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  Adequate Lanka response needed for justice

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

  WITH the Zero Draft in circulation there is no longer any doubt that a resolution on Sri Lanka will be presented at the forthcoming session...

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  Bipartisan approach can bring closure to Geneva

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on February 19, 2021

  ONE of the issues that have created internal division in the country is the cremation of those who have succumbed to the COVID-19 virus. This...

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  P2P march in Lanka and some other issues

  Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on February 10, 2021

  THE five-day march from the eastern town of Pottuvil to the northern capital of Jaffna, given the name P2P — Pottuvil to Polikandi march —...

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  Lanka’s choice of consensus or confrontation

  Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on February 05, 2021

  THE report on Sri Lanka of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has been much stronger than anticipated. It has shattered the belief that...

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  Lanka needs to commit to more than commissions

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on January 27, 2021

  PREPARING for the forthcoming UN Human Rights Council cannot be easy for a government that was elected on a nationalist platform that was very critical...

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  Lanka: more decisions in national interest

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on January 20, 2021

  PRESIDENT Gotabaya Rajapaksa has announced that the government will be entering into an agreement with the Adani Group based in India to offer them 49...

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  Sri Lanka: rationality is required for unity

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

  JUST over a year after president Gotabaya Rajapaksa took over the reins of governance, which the 20th amendment to the constitution has strengthened, the red...

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  Lanka: moving towards a necessary balance

  by Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on January 08, 2021

  AS THE new year dawns the government appears to be moving in the direction of more inclusivity in both domestic and foreign policy. The most...

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  Lanka govt should take a stand for religious right to burial

  Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on December 31, 2020

  THE map of COVID-19 infection in the country is steadily spreading to more remote parts of the country radiating from the western province which has...

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  Lanka leaders should analyse problems rationally

  Jehan Perera | Updated at 12:00am on December 25, 2020

  THE loss of the $480 million grant opportunity provided to Sri Lanka by the Millennium Challenge Corporation has been on the cards for some time....