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Factum Special Perspective: பயங்கரவாத தடுப்புச் சட்டமூலம்

Peace and ConflictApril 15, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

ஜகத் லியன ஆராச்சி, சட்டத்தரணி 1979 ஆம் ஆண்டின் 48 ஆம் இலக்க பயங்கரவாதத் தடுப்பு (தற்காலிக ஏற்பாடுகள்) சட்டத்தை நீக்குவதற்கும், பயங்கரவாதத்தைத் தடுப்பதற்கான புதிய சட்டக் கட்டமைப்பைக் கொண்டு அதனை பிரதியிடுவதற்குமாக "பயங்கரவாத தடுப்பு சட்டமூலம்” 22 மார்ச் 2023 அன்று வர்த்தமானியில் வெளியிடப்பட்டது. சட்டமூலத்தின் சுருக்கமான விளக்கம் கீழே கொடுக்கப்பட்டுள்ளது: பயங்கரவாத தடுப்பு சட்டங்களின் வரலாறு இலங்கையில், பயங்கரவாதம் தொடர்பான ஆரம்ப சட்ட ஏற்பாடுகள் 1947 ஆம் ஆண்டின் 25 ஆம் இலக்க பொதுமக்கள்…

Factum Special Perspective: ප්‍රති ත්‍රස්ත පනතේ හොඳ සහ නරක මෙන්

Peace and ConflictApril 13, 2023891Views 0Likes 0Comments

ජගත් ලියනආරච්චි 1979 අංක 48 දරණ ත්‍රස්ථවාදය වැළැක්වීමේ (තාවකාලික විධිවිධාන) පනත අහෝසි කිරීම හා නව ත්‍රස්තාවාදය වැළැක්වීමේ නීතියක් ස්ථාපනය කිරීම සදහා ර්‍ණත්‍රස්ත විරේධී පනත් කෙටුම්පත” 2023 මාර්තු මස 22 වන දින ගැසට් පත්‍රය මගින් ප්‍රසිද්ධියට පත්කර ඇත. එම කෙටුම්පත පිළිබද කෙටි විවරණයක්. ත්‍රස්ත විරෝධි නීති ඉතිහාසය ශ්‍රි ලංකාව ත්‍රස්ත ක්‍රියා සම්බන්ධව මුල් කාලීනව නීතිමය…

Factum Special Perspective: The Anti-Terrorism Bill

Peace and ConflictApril 12, 2023645Views 0Likes 0Comments

By Jagath Liyanarachchi The "Anti-Terrorism Bill" has been gazetted on 22 March 2023 to repeal the Prevention of Terrorism (Temporary Provisions) Act No. 48 of 1979 and to replace it with a new legal framework to prevent terrorism. Given below is a brief description of the Bill: History of anti-terrorism laws In…

Factum Perspective: Overextending and unbalancing Russia

Peace and ConflictApril 9, 2023699Views 0Likes 0Comments

By Vinod Moonesinghe Some years before Russia’s Ukraine “Special Military Operation”, the US Army’s Quadrennial Defence Review Office sponsored a study by the RAND Corporation of strategies to “extend Russia.” RAND published its findings in a 2019 report , Extending Russia: Competing from Advantageous Ground. The RAND Corporation, a private research organisation providing analysis and…

Factum Special Perspective: The troubled history of Sri Lanka – DPRK relations

History and Culture, Peace and Conflict, Regional GeopoliticsApril 5, 2023657Views 0Likes 1Comment

By Chandani Kirinde The emphasis of the United Front (UF) government of Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike, which took office in May 1970, was to forge a new foreign policy that would move away from the pro-West policies of the UNP government, replacing them with a policy of non-alignment. While, theoretically, the focus was on non-alignment, in…

Factum Perspective: Mission Accomplished? – The War in Iraq at 20

History and Culture, Peace and Conflict, UncategorizedMarch 21, 2023819Views 0Likes 0Comments

Vinod Moonesinghe At the beginning of 2003, the United States seemed on top of the world. The sole superpower, its ideologues spoke openly of America as the “global policeman”, fighting multiple major wars enforcing a “Pax Americana.” That March, the US invaded Iraq, setting in motion a sequence of events which resulted in today’s increasingly…

Factum Special Perspective: Safeguarding Sri Lanka

Peace and Conflict, Regional GeopoliticsFebruary 22, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Read this article in Tamil: vidiyal.lk/post/--2816 By Vinod Moonesinghe Sri Lanka has, for 75 years, faced many internal and external threats, ranging from civil unrest, through insurgencies and military coup attempts, to overt acts of war or more subtle economic sabotage or sanctions by foreign powers. It has met them with varying degrees of…

Factum Perspective: The Chinese “spy balloon” saga

Peace and Conflict, Regional GeopoliticsFebruary 19, 20231KViews 0Likes 1Comment

Read this article in Tamil: vidiyal.lk/post/--2821 By Rathindra Kuruwita On February 1, 2023, former editor of Billings Gazette Chase Doak and Billings Gazette photographer Larry Mayer snapped a large flying object over Billings, Montana. Doak had initially thought it was a UFO. The photographs were published in the Gazette, and were soon picked up…

Factum Perspective: Indo-Sri Lankan relations since independence – A checkered history

Belt Road Initiative and Indo-Pacific Policy, Health and Economic Cooperation, History and Culture, Peace and Conflict, Regional GeopoliticsFebruary 13, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Read this article in Tamil: vidiyal.lk/post/--2812 By P. K. Balachandran India-Sri Lanka relations are undoubtedly at their best now, thanks to India’s timely and generous assistance to its financially-beleaguered southern neighbor. But in the past 75 years or more, bilateral relations have been overwhelmingly troubled. Therefore, the million-dollar question now is: Will India’s help…

Factum Special Perspective: Victoria Nuland in Sri Lanka

Belt Road Initiative and Indo-Pacific Policy, Peace and Conflict, Regional GeopoliticsFebruary 1, 20231KViews 0Likes 0Comments

Read this article in Tamil: vidiyal.lk/post/--2805 By Uditha Devapriya US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland is on a tour in South Asia this week. From January 28 to February 3, she will be travelling to Nepal, India, and Sri Lanka, before flying to Qatar. Each of these visits will center…

Factum Perspective: Peace on Earth, the message of Christmas?

History and Culture, Peace and ConflictDecember 25, 2022822Views 0Likes 0Comments

By Vinod Moonesinghe With the expansion of proselytizing Christian empires in the centuries before the second millennium, Christianity became a world religion. As Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta said, "When the missionaries arrived, the Africans had the land and the missionaries had the Bible. They taught us how to pray with our eyes closed. When we opened…

Factum Perspective: Indonesia’s new draft criminal code

Peace and Conflict, Regional GeopoliticsDecember 5, 2022730Views 0Likes 0Comments

By P. K. Balachandran In a sharp turn towards authoritarianism and archaic religiosity, Indonesia’s parliament is expected to pass, later in December, a new Criminal Code that will extend the ambit of blasphemy, ban criticism of State Institutions and criminalize cohabitation and sexual relations outside wedlock. The proposed code, which smacks of Wahhabi Islam, is…