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ප්‍රාඥ යානෙනි  ඔබට    දිගායු වේවා
ධර්මසිරි   සෙනෙවිරත්න
මහාචාර්ය  නලින් ද  සිල්වා  ශූරීන්ට   ඔක්තෝබර්  20 දින  වයස  71    පිරුණේය  . තමා   උපන් රට  වෙනුවෙන්  හිතට  එකඟව අභීතව කිවයුතු දේ නොවලහා   කියමින් ලියමින්  මෙතෙක්  ඔබ   විසින්   කල  සේවය ධර්මපාල තුමාගේ     සේවයට කොහෙත්ම දෙවෙනි  නොවේ . ධර්මපාල තුමා   ගිය  මගටත්  එහා  යමින් ඔබ  ඉතිහාසය  සමාජ විද්‍යාව      බටහිර   විද්‍යාව   බුදුදහම  වැනි විවිධ විෂයයන්  ගැන  අපව දැනුවත් කළේය . එසේ    කරන්නට කරන්නට  ගොස්  රැකියාවද    අහිමි වුවත් ඔබ සැලුනේ  නැත . ඔබ ජාතිවාදයත්   ජාතිකවාදයත් අතර  වෙනස   පෙන්වා දුන්නේය . මාක්ස්  වාදයේ වාදයේ දරිද්‍රතාව   පෙන්වා දුන්නේය. ඔබ  56  දරුවන්  ගැන කල  දේශනය අපේ ඇස්  ඇරවුයේය.  ජී  එල්  පීරිස් .  සහ ... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 31/10/15)

Baton raised, the shocking moment a Sri Lankan cop brutally beats a mother in the street: New report reveals lawless police use electric shock torture and rub chillies into suspects faces to extract confessions
By ISABEL HUNTER FOR MAILONLINE
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Shock video of moment Sri Lankan officer beats mother, 36, in the street The woman, Weerasinghe Arachchilage Kanthilatha, who worked as a prostitute, refused to perform sex act on the officer He vowed to teach her a lesson and brutally beat her before witnesses, who secretly filmed attack Comes as new investigation reveals police torture is endemic in Sri Lanka... -Full Story-
(dailymail.co.uk - 31/10/15)

Yahapālanaya At Work: Brutal Police Attack
PM requests report
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe had requested a report from Law and Order Minister Tilak Marapana on the police crackdown of the Higher National Diploma in Accountancy (HNDA) students protest in front of the University Grants Commission (UGC) yesterday. - See more at: http://www.dailymirror.lk/93283/est-pm-requests-reportsthash.5iQBrmKl.dpuf Govt. action shows suppression of people’s rights: NFF
National Freedom Front (NFF) MP Jayantha Samaraweera said yesterday the police attack on students of the Higher Diploma in Accountancy showed the government’s suppressive reaction to the people’s demands. “The government has proved it was not interested in good governance but in ‘Yama... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 31/10/15)

මැරුනත් කමක්නැ මටගහපන් මාමේ යුක්තිය වචනයකි පොලිසියේ පොතේ නැති
     ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/10/15)

'වැටුණට පස්සෙත් පහර දුන්නා' විරෝධතාවයේදී පහරකෑ සිසුවිය කියයි
උපුටාගැණීම Lankadveepa
බ‍්‍රහස්පතින්දා පැවති විරෝධතාවයේදී පොලිසිය තමන්ට නැවත නැවතත් පහර දුන් බවත් එසේ සිදුනොවූ බව පවසන ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ පොලිස් අධිකාරීචම්පික සිරිවර්ධන ව්‍යාජ අදහස් දැක්වීමක නිරත වන බවත් මාධ්‍ය මගින් ප‍්‍රසිද්ධ කෙරුණු ඡායාරූප වල සිටින තරුණිය වන සසිනි සන්දීපනී (21) පවසයි. ඇය උසස් ජාතික ගණකාධිකරණ ඩිප්ලෝමා පාඨමාලාවේ පළමු වසර සිසුවියකි. ' මගේ කොන්දට වැදුණු පහරවල් කිහිපයක් නිසා මම බිමට ඇදගෙන වැටුණා.ඒ වුනත් එයාලා මට ගහන එක නැවැත්වුවේ නැහැ.'  ඇය කියයි. පොලිස් නිලධරයෙක් ඇයට පහර දෙන අයුරු පැහැදිලිව දැක්වෙන ඡායාරූප කිහිපයක්ම ඊයේ (30) පුවත්පත්හි පළව තිබිණ. නමුත් මෙයට ප‍්‍රතිචාර දක්වමින් ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ පොලිස් අධිකාරී චම්පික සිරිවර්ධන මහතා මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදී පවසා සිටියේ ඇයට පහරදීමක්... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 31/10/15)

The politicisation of human rights - An interview with Kalyanada Tiranagama
Courtesy Island
In this interview, Kalyananda Tiranagama the head of Lawyers for Human Rights and Development speaks to C.A.Chandraprema about the politicisation of human rights both locally and internationally. Among the matters discussed are several contentious operative paragraphs of the recent American sponsored UNHRC resolution against Sri Lanka. Q. You have been a pioneering human rights activist in this country. To what extent are you really satisfied about the work you do? We see human rights being used not as a way of bettering the lot of the ordinary man but as a political tool both at the... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 31/10/15)

Betrayer……. Betrayed
By Charles.S.Perera
Ranil Wickramasinghe is not a patriotic leader who is prepared to make any sacrifice for the safety of the country. He would do any thing for his own long term plan to be the President of Sri Lanka in 2020. In 2002 Ranil Wickramasinghe signed the CFA without consulting either the then President Chandrika Kumaratunga or the Parliament .  It was an affair between him and Prabhakaran with the intermediary of Eric Solheim. But Chandrika Kumaratunga had some guts to remove Ranil Wickramasinghe by taking over  three Ministries. Ranil Wickramasinghe has re-enacted his betrayal of the country... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 31/10/15)

WHERE IS WAR CRIME TRIBUNAL AGAINST  UNITED STATES AND "COALITION OF THE WILLING"? -  THESE CRIMINALS MUST BE PUNISHED, NOT PRESIDENT MAHINDA RAJAPAKSE!
By M D P DISSANAYAKE
President Mahinda Rajapakse declared war against the Tamil Terrorists on the basis of valid evidence.  He did not simply declare the war on the basis of recommendations received from front line Commanding Officers of the Army, Navy and Police.   As the Chief Commanding Officer, President Mahinda Rajapakse made the decision after thorough evaluation and successfully defeated the terrorist outfit of Sri Lanka. On the contrary, the so called "Coalition of the Willing" led by the USA declared the war against President Saddam Hussein on the false evidence received that he had developed Weapons of... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 31/10/15)

I was only repeatedly beaten’
 Courtesy The Daily Mirror
When asked by Daily Mirror about Senior DIG Champika Siriwardene’s claim that the HNDA student was not beaten by the Police but was only being removed from the location, the student Sasini Sandeepani said she was not assisted by the policemen to remove but was only repeatedly beaten on the head. A first-year HNDA student the 21-year-old Sasini Sandeepani was clearly seen in the photographs being beaten by a policeman during the HNDA protest at Ward Place. She said this was the first time that she had participated in a protest. Colombo National Hospital... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 30/10/15)

Fight The Power
Dayan Jayatilleka
“And that’s why it’s so encouraging that, at the same time it’s confronting some of the darkest and most painful chapters in its country’s past, the Sirisena administration is also pursuing initiatives…” – US Ambassador Samantha Power The Ambassador/Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations in New York and the UN Security Council, Samantha Power, holds cabinet rank. She was formerly the National Security Advisor to President Obama. Though her influence has waxed and waned, she is a leading policy intellectual and the closest that the Obama foreign policy team came to an ideologue (of... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 30/10/15)

සිසු විරෝධතාවලට මගේ කාලෙ නම් කිරි දුන්නා.. කෑම දුන්නා.. දැං කොහොමද.. – මහින්ද [Video]
lanka C news
සරසවි සිසුන්ගේ විරෝධතා පෙලපාලියට අමානුෂික ලෙස පහර දී එය අවම බලය පාවිච්චි කිරීමක් යයි පවසන බවත් එම පහර දීම් සිදු කලේ අවම බලයෙන් නම් ඉදිරිය ගැන සිතාගත හැකි බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා පවසයි. තමන්ගේ කාලයේ නම් පෙලපාලියේ එන සිසුනට කිරි බොන්න දී කන්නත් දුන් බවත් ඔහු කියා සිටියේය. මහා පරිමාණ වංචා දුෂණ සොයන ජනාධිපති කොමිසම ඉදිරියේ ඊයේ දිනයේ පෙනී සිටීමෙන් පසු මාධ්‍ය අමතමින් ඔහු මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය. 2,749 Viewers... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 30/10/15)

ලංකාවේම ජනතාව පොහොසතුන් කරනවා.. දුප්පත්කම නැති කරනවා..
President Sirisena
මෙරට ජනතාව දුප්පත්කමින් මුදා ගැනීම තමන් රට පාලනය කරන කාලය සිදු කරන බව ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා පැවසීය. ජනාධිපතිවරයා මෙසේ කියා සිටියේ රන්බිම ඉඩම් හිමිකම් බලපත්‍ර ප්‍රදානය කිරීම වෙනුවෙන් ඌරුබොක්ක, පස්ගොඩ ප්‍රදේශයේදී පැවති උත්සවයක් අමතමිනි. අද වන විට ලංකාව හමුවේ ඇති ප්‍රබලම අභියෝගය දුප්පත්කම වන බවත් එය තුරන් කිරීම සඳහා ඉඩම් ගැටළුව විසඳීම ප‍්‍රමුඛ බවද කී ඔහු ඒ වෙනුවෙන් නව ඉඩම් ප්‍රතිපත්තියකින් ජනතාවගේ ඉඩම් අයිතිය තහවුරු කරන බවද කියා සිටියේය.... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 30/10/15)

සිසුන්ට පහරදුන්නේ ආරක්ෂක ඇමතිගේ නියෝගයෙන්
LNW
ඊයේ උසස් තාක්ෂණ (එච්එන්ඩීඒ) උපාධි පාඨමාලාවට හිමි වටිනාකම නැවත බලාත්මක කිරීම, උසස් තාක්ෂණ සිසුන්ටද මහපොළ වාරිකාය වැඩි කිරීම, මුදලට උපාධි විකිණීම නතර කිරීම හා ශිෂ්‍ය මර්දනය නැවතීම යන ඉල්ලීම් ඉටු කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලමින් විරෝධතාවයේ නිරතවූ සිසුන්ට සියලුම නීති කඩකරමින් එලවා එලවා පහරදුන්නේ ආරක්ෂක අමාත්‍ය ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාගේ නිළ නිවේදනය ලැබිමෙන් පසුව බව පොලිස්පතිවරයා අනාවරණය කර තිබේන බව රජයේ අභ්‍යන්තර තොරතුරු වාර්තාකරණයේ යෙදෙන අප විශේෂ වාර්තාකරු සදහන් කළා. කොළඹ ප්‍රදේශයේ අධික වාහන තදබදයක් පවතින බවට තොරතුරු ලැබි ඇති බවත් වහාම එයට හේතුව සොයා වාර්තාකරන ලෙස ආරක්ෂක ලේකම්වරයා ඉල්ලා සිටි බවත් පසුව උද්ඝෝෂණය සම්බන්ධයෙන් දැනුවත් කිරිමෙන් පසුව සුලු වේලාවකට පසුව... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 30/10/15)

වේසිගේ පුතාලා කියමින් පහරදුන් මෛත්‍රී-රනිල් ISIS පොලිසිය
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පෞද්ගලික විශ්වවිද්‍යාල වලට අසිමාන්තික නිදහස ලබාදෙමින් රටේ නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපණය වළදාමින් සිටින යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුවට එරෙහිව සටන් කරන අහිංසක සිසුන්ට අටේ පන්තියද අසමත් මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන සහ ඇඟපුරාම මොළයම පමණක් ඇතැයි කී ටොයියන්න්ගේ රාජ්‍යයේ පිං අගමැතිගේ ISIS පොලිස් බත් බැලයන් අද මරාන්තික මැර ප්‍රහාරයක් එල්ල කළා. උසස් තාක්ෂණ (එච්එන්ඩීඒ) උපාධි පාඨමාලාවට හිමි වටිනාකම නැවත බලාත්මක කිරීම, උසස් තාක්ෂණ සිසුන්ටද මහපොළ වාරිකාය වැඩි කිරීම, මුදලට උපාධි විකිණීම නතර කිරීම හා ශිෂ්‍ය මර්දනය නැවතීම යන ඉල්ලීම් ඉටු කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලමින් ඔවුහු විරෝධතාවයේ නිරතවූ අතර යහපාලන ISIS පොලිස් බත් බැලයන් එම සිසුන් ට සිය බැටන් පොලු කැඩෙනතුරු පහරදි තිබේ. වේසිගේ පුතාලා කියමින්... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 30/10/15)

Baton reaction
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
A female student who was engaged in the protest march by the Inter Student Collective for the Protection of Higher National Diploma in Accountancy (HNDA) being attacked with a baton by a police officer near Town Hall today. The students were on their way to the University Grants Commission (UGC) urging the authorities to enhance the HNDA to a degree status again. Pix by Pradeep Dilrukshana - See more at: http://www.dailymirror.lk/93157/baton-reaction12sthash.aCdgCE1o.dpuf... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/10/15)

SRI LANKA: The AHRC condemns the attack on students by the Riot Police
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission
The Asian Human Rights Commission is seriously concerned about the attack by the on the students of Inter Student Collective for the Protection of the Higher National Diploma in Accountancy (HNDA), who have gathered to present a petition to the Minister of Higher Education at the University Grants Commission, in Colombo yesterday, 29th October 2015. According to the spokesperson for the Students Collective, a group of around 500 students had gathered at the University Grants Commission, at Ward Place in Colombo and have requested a meeting with the Minster of Higher... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 30/10/15)

2015.10.29 දින උසස් අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශය ඉදිරිපිටදී පොලිසිය විසින්, HNDA සිසුන්ට එල්ල කළ මිලේච්ඡ ප්‍රහාරයට එරෙහිව පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත උද්ඝෝෂණය සම්බන්ධවයි.
ප්‍රවෘත්ති අධ්‍යක්ෂ/කර්තෘ මහත්මයාණෙනි/මහත්මියනි, 2015.10.30  2015.10.29 දින උසස් අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශය ඉදිරිපිටදී පොලිසිය විසින්, HNDA සිසුන්ට එල්ල කළ මිලේච්ඡ ප්‍රහාරයට එරෙහිව පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත උද්ඝෝෂණය සම්බන්ධවයි.  HNDA පාඨමාලාවට හිමිව තිබූ උපාධි සමානතාව අත්තනෝමතිකව අහෝසි කිරීම, ඇතුළු ඉල්ලීම් කිහිපයක් මුල්කරගෙන එරෙහිව  2015.10.29 දින උසස් අධ්‍යාපන අමාත්‍යාංශය ඉදිරිපිටදී පැවැත්වූ විරෝධතා පාගමනට ,පොලිසිය හා පොලිස් කැරලි මර්දන ඒකකය විසින් HNDA සිසුන්ට එල්ලකල මි‍ලේච්ඡ ප්‍රහාරයට එරෙහිව  දෙහිවල උසස් තාක්ෂණ ආයතනයේ සියලුම සිසුන්ගේ සහභාගිත්වයෙන් අද දින දහවල් 12.30 ට , දෙහිවල උසස් තාක්ෂණ ආයතනයේදී උද්ඝෝෂණයක් පැවැත්වීමට නියමිතයි. ඒ සඳහා ඔබ මාධ්‍ය ආයතනයේ මාධ්‍ය සහෘදයකු සහභාගී කරන ලෙස කාරුණිකව ඉල්ලා සිටිමි.  නිදහස් අධ්‍යාපනය සුරැකීම සහ නගා සිටුවීම, සිසු අයිතීන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/10/15)

