civil governance

  Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on June 18, 2020

  THE signs of elections and the short term changes that they bring are upon us today. Posters of candidates are coming up with their party...

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  Dealing with COVID-19 crisis in Sri Lanka

  Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on March 19, 2020

  FOR three months Sri Lankans watched the burgeoning coronavirus crisis in other parts of the world with a measure of equanimity as something that was...

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  Higher duty of care owed to one’s own citizens

  Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on March 12, 2020

  THE US government has rejected the war crimes allegations against it in regard to its conduct of the war in Afghanistan. This is yet another...

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  Reconciliation process in words and in deeds

  Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on March 05, 2020

  THE significance of foreign minister Dinesh Gunawardena’s speech at the ongoing UN Human Rights Commission session in Geneva must not be missed. There is a...

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  The hope for Rajapaksa to deliver

  Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on February 27, 2020

  The popular vote in the districts in which the minority communities predominated went overwhelmingly to president Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s main challenger, opposition leader Sajith Premadasa, writes...

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  State relief to victims of JVP, LTTE periods

  Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on February 20, 2020

  ON VALENTINE’S Day, there were two events that took place at Colombo’s iconic Vhara Maha Devi Park. The two events that took place at the...

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  Need for transition that could unify Lanka

  Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on February 12, 2020

  THIS year’s Independence Day national event was significant for two reasons. It was the first to be celebrated under the leadership of president Gotabaya Rajapaksa...