Investigating the Unseen – Freelance Research Journalism
Shenali D Waduge In 2011 AMNESTY accepted $50,000 from a Canadian based LTTE front, so naturally it is not a surprise when AMNESTY International’s Alan Keenan quoted 40,000 to 147,000…
Shenali D Waduge Foreign MPs mustering votes will attend, INGOs/NGO representatives fulfilling geopolitical agendas will attend, diplomats ordered by their governments will attend, families of dead LTTE will attend, other…
Like Sri Lanka, Greece too declared default on €1.6 billion debt to IMF. It was the same year US-India sponsored regime change took place in Sri Lanka. Greece’s default came…
Shenali D Waduge How many are aware of the 2015 economic embargo imposed by India on Nepal simply because Nepal was including clauses in its new constitution in September 2015…
Shenali Waduge They say thereƒ no money in healthy people. But, why is the pharmaceutical industry the most profitable industry in the world? It is because they have mastered the…
Shenali Waduge The Ban-ki Moon appointed panel report will not be the first & certainly not the last attempt to crucify Sri Lanka by western forces just because Sri Lanka…
Shenali Waduge Whether the UN releases the full report or decides to make amendments to it, what has resulted is nothing that the UN or Western interests would have desired.…
Shenali Waduge It should come as no surprise when Sri Lanka politicians blurt out policies without much thought or without discussion & it is a main reason for most of…
Shenali Waduge While the US administrations take great efforts to dictate how countries should be run providing equal rights, human freedom to all, they have completely forgotten the state of…
Shenali Waduge It appears to be that while freedom is the catchword that is gaining momentum across the Middle East, Africa & will soon be coming to Asia, the public…
Shenali Waduge We all welcome international calls for equality, for freedom of speech, for good governance minus corruption. We all abhor arbitrary arrests, extra judicial killings, incommunicado detentions, restrictions on…
Shenali Waduge Countries of the Middle East have taken center stage. Tunisia, Egypt, Algeria, Jordan, Yemen, Morooco, Bahrain, Syria & Libya are said to be facing uprising and we are…
Shenali Waduge If Sri Lanka feels the need to protect & preserve Buddhism, it translates to mean that there are challenges that need to be overcome & issues that need…
Shenali Waduge The premise that there are no permanent friends but permanent interests should be remembered by all politicians in dealing with powerful nations whose aspirations has & will always…
Shenali Waduge For May 2011, it will be two years since the annihilation of the terrorist movement LTTE & its leaderships. It is no secret that a large number of…
Shenali Waduge In May 2009, Sri Lanka did what the world said it was impossible to do. For the first time in modern military history, a terrorist movement was militarily…
Shenali Waduge I do not usually reply to mails that has no substance but when those siding with the LTTE especially those writing under western pseudonyms continue to speak on…
Shenali Waduge 17% of the world population lives in India which has a population of over 1.18billion. Over 41% (422,048,642) of the Indian population speak Hindi while Tamil is spoken…
Shenali Waduge My first impressions of post-war Jaffna peninsula was certainly not how it was made out to be by both western and local media, missing too was the horrific…
Shenali Waduge While India in post-war Sri Lanka is bending its back to make us Sri Lankan’s believe India was all the while helping us to eradicate terrorism, it is…
Shenali Waduge When less than 23,000 students are eligible for higher studies in the 15 state universities in Sri Lanka one would expect these students to not only value their…