පොලිසියට පෙර අධ්‍යාපන බලධාරීන් ගැටළු විසඳිය යුතුයි ! කුරිරු මර්ධනකාරී පොලිස් ප්‍රහාරය ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රය හෙළා දකියි
- ශ්‍රීලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රයේ විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් 
ප්‍රතිපත්ති සම්පාදකයින් සහ අධ්‍යාපන බලධාරීන් විසින් විසඳිය යුතු ප්‍රශ්න පොලිසිය විසින් විසඳීමට ඉදිරිපත්වීම  බරපතල තත්වයක් බව ශ්‍රීලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රය අවධාරණය කරයි. මේ හේතුවෙන්  නැවත වරක් උසස් අධ්‍යාපන ක්ෂේත්‍රයේ ගැටුම්කාරී සහ අස්ථාවර පරිසරයක් ගොඩනැගී ඇති බව ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රය නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් කියා සිටියි. ඊයේ (ඔක්තෝබර් 29) දින කොළඹ විශ්ව විද්‍යාල ප්‍රතිපාදන කොමිෂන් සභාව ඉදිරිපිට දී උසස් ජාතික ගණකාධිකරණ ඩිප්ලෝමා සිසුන්ගේ සාමකාමී උද්ඝෝෂණයට පොලිසිය විසින් එල්ල කළ  කුරිරු සහ මර්ධනකාරී ප්‍රහාරය දැඩි ලෙස හෙළා දකින බව ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රයේ සහ කැෆේ සංවිධානයේ විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන්... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 30/10/15)

Top Buddhist Clergies in Sri Lanka presented Holy Qur’an Sinhala Translation.
Abdul Aziz – Press Secretary. AHMADIYYA  MUSLIM  JAMA’AT - SRI LANKA
The Sinhala Translation with Arabic Text of the Holy Qur’an being presented to Most Venerable Galagama Sri Aththadassi Mahanayake Thero - Asgiriya Chapter by Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka. A four member delegation met him at his temple in Kandy yesterday -  29 October 2015. Venerable Thero said, I will read the Qur’an and tell others what Islam says. He also very much pleased to know the Qur;an, translated in Sinhala by the Ahmadiyya Community is in very simple language so that any one could be able to... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 30/10/15)

Paradise Kashmir cries out for justice
Ameen Izzadeen Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Why is the crisis in Kashmir not on the BBC, CNN, al-Jazeera or other international media? Mind you, the crisis is far from over.  Supporters worldwide marked, this week, the international day of solidarity with the Kashmiris. Why do some conflicts in the world get all the media attention and some do not?  The answer lies in the media value each conflict carries. The media value of a conflict increases when leaders of powerful countries talk about it or try to intervene to solve it by means of war or peace.  With world leaders... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 30/10/15)

For a better future
Afira Faleel Canada Courtesy Island
October 29, 2015, 12:00 pm The idea of a French Hindu or a Canadian Sinhalese sounds so out of the ordinary. It is absurd to even think for a moment that any member of these nations would be identified as anything other than their nationality. That is, they are either French or Canadian. So, why is it true for our country that identifying someone as a Sri Lankan Tamil, or a Sri Lankan Muslim, is so commonplace? Certainly, it cannot be the case that the prevalence of these religions in other countries makes it necessary for... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 30/10/15)

UN engagement in post-conflict Sri Lanka
By Neville Ladduwahetty  Courtesy Island
With the co-sponsoring by Sri Lanka of the UNHRC Resolution "Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka" dated September 29, 2015, a chapter has come to a close. This closure marks the beginnings of a new chapter which is the implementation of the undertakings in the resolution. It is being speculated whether Sri Lanka is obligated to implement the provisions strictly as stated in the resolution on grounds of being a co-sponsor or whether there is room for flexibility in its implementation. For instance, Paragraph 4 of the Resolution states: "Welcomes…the... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 30/10/15)

මව්බිම බේරගන්න විදෙස් ඇමැතිතුමා ඇයි ඇත්ත කිව්වේ නැත්තේ? - දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන
"Why didnt the Foreign Minister tell the truth to defend Our Motherland ?" - Hon Dinesh Gunawardena
https://youtu.be/D-PFtZCoZD8 "ඇයි මව්බිම බේරගන්න විදෙස් ඇමැතිතුමා ඇත්ත කිව්වේ නැත්තේ ?" - ගරු දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන මැතිතුමා "Why didnt the Foreign Minister tell the truth to defend Our Motherland ?" - Hon Dinesh Gunawardena 40000ක් සමූලඝාතන කථාව බොරු කිරීමට සාක්ෂි සහිතව පරණගම වාර්තාවට සහ ශ්‍රීමත් ඩෙස්මන් ද සිල්වා වාර්තාවට හැකිවී ඇත both Paranagama report & Sir Desmond de Silvas report have strong evidence in disproving the myth of 40000 annihilation පැහැදිලිවම දෙමුහුන් අධීකරණයකට එකඟ වෙලා තිබෙනවා very clearly have agreed to a Hybrid court... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 30/10/15)

මේ මෙරට බිහිසුණුම –දුර්දාන්තම ආණ්ඩුවයි – නීතිඥ කල්‍යාණන්ද තිරාණගම
සටහන : දර්ශන යූ මල්ලිකගේ -යුතුකම සංවාද කවය
"සැබෑ විපක්ෂයේ හඬ නිහඬ කරමින් , ආන්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව උල්ලංඝණය කරමින් ,විරුද්ධ මතධාරීන් මර්ධනය කරමින් ,රට අධිරාජ්‍යවාදයට පාවාදෙමින් මේ තිබෙන්නේ ඉතිහායස පුරාම මෙරට පැවති බිහිසුණුම ,දුර්දාන්තම ,ද්‍රෝහීම ආණ්ඩුව බවනීතිඥ  කල්‍යාණන්ද තිරාණගම මහතා පෙන්වා දෙයි. ඒ නිසා බය නොවී මේවාට මුහුණ දෙමු.මේ රට බේරා ගැනීමට වැඩ කරමු කියන කාරණයයි මම ඔබට කිව යුත්තේ.” පසුගියදා ජාතික පුස්තකාල ශ්‍රවණාගාරයේදී යුතුකම සංවාද කවය සංවිධානය කළ බිල්ලො ඇවිත් සම්මන්ත්‍රණයේ විශේෂ දේශනයක් පවත්වමින් ඔහු මේ බව අවධාරණය කළේය. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ කල්‍යාණන්ද තිරාණගම මහතා: “මේ ආණ්ඩුව මේ රටේ පහල වුණු බිහිසුණුම ආණ්ඩුව. මොකද ආණ්ඩුවක් කරන්න ඕනෑ පළවෙනි දේ... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 29/10/15)

Chicken nuggets are tasty but do you know what’s in them?
Dr Hector Perera       London
I cannot believe if anyone said that they haven’t eaten any takeaways. In the past in Sri Lanka there were hardly any such places even in small towns but now, they are all over. Now you just pick up a phone to get the takeaways delivered to your doorstep, if you find too busy to get a takeaway. One can view the list of the menu on the internet so the technology has changed the ways to shop. When we go out shopping quite often we tend to eat out from takeaways. The list of... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 29/10/15)

කොණ්ඩයා වෙනුවට ක්රිස්තුස් හමුවීම
වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග 
දුටුවෙමි මිනිසුන් පසුපස පන්නන තවත් මිනිසෙකු දිගටි කොණ්ඩයකින් යුතු ගහපිය මරපිය එල්ලපිය​ එල්ලුම් ගස ගෙනෝ ගෙනෝ අපි මූ එල්ලන්නම් කියමින් පන්නන මිනිසුන්ගෙන් පණ බේරාගෙන දුවන දිගටි කොණ්ඩයකින් යුත් මිනිසෙකු දුටුවෙමි කොණ්ඩයා නම් මූය ළමුන් දූෂණය කොට මරා දමන මරා දැමිය යුතුය මූ දුටුතැන වහකි පිළිකාවකි මහාමාරිය සේ දුරින් දුරු කළ යුතු වසංගතයකි මූ දුවන මිනිසා එකහින්ම නැවතිනි ඔහුගේ දිගු කොණ්ඩය දුටිමි මා දුටුවේ කොණ්ඩයා නොව ශුද්ධවන්තයන් ගේ ගල් කැට මුගුරු පහරින් මුහුණ තැලී තොල් පැලී අනේක විධ දුක් වේදනා විඳි යේසුස් ක්‍රිස්තුන්ය      ... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 29/10/15)

“ආයෝජනයකට ගිවිසුම් අත්සන් කරන විට තිබෙන ප්‍රතිපත්තිය මුදල් ලැබෙන විට නෑ. කර්මාන්තය ආරම්භ කරන විට තිබෙන්නේ ඊටත් වඩා වෙනස් ප්‍රතිපත්තියක්“ - හිටපු ජනාධිපති උපදේශක මනෝ තිත්තවැල්ල
මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය කැෆේ / ශ්‍රිලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රය
ආර්ථිකය සම්බන්ධයෙන් වන ප්‍රතිපත්ති නිතර නිතර වෙනස්වන බවත් ආයෝජකයින් ගිවිසුම් අත්සන් කරන වෙලාවේදී තිබෙන ප්‍රතිපත්තිය මුදල් ලැබෙන විට වෙනස්වී තිබෙන බවත්  මෙය රටේ ආර්ථිකයට අයහපත් බවත් හිටපු ජනාධිපති උපදේශක මනෝ තිත්තවැල්ල පැවසීය. ‘අය වැයෙන් අපේක්ෂා කරන්නේ කුමක්ද” යන මැයෙන් ශ්‍රී ලංකා පදනම් ආයතනයේදී පැවති ප්‍රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකට එක්වෙමින් ඔහු මේ බව සදහන් කළේය. ප්‍රතිපත්ති වෙනස්වීම ගැටලු රැසක් මතුකරන බවත් කාලයක් වෙනස් නොවන ප්‍රතිපත්ති සකස් කිරීමට අවධානය යොමු කළ යුතුව ඇතැයිද ඔහු පැවසුවේය. ප්‍රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවේදී අදහස් දැක්වු මනෝ තිත්තවැල්ල මෙසේද පැවසුවේය. “කර්මාන්ත හා සේවා ප්‍රවර්ධනය කිරිමට හැකි ප්‍රතිපත්ති තිබෙනවානම් රට ඇතුලෙන්ම ආයෝජන මතුවිය හැකියි. එම... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 29/10/15)

Government of China must not fund renovation costs of Thewatta Roman Catholic Church, Ragama
Shenali D Waduge
Several local newspapers announced in July 2015 that the Government of China planned to allocate as aid a sum of Rs.300m to renovate the Basilica at Thewatta, Ragama following a request by the former Minister of Law & Order and Christian Affairs. When the wealth of the Vatican runs into accountable and unaccountable billions it is unfortunate that China is coming forward to fund a renovation of a Christian Church plagued in controversy over diabolical attempts to re- write Sri Lanka’s Buddhist history.  We cannot ignore the subtle attempts being made to distort and erase... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 28/10/15)

Gajaman Nona - The plight of a Poetess
Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge
Gajaman Nona was a famous Sinhala poetess who lived during the Dutch and the British Colonial periods. She was born in 1746 in Kollupitiya. Her real name was Dona Isabella Cornelia. Her father Don Francisco Senaratna Kumara Perumal was a government servant and he predominantly worked in Matara District.  Therefore she grew up in Matara. From very young age Cornelia showed her aptitude in poetry. She had the ability of reciting impromptu Sinhala poetry in appropriate occasions. She studied under the famous Karatota Dhammarama Thero in Weragampitiya Temple in Matara. Cornelia was a bright student... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 28/10/15)

පියල් ගමෙන් ගිය පසු නන්දාට හටගත් සත්ය රෝගය කුමක්ද ?
වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග​
මාටින් වික්‍රමසිංහයන්  ගම්පෙරළිය ලියන්නේ 1944 වසරේදීය.  එම  කෘතියේ පවුල් දෙකක විස්තර සඳහන් වේ. නන්දා කොග්ගල ගමෙහි ඉතා පැරැණි පරපුරක් ඇති පවුලක තරුණියකි. පියල් පසුව තරමක් වත්පොහොසත් කමක් ඇතිකොට ගත් ධනපතියකුගේ පුතෙකි. ඉංග්‍රීසි උගතකු වූ පියල් නන්දාට ද ඇගේ සොහොයුරියට ද ඉංග්‍රීසි ඉගැන්වීමට ඔවුන්ගේ ගෙදරට ආවේය. නන්දා කෙරෙහි ආලය කරන්නා වූ පියල් නන්දාට විවාහ යෝජනාව කළේය. තමන්ගේ දෙමවුපියන් විවාහය අනුමත කරතොත් තමා ඔහු හා විවාහ වීමට කැමැති බව නන්දාගේ පිළිතුර විය.  “උන්ට කවුද හිර දෙන්නෙ” යනු විවාහ යෝජනාව ගැන ඇසූ නන්දාගේ මවගේ හෙවත් මාතර හාමිනේගේ මුවින් නිතැතින් නිකුත් වූ පිළිතුර විය ( ගම්පෙරළිය  විචාරය ජී. බී. සේනානායක ) ... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 28/10/15)

The Paranagama & The Geneva Reports: Attempts To Mislead The Public
Prof. Rajiva Wijesingha
I have refrained thus far from getting involved in the debate over the Geneva Resolution for a number of reasons. One is a commitment to finalize a few books, and in particular an account of what Sri Lanka did right, in winning the war, and then did wrong in losing the peace. Secondly, I had long felt that the last government was destroying the country by its ostrich approach to the allegations made against us. As I told Al Jazeera on the day I expressed publicly my support for the Maithripala Sirisena candidacy, when hardly... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 28/10/15)

Eight compelling reasons for resisting implementation of Geneva Resolution
By Prof. G. L. Peiris
Surveying the events of the last ten days, it seems to me that the need of the hour is to penetrate the fog of misinformation and fantasy with regard to the consequences of the Geneva Resolution on Sri Lanka, and to make a realistic appraisal of the situation. The point of departure is a clear understanding of the facts. I would like to set out here eight very compelling reasons why the Government’s action in this regard is, without a shadow of doubt, gravely detrimental to the national interest of Sri Lanka, and... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 28/10/15)

War crimes probe: Relevance of leaked US cables and UK court case Foreign experts highlight previous government’s failure
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island
The report on the Second Mandate of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry Into Complaints of Abductions and Disappearances, aka the Paranagama Commission, highlighted the relevance of Wikileaks cables in assessing the accountability issues in Sri Lanka. The Norwegian government underlined the relevance of Wikileaks revelations, pertaining to Sri Lanka, in Sept. 2011. A comprehensive report, titled Pawns of Peace: Evaluation of Norwegian peace efforts in Sri Lanka, stressed the importance of Wikileaks. In fact, the authors of the report deeply regretted their failure to examine the entire set of Wikileaks cables on the... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 28/10/15)

Treacherous path from UN ad hoc tribunals to hybrid courts - I
By Dr. Kamal Wickremasinghe Courtesy The Island
Examining the true intentions behind the US- UN imposition of the hybrid court mechanism to investigate the alleged war crimes by the Sri Lankan armed forces is an onerous task indeed. But, the task becomes a fair deal easier when viewed against the context that gave rise to the development of the UN hybrid court mechanism; essentially, the hybrid court system has its origins in the UN infrastructure put in place by the US neocons in the 1990s, during their hectic campaign to become masters of the unipolar world they anticipated following... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 28/10/15)

