International Relations of Sri Lanka

Let’s unite!  We are all victors of war! With unlimited access to natural reserves in the Indian Ocean, being a member of a maritime Silk Road initiative of China, having friendly and mutually benefiting relations with India and the rest of trading countries, and materialising full potential of educated population of the country, Sri Lanka could be a model for developing and developed nations. At this juncture we need a cohesive and long term national strategy to realise that. Just because we Sri Lankans were led to believe that our country is a proud nation, it does not necessary mean it is true. In terms of individual, do you really feel you are an equal citizen among other citizens of developed nations? The latter question would not be appearing if that was the case, I assume. We, statesmen and policymakers, need a cohesive and long term national strategy to uplift the status of our nation and the image of the Sri Lankan citizens. Such nation strategy shall go beyond p...

T he result leaves immense pressure on coming President Maithripala Sirisena to get rid of authoritarian attitude in the constitution and corruption. The JVP is to ensure that. Failure of that will be felt as missing of old government among people. Shockingly most of the national and international observers of the Sri Lankan Presidential election, on 8th of January 2015, yesterday, it is now has confirmed that Mahinda Rajapaksa is to leave the Office and Maithripala Sirisena is on the way to the Office. On Twitter and Facebook pages of Mahinda Rajapaksa he has promised a peaceful transition. Mahinda Rajapaksa has proven to the world that he was not blinded by the power or the preaching of the people of Ape Rajanani. This peaceful transition is one of the significant action of the Mahinda Rajapaksa that no one seems expected. We all have to respect that Mahinda Rajapaksa and his Government historically defeated of the LTTE and brought unprecedented level of developme...

Politics behind   Ryan Goodman, a professor of Law of Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz at New York University, writes the following;   "… Sri Lanka’s historic defeat of an insurgency is emerging as a competing model to US counterinsurgency and counterterrorism strategy. It is a draconian alternative that, if adopted by other militaries, risks counterproductive and blowback effects to the detriment of US interests."  Goodman has not paid enough attention to the significant difference between these two models of counterterrorism operations, the US model and the Sri Lankan model.  While the US counterterrorism operations are conducted on foreign territories the Sri Lankan counterterrorism operation was conducted within its own territory. These are the operations I refer to as US counterterrorism operations – Goodman does the same. This is a significant different. Unlike the Sri Lankan operation, I point out, this different causes each US counter...