Constitution Related / Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism / Lessons for Sri Lanka
by Shenali Waduge · Published 21st March 2026
In 2019, exactly 10 years after the end of LTTE separatist terrorism, coordinated attacks targeted three churches and three luxury hotels, claiming nearly 300 lives and injuring over 500. The attacks were carried out...
Chartering Our Future / Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism
by Shenali Waduge · Published 20th March 2026
A critical look at the claims following April 2024 when Father Cyril Gamini addressed the media after appearing before the Criminal Investigation Department on 19 April 2024, he presented what he described as “8 facts with sources”...
Questions on Easster Sunday The Easter Sunday attacks of 21 April 2019 have been thoroughly examined through multiple investigations, including the Presidential Commission of Inquiry, the Parliamentary Select Committee, court proceedings, police...
Chartering Our Future / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism
by Shenali Waduge · Published 10th March 2026
Since the 1979 revolution that created the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Iranian state has played a central role in Middle Eastern geopolitics. The regime is led by a Supreme Leader. Over four decades,...
Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism / Sri Lanka Politics
by Shenali Waduge · Published 9th March 2026
Since the end of Sri Lanka’s 30 year conflict in 2009, the country has experienced sporadic arrivals of refugees and asylum seekers from several regions including South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa....
Chartering Our Future / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / International Issues
by Shenali Waduge · Published 5th March 2026
ඉන්දියානු සාගරයේ ශ්රී ලංකාවේ උපායමාර්ගික පිහිටීම සැමවිටම එය කලාපීය හා ගෝලීය වශයෙන් වැදගත්. අගමැතිනි සිරිමාවෝ බණ්ඩාරනායක වැනි අතීත නායකයින් විනිවිද පෙනෙන, නොබැඳි ප්රතිපත්ති තුළින් ස්වෛරීභාවය ආරක්ෂා කළහ. අද වන විට, අනුප්රාප්තික පරිපාලන හරහා රහසිගත...
Chartering Our Future / Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism / Lessons for Sri Lanka
by Shenali Waduge · Published 5th March 2026
The Easter Sunday bombings were not isolated or random they were tied to a global jihadist ideology and the Islamic State (ISIS) caliphate narrative. Zahran Hashim and the NTJ network openly declared allegiance to...
Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism / Lessons for Sri Lanka / Political Parties / Role of SL Govt / National Army
by Shenali Waduge · Published 1st March 2026
Intelligence agencies worldwide routinely engage, monitor, and penetrate extremist networks. Some assets later become enemies, terrorists, or insurgents. That reversal cannot be criminally pinned on intelligence officers. If it were, every major...
Diplomatic Corps in Sri Lanka / International Issues / Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism
by Shenali Waduge · Published 28th February 2026
In the aftermath of the Easter Sunday terror attacks, intelligence agencies from the United States (FBI), India (RAW), the United Kingdom (Scotland Yard), and Australia (ASIO) conducted extensive investigations into the origins, execution, and failures...
Islamic Terrorism - Fundamentalism / Role of SL Govt / National Army
by Shenali Waduge · Published 27th February 2026
The purpose of this article is not to defend an individual but to defend institutional logic, to decipher what went wrong and by whom, and to prevent judicial manipulation through politicized...
On 21 April 2019, Sri Lanka was struck by coordinated suicide bombings targeting three churches and three luxury hotels, killing at least 270 people and injuring around 500. The attackers were linked to National Thowheed Jama’ath (NTJ), an extremist group...