Talks on fait accompli
Courtesy The Island
Last week’s all-party conference on the Geneva resolution has been hailed as a success in some quarters. True, the best way to settle a vexed national issue is to adopt a collective approach and reach a consensus among all stakeholders. But, the question is why the government did not care to hold such a lekgotla before deciding to go out of its way to co-sponsor the resolution at issue. In fact, there was a pressing need for an imbizo as well for the government to consult the public before undertaking to implement the UNHRC recommendations. Now,... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 28/10/15)

හැමදාම නෑ.. හැමතැනම නෑ.. හිරු ‘බලය’ට පේ‍්‍රක්‍ෂකයකුගෙන් අති විශිෂ්ඨ ප‍්‍රශ්ණයක්
October 27, 2015 at 12:01 am | lanka C news
හිරු රූපවාහිනියේ අවසන් වරට පැවති ‘බලය’ දේශපාලන වැඩසටහනෙන් සාකච්චා වූයේ ජිනීවා යෝජනාවේ ගුණ දොස්ය. පේ‍්‍රක්‍ෂකයින්ට සාකච්චා මණ්ඩපයෙන් පැන විමසන්නට ඉඩ දුන් එක් අවස්ථාවන එක් මැදහත් පේ‍්‍රක්‍ෂකයෙකු විසින් අසන ලද ඉතා සාධාරණ පැනයකට විද්වත් මඩුල්ලේ සහ නිවේදකයාගේ පවා ප‍්‍රසාදය පල විය. හිරු රූපවාහිනියේ අවසන් වරට පැවති ‘බලය’ දේශපාලන වැඩසටහනෙන් සාකච්චා වූයේ ජිනීවා යෝජනාවේ ගුණ දොස්ය. පේ‍්‍රක්‍ෂකයින්ට සාකච්චා මණ්ඩපයෙන් පැන විමසන්නට ඉඩ දුන් එක් අවස්ථාවන එක් මැදහත් පේ‍්‍රක්‍ෂකයෙකු විසින් අසන ලද ඉතා සාධාරණ පැනයකට විද්වත් මඩුල්ලේ සහ නිවේදකයාගේ පවා ප‍්‍රසාදය පල විය. පැනය යොවු වූයේ දේශහිතෛෂී ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරයේ... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 27/10/15)

Video: Many dangerous operative paragraphs in resolution-MR
Courtesy Daily Mirror
Claiming that there are many dangerous operative paragraphs in theGeneva resolution on Sri Lanka, Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today said that all Sri Lankans should be vigilant about what some powerful forces are trying to achieve by jailing thewar heroes, sacking through an administrative process those who cannot be jailed, and breaking the back of the nation. Issuing a statement during a press conference at the Abhayaramaya, Narahenpita, the former President said that “according to operative paragraph 6 of the Geneva resolution the government has agreed to establish a judicial mechanism to try war crimes. They... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 27/10/15)

Allegations and probes
EDITORIAL  The Daily Mirror
t is taken as a fact that Lakshman Kadirgamar -- Foreign Minister from 1994 to 2005 with a three-year break in-between -- was Sri Lanka’s best diplomat who played a major role in getting the LTTE banned as a terrorist group in the United States and the European Union. His outstanding diplomatic skills helped Sri Lanka to go through some of the worst years of the war and win international support from the United States and Western Europe, India, Russia and China till he was assassinated on August 12, 2005. In Parliament last Friday,... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 27/10/15)

The emerging two-tier food system and Dr. Mercola's write up on “How GMOs and Glyphosate Impact Soil Biology”
by Chandre Dharmawardana (posted: October 2015)
 The fear that what you eat is “poisoned” and it is not good for you have produced a two-tier market with the top tier, made up of  “organic foods”  catering to the rich, while the poor have to eat the food from the large warehouse sales centers, US examples being  Costco and Wall-mart. The clout of the rich social segment is such that its campaign is likely to endanger the food market of the poor, especially in developing countries where safe pesticides and fertilizers have been banned by  frightened politicians who are faced... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 27/10/15)

සුද්දන් කියන දේ කරන්න ආණ්ඩු මොකටද.. ජිනීවා යෝජනාවට අත නොඋස්සනු.. ජාතිය අධි අවදානම් මොහොතකයි.. – මහින්දගෙන් අභීත ප‍්‍රකාශයක්
October 26, 2015 at 12:01 am | lanka C news
ජිනීවා යෝජනාව නිසා රට ඉදිරියේ ඇති අනතුර (හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා 2015 ඔක්තෝබර් 25 ඉරිදා දින, කොළඹ අභයාරාම විහාරස්ථානයේ පවත්වන ලද දේශනයේ පිටපත.) ආයුබෝවන්, අති පූජනීය සංඝයාවහන්ස, සියලු ආගම්වල පූජකතුමනි,මිත්‍රවරුනි, මට මෙලෙස ඔබ ඇමතීමට ලැබීම ගැන සතුටට පත්වෙනවා. මම ඔබ සැම මෙලෙස අමතන්නේ මේ රට හමුවේ බරපතල උවදුරක් ඇති අවස්ථාවකයි. ජිනීවා මානව අයිතීන් කවුන්සිලය තුල ලංකාවට එරෙහිව මෑතකදී සම්මත වූ යෝජනාව ගැන විවිධ අදහස් අපට ඇහෙනවා. පාර්ලිමේන්තුව තුලත් ඒ ගැන අදහස් පලවුනා. ඒ පලවූ අදහස් සම්බන්ධයෙන් මතබේදයට තුඩුදෙන කාරනා තිබෙන නිසාත්, මේ රටේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති හා හිටපු... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 26/10/15)

The big and the powerful get their way
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Meanwhile, ‘divided but in togetherness’, local leaders continue to play poker in the House and ordinary folk  keep seeing Yahapalanaya as a mirage
he war against the LTTE ended several years ago when the armed forces of Sri Lanka crushed the Tigers that ran wild and free for almost thirty years. It was a great relief for all Sri Lankans because it signaled an era of peace, change and opportunities for the country to emerge from the dregs of the conflict. It was unfortunate that the post-war development programmes for the... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 26/10/15)

If Britain can cozy up to China, why can’t Sri Lanka?
Ranga Jayasuriya Courtesy The Daily Mirror
Last week saw a curious event of pomp and funfair-and political realism-that highlighted how far the States would go to maximize their benefits, even at the expense of their allies. Britain rolled out the red carpet for Xi Jinping, the Chinese President who rode in a gilded royal carriage to the Buckingham Palace with the Queen seated alongside, and was hosted in a series of banquets and signed trade deals running into billions of dollars, including a 30% investment in a new British nuclear power plant. Since the United States, Britain’s old ‘special... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 26/10/15)

මේ මාසයේ ටොයි ආතල් සලාකයත් කුඬේ කුඩු.. භූගත මන්දිරය ගැන ඇත්ත කතාව මෙන්න.. [Video]
හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා විසින් ජනාධිපති මන්දිරයේ ඉදිකර තිබූ බව කියන භූගත මාලිගාව ගැන හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය.
මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් කථිකාචාර්ය මහින්ද පතිරණ මහතා සිය ෆේස්බුක් ගිණුමේ මෙසේ සටහනක් තබා ඇත. ජාතික ආරක්‍ෂාව සම්බන්ධ අතිශය සංවේදී තොරතුරු මහජන අවකාශයන් වෙත මුදා හැරීම මගින් වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව අපේක්‍ෂා කරන්නේ ප්‍රචාරය නම් අප ඔවුන්ගේ තකතීරුකම් ගැන අනුකම්පා කළ යුතු ය. පසුගිය දා කොටුව ජනාධිපති මන්දිරයේ ඇතැයි කියන භූගත ආරක්‍ෂක කුටිය පිළිබඳ ඡායාරූප මාධ්‍යයට හෙළිදරව් කිරීම කිසිදු අයුරකින් ජනතා සුභ සිද්ධිය වෙනුවෙන් කළ කටයුත්තක් නොවේ. එවැනි දෙය ජනතාවට අවශ්‍ය තොරතුරු නොවේ. ඉන් සැනසීමට පත් වන්නේ නම් ඒ මේ රටට... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 26/10/15)

Mahinda speaks about the underground bunker at the President’s House
Courtesy Adaderana
The US-sponsored resolution that was adopted at the recently concluded UN Human Rights Council Sessions in Geneva includes several terms that could be a threat to the island nation, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says. The observation was made at a press conference held in Colombo this afternoon (25). Rajapaksa pointed out that the suggestion to form a new criminal justice system parallel to the existing one involving foreign judges, prosecutors, investigators and lawyers would be an insult to the country’s court system, legal profession, investigative bodies and AG department. He also said that he had... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 26/10/15)

Dharma Voices for Animals - Colombo Chapter inaugurated with call for creation of a caring and compassionate society in Sri Lanka
Shenali D. Waduge
Bob Isaacson is an American human rights lawyer. He spent much of his professional life in defending and saving two legged people from the death penalty. For over 25 years he had been a vegetarian and vegan for more than eleven (11) years and then he came across the teachings of the Buddha and over time became a committed Theravada Buddhist. Right to life for all sentient beings was central to his own professional and philosophical outlook and that helped create the Dharma Voices for Animals in San Diego, USA in 2011 which has nearly 20... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 25/10/15)

A Rs 1.35 trillion hole in the Budget Finance Minister urges China to adjustterms of loans
by Kumar David  Courtesy The Island
The government has tabled estimates of expenditure for 2016, the first reading of the Budget, and a short summary dated 9 October is available on the Finance Ministry website (Appropriation Bill for year 2016 approved by the Cabinet of Ministers). A deficit of Rs 1.35 trillion (million-million) is expected; at 11.8% of GDP this is appalling! The number is so large that it is more comprehensible in dollars - $ 9.51 billion at Rs 142 to a $. The job of finance minister Ravi Karunanayake and the government in the second reading on... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 25/10/15)

එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මහා මණ්ඩලයේ දර්ශණ පථය.
චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි
එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මහා මණ්ඩලය පිහිටවන ලද්දේ ලෝක සාමය ස්ථාපිත කිරීම උදෙසාය. එ් වර්ෂ 1945දීය. මේ වනවිට ඇයගේ වයස අවුරුදු 70 කි. ඇය විසින් ස්ථාපිත නොකල වැදගත්ම දේ වන්නේද සාමයයි. මේ අපි දකිණ, අපිට පෙනෙන තත්වයයි. අැයට අපේක්ෂිත සාමය ලබා දීමට නොහැකි වූයේ අැයි‍? මිනිස් සමාජය තුල යුද්ධය යනු ගංඟාවක් සේ ගලා යන ජල පහරකි. පලමුවන ලෝක යුද්ධය හා දෙවන ලෝක යුද්ධය විසින් මානව සංහතියට සිදුකල මහා විනාශය  නවතාලීමට එම ගඟ හරස් කර ඉදිකල මහා බැම්ම එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මහා සංවිධානයයි. ගඟක් හරස්කර මහා බැම්මක් ඉදි කල පමණින් ගඟ ගලා ඒම හෝ ගලා යාම නවතාලිය නොහැක. නමුත්... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 25/10/15)

මව්බිම බේරගන්න විදෙස් ඇමැතිතුමා ඇයි ඇත්ත කිව්වේ නැත්තේ? - දිනේෂ් ගුණවර්ධන Why didnt the Foreign Minister tell the truth to defend Our Motherland ?" - Hon Dinesh Gunawardena
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=D-PFtZCoZD8... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/10/15)

Fifth Indian journalist killed this year in Gaya
By NJ Thakuria
Guwahati: Another middle-aged journalist, this time it is in poll-bound Bihar, has lost his life to the perpetuators. Mithilesh Pandey, 40, was shot dead on 25 October 2015 in his hometown under Gaya district. According to the family source, the miscreants (two masked persons) entered the victim’s house on Saturday evening and shot at him to death. Pandey was taken to a nearby hospital by his family members, but he succumbed to injuries after some time. Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) has condemned the incident and reiterate its demand for a national policy for justice to all... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 25/10/15)

Putin Crushes BBC Smartass INCLUDING BBC propagandist's question
Another certified moron bites the dust
JOHN SIMPSON, BBC: Western countries almost universally now believe that there’s a new Cold War and that you, frankly, have decided to create that. We see, almost daily, Russian aircraft taking sometimes quite dangerous manoeuvres towards western airspace. That must be done on your orders; you’re the Commander-in-Chief. It must have been your orders that sent Russian troops into the territory of a sovereign country – Crimea first, and then whatever it is that’s going on in Eastern Ukraine. Now you’ve got a big problem with the currency of Russia, and you’re going... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 25/10/15)

US forced to make ‘policy shift’ in Syria! RUSSIA’S ENTRY UNMASKS OBAMA’S ‘FAKE’ WAR AGAINST ISIS . . .
by Selvam Canagaratna Courtesy The Island
"W[ith] extramarital courtship, the deception was prolonged where it had been ephemeral, necessary where it had been frivolous, conspiratorial where it had been lonely." – Mary McCarthy, The Company She Keeps, 1942. Thomas S. Harrington, a Professor at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and a regular contributor to CounterPunch magazine, was brutally frank about America’s deadly play-acting in Syria in his opening observation: "The great danger of faking your ability to do something in the public square is that someone with an actual desire to do the job you are pretending to do... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 25/10/15)

Appoint a Parliamentary Committee to evaluate the OHCHR Report before deciding on further investigations
Shenali D Waduge
 One of the biggest fallacies in Sri Lanka is to get excited by false propaganda manipulated through print/electronic media that has misled public officials, government & opposition ministers including the general public. Let’s not get caught again to any further traps. Another mistake has been the lack of preparation by those representing Sri Lanka and their inability to prepare Sri Lanka’s defence and counter plans. As a sovereign nation we must stand for the rights of our nation and our people and defend those that defend the nation. Since previously we had been fooled by various... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 24/10/15)

Sir Desmond’s opinion: Prof. Peiris alleges attempt to confuse public
Courtesy The Island
Former External Affairs Minister, Prof. G. L. Peiris yesterday alleged that an attempt was being made to confuse the public regarding an opinion expressed by Sir Desmond de Silva on the issue of wartime accountability. Prof. Peiris said: "There is an opinion by Sir Desmond de Silva, QC which was submitted to the Commission on Missing Persons. This is an opinion which was published in the Oct 18 issue of The Island. This opinion is exceedingly useful for the purpose of establishing that no form of criminal liability can be imposed on armed forces of... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 24/10/15)

Initiatives for migrants under Sri Lanka's leadership of the Colombo Process commended at Cairo Meeting
Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka in Geneva
Initiatives for migrants from the Asian region taken under Sri Lanka's Chairmanship of the Colombo Process (CP) was commended at the Fifth Global Meeting of Chairs and Secretaries of Regional Consultative Processes on Migration (RCPs). The global meeting organized by the International Organization on Migration (IOM) in collaboration with the League of Arab States, brought together representatives of 18 Regional Migration Processes as well as 14 civil society organizations, and was held in Cairo, Egypt, 21-22 October 2015. The Sri Lanka delegation comprised Mr.G.S. Withanage Secretary of Ministry of Foreign Employment,... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 24/10/15)

Foreign involvement in mechanism a political decision - Paranagama
Courtesy Adaderana
The Chairman of Sri Lanka’s three-member probe commission says that certain isolated incidents that may have occurred outside the activities of the war should be investigated in depth to come to conclusion. He said that whether to permit foreign involvement in the mechanism, more than observing, is a political decision. “Those are political decisions we never wanted to tread,” Maxwell Paranagama told Ada Derana in an interview. The Paranagama report, which was presented to Parliament on Tuesday, is relevant to the commission’s second mandate which is to inquire into violations of international human rights law during the... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 23/10/15)

Meditation Interventions for the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D.
Post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a clinical syndrome that may develop following extreme traumatic stress (APA). It is an important, albeit relatively uncommon, consequence of exposure to traumatic events (Greenberg, Brooks & Dunn, 2015) presumably the result of life threats and conditioned fear (Ramage et al., 2015). According to the DSM-IVTR (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual from the American Psychological Association, 2000) the symptoms of PTSD include: a) re-experiencing the traumatic event through intrusive memories, flashbacks, nightmares, and physiological responses similar to when the traumatic event was occurring b) avoidance and numbing such... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 23/10/15)

