by Rajan Philips in The Island, Nov 12, 2023President Wickremesinghe’s political days are numbered in more ways than one. There are virtually none left for Mahinda Rajapaksa. The oldest of them, R. Sampanthan, is under pressure to formally retire. Vasudeva Nanayakkara has not been heard in a while, but he too belongs to the cohort of politicians who entered parliament in 1970 or 1977. They respectively came from Colombo, Hambantota, Galle/Kiriella and Trincomalee, and belonged…
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report in The Sunday Times, Sept 3, 2023Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R. Sampanthan has written to President Ranil Wickremesinghe expressing alarm over the recent unrest over the building of a Buddhist temple at Illuppaikulam in Trincomalee, warning that it could jeopardise planned foreign investments in the region. Mr Sampanthan has informed the President that the building of the temple in a region where he claims 99% of the area residents are Tamil has led…
By D.L. Jayakody in Ceylon Today, June 10, 2023The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) has told President Ranil Wickremesinghe that if the current Government fails to provide a solution to the ‘ethnic question’ within a certain period, it will take steps to find a solution under the international law of self-determination. The TNA had said, this during the discussion with the Government held at the Presidential Secretariat on Thursday (8). During the discussion, the TNA has…