The UN double standards exposed
By Malkanthi Munasinha (April 08, Ontario, Sri Lanka Guardian) The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, should establish a commission to investigate the tens of thousands of Muslim civilians killed…
Predicting Sri Lanka general election outcome
Shenali Waduge While the winner of Sri Lanka General Election is a foregone conclusion, the task at hand is to predict the number of seats the ruling UPFA Government is…
Proportional Representation System that killed Democracy in Sri Lanka
Dr Sudath Gunasekara. President, Mahanuwara Senior Citizens Movement. 4.4.2010 Proportional Representation system that has messed up and ruined the entire election system was introduced to Sri Lanka by the 1978…
The Joke that is Representative Democracy in Sri Lanka
Sudath Gunasekara. President Senior Citizens Movement Mahanuwara 12.3.2010 Why does a political cartoonist call the MP Magodistuma. Is it the best word that describes the character of a present day…
An open questionnaire for the joint opposition and political analysts and a note on the responsibilities of the citizens in the post-Presidential Election period.
Dr Sudath Gunasekara. President Senior Citizens Movement Mahanuwara Ranil Wickramasinha received 4,706,336 votes in 2005. This comprised mainly the UNP block vote in the other parts of the country and…
Lessons from Sri Lankan Presidential Election & Sri Lanka Future
Shenali Waduge The 2010 Sri Lankan Presidential Election turned out an anti-climax. All the pundits got it wrong & what was promised to be a hard-fought out election practically a…
The CHANGE euphoria in Sri Lanka Presidential Election
Shenali Waduge What has America learned from the Obama experiment? By end 2009, almost 700,000 Americans had lost their jobs, 1.4million Americans were unemployed, a further 30,000 US troops had…
Has Sri Lanka ever had uncorrupt leaders?
Shenali Waduge This is a question the public needs to ask themselves. For in answering this basic question the voter will realize the hypocrisy of democracy itself & the reality…
Some Thoughts for Good Governance and National Development
Dr. Sudath Gunasekara President Senior Citizens Movement, Mahanuwara Many a critique has been written in recent times on the problem of good governance and development in this country in the…
An Open letter to all Political Parties and Politicians who wish to govern this Country in the Years to come. (Some Random Thoughts on Good Governance and Democracy in Sri Lanka)
Dr. Sudath Gunasekara President Mahanuwara Senior Citizens Movement Everybody these days is talking about “ƒ”¹…”good governance’ and “ƒ”¹…”Democracy’ although none of those who alternatively come to power, pledging for good…
Common Candidate a Storm in a Tea Cup? It is only another political gimmick by the dormant opposition and reactionary forces to destabilize the government
Dr Sudath Gunasekara. President Senior Citizens Movement, Mahanuwara 2.11.2009. Politically popular but utterly stale terms like political solution, devolution of power, minority aspirations and Sinhala Buddhist chauvinism and even independence…
When will communal Tamil politicians of Sri Lanka give up their ultra-communal politics and learn to live in harmony with the Sinhalese and when will our politicians put the country first before self interest?
Sudath Gunasekara. President Senior Citizens Movement Mahanuwara. 24.10.2009. I have been curiously following some of the latest developments brewing in the political field during the past two weeks. I think…
Some serious threats to democracy arising from the Abduction of a Buddhist Monk and pouring arrack on him by a SPC member.
Sudath Gunasekara. President Senior Citizens Movement Maahnuwara 20. 10. 2009 It was reported that a Southern Provincial Council Member has been summoned to appear in court for abducting a Buddhist…
I would like to draw the serious attention of the Government of Sri Lanka to the following news Item appeared in THE HINDU National NewspaperTuesday, Oct 06, 2009
Dr.Sudath. Gunasekara. President Senior Citizens Movement. Kandy 6.10.2009. Refugees seek dual citizenship Madurai\Tirunelveli\Tiruchi, Oct. 5: While Indian Tamil descendants of the island nation living in refugee camps here rejoice over…
Sampanthan and Hakeem Co.-For Heaven sake Please Stop Sowing Seeds of Communal Hatred and Division any further at Least Now!
Dr. Sudath Gunasekara (SLAS) President Senior Citizens Movement .Mahanuwara 2.10.2009. Obscurity generates fear; darkness crushes the very inside of us; nights could be pleasing but for a very short chunk…
Congratulations Karunanidhi!
Dr. Sudath Gunasekara (SLAS) 28.9.2009. It was reported that Tamilnadu Chief Minister has very correctly decided to give Indian Citizenship to all Sri Lankan refugees who are living there. I…
An Independent Asian UNO to replace the Western dictated UNO?
Dr. Sudath Gunasekara (SLAS) 27.9.2009. Going by how things are been currently manipulated at the UNO by the West and its allies and how shabbily and discriminately Asian countries like…
Trekking 830 feet in to the Interior of the Earth: Carlsbad Mystery
Dr. Sudath Gunasekara Sept.5.2009. It was the 5th day of September year 2009. It was the day on which I descended 850 feet deep down in to the interior of…
The Sri Lankan – Crisis; Colonial conspiracies, myths and fallacies invented by the Tamils
Dr. Sudath Gunasekara. (SLAS) President Senior Citizens Movement. Mahanuwara Writing from USA17.7.2009. It is usually we the Sinhalese who are blamed by the Tamils and the West for the so-called…