THE RSS ‘PARIVAR’
ALI SUKHANVER
The Article 370 of the Indian constitution gives a special status to Jammu and Kashmir and this privileged status is not acceptable to the Hindu extremists in any case. According to the India Today RSS had set four Hindutva conditions for supporting Modi before his selection as the Prime Minister of India. ‘Modi has been made to pledge to building a grand Ram Temple in Ayodhya. He has also been urged to enforce the contentious Uniform Civil Code across the country. He is asked to press for a repeal of Article 370. If done, it will take... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 23/10/15)

Bush-Cheney redux: Obama’s killer drone program and other crimes exposed!
Citizens Electoral Council of Australia
Barack Obama has taken Australia’s most important ally further along the despised Bush-Cheney regime’s morally-bankrupt path of trashing international law, regime change, extra-judicial murder and war crimes. The most egregious and disturbing of Obama’s crimes has been exposed by investigative-reporting website The Intercept, founded by Glenn Greenwald and others, which on 15 October published “The Drone Papers”. These comprise eight articles concerning America’s use of drone attacks in its post-9/11 wars, based upon leaked documents showing that President Obama, from his earliest days in office, ran a global assassination program from the White House... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 23/10/15)

යස-පාලන කැලෑසිය
ධර්මන් වික‍්‍රමරත්න
දෙමුහුන් ආණ්ඩුවට අදට දින 286කි. දින 100ක් ඇතුළත ගෙනෙන බවට පොරොන්දුවූ තොරතුරු දැනගැනීමේ පනත තවමත් හමස් පෙට්ටියේය. හිටපු ත්‍රිවිධ හමුදාපතිවරන් ප්‍රශ්ණ කිරීම සදහා එෆ්.සී.අයි.ඩීයට කැදවා ඇති බව ජනාධිපති දැකගන්නේ පත්තරයෙනි. ඩුබායි බැංකුවල සල්ලි සැඟවීම තවත් දිය කිඳුරි කථාවකි. රුපියල් ලක්ෂ 30ක් වැයකර වැලිඅමුණ සකස්කල එයාර් ලංකා සමාගමේ දූෂණ වාර්තාවෙන්  හඬ ඇත. නඩුද නැත. ඖෂධ මාෆියාවේ කතාව දැන් වාදනයකර තැටියද පළුදුවී ඇත. රාජපක්ෂ රෙජිමයේ බේබිලා ලඟ තිබුණායැයි කියූ හෙලිකොප්ටර් නැත. රත්තරන් අස්පයින්ද හමු නොවීය. ලැම්බෝගිනි වාෂ්ප වී ගොසිනි. රගර් හාදයාගේ මෘත දේහය ගොඩ ගැනීමට තිබූ හදිසිය පරික්ෂණ වලට නැත. වැරදිකර ඇති සියල්ලන්ටම දඬුවම් ලැබිය යුතුය. ඒ පළිගැනීමක් ලෙස... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 23/10/15)

I did not confess to Seya murder - Kondaya
Courtesy Adaderana
Dunesh Priyashantha, also known as Kondaya, today said that he never confessed to the murder of 5-year-old girl Seya Sadewmi in Kotadeniyawa and that all he did was sign a document prepared by the police, as he could no longer stand their beatings. Speaking at a press conference in Colombo today after he was released on bail by the Gampaha Magistrate’s Court over previous cases, he accused the officers of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of repeatedly assaulting him while in custody and even causing injuries to his head which was hit on the wall. Priyashantha also... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 23/10/15)

THE ‘DEBATE’ ON THE OHCHR REPORT: SOME SUGGESTIONS AS TO STRATEGY 2
DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA
This article is a follow-up to my previous article of the same title published in Lankaweb on 17th October 2015. The Government’s present plan seems to be, soon after the ‘Debate’ on the OHCHR report, to push through enabling legislation for a “Domestic Mechanism,’ and to do so by a simple majority in Parliament. If the Government gets to push through the aforesaid legislation by a simple majority, Sri Lanka as a country is finished. At the very least, the opposition—i.e. those who for one reason or another oppose a ‘Domestic Mechanism—have to force a 2/3 majority... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 23/10/15)

The Biased OISL Report and the Dangers of Disinformation
Lasanda Kurukulasuriya
Needless to say, officials circulating this type of clumsy propaganda do a disservice to the country’s leaders, while also undermining public trust. An invitation to address the legislature of any State is generally considered a special honour. Was this embellished story intended to show that the new Government was held in ‘high regard’ by the world community after Geneva 2015? HRC and Sovereignty The bigger question that arises is whether other disinformation is taking place as well and whether, as a result, the public are being misled on the implications of the US-led resolution co-sponsored... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 23/10/15)

සෙංකෝලයත් පැහැරගෙන මහ යුද්ධයක් කර පාර්ලිමේන්තුව ගිණියම් කරමින් ජනීවා විවාදයේදී විමල් කල කතාව මෙන්න…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-UPlViajyRo... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/10/15)

First investigate those who sponsored & supported Sri Lanka’s LTTE Terrorists?
Shenali D Waduge
 Before any hybrid court or international investigators are brought into the scene causing another burden to the taxpayer and wasting years compiling data what is more important is to identify all those who had supported and sponsored terrorism in Sri Lanka. You can have disgruntled men and women who want to rebel against a system but it is when these men and women are supplied arms, ammunition and given training that creates a total new ballgame. We know that unemployed low caste Prabakaran and a handful of his men were unhappy with the government but things... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 22/10/15)

Which religions/texts propagated hate for others?
Shenali D Waduge
There is a global mainstream political effort out to showcase select religions as being intolerant and hateful totally ignoring the actual texts inside the religions of those pointing fingers. Often the defence is to claim that the quotes are ‘out of context’ but when challenged to show where these texts are contradicted as wrong or stands corrected no proof can be given. The examples of texts shown below are no small number that can be ignored. Therefore, those that enjoy making disparaging remarks are well advised to read through the texts of these religions and determine... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 22/10/15)

Visit & Speech At Dowse Museum Lower Hutt.Tuesday 20.10.15
Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM
Rt Hon John Key, Prime Minister of New Zealand, NZ Parliament. Dear Mr. Key, I write  among others, to thank you for giving us the opportunity once again of listening to your precise and succinct analysis of current issues pertaining to New Zealand, both nationally and internationally , as you always do on occasions such as these. As a resident of the Hutt for over two and a half decades, it has been a delight to see Hutt receive the unprecedented Prime Ministerial attention   it has received under your stewardship... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 22/10/15)

මා වෛද්‍ය අධ්‍යාපනය ලැබු යූක්‍රයිනයේ විනිට්සා වෛද්‍ය පීඨය​
වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග 
මම වෛද්‍ය අධ්‍යාපනය ලැබුවේ යූක්‍රයිනයේ විනිට්සා වෛද්‍ය පීඨයේය​. වර්තමානයේ මෙය Vinnitsa National Medical University යනුවෙන් හැඳින්වේ. මෙම ආයතනය ආරම්භ  කරන ලද්දේ 1921 වසරේදීය​.  1930 වන විට සෝවියට් දේශයේ වෛද්‍යවරු පුහුණු කිරීම අතින්  විනිට්සා වෛද්‍ය පීඨය නමක් දිනා ගැනීමට හැකි විය​. දෙවන ලෝක යුද සමයේ විනිට්සා වෛද්‍ය පීඨයේ ඉගෙනුම ලැබූ  වෛද්‍යවරු විශාල ප්‍රමානයක් යුද පෙරමුණ ආශ්‍රිතව සේවය කළහ​.   1979 දී ලෝකයේ විවිධ රට වලින් විද්‍ය විද්‍යාව ඉගෙන ගැනීමට විනිට්සා වෛද්‍ය පීඨයට පැමිණියහ​. මා මෙහි ඉගෙන  ගත් කාලයේ (1986 -1993 )  ලෝකයේ රටවල් එකසිය ගනනක සිසු සිසුවියන් විනිට්සා වෛද්‍ය පීඨයේ ඉගෙනුම ලැබූහ​. එම නිසා  වෛද්‍යවරු... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 22/10/15)

Are the Indians Framing Lankans to Cover Up Indian War Crimes During the Final Stages of the War?
 Dilrook Kannangara
Credible accounts of the last stages of the war indicate the presence of Indian troops in Mulaitivu area. Did they eliminate the LTTE hierarchy to cover up their involvement with the terrorist outfit? Quoted from the Times of India A PIL filed in the Supreme Court has said Indian military personnel took direct part in the war, and that some were even injured in the battle. A Sikh officer was commanding the forces, it said, citing eyewitness evidence and international probe. Noting that deploying Indian military without parliamentary or presidential nod is illegal, it sought... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 21/10/15)

Paranagama Commission rejects Darusman findings-Udalagama Commission faults police over probe into killing of aid workers
By Saman Indrajith The Island
The Commission of Inquiry that probed Abductions and Disappearances (better known as the Maxwell Paranagama Commission) has found that it was the LTTE which killed majority of Tamil civilians during the last 12 hours of the final stage of the war, according to the commission report tabled in Parliament yesterday. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe tabled the Maxwell Paranagama Commission report and the Udalagama Commission report along with the UNHRC report on alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka. The Paranagama Commission report has said: "In coming to its findings about the LTTE, the... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 21/10/15)

Did not consider appointing foreign experts as judges - Rajapaksa
Adaderana
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Wednesday said his government, at no time, contemplated the appointment of foreign experts as judges exercising judicial power in respect of the Sri Lankan armed forces and other Sri Lankan citizens. Stating this during his meeting with Motoo Noguchi of the Supreme Public Prosecutor’s Office of Japan at his residence this morning, Mr Rajapaksa said such a move was “politically unacceptable to our people and also, it involved conflict with basic provisions of the constitution of Sri Lanka,” a press release issued by the former President’s media unit said. The release quoted... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 21/10/15)

Sri Lanka may have to repay taxes imposed by gazette which has not been approved by parliament during the specified period, Bandula Gunewardene, a legislator and former deputy finance minister warned.
Dr Sudath Gunasekara President Senior Citizens Movement, Mahanuwara.
21.10.2015. Serious and immediate attention of all citizens in this country is drawn to the above important news item. While listening to a news briefing by MEP Leader Dinesh Gunawardhana yesterday I learnt about the withdrawal of this gazette by Minister Kiriella. The whole country should be thankful to the MEP and its leader for taking up this very important issue that concerns the legitimate rights of the people in Parliament when there is no representative to talk on behalf of them in Parliament. In this note I want to bring... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 21/10/15)

JOINT opposition asks govt. to release all documents on Geneva resolution
By Dasun Edirisinghe
The joint opposition yesterday challenged President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to make public all documents related to the UNHRC report on Sri Lanka’s alleged war crimes. Addressing a well-attended rally at Viharamahadevi Park in Colombo, organised by the joint opposition, Mahajana Eksath Peramuna leader and Colombo District UPFA MP Dinesh Gunawardena said that the President, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera had betrayed Sri Lankan forces in Geneva by supporting the US-backed resolution against, Sri Lanka. He said the Sri Lanka government, Sri Lanka’s security forces, the US Embassy in Sri Lanka,... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 21/10/15)

Dissociative Disorders among the Sri Lankan Combatants
Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D.
The armed conflict in Sri Lanka lasted for nearly 30 years. The soldiers who participated in this war underwent extreme forms of battle stresses. Some of the combatants who were exposed to distressing battle events had dissociative reactions. According to Chu (1998) dissociation refers to “a disruption of the normal integration of experience. As described by Van der Hart, Van der Kolk, & Boon (1998) Dissociation is a way of organizing information and it is a compartmentalization of experience: elements of an experience are not integrated into a unitary whole but are stored in... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 21/10/15)

බුදුසසුන රැකගැනීම
එස්. අකුරුගොඩ
1815න් පසුව, යලිත් වරක් විවිධ උපායන් මගින් රට සුදු අධිරාජ්‍යවාදින්ගේ යටත් විජිතයක් බවට පත්කර රටත් ජාතියත් ආගමත් විනාශ මුඛයට ලක්ව ඇති මොහොතක මල්වතු හා අස්ගිරි මහනාහිමිවරුන් කටයුතු කරන ආකාරය දෙස රටේ බෞද්ධයින් බලා සිටින්නේ මහත් සoවේගයෙනි. එහෙත් 1815 දී සුද්දන්ගේ බසට රැවටී තාන්න මාන්න බලාපොරොත්තුවෙන් රට ජාතිය හා ආගම ගිවුසුමකින් ව්දේශිකයිනට පවරාදුන් එදා සිoහලේ පාලකයින් සිදුකළ මහාපාවාදීම ඇගයීමට එදා වැඩමකළ කොබ්බෑකඩුව මල්වතු මහනාහිමි අනුගමනය කරමින්, වත්මන් මල්වතු හා අස්ගිරිනාහිමි වරුන් යලිත් රට විදේශීය බලවතුනට යටත්කොට ඇති වත්මන් පාලකයින්ගේ ගුණ ගායනා කරනු දැකීම එතරම් පුදුමයක් නොවේ. හරියටම මීට වසර දසීයකට පෙර සිදුකල ඒ අනුවන කමේ විපාක දැක බලා... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 21/10/15)

Wimal Weerawansa 2015-10-19 Wihara mahadewi Parck Speech Video
ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්‍ෂය විසින් සංවිධානය කරනු ලබන ජන සමුළු මාලාවේ පළමුවැන්න අද(19) කොළඹ විහාර මහාදේවී එළිමහන් රංග පීඨයේදී පැවැත්විය
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScuV-fXO33A&feature=player_detailpage... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 21/10/15)

Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL), Monthly Public Lecture
Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL)
Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL), Monthly Public Lecture “The Challenges in Protecting the Monuments of the Ancient Fortress of Kotte” by Mr. Ishan Wiratunga, Secretary, Kotte Heritage Foundation  will be held on Monday 26th October 2015 at 5.00 p.m. at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07. Kotte is the 4th longest serving capital in ancient Sri Lanka but it is the most neglected archaeological site. Other than  the Alakeshwara Palace and Beaddgana mounds, the Rampart, ancient moats and associated locations are in great danger of extinction. Encroachers who destroy monuments get away as there are no proper name boards covering the entire kingdom... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 21/10/15)

TULF Leader Sangaree's Lawyer son Gary Anandasangaree elected to Canadian Parliament
http://dbsjeyaraj.com/dbsj/archives/43600
A 43 year old lawyer Sri Lankan Tamil origin has been elected as a Canadian member of Parliament from the Liberal party at the 42nd Canadian general elections held on October 19th 2015. He is none other than the son of veteran Sri Lankan Tamil politician Veerasingham Anandasangaree leader of the Tamil United Liberation Front(TULF) who was formerly MP for Kilinochchi electorate and Jaffna electoral district. Anandasangaree's second son Sathiyasangaree Anandasangaree known as Gary Anandasangaree was elected from the newly created Scarborough – Rouge park constituency polling 29,906 votes. He won with the huge majority of... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 21/10/15)

Why Is The U.S. Silently Bombing Syria's Electricity Network?
By Moon Of Alabama Information Clearing House"
October 19, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - The Aleppo power plant is a 1,000 megawatt thermal plant in five units build by Mitsubishi Heavy Industry in 1995-1998. It is situated some 25 kilometers east of Aleppo city center.  During the fighting around Aleppo various electricity distribution stations were damaged and electricity in parts of the city has become scarce and unpredictable. But the main power station had so far not been hit. The plant is in the hands of the Islamic State but there is an informal agreement between the government,... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 21/10/15)

