Presidential Adviser on Reconciliation Counters Channel 4 Film
Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha, Presidential Adviser on Reconciliation, In a statement from Geneva, Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha, Presidential Adviser on Reconciliation, responded to claims in the latest Channel 4...
View ArticleManipulation of the body of young Balasinghman-Further excesses of Channel 4
by Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha, MP-Courtesy The Island March 22, 2012, 8:44 pm In dealing with the allegations made by Channel 4, one needs to look carefully at what they present as their most damning...
View ArticleWasting the money allocated to education
Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha-Courtesy The Island A couple of days back I predicted that the FUTA strike would soon be resolved by yet another increase in the salaries of university staff, with no correctives...
View ArticlePlaying by rules
Prof. Rajiv Wijesinha-Courtesy The Daily News When I was asked recently, in fulfillment of my work on the Human Rights Action Plan, to assist the Ministries of Justice and of Child Development and...
View ArticleDealing with allegations of war crimes
Prof Rajiva Wijesinha Some weeks back I was sent, by a friend in England, a book entitled The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the American Media. It was by someone called Lila Rajiva, but doubtless...
View ArticleInternational Relations and Security: Moving forward with India
Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha, MPƒÆ’-¡ Courtesy The Daily NewsƒÆ’-¡ With regard to the collapse of relations with India in the eighties, the reasons are clear enough. If anyone doubted the corrosive effect...
View ArticleUnderstanding American attitudes: International Relations and Security
Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha, MP Courtesy The Daily NewsƒÆ’-¡ One of the sadder aspects of Tissa JayatilakaƒÆ’‚¢ƒ¢-¡‚¬ƒ¢-¾‚¢s celebration of American values and conduct with regard to Sri Lanka is his...
View ArticleEnemies of the President’s Promise – 3 Sleepy
By Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha Courtesy Ceylon Today GL’s appointment as Minister of External Affairs, in 2010, was generally welcomed. Bogollagama had lost the election, which made the President’s task...
View ArticleEnemies of the President’s promise
By PROF. RAJIVA WIJESINHA Courtesy Ceylon Today In May 2009, Sri Lanka seemed on top of the world. Under President Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Sri Lankan Government and forces had defeated the Liberation...
View ArticleEnemies of the President’s Promse: Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Seven Dwarfs –...
Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha October 11, 2014 in Enemies of the President’s Promise | Tags: C R De Silva, Darusman, G L Peiris,H. M. G. S. Palihakkara, Mahinda Samarasinghe, Ministry of Human Rights, Mohan...
View ArticleDid Gotabaya Precipitate The Crisis With Chris Nonis?
By Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha In the course of the frenetic travel programme I had set myself before the usual budget period, I had just two days in Sri Lanka last week. They were packed, with Parliament,...
View ArticleWhat went wrong for the ‘rainbow coalition’
Rajiva Wijesinha Courtesy Island Rajiva Wijesinha was one of the main figures in the yahapalana coalition that overthrew President Mahinda Rajapaksa in January this year. Before former chief justice...
View ArticleRanil and Highways
Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha Second instalment of roadscam, you might like also to question the Secretary who was suddenly dismissed, Mr Udaya Seneviratne, and perhaps the Chinese Embassy too about the...
View ArticleRanil’s dishonesty gets worse by the day
Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha Ranil’s dishonesty gets worse by the day. But even more startling perhaps is his brazen hypocrisy. And what seems to be open mockery of the President. There have been multiple...
View ArticleChandrika’s techniques of character assassination-The lessons of Batalanda
By Prof Rajiva Wijesingha – Seeing all the posters asserting that ruggerite Wasim Thajudeen was murdered, I was struck by the similarity to the allegations made when Chandrika Kumaratunga was President...
View ArticleThe Paranagama & The Geneva Reports: Attempts To Mislead The Public
Prof. Rajiva Wijesingha I have refrained thus far from getting involved in the debate over the Geneva Resolution for a number of reasons. One is a commitment to finalize a few books, and in particular...
View ArticleDealing with adverse propaganda
By Rajiva Wijesinha Courtesy Ceylon Today Concerted attacks, however, lay far in the future. In 2009 we were dealing rather with generalizations, and the threat then was not allegations of war crimes,...
View ArticleEnd of a long road
Rajiva Wijesinha The election was held on 17 August and four days later I learnt that I had not been put into Parliament. I had been on the UPFA National List, which I gathered had been with the...
View ArticleWestern encouragement of terrorism
Rajiva Wijesinha Courtesy The Ceylon Today Another mark of increasing age, though I suppose I should be pleased at this one, was a request to deliver a memorial lecture. The topic given to me was “The...
View ArticleThe SLFP core
Rajiva Wijesinha Courtesy Ceylon Today Dayan Jayatilleka’s current forceful advocacy of Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the best possible future leader of this country has raised many hackles, but I believe he...
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