Month: June 2019

Leadership Crisis in Sri Lanka

These days the general comments one hears around in Colombo are that the Easter Sunday killings and destruction has impacted badly on the quality of our leadership, on our intelligence services even as much as it did on the ISIS bombers. Whether it could have been avoided or not is the question that calls for a response.

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My Identity as Sri Lankan – My Birthright.

Many Sri Lankans are feeling insecure following the violence and communal unrest since Easter Sunday. Death and destruction consequent to the Easter bombings revived memories of similar incidents of destabilization over the past several years and it is having a cumulative effect on personal and national security concerns. There is confusion regarding personal security…

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WELCOME TO MY BLOG

Political Onlooker is a blog that contains in-depth analysis on several key political issues in Sri Lanka. The site contains articles that have appeared largely in the Sunday Island newspaper.

Mrs. Moonesinghe is a graduate from the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. She had edited two books on Nation Building and has also authored a book on Buddhism - Thus Have I Heard - and a fictional book of short stories - Build a Bridge.


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