Arjuna in post-fixing, appoints brother as ports chief
Yahapalana New
Ports and Shipping Minister Arjuna Ranatunga has appointed his brother, former cricketer Dammika Ranatunga, as Chairman of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA). Mr. Ranatunga, a younger sibling of the Minister, assumed duties on Thursday, SLPA sources said. The move took many by surprise as the elder Ranatunga had been at the forefront of the campaign against nepotism and corruption against the previous Government.  Once he took over as Minister, however, he facilitated the removal of the earlier chairman, vice chairman and the SLPA’s board of directors and then installed his brother in the topmost position. There... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 21/10/15)

Truth-seking and Path-following - A moral conundrum for the Ardant Buddhist.
R Chandrasoma
The Tathāgata was a Seeker of the Truth before his enlightenment - and his career as the Great Expositor was preceded by a dialectical interaction with the leading saintly intellects of the day. The Jaina Teachings provided the initial stimulus for his path-breaking spiritual innovations and the Brahaminic wisdom of the day was an everpresent background against which he set his revolutionary teachings on Anatta and Anicca. The point to stress is that he was a quester of the truth before he turned discoverer of the path. The earnest Buddhist Pilgrim or Devotee of today is faced... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 21/10/15)

Let bygones be bygones; Colombo urges Beijing, as Chinese loans take their toll
Adaderana
Sri Lanka is urging China to put their disputes behind them and help the South Asian nation through one of its worst financial crises ever, caused partly by excessive Chinese loans contracted by the previous government of Beijing ally Mahinda Rajapaksa.   “Chinese loans are a big part of our problem. A bulk of the government expenditure goes into servicing them,” Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake told the South China Morning Post in an exclusive interview.   “I urge China to put the acrimony of the past behind us and come and help us by adjusting the terms... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 21/10/15)

The boss and his several liberal eunuchs
By The Nation -
aithripala, Sirisena, made it clear this week that he wants a supine press, and considers the media absolutely free as long as (as a unit) its practitioners do his bidding. This person gives an entire new meaning to the term cheap tin pot dictator, but more about that later. Nothing in Yahapalanaya has changed anything fundamental in this country. The NGO charlatans such as Jehan Perera and Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu are still the same. If at all, along with the handiwork of fellow mountebanks such as Weliamuna, their exertions towards ensuring that the soldiers who fought... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 21/10/15)

Has anyone felt it this way?
Kithsiri De Silva.
Recently, I was browsing to book a hotel in Sri Lanka on-line and I was little taken aback reading some of the disparaging comments posted by some, whom one time were Sri Lankan / Ceylonese but now living abroad. Mostly, they have come particularly from one or two communities and wondering whether this is another secretly planned and concerted effort to harm the image / economy of the country. Has anyone here felt it this way? Kithsiri De Silva. Rajgama, Sri Lanka.... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 21/10/15)

උදලාගම කොමිසමේ වාර්තාව හා පරණගම කොමිසමේ වාර්තාව මේ සතියේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුව රැස්වීමට පෙර නිකුත් කරන්න - කැෆේ හා ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රය ඉල්ලයි.Without releasing Udalagama and Paranagama Reports to the public domain merely talking about Reconciliation and Transitional Justice is Pointless – CaFFE/CHR
කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ කැෆේ/ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රය
උදලාගම හා පරණගම  ජනාධිපති කොමිෂන් කොමිසමේ වාර්තා “ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේ දී ලංකාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් සම්මත වූ යෝජනාව පිළිබද පාර්ලිමේන්තු විවාදයට“ පෙර ප්‍රසිද්ධ කරන්නැයි කැෆේ සංවිධානය හා ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රය රජයෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටී. මෙම වාර්තා දෙක කඩිනමින් ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම මගින් ජිනීවා යෝජනා පිළිබද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී පවත්වන විවාදය අර්ථවත් කිරීමට හැකියාව ලැබෙනු ඇතැයි යන්න අපගේ විශ්වාසයයි. ඇමරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදයේ සහාය ඇතිව එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේ දී සම්මත කරගනු ලැබූ යෝජනාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් පැවති සමාජ  කතිකාවේ උණුසුම මේ වන විට පහත වැටී ඇති නමුත් ඔක්. 22, 23 දින පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ දී පැවැත්වෙන විවාදය අතර... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 20/10/15)

A REPETITION OF 1815?
Sugath Samarasinghe 
The 15th year of the last 3 centuries seem to be disastrous to this country. I am particularly comparing what happened to Sri Lanka at the UNHCR this year with that of 1815. In 1815, the independence of Sri Lanka preserved for 2300 years was offered on a platter to the British by some of the Kandyan Chieftains ostensibly to be rid of the Wadiga King who was described by the British as a ‘tyrant’. Of course the ceding of the country without a fight, for the first time, was done on several conditions written down on... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 20/10/15)

TRIUNE MIND FINDS HOME IN TRIUNE BRAIN: An Exercise in Buddhianscience & Westernscience
PRESS RELEASE By Prof. Suwanda H J Sugunasiri
Oct. 06, 2015 This brief article seeks to substantiate the Hypothesis, 'The Triune Mind parallels the Triune Brain'. 'Triune Mind' in the Pali Canon in Buddhism is as in the model proposed by Suwanda H J Sugunasiri (Canadian J of Buddhist Studies, 10), and Triune Brain as in the model proposed by Paul MacLean. The former is shown to serve as the psychological (nāma) component of the latter physical component, While MacLean's model is currently in disfavour within neuroscientific circles, the criticisms are met by pointing out the justified but... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 20/10/15)

විජය ඝාතන කල ලයනල් රණසිංහ
 Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D.
මහජන පක්‍ෂයේ නායක විජය කුමාරතුංගට  වෙඩි තබා  ඝාතන කල ලයනල් රණසිංහ පිළිබඳව තොරතුරු රහස් පොලිසියේ හිටපු අධ්‍යක්‍ෂක චන්ද්‍රා  ජයවර්ධන මහතාගෙන් මෙන් ඒ පිළිබඳව විමර්ෂණය කරන ලද නිලධාරීන් ගෙන් ලබා ගත හැකි විය​.  පෙනී යන පරිදි  ලයනල් රණසිංහ කුඩා කාලයේ පීතෘ වියෝග කාන්සාවට (Paternal Deprivation Syndrome)  බෙහෙවින් ලක්ව සිටි අතර පසු කාලීනව දරිද්‍රතාවය සමාජ පීඩනය වැනි කරුණු නිසා පහසුවෙන්ම රැඩිකල් දේශපාලනයේ විශෝධනය මගින් ඝාතකයෙකු බවට පත් කර ගැනීමට හැකි විය. පෙනී යන පරිදි ඝාතන කීපයක් කිරීමෙන් අණතුරුව ඔහු ආසක්ත ඝාතකයෙකු (Addictive Killer)  බවට රූපාන්තරණය වේ. අත් අඩංගුවට ගැනීමෙන් පසු ඔහු අතුරුදහන් විය​. ඔහු මිය ගියේද... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 20/10/15)

අදින් වසර 510ට පෙර (1505) මෙරටට ගොඩබට පෘතුගීසි නාවික බලකාය
චානක බණ්ඩාරගේ
 15/10/2015 දින මෙම වෙබ්අඩවියේ පළවූ ‘15/10/1505 (510 years ago to date) is the day that the Portuguese first landed in Colombo, Sri Lanka’ යන ලිපියේ සිංහල පරිවර්තනය 1505 වසරේ ඔක්තෝබර් මස මැද සමයේ කපිතාන් ලොරෙන්සෝ ද අල්මේදාගේ නායකත්වයෙන් යුත් යුධ නැව් 9ක් ඉන්දියාවේ කල්කටාවෙන් සහ ඉන්දියන් සාගරයේ මාලදිවයින් දුපත් වලින් තම නැව් සඳහා අවශ්‍ය කරන නාවික කඹ සොයා ගත නොහැකිව නැවත පෘතුගාලය වෙත යාමට තීරණය කරන ලදී. ශ්‍රී ලංකාව පිළිබඳව අල්මේදා දැන සිටියේ නැත. මාලදිවයිනේ සිට ආපසු යන ගමනේදී ඈත ක්ෂතිජයේ තද කොළ පැහැති ගස් කොළන් සහිත දිවයිනක් ඔහුගේ නැවියෝ දුටුහ. එම දිවයින (ශ්‍රී ලංකාව) වෙත ඉතා... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 20/10/15)

Sri Lankan government requests to seize eight accounts of former government members in Dubai bank
Chandre dharma-wardana 
Corruption too must be judged against what is the going yardstick in other parts of the world. Corruption is a natural phenomenon (like entropy) in rapidly evolving  complex physical systems. There is no entropy production (corruption) in systems that evolve infinitely slowly, as we know from thermodynamics. In the West, the Enron scandal, the scandals involving the bail out of Fanny-May, Goldman-Sachs etc., during Obama's bail out, or the scandals involving the blatant handing over of the Iraqi war spin-off business to Haliberton (Dick Chaney, Rusmfeld, Bush are principal shareholders), running into billions are well known. That... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 19/10/15)

Weerawansa on Geneva Resolution
  https://youtu.be/i8G9v1iQJEw... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/10/15)

ප්‍රභූ පුතාගේ ඩුබායි සල්ලි හෙළිනොවේ
2015 ඔක්තෝබර් මස 18 13:53:04 | . , සන්ඩේ ටයිම්ස් දේශපාලන විශ්ලේෂක,පරිවර්තනය කෝවිද ගුණසේකර
මෙරට අති සුවිශේෂී පුද්ගලයෙකුගේ දේශපාලනයේ නියුතු පුත්‍රයෙක් සතුබව කියැවුනු ඩුබායිහි ජාතික බැංකුවේ (නැෂනල් බෑන්ක් ඔෆ් ඩුබායි) ගිණුමක් ගැන තොරතුරු මෙරට දේශපාලඥයින්ට ලැබුණේ පසුගිය පාර්ලිමෙන්තු මැතිවරණය පැවැත්වුනු අගොස්තු 17 වැනිදාට දින 10 කට පමණ පෙරාතුවය.මෙම ගිණුමේ ඩොලර් බිලියනයක් පමණ තැන්පත් කර තිබෙන බව පැවසුනු අතර එය එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයේ මෙන්ම එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂය සමග අත්වැල් බැඳගෙන සිටි ශ්‍රීලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ සාමාජිකයින්ව ප්‍රීතියට පත් කිරීමට සමත්වූ පුවතක් වුනි.එනිසාවෙන්ම මේ සම්බන්ධ පරීක්ෂණ කටයුතු ආරම්භවූයේ එම සමයේ සිටමය. මෙම කටයුතු භාරකෙරුණේ මානව හිමිකම් ක්‍රියාධරයෙක් සහ ට්‍රාන්ස්පිරන්සි ඉන්ටර්නැෂනල් සංවිධානයේ ශ්‍රීලංකා... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 19/10/15)

The Problem of Indian fishermen poaching in Sri Lankan waters
Sudath Gunasekara 17.10.2015.
In the first place I want you to read the content of the following two news items Indian express 12.10.2015 Indian express SL Deceiving Nations, says Karunanidhi By Express News Service Published: 12th October 2015 05:38 AM Last Updated: 12th October 2015 05:38 AM “CHENNAI: DMK leader M Karunanidhi on Sunday charged Sri Lanka with using its geographical location to deceive other nations and asked the Union government to take steps to safeguard the livelihood of the fishermen of Tamil Nadu. Karunanidhi cited Lanka rejecting the Indian government’s request to allow TN fishermen to fish in Lankan waters for 65... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 19/10/15)

Dr. Sir Ifthikar Ayaz met Sri Lankan Parliament Speaker – A Report.
By A. Abdul Aziz. Press Secretary.
 Chairman, Ahmadiyya International Human Rights Committee (AIHRC) Dr. Sir Ifthikar Ayaz met the Speaker Honorable Karu Jeyasuriya at his office in Parliament Complex on Friday - the 16th October, 2015. Sir Ayaz had a very useful and productive meeting on the state of Human Rights in the region and the rest of the world with the Speaker Honorable Karu Jeyasuriya. Chairman, AIHRC said: status of human rights in Sri Lanka has been improved and the new Government is doing a great deal for the unification of all section in the nation. A commendable example... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 18/10/15)

Now the 14th Amendment: Home-made terminological fraud, needs fixing at home and not Geneva
by Rajan Philips Courtesy Island
More by accident than by design, Mr. DEW Gunasekara has kicked open Sri Lanka’s constitutional can of worms. All he may have wanted to do was to make a political statement by grieving before the Supreme Court that the new UPFA leadership under President Sirisena wrongfully deprived him of a national list seat in parliament in favour of a defeated SLFP candidate. Then his intrepid lawyer, Nagananda Kodituwakku, appears to have made a startling discovery that the wording of the provision in the 14th Amendment, relating to the appointment of national list MPs, is different... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 17/10/15)

MEPs FR Victory for the Common People - "State shall not Exploit the People"
“State Shall not Exploit the People” MEP’s Complaint on the Telecommunication Levy Bill  A Victory for the Common People
The Good Governance regime, on 6th October, retracted its controversial, negligently and recklessly drafted Telecommunication Levy (Amendment) Bill which it had placed before Parliament on the Order paper of 22nd September 2015, with the objective of amending the Telecommunication Levy Act No.21 of 2011 and imposing additional levies on persons receiving telecommunication services. The Government was forced to retreat by a petition brought before the Supreme Court by Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) Vice President Somaweera Chandrasiri (former Member of Parliament and... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 17/10/15)

13 A WAS A MARKER FOR A LARGER TAMIL NADU
W.A. De Silva Courtesy The Daily News
Sri Lanka had to face the consequences of Tamil Expansion from South India presently called Tamil Nadu throughout her history intermittently right from the past as far back as 2nd Century B.C. the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution of Sri Lanka is nothing but another facet of Tamil Expansionism from Tamil Nadu. It is an outcome of recurrent agitation caused by Tamil Nadu politicians to set up a separate state called Tamil Eelam initially for the Tamil Community in the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka with the intention of enlarging it... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 17/10/15)

Avant Garde version of ongoing dispute
Courtesy Sunday Island
Proliferation of sea piracy in the Western Indian Ocean resulted in International Maritime Organization (IMO) establishing a High Risk Area in which piracy threat was greater. Many Western Private Maritime Security Companies (PMSCs) started providing security to ships in this HRA, and since Sri Lanka was at one end of the HRA based their operations off Sri Lanka. They also obtained the required weapons belonging to Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) from Rakna Arakshaka Lanka Ltd (RALL) for convenience. Whilst providing these weapons to those maritime security companies, 197 weapons belonging to GOSL were misplaced, as... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 17/10/15)

THE UPCOMING ‘DEBATE’ ON THE OHCHR REPORT:  SOME SUGGESTIONS AS TO STRATEGY
DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA
A Parliamentary ‘debate’ on the OHCHR report and the related resolution is scheduled for the 22nd and 23rd of October, if I’m not mistaken.  All indications are that the Government will trounce the opposition by branding them ‘extremists.’  (By ‘opposition’ what I mean are those who see the OHCHR report as inimical to Sri Lanka’s interests, and want to resist the related recommendation for a ‘Domestic Mechanism.’) The opposition, meanwhile, seems to lack a coherent and focused plan of action.  Their strategy appears to consist mainly of various efforts at informing the public that the predicament Sri... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 17/10/15)

Why should Sri Lanka be compared to East Timor?
Shenali D Waduge
If Sri Lanka is to be compared to any nation it must have similar historical civilizational traits. No amount of distortion, attempts to re-write history by religions out to convert Vedic religions can take away the Buddhist heritage of Sri Lanka and changing the constitution is one attempt to replace the foremost place given to Buddhism by applying a multicultural multi-religious pseudo eye-wash which over time invariably will result in either the Church or Islam determining and dominating how affairs of the State will run according to the religious tenants of their faiths which gives no... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 17/10/15)

