Sunday, 10 Sep 2023
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By Mangala Samaraweera
Mr. Speaker,
Following the attempted coup and Easter Sunday bombings, many of our fellow citizens ask why our country continues to veer from one crisis to another. They are right to do so. The history of Sri Lanka is a history of crisis. In the last 70 odd years, we experienced the assassination of a Prime Minister, the assassination of an Executive President, a failed...
For as long as Sri Lanka has been an independent and sovereign nation, our people have been torn between two opposing political forces. This is the battle between the politics of unity and the politics of division. To unite peoples across religious, ethnic and geographical lines requires moral courage and national vision. Unfortunately, many who have aspired to leadership...
During the past few weeks, I have been watching the many headlines, debates, misinformation, misrepresentation of facts as well as self-congratulatory statements by some members of the delegation that went to Geneva to participate in the 40th session of the Human Rights Council where the High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet presented the Report on Sri...
“I take upon myself the rule of training to abstain from taking the life of living beings.” - The First Precept
My father, Mahanama Samaraweera MP, knew two people who were to be hanged for murder.
They were from Matara, his electorate. So, like everyone else in the district, he also knew something that most of the country didn’t: these two individuals were convicted and...