Wijeyadasa Rajapakse first entered Parliament through the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA), which was formed by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) together with the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). His name was
The Schutzstaffel (SS) evolved from a relatively small Nazi paramilitary unit into the central institution behind the Third Reich’s racial policies and mass violence, according to historian Bastian Hein in an interview
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History is never neutral. It can inspire, unite, justify, divide, or even become a weapon in the hands of political leaders. Few historians have explored this relationship between history and power as
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Additional Solicitor General Dileepa Peiris recently questioned in court as to why retired Air Force officer Shantha Jayathilake appeared in court wearing armed forces medals. The highly decorated war hero Flight Lieutenant
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This is the second and final part of this interview, the first part of which was published in yesterday’s edition. Seventeen years after the military defeat of the LTTE, Frerks sees Sri
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After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, two concepts entered common political usage, the “war of necessity” and the “war of choice.” The first meant territorial defense and national survival and the second, a war
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Bow your head before you read further. What follows is not an anniversary tribute. It is an accounting. For one hundred and thirty-two years, from the Mediterranean shore to the deepest Sahara,
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A congressional hearing on the CIA’s Cold War-era MKUltra program is set to renew attention on one of the most controversial chapters in American intelligence history, but questions remain over whether the
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More than seven decades after the fall of Nazi Germany, questions surrounding Josef Mengele’s escape from justice continue to resurface through fragments of forgotten records and unresolved investigations. One of the latest
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by Luxman Aravind When President Anura Kumara Dissanayake recently declared in Parliament that no crime committed in Sri Lanka would go unheard, he once again placed justice at the centre of his
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Wijeyadasa Rajapakse first entered Parliament through the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA), which was formed by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) together with the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP). His name was
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