India Using Nazi Invasive Tactics against Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bangladesh
Dilrook Kannangara
Nepal’s constitution has triggered Nazi action, particularly, Operation Himmler, from India, again. At the same time, India uses same Nazi action against Sri Lanka, to change the Sri Lankan Constitution to appease Indian ethnic communities living in Sri Lanka. This repetitive behaviour of India is the same conduct Nazi Germany followed to invade Poland, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, etc. The world must stop such invasive interference based on ethnicity. Protection of a nation’s ethnic groups rests with that nation. If any external party is unhappy with the rights of a minority ethnic group due to its presence... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 17/10/15)

Thoughts on reconciliation using ideas from Singapore
Harvey Perera 
The purpose writing this article is to tie up some of the incidents of the past few decades and find solutions to the problems we have today, especially Tamil Separatism. Sri Lanka finished a 30 year old war with Tamil Terrorists due to Tamil leaders wanting a separate state for themselves. If we examine the reason as to why it started we can see how misled our leaders were in 1948 when we got independence. Misleading was done mostly by the 'Kalu Suddas' of Colombo and large numbers of well educated Catholic, Christian and Tamil advisors we... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 17/10/15)

Geneva process can be reversed - Ven. Bengamuwe Nalaka thera
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy Island
October 16, 2015, 9:45 pm Ret. Maj calls for campaign against UNP, SLFP Dr Bandara reiterates US wants vassal state Mohan Samaranayake counters govt propaganda Dr Amarasekera questions US motive in backing war Ven. Bengamuwe Nalaka thera Wednesday called for a united effort to reverse what he called the Geneva process meant to divide the country on ethnic lines. The Ven thera urged those who genuinely loved the country to resist the on-going Western project and also to be aware of the persistent Indian threat. The outspoken monk was addressing a... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 17/10/15)

Modi on Buddhist spiritual heritage of India and the significance of his message for Sri Lanka
By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island
About a month ago, that is, around early September 2015, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India described Bodh Gaya as the “land of enlightenment”, when he visited the Buddhist shrine there, the Mahabodhi Temple. It was a happy coincidence, as he noted in his speech, that he got to visit this Buddhist holy place on the Janmashtami (birthday) of Lord Krishna. It also happened to be the Teachers’ Day in India, which coincides with the birth anniversary of a former president of India, Sarvelappi Radhakrishnan, who was himself a renowned teacher. Speaking on the... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 17/10/15)

Scientific energy saving cooking help the University students
Dr Hector Perera      London
When I was in Colombo doing Advanced Level science, I was in a boarding house near Borella. That was a room only basis accommodation and we had to get our meals from outside. In the boarding house there were two others also attended to the same private college to do advanced level science. To begin with we tried so many options, getting parcels and packets of lunch and dinner from nearby hotels. Sometimes I cycled day and night, rain or shine to hotels in Borella to buy lunch packets from nearby hotels. Honestly when it... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 17/10/15)

US tank enters MSF hospital in Afghanistan’s Kunduz, ‘destroys potential evidence’ – reports
Courtesy RT
Published time: 17 Oct, 2015 00:45 Get short URL The damaged hospital in which the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) medical charity operated is seen on October 13, 2015 following an air strike in the northern city of Kunduz. © STR / AFP A US military vehicle has allegedly forced its way into the hospital in Afghanistan which was devastated by US airstrikes two weeks ago. The move was an unwelcome surprise for Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) which operates the site. Members of a joint investigation team from the US, NATO and Afghan government were aboard... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 17/10/15)

බෞද්ධ ජාතක කථා වල මනෝවිද්‍යාත්මක දැක්ම (Psychological Aspects of Buddhist Jathaka Stories) ඉංග්‍රීසි බසින් රචිත ගොඩගේ ප්‍රකාශනයකි 
   ආචාර්‍ය රොල්ෆ් ගේයිනර්  මනෝ විද්‍යාඥ ඇමරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදය
වෛද්‍ය රුවන් ජයතුංග විසින් රචිත නවතම කෘතිය වන, ‘බෞද්ධ ජාතක කථා වල මනෝවිද්‍යාත්මක දැක්ම’ නමැති කෘතිය, මම මහත් අභිරුචියකින් කියවූයෙමි. බෞද්ධ දර්ශනය පිළිබඳව දීර්ඝ කාලයක් තිස්සේ උනන්දුවන පුද්ගලයකු මෙන්ම, මනෝවිද්‍යාඥයකු වශයෙන්ද, මා හට පෙනීයන්නේ, ජාතක කථා මගින්, මානව විඥ්ඥාණයේ විවිධ ගතිලක්‍ෂණ පිළිබඳව, සලකා බලෙන අතරම, පුද්ගල මනෝභාවයන්, හැඟීම් සහ චිත්තාවේගයන්, අභිප්‍රායයන් සහ චර්යා ලක්‍ෂණ, චින්තනය සහ ක්‍රියාවලීන් ආදිය පිළිබඳව පුළුල් පරාසයක් ආවරණය කෙරෙන ආකාරයෙන් නිර්මාණයවී තිබෙන බවයි.   වෛද්‍ය ජයතුංග විසින් මෙම ග්‍රන්ථයේදී පාඨකයා වෙත දක්වන අනුග්‍රාහකත්වය තුළ, මෙම ජාතක කථා, ක්‍රි.පූ.3 වැනි සියවස සහ ක්‍රි.ව. 5 වැනි සියවස අතර කාලයේදී ලියැවී... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 16/10/15)

Best of RT’s coverage on Russia’s air campaign against ISIS in Syria (VIDEOS)
Courtesy RT
Published time: 11 Oct, 2015 23:47Edited time: 12 Oct, 2015 03:45 Get short URL A Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback tactical bomber performs air strikes in the provinces of Raqqah and Aleppo © Russian Defense Ministry / RIA Novosti 3.6K3762 RT’s extensive and in-depth coverage of Russia’s anti-terror operation in Syria has skyrocketed online – exclusive reports and raw video footage have been watched over 4 million times on RT’s main English-language YouTube channel alone. The air-to-surface military operation began on September 30 at the request of... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 16/10/15)

MR’s party responds to allegations
Courtesy Adaderana
https://youtu.be/I8L7R6LAT98 Summoning the former President before the Commission to Inquire into Serious Corruption over several matters is undoubtedly an attempt to convey to the public the impression that the former president had engaged in wrongdoing and to gain some political mileage thereby, Rohan Welivita, Media Secretary to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says. Welivita, issuing a statement said, “Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa appeared before the Commission to Probe Serious Acts of Corruption today in response to a letter sent to him by the commission. This letter mentions five matters which are under investigation by the commission. The first matter... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 16/10/15)

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ස්වාධීන රූපවාහීනයේ ජනාධිපතිවරණ ප‍්‍රචාරක දැන්වීම් විකශණය කොට ගෙවීම් සිදු නොකල බවට එල්ල වන චෝදනා සම්බන්ධයෙන් හිටපු ජනාධිපතිගේ මාධ්‍ය ප‍්‍රකාශකවරයා නිවේදනයක් නිකු්තර කර ඇත. මෙහි පල වෙන්නේ එකී සම්පූර්ණ නිවේදනයයි. බරපතල වංචා හා දුෂණ විමර්ෂණ කොමිසම ඉදිරියට හිටපු ජනාධිපතිතුමා කැදවීම ආණ්ඩුව විසින් පිහිටුවා ඇති බරපතල වංචා හා දූෂණ විමර්ෂණ කොමිෂන් සභාවේ කැදවීම අනුව හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක‍ෂ මහතා අද දින එම කොමිසම ඉදිරියේ පෙනී සිටියේය. මෙකී කොමිසම විසින් එතුමා වෙත එවන ලද ලිපියේ විමර්ෂණයට තුඩු දී ඇති කාරණා පහක් සදහන් කර තිබුණි. කොමිසමේ විමර්ෂණයට ලක් වී ඇති පළමු කාරණය වන්නේ පුරප්පාඩුවක් නොමැති අවස්ථාවක අනුර සිරිවර්ධන යන... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 16/10/15)

Point of view: Open letter to Minister Arjuna Ranatunga
Jehan Mendis Courtesy The Daily News
Ports and Shipping Minister Arjuna Ranatunga has proposed his brother Dhammika as a candidate for the post of Chairman of Sri Lanka Ports Authority. Answering a question by The Nation newspaper, Mr. Ranatunga has defended himself saying, "A final decision (on the appointment) will be made by a committee which includes the President. However, if he (Dammika) has the necessary qualifications, then why not?" What on earth is Arjuna Ranatunga thinking? This is not good governance. This is clearly nepotism, which is something which... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 16/10/15)

Arjuna rejects nepotism charge on SLPA - Says brother qualified, family connections no impediment
By Sandun Jayawardana Courtesy The Nation
Minister of Ports and Shipping Arjuna Ranatunga stated if his brother had enough qualifications to be Chairman of the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA), then family connections should not be a barrier to him being appointed to the post. Ranatunga was speaking in response to a query raised by The Nation on reports that his elder brother Dammika was on the list of names that he had submitted to President Maithripala Sirisena regarding the appointment. Ranatunga said he was not concerned over reports appearing in some websites charging that the minister was trying to... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 16/10/15)

සැමදා නියං එකදා වැහි වළාවේ
  චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි.
වසර තිස් තුනක් පුරා පැවති  කුරිරු යුද්ධය, ඔද තෙද ගුණ බලැති  නායකයෙකුට නිම කිරීමට ගතවූයේ වසර 4ක් වැනි කෙටි කාලයකි. මේ යුද්ධය මෙරට ස්ථාපිත කිරීමට, බටහිර බලවතුන් හා ඉන්දියාව, විශාල ධනස්කන්ධයක් යෙදවූහ. එමෙන්ම වසර  40ක පමණ කාලයක්ද මිඩංගු කලහ. ඒ වැය කල ධනය හා ගොඩනැංවූ ත්රස්තවාදී බලමුළු සියල්ලක්ම අකුණු ගසමින් ඇද හැලෙන මහා වරුෂාවක් මෙන්වූ සංග්රාමශීලිත්වයේ බලයෙන් කඩා හැලුණේ කිසිවෙකු නොසිතූ අයුරිණි. සටන මෙහෙය වූ රාජ්ය නායකත්වය හා සංග්රාමයේ  පෙරමුණු බල ඇණියන් මෙහෙයවූ සෙනෙවිවරුන් මහා විශාල වරදක් කර ඇති බව වැටහුණි. ඒ මුලු මහත් ලෝකයටම සාමය බෙදා දීමට ගොඩනැංවූ එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ‌ සංවිධානයටය. යුද්ධය මහා විනාශයක්ය;... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 15/10/15)

71 කැරැල්ල හා වසන්තා ද සිල්වා කනකරත්න
 (71 කැරැල්ල ආරම්භයේ සිට අවසානය දක්වා පුර්ණ සමාලෝචනයක් කෘතිය​ ඇසුරෙනි - වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග)
අප්‍රේල් මහ නඩුවේ 10 වන සැකකරු වූ වසන්ත කනකරත්න අද ජීවතුන් අතර නැත. අපට ලැබුණු තොරතුරු අනුව 1971 කැරැල්ලෙන් දින කිහිපයකට පසුව ඔහුව අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඇත. අත්අඩංගුවට පත්වීමෙන් පසුව වසන්ත කනකරත්න රහස් පොලිස් නිලධාරින් සමඟ යාපනය බන්ධනාගාරයටද, හැමන්හිල් බන්ධනාගාරයටද ගොස් තිබේ. (රහස් පොලිසියේ විශේෂ විමර්‍ෂණ ඒකකයේ නිලධාරියෙකු වූ ජෙගනාදන් මහතා මෙසේ කරුණු දක්වයි : වසන්ත කනකරත්න අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීමෙන් පසු අප ඔහුගෙන් ප්‍රශ්න කළා. ඔහු අපට යාපනයේ ප්‍රහාරයට ගිය පිරිස ගැන කිව්වා. මේ වන විට යාපනේ පොලිසියට හා බන්ධනාගාරයට පහර දුන් පිරිස රඳවලා හිටියේ හැමන්හිල්... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 15/10/15)

ISIS retreating in Syria, missile system destroyed, 33 targets hit - Russian military
Courtesy RT
Russian warplanes have destroyed a surface-to-air missile launcher that the Islamic State terrorist group previously captured from the Syrian Army, the Russian Defense Ministry reports. The bombing campaign in Syria is forcing the jihadists to flee. The 9K33 Osa short-range air defense launcher was destroyed by a Sukhoi Su-34 bomber in Eastern Douma near Damascus, ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov told the media in his Thursday daily briefing. The Su-34 dropped a precision anti-fortification bomb KAB-500 at a concrete shelter, where the launcher was hidden, destroying both the weapon and the building, he added. Osa, which... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 15/10/15)

US forces in Afghanistan knew Kunduz site was hospital - report
Courtesy RT
Published time: 15 Oct, 2015 18:10Edited time: 15 Oct, 2015 18:58 Get short URL The damaged hospital in which the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) medical charity operated is seen on October 13, 2015 following an air strike in the northern city of Kunduz. © STR / AFP 1.4K8988 New information suggests the US deliberately targeted the Kunduz hospital, killing 22 patients and staff, despite knowing it was a protected medical site. US special operations analysts investigated the hospital for days prior to the deadly October... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 15/10/15)

‘It remains our belief’: US insists rebels downed MH17 with BUK missile, ignores Dutch report
Courtesy RT
Published time: 14 Oct, 2015 02:36Edited time: 14 Oct, 2015 08:14 Get short URL Wreckage of the MH17 airplane is seen after the presentation of the final report into the crash of July 2014 of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine, in Gilze Rijen, the Netherlands, October 13, 2015 © Michael Kooren / Reuters 1.4K2083 Despite a 15-month-long Dutch-led probe not definitively concluding who fired the BUK surface-to-air missile or the precise location from which it originated, the US continues to pursue its “belief” that it was east Ukrainian rebels who downed flight MH17. TrendsMalaysia MH17 plane... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 15/10/15)

A permanent solution to the National Problem in Sri Lanka
Dr. Sudath Gunasekara:  President Senior Citizens movement Mahanuwara. 12.10.2015
 I don’t think there is any other word so often used, misused, abused and more confused than the word ‘national problem’ in Sri Lanka in contemporary literature. To analyze and understand what it means first of all one has to know what Sri Lanka is and then what the Sri Lanka Nation is. Sri Lanka as it is known today in international parlor is the Island lying at the southern tip of the Indian Subcontinent separated only by a 22 mile stretch of sea. This has been in existence as... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 15/10/15)

Sarath Fonseka should join  Mahinda and Gotabhaya Rajapakse in the interest of Sri Lanka to force withdrawal of  USA resolution, sponsored by Ranil
By Charles. S.Perera
Mahinda Rajapakse, Gotabhaya Rajapakse and Sarath Fonseka were the trio that brought terrorism in Sri Lanka to a conclusion. The breaking up that trio was the desire of the West manipulated by the Tamil diaspora to isolate Mahinda Rajapakse and bring charges of war crimes against Gotabhaya Rajapakse.  Not only they planned the break up, but also made him a political rival of  the President Mahinda Rajapakse. Naturally the idea of the possibility of becoming the President of Sri Lanka may have tempted Sarath Fonseka to give into USA State Department to consent to become a... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 15/10/15)

Britain’s White Slaves : David Cameron what happened to 850,000 Irish slaves?
Shenali D Waduge
The nicer word used is ‘indentured labor’ but in reality the Irish though white were ripped apart from families and sold to the highest bidders and treated as slaves having transported them to the British colonies. It is these British that are today preaching about human rights when none of the violations committed by them have been allowed to be even investigated and the British refuse to acknowledge their crimes against humanity. The British think that they can hide their criminal past and pretend all that took place a long long time ago and have the... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 15/10/15)

The laws of thermodynamics, hell-fire and death
By Chandre Dharmawardana Canada Courtesy Island
According to Dr. Leo Fernando (Island, 7-10-2015), "assuming that there is an almighty omniscient God who is also all loving and merciful, one cannot imagine that He would create a Hell for His subjects when He could have easily refrained from creating them to spare them of eternal punishment ....". If so, one may ask "why is there so much pain and suffering in the world where the deity created a Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, ISIS, tsunamis and mass epidemics where innocents perish"?  We are fortunate to have Prof/ Carlo Fonseka (CF) who presents... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 15/10/15)

15/10/1505 (510 years ago to date) is the day that the Portuguese first landed in Colombo, Sri Lanka
Chanaka Bandarage
Towards mid October 1505, the Portuguese Naval Captain, Lorenzo De Almeida, aka Don Lorenzo, who manned a fleet of nine war ships, had decided to return to Portugal  as he could not secure marine rope from the Islands of Maldives or Calcutta in India. Almeida was not aware of the existence of the island nation, Sri Lanka.  During the return journey to Portugal, his crew witnessed on the horizon of a land that was lush in vegetation.  They decided to sail towards that land, Sri Lanka; and upon arrival therein anchored at the Galle Harbour. Two generations... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 14/10/15)

WORLD TEACHERS DAY CELEBRATION TO CHEAT TEACHERS
Cecil Atukorale
It in a common place to say that education depends on the teacher. When we brood over the deceitful manner in which the world teacher's day was celebrated on October 6th, it would be dishonest not to admit that as a race teachers are not a popular section of the community. It is a grave injustice to ignore such a profession whose member are performing a social function that is second to none in its importance and who in the lives of our own children, exert an influence which we cannot belittle. As such, all our parents... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 14/10/15)

Geneva 2009-2015 & The Struggle Ahead
By Dayan Jayatilleka
Preambular Paragraph 3 of the October 2015 resolution says that the resolutions of 2012, 2013 and 2014 formed the basis of the resolution of 2015. The 2015 Resolution flows directly from the 2014 Resolution which mandated the Office of the High Commissioner’s investigation on Sri Lanka. What is important is to note that the US resolution of 2015 makes no mention whatsoever of the resolution of 2009. This is because 2009 was an outright victory for Sri Lanka and left no residue which the West could use. An important feature of the successful May 2009 UNHRC resolution... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 14/10/15)

Ahmadiyya Delegation Meets Parliament Speaker, Presents Quran Sinhala Translation
PRESS RELEASE  A. Abdul Aziz – Press Secretary.
A delegation led by Mr. M.A. Anis Ahmad, National Vice-President, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community – Sri Lanka, met the Sri Lanka Parliament Speaker, Honorable Karu Jeyasuriya, at his office in Parliament Complex, on 13th October, 2015. At this meeting, the Speaker showed keen interest to know about the community. Mr Anis put forward the brief introduction and the claim of the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, India. The Speaker was also made to know about the basic difference between the Ahmadis and the main stream Muslims.... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 14/10/15)

Shouldn’t we follow the Chinese way?
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
As elders, we are always keen on promoting our children’s well-being, providing them space to grow up to be good,    law abiding,   and responsible citizens and contribute to the welfare of the nation whose pride is in our children. At the turn of the millennium, the Sri Lankan Government signed a treaty at the UNICEF undertaking to take the necessary steps to provide education to children compulsorily until they were 14 years of age.  It has been revealed that in keeping with the Millennium Goals,  Sri Lanka has miserably failed.  It... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 14/10/15)

Collecting revenue, govt. way
By C .A. Chandraprema Courtesy Island
The present government has, since last January when it took office, used all the wrong imagery in relation to government finances. The interim budget of February was hailed as a ‘Robin Hood budget’ where money would be taken from the rich and distributed to the poor. And indeed the interim budget did make some revenue proposals which resembled what the legendary Robin Hood did – take money from the rich and distribute to the poor. All those who owned mansions over 10,000 square feet or valued at over Rs. 150 million were to be... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 14/10/15)

War crimes: Robert Blake and his colleagues can strengthen Lanka’s defence - Gotabhaya
by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy Island
Report of UNSG Ban ki-moon’s Panel of Experts (PoE) on Accountability in Sri Lanka accused the then Sri Lankan government of five major human rights violations, committed during eelam war IV (Aug. 2006 to May 2009). Three dealt with the conduct of the Sri Lankan political and military leaderships during the war, while the two remaining allegations dealt with violations committed after the conclusion of the Vanni offensive. The military brought the entire country under government control on the morning of May 19, 2009. The PoE, comprising Marzuki Darusman (Indonesia), Steven R. Ratner (US) and... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 14/10/15)

World Bank aid and call for privatizing state enterprises
G. A. D. Sirimal (SLAS) Former Assistant Secretary, Ministry for Power & Energy-Courtesy Island
It is reported, the World Bank [WB] has promised aid for Sri Lanka to help the new government in its development programmes. The same conditions will be laid down by WB as it did way back in1980s during J. R. Jayewardene regime. It is understandable why the World Bank or any other lending agency, local or foreign, wants to ensure that the borrower is financially stable to repay the loan and as the Ceylon Electricity Board [CEB ] and the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation needed colossal sums. Special... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 14/10/15)

A -Izeth of Hussein’s haram politics  
H. L. D. Mahindapala
One should be rather wary of taking on Mr. Izeth Hussein  because  he claims to be  one the five great diplomats  of the world.   With such self-proclaimed credentials – he has yet to name the other four greats which will indicate the true measure of his greatness! – one expects his justification for Siri-Wicky regime’s co-sponsorship of the latest UNHRC Resolution,  (see Colombo Telegraph - 10/10), to be a solid counterweight to silence the rising opposition to it. But all what he has done is to add the concept of  “sovereignty” to his list of... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 14/10/15)

In Memory of Deshabandu Dr. Lilaknath Weerasinghe : A Personal Appreciation
Shenali D Waduge
 Dr. Jeewaka Bandara phoned around 7a.m. last morning to inform the passing away of Dr. Lilak. When his call came something inside felt it was to convey that sad news. Dr. Lilak had been ill for some time. Thus, 12th October 2015 took another Buddhist stalwart from us. Dr. Lilak was a surgeon by profession and was the former President of SUCCESS Sri Lanka (Kandy Chapter). He would have turned 70 on 18th November. Buddha said neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds and Dr Weerasinghe’s reputation for his social service... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 13/10/15)

Death of Dr. Lilaknath Weerasinghe – an outstanding Buddhist Leader of Sri Lanka
Senaka Weeraratna
Dr Lilaknath Weerasinghe, M.B.B.S., F.R.C.S., F.C.S.S.L.,General Surgeon, Kandy Teaching Hospital and former President of SUCCESS Sri Lanka (Jayagrahanaya) passed away at a private Hospital in Kandy on the evening of October 11, 2015. He was 69 years old at the time of his death.   He was born on Nov. 18, 1945. His home town was Navimana, Matara and was a member of family of nine children. He was the President of SUCCESS Sri Lanka which has earned a strong nationwide reputation for regularly conducting several social service activities for low income groups in remote areas of... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 13/10/15)

 EXTREMISM AT EXTREME
ALI SUKHANVER
What else one could expect from a political leader whose identity in politics is nothing but religious extremism. Michael E. Miller of the Washington Post says in a recent article, “The issue of ‘beef ban’ has raged in India for years. Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi came to power, however, incidents have increased, as they tend to do whenever a conservative government has been in power. Modi is a Hindu nationalist who, as chief minister of Gujarat state, presided during religious riots in 2002 in which more than 1,000 people — most of them Muslims — were... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 13/10/15)

1815 පාවාදීමට එහාගිය ජිනීවා පාවාදීම-ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ මනෝහාරද සිල්වා
ඉතිහාසය පුරා ලංකාවට එරෙහි වාර්තා නිකුත්වූ නමුත් ලෝකයේ කිසිම රටක් මෙතෙක් නොකළ ආකාරයෙන් එම වාර්තාව කිසිදු සංශෝධනයක් නොකර රජය පිළිගෙන ඇති බව පෙන්වාදෙන ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ මනෝහාරද සිල්වා මහතා එය 1815 සුද්දන්ට මෙරට පාවාදීමට එහාගිය පාවාදීමක් බව යුතුකම සංවාද කවය සංවිධානය කළ සම්මණ්ත්‍රණයකට එක්වෙමින් පැවසීය. https://youtu.be/stT1_uevXcY... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/10/15)

UNCHR and Sri Lanka - How predicament set off hybrid resolution
Wendell W Solomons 
A diplomatic and media movement was carried out for years by the West to tarnish Sri Lanka's Rajapakse-led government. However, in a January 2015 poll — by his own design or through other circumstances — Mahinda Rajapakse suddenly dropped out of government office . The incoming Western-oriented UNF government could now be injured by the agenda which was being staged via the UNCHR in Geneva. Therefore the West had to keep its UNF ally from being burnt in a calamity meant for the previous Rajapakse government. The US stepped forward to lead out of the predicament.... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 13/10/15)

Politicians, beware!
By Dr Upul Wijayawardhana Courtesy Island
It is a fact of life that indiscretions in the past, even minor or may even be trivial, might raise its’ ugly head and threaten the present or even shatter the dreams of the future. It is also true to say that in spite of their renowned thick skins, politicians more than any other, are susceptible to this phenomenon as well illustrated by recent happenings, both in Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom.Some are crafty enough to weather the storm but not all are lucky; some tainted even after death. The enthusiasm of the... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 13/10/15)

Foreign participation in ‘domestic mechanism’ confirmed Weliamuna reiterates Lanka lacks expertise to investigate ‘system crimes’
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy Island
Attorney-at-law J.C. Weliamuna yesterday confirmed that there would be international participation in the proposed domestic court to inquire into accountability issues in Sri Lanka. Addressing the media at the Information Department, Weliamuna said that Parliament would have to make the required amendments to pave the way for international participation in the process. He said that a hybrid court would have been much better where the addressing of the issues was concerned, but the recently adopted Geneva resolution co-sponsored by the government of Sri Lanka had promised on less intrusive mechanism. The Information Department organised the... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 13/10/15)

Make Desmand Silva report public soon - Gammanpila
Daily News
Pivithuru Hela Urumaya General Secretary Udaya Gammanpila yesterday demanded the government to make the report of Sir Desmand Silva Q.C. public soon. He was speaking at a press conference in Colombo yesterday Gammanpila commended the Prime Minister’s announcement that he would table the Udalagama report and Paranagama report in Parliament on October 20. He said the report prepared by Sir Desmand Silva, an expert in the investigation of war crime charges, will help us in facing the international community at this juncture. Former Minister DEW Gunasekera said the the accused has become the complainant through the recent... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 13/10/15)

එළියකන්ද වද කඳවුරේ සේවය කරන ලද මගේ රෝගියා
වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම්. ජයතුංග
වධහිංසනය යනු මානව හිමිකම් උල්ලංඝණය කෙරෙන ඉතාම දරුණු අවස්ථාවලින් එකකි. සාමාන්‍යයෙන් වධහිංසනය යන්න හඳුන්වනු ලබනුයේ, පාපෝව්චාරණයක් ලබාගැනීම වැනි අරමුණක් සඳහා දඬුවමක්, තැතිගැන්වීමක් හෝ බලහත්කාර කමක් හෝ ඕනෑම ආකාරයක වෙනස්කමි කිරීමක් පදනමි කරගත් ශාරිරික හෝ මානසික අන්දමින් කිසිවෙකුහට දුකක් හෝ වේදනාවක්, වේතනාත්මකව පමුණුවන ඕනෑම ක්‍රියාවක් වශයෙනි. වධහිංසනය යනු වින්දිතයාට පමණක් නොව අපරාධකරුට ද අනර්ථයක් සිදුකරන දෙපැත්තම කැපෙන අසිපතකි. වධහිංසනය පමුණුවන බොහෝ අය විවිධ මානසික අපගමනයන්ගෙන් පෙළෙන අය වන අතර, බොහෝවිට ඔවුහු පරපීඩාකාමී තෘප්තියක් ලබති. පමුණුවන්නාගේ චිත්තවේගී අවශ්‍යතාවයන් වධහිංසනය මගින් එක්තරා දුරකට සන්තර්පනය වන අතර, ඔහු සිය කැමැත්තෙන්ම මෙම ක්‍රියාකාරකම්වල යෙදේ. ඔවුන් සහවේදීතාවයෙන් ඌණවන අතර, වින්දිතයාගේ දුක්බර... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 13/10/15)

China keeps former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa in frame
This article appeared in the South China Morning Post print edition
Beijing's special envoy took the unusual step of meeting with Rajapaksa last week - official visits are usually limited to government figures. Former Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa's tweet recording his meeting with Liu Zhenmin, which was unusual because Chinese envoys usually only meet with government officials. If a picture is worth a thousand words, this one was particularly eloquent. Adding a fresh twist to what would... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 13/10/15)

Judiciary desecrated: ‘darkest day’ in Parliamentary democracy
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
October 16, 1980, the ‘darkest day’ represented yet another blow to parliamentary democracy in Sri Lanka when Madam Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the world’s first head of state who made a tremendous contribution for the development of international relations by hosting the then powerful 86-nation  NAM’s Summit, was deprived of her civic rights and unceremoniously expelled from Parliament.  It was seen by the international community as the beginning of declining of good parliamentary governance and desecration of hallowed precincts of judiciary in Sri Lanka. ‘Judiciary’s capability’ Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, noted in his address to... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 13/10/15)

Health insurance made affordable to all Sri Lankans via ATL’s ‘Suwasiri’
Courtesy Daily Mirror
ATL’s (Amãna Takaful’s) latest product ‘Suwasiri’, has made its mark in the insurance industry, as the most affordable health policy available in the market. This competitively priced, comprehensive insurance plan was designed as part of ATL’s ongoing efforts to remain ‘open to all’ and provide all segments of society with a suitable health insurance solution. While good health is a blessing, an illness can occur when it is least expected, and the financial burden of dealing with such unforeseen events can be overwhelming. The ‘Suwasiri’ health policy provides an annual insurance cover of Rs. 100,000/= for... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 13/10/15)

Cairn India plans to exit Sri Lankan gas block: Reports
Courtesy moneycontrol.com
Cairn India is planning to exit its Sri Lankan gas block after two discoveries it had made were found to be commercially unviable, says report. Cairn, whose main asset are the oilfields in Barmer district of Rajasthan, will relinquish the 2,912 sq km block SL-2007-01-001 in the Mannar basin after expiry of exploration period at end of October, sources privy to the development said. The company has so far drilled four wells on the block and discovered gas reserves in two of them. But the discoveries were assessed to be commercially unviable. It has therefore decided not... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 13/10/15)

‘Hybrid court ‘order’ in an international relations theory framework
By Dr. Kamal Wickremasinghe Courtesy Island
The Prince was also showing the tip of a ‘stick’ to Sri Lanka by recommending to the United Nations system and all member states should initiate investigations and prosecutions against Sri Lankans under the doctrine of universal jurisdiction.The neocons and their lapdogs at the UN have found the Sri Lankan government delegation they had to deal with, the foreign minister in particular a ‘babe in the woods’. The recently released UN report that accuses Sri Lanka of "crimes of interest to the international community" such as war crimes and crimes against humanity recommends the... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 13/10/15)

Face the reality - Village Headman's team - totally incompetent
Talk of the town
This ignorant  'expert' (see  article below) cannot maintain that things have not improved with MS's antics. Incompetent Cabinet with one time dress designer as Minister of Foreign Affairs who is losing his way week to week, Losing friendship with China,  Pakistan, Russia,  Not daring to sack Central Bank chief, Sacking the CJ without a proper procedure, mounting an ever large cabinet,  appointing corrupt individuals as chit MPs ignoring the procedure and ignoring the pre election list and then elevating them to Cabinet, totally haphazard decision making without Cabinet discussion or consensus.  One sided investigations by the special division of... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 12/10/15)

වත්මන් බුදු දහම තුලින් ලාංකේය සමාජ පරිහානියට පිළිතුරු දිය හැකිද?
දර්ශිත පුස්සේවෙල.
රටේ බහුතරය බෞද්ධයෝ වුවද සිදුවන මිනීමැරුම්,සොරකම්,මංකොල්ල කෑම්,ස්ත්‍රී දූෂණ වලට වගකිවයුතු බහුතරයද බෞද්ධයෝය. බොරුව දරුණු ලෙස සමාජගත වී ඇත.එය කෙතරම්ද කිවතොත් මිනිසුන් ඇත්ත කියා කියන්නෙද බොරුය.මේ සියල්ල දෙස ඉවසීමෙන් බලා සිටින විට යමක් හැඟේ.එනම් මේ බුදුන් දේශනා කල දහමේ යම් අඩුවක් නිසා සිදුවන දෙයක්ද?එසේත් නැතිනම් අප අසන දහමේ අඩුවක් නිසා සිදුවන දෙයක්ද?යන සැකයයි.එහෙත් බුද්ධිමත්ව කල්පනා කිරීමෙන් හා  වත්මන් බුදු සසුන දෙස බලන කල වැටහෙන සත්‍යය නම් මෙහි ඇත්තේ බුදුන් දේශනා කල දහම  නිවැරදි ලෙස සමාජගත නොවීමේ අඩුව හා ඒ වෙනුවෙන් වූ බහුතරයක් භික්ෂූන් වහන්සේලා  තම යුතුකම එක හෙලා පැහැර හැරීමයි.මෙය අප බෞද්ධයින් වශයෙන් කොතරම් සැඟවීමට උත්සහ කලද,සාධාරණීයකණය කිරීමට උත්සහ... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 12/10/15)

Now, 71 university dons come out openly against UNHRC resolution
Courtesy Island
Close on the heels of a statement issued by 41 university academics supporting the recent UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka, more than 70 scholars have now come out vehemently opposing it. The dons describing themselves as ‘Responsible and concerned group of senior academics in the Sri Lankan University System’ opposed to the resolution, including about 30 professors, have written to President Maithripala Sirisena, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, Opposition Leader R. Sampanthan, the UNHRC and ambassadors accredited to Sri Lanka, explaining their position. Following is the full text of their letter: "In respect of the Resolution of the... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 12/10/15)

අපට විදෙස් ගිණුම් කිසිවක් අපට නෑ.. රත‍්‍රන් අශ්වයින්, හෙලිකොප්ටර්, ලැම්බොගිනි පන්නයේම බේගලයක්…
– BBC
ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේ හිටපු ප්‍රභූවරයෙකුගේ පුත්‍රයෙකුට අයිති විදේශීය බැංකු ගිණුමක් අත්හිටුවීම සඳහා අධිකරණ නියෝගයක් ලබා ගැනීමට යන බවට පළ වී තිබූ මාධ්‍ය වාර්තාවලට ප්‍රතිචාර දක්වමින්. ‘මගේවත් මගේ සහෝදරයන්ගේවත් මගේ දෙමාපියන්ගේවත් කිසිම ගිණුමක් පිටරට නැහැ. අපිට තියෙන වත්කම් මැතිවරණ කොමසාරිස්වරයාටත් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවටත් හෙළි කරලා තියෙන්නේ. මේක ද්වේශ සහගත ලෙස අපිට මඩ ගහන්න කරන දෙයක්.’ නාමල් රාජපක්ෂ මන්ත්‍රීවරයා පැවසීය. නමුත් මේ පිළිබඳව අදහස් දක්වමින් රාජිත සේනාරත්න අමාත්‍යවරයා කියා සිටියේ හිටපු ප්‍රභූවරයෙකුගේ පුතෙකුට හිමි බැංකු ගිණුමක ඩොලර් බිලියනයකට අධික මුදලක් තිබෙන බවට ඩුබායි බැංකුවක ඉහල නිලධාරීන් මේ වන විට සනාථ කර ඇති බවයි. ‘ඒ වගේම මේ... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 12/10/15)

Khalifa of Islam address Dutch Parliament.
By A. Abdul Aziz.
 According to media reports, on 6 October 2015, World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, delivered an historic address at a special session of the Standing Committee for Foreign Affairs at the Netherlands National Parliament in the country’s capital city of Den Haag (The Hague) in front of an audience of more than 100 dignitaries and guests. Upon arrival at 4.35pm (local time), Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad was greeted by Harry van Bommel (Member of the House of Representatives and Deputy Chairman of the Standing... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 12/10/15)

Puppet leaders of our protectorate
Courtesy The Nation
Sri Lanka’s de facto colony status is complete with the hybrid courts that are to be established under terms of the UNHRC resolution of which Sri Lanka was a co-sponsor. Local prosecutors and judges are being deemed to be incompetent, and local legal systems deemed inadequate. But the deeper implications are in the handing over of the country on a platter to foreign interests. This is from a political dispensation that alleged this country had been colonized by the Chinese. Those who think that the hybrid courts are a staple part and parcel of international... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 12/10/15)

Tame our politicians - Country needs a constitution to
By Cecil Atukorale (LLB Col.) - Courtesy The Nation
Whatever the form of Government, a monopoly of power in State would be the end of all civilised politics, whether it be the presidential executive or parliamentary executive. Constant experience has shown us that every man/woman invested with power is apt to abuse it to carry his/her authority as far as it will go. The more politicians want power, less it is about principles. As such the existence of a constitution does not mean automatically that there also exists a democratic system to go along with it. At all stages of... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 12/10/15)

Geneva 2015 was not inevitable
By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Courtesy The Nation
As the UK Permanent Representative explicitly stated when addressing the Human Rights Council on Oct 1, the US-UK resolution is firmly founded upon Zeid al Hussein’s report. As Zeid al Hussein made amply clear in his video statement to the Council a day earlier, Sept 30, his report contains at its core, the conclusion that war crimes, system crimes, of such magnitude and extent, were committed during our war that our judicial mechanism does not have the capacity to deal with them! Thus Zeid’s Report damns our war of self-defense, territorial reunification and... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 12/10/15)

NJC expresses regret at Govt.’s decision on UNHRC resolution
By The Nation Online
The National Joint Committee (NJC) has issued a statement expressing regret at the initiative taken by the Government of Sri Lanka to co-sponsor the resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva together with the United States. The full text of the committee’s statement is given below: STATEMENT OF THE NATIONAL JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE RESOLUTION CO-SPONSORED BY THE USA AND THE GOVERNMENT OF SRI LANKA The National Joint Committee observes with regret the initiative taken by the Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) to co-sponsor a resolution together with the USA; ... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 12/10/15)

A Lesson for Cowardly Lankan Leaders from Nepal in Constitution Making
Dilrook Kannangara
After eight (8) years of deliberations, the Nepali parliament has finally approved its Constitution. Going by modern democratic standards, it is a fairly progressive constitution. Indian ethnic groups that are minorities in Nepal protested against it. India also protested against it claiming it doesn’t represent the interests of minorities. These minority groups live in larger numbers in India. Failing to make an impact, India made a strong protest with a dictate of seven (7) amendments. However, Nepal didn’t collapse under pressure as it stood its ground. All must hail Nepali leaders’ courage, commitment to democracy and... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 10/10/15)

Sri Lanka does not need hybrid courts when the culprits sit in judgement
Shenali D Waduge
The UN keeps telling us that our local mechanisms are not good enough, our judiciary is not competent enough and our people are not good enough. Just who do these UN officials think they are pointing fingers when they can’t even put their own house in order. Sadly, we have a government that bows into submission every time a foreigner enters the scene and is ever ready to prostrate before them in agreement. Shouldn’t we be evaluating how successful these international tribunals are and more importantly ask ourselves why we should succumb to allegations that are... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 10/10/15)

Hela Atuwawa -' තනි මම කුම් කරම් ජාතිය කල පවට'
"සිංහලයා මෝඩයා - කැවුම් කන්න යෝදයා"
"සිංහලයා මෝඩයා - කැවුම් කන්න යෝදයා" මේ උපහැරණය සිංහල ජාතිය පිළිබඳව අප රට යටත් විජිතයක් බවට පත්කරගෙන සිටි බටහිරයින් දුන් චරිත සහතිකයකි. එමෙන්ම "සිංහලයන්ට සියල්ල මතකයේ ‍රැ‍ඳෙන්නේ එක සතියක් පමණකි" යයි කියමින් සිංහලයින්ට චරිත සහතිකයක් දුන්නේ පිරබාහරන් (මැතිතුමා?) විසිනි. "සිංහලයින් කෙලෙහි ගුණ නොදත් ජාතියක් බවත්, තමන්ගේ මෘත කලේබරයවත් ලංකාව දෙසට හරවන්න එපා" යයි කීවේ මේ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ජාතික හා බෞද්ධ උන්නතිය වෙනුවෙන් මහත් කැප කිරීමක් කළ අනගාරික ධර්මපාල තුමන්ය. තවත් චරිත සහතික, අ‍ටුවා-ටීක අවශ්‍ය නැත. ලක්ෂ 48ක් පමණ ඡන්දදායකයන් පිරිසක් හැර අවශේෂය තමන්ගේ රට-ජාතියට වඩා, තම්න්ගේ බඩ-වියත අගනා බව අපහට... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 10/10/15)

October 10 marks the 15th death anniversary of Sirimavo Bandaranaike - Buddhist Diplomacy in PM Sirimavo Bandaranaike’s Foreign Policy won World Respect for Sri Lanka
by Shenali D. Waduge
No post – independent Government won as much global plaudits for Sri Lanka’s foreign policy as during the time when Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike was Prime Minister. The country witnessed a string of foreign policy successes one after the other mainly during her first two terms of office i.e. 1960 – 1965, and 1970 – 1977.  What was the basis of her foreign policy? In her own words “The Buddhist principles 'pancha seela' governed the tenets of our foreign policy and we made the world aware of this praiseworthy principle”. Mrs. Sirimavo Bandaranaike’s successful intervention on behalf of the Colombo... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 10/10/15)

A Short History of U.S. Bombing of Civilian Facilities
By Jon Schwarz  Courtesy Information Clearing House
October 08, 2015 " Information Clearing House" - "The Intercept" -   On October 3, a U.S. AC-130 gunship attacked a hospital run by Médecins Sans Frontières in Kunduz, Afghanistan, partially destroying it. Twelve staff members and 10 patients, including three children, were killed, and 37 people were injured. According to MSF, the U.S. had previously been informed of the hospital’s precise location, and the attack continued for 30 minutes after staff members desperately called the U.S. military. The U.S. first claimed the hospital had been “collateral damage” in an airstrike aimed at “individuals” elsewhere who... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 10/10/15)

ASHOKA - An Emperor to emulate
King Ashoka, the third monarch of the Indian Mauryan dynasty, has come to be regarded as one of the most exemplary rulers in world history. The British historian H.G. Wells has written: " Ashoka (264 to 227 B.C.), one of the great monarchs of history, whose dominions extended from Afghanistan to Madras... is the only military monarch on record who abandoned warfare after victory. He had invaded Kalinga (255 B.C.), a country along the east coast of Madras, perhaps with some intention of completing the conquest of the tip of the Indian peninsula. The expedition was successful, but he was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/10/15)

Iraqis Look to 'Hajji Putin' to Save Them From ISIL
Courtesy Sputnik News
Following the success of the Russian airstrikes in Syria, and Washington’s failure to do so thus far, Iraqis are looking for new ways to wipe out the self-proclaimed Islamic State terrorist group. Many are calling for the assistance of "Hajji Putin."  With Russian missile strikes dealing significant damage to IS infrastructure in Syria, many Iraqis are beginning to question the effectiveness of the US-led coalition. © RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY Russia Versus ISIL: Here's What Happened So Far "I have been waiting for Russia to get involved in the fight against Daesh," Mohammed Karim Nihaya, a painter living in Baghdad, told Agence... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 10/10/15)

Chemistry is applied in energy saving cooking then to stop smell depositing while cooking
Dr Hector Perera    London
Even in cooking chemistry is applied. Remember your kitchen is a kind of real chemistry laboratory.  All the cooking ingredients are nothing but chemicals that is vegetables, chickens, fish or even beef are nothing but complicated chemicals and they are mixed with a number of other chemicals such as in spices and subjected for heating to get cooked. The heating helps to break bonds so that new bonds are formed during cooking. One of the process used is reflux it has many usage in chemistry. It is commonly used in distillation processes. It is also... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 10/10/15)

U.S. 'Carrot & Stick' policy on Sri Lanka imposed in '02 & '15
By Daya Gamage - Asian Tribune Political Note
Washington, D.C. 10 October (Asiantribune.com): Sri Lanka could not avoid the 'Carrot & Stick' policy of the United States in November 2002 during the then Ranil Wickremasinghe's administration when it was forced to sign the globally controversial ICC Article 98 with the Super Power in exchange of economic and other benefits. The international agreements mentioned in Article 98(2) of the Rome Statute during 2002 was referred to by several terms, including Article 98 agreements, bilateral immunity agreements (BIAs),impunity agreements, and bilateral non-surrender agreements. Starting in... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 10/10/15)

පලාලි සින්ඩ්‍රෝමයේ කම්පනය
පලාලි සින්ඩ්‍රෝමයේ කම්පනය -පශ්චාත් යුද මානසිකත්ව සංකූලතාව පිලිබඳ ශ්‍රී ලාංකීය අත්දැකීම  වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංගගේ කෘතියක්.
 පශ්චාත් යුද මානසිකත්ව සංකූලතාව පිලිබඳ ශ්‍රී ලාංකීය අත්දැකීම  වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංගගේ කෘතියක්.  මෙම ග්‍රන්ථය ලෝකය පුරාම මිලදීගැනීමේ පහසුව සලසා ඇත. පහත දැක්වෙන සබඳතාවයෙන් පිවිසෙන්න. මෙතනින් පිවිසෙන්න http://www.amazon.ca/Shell-Palali-Syndrome-Lankan-Experience-ebook/dp/B00MOE1IBA වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම්. ජයතුංග විසින් රචිත “Shell Shock to Palali Syndrome- PTSD Sri Lankan Experience”  ග්‍රන්ථය පශ්චාත් යුද මානසිකත්ව සංකූලතා පිළිබඳව කදීම පිවිසීමක් පමණක් නොව වර්තමාන ශ්‍රී ලංකාව මුහුණදී සිටින අර්බුදකාරී තත්වය පිලිබඳ මනා විග්‍රහයක් කෙරෙන කෘතියක්ද වෙයි. දශක තුනකට වැඩි  කාලයක් තිස්සේ ඇදීගිය ජනවාර්ගික අර්බුදයත්, දිවයිනේ දකුණු පළාත්වල පැණ නැගුනු අන්තවාදී වාමාංශික කැරලිකරුවන් උරුම... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 10/10/15)

Principal findings of OHCHR report
By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy Island
The fact that the Government did not exploit these internationally accepted provisions to restrict the impact of the OHCHR report, but instead, co-sponsored the resolution on Sri Lanka is to be deeply regretted. Since the findings in the report are not mandatory it may not be too late to reevaluate at least some of the "principal findings" since para. 1115 states that the "findings listed below are analysed primarily within the framework of international human rights law", when in fact all of the findings should be analysed within the framework of international humanitarian law and... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 10/10/15)

Any doubts? Determine for yourselves (hybrid court or not)
Adopted Resolution (with SL's co-sponsorship)Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General -Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka High Commissioner's recommendations) (SL has agreed in the adopted resolution to implement them) - Remember, this report has been complied on the evidence,  collected from over 6000 people, whose names won't be revealed until 2030.Comprehensive report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Sri Lanka An image of some of the WAR HEROES whose name are in UNHRC... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/10/15)

Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General -Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka
General Assembly
Distr.: Limited 29 September 2015 Original: English
Human Rights Council Thirtieth session Agenda item 2 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Albania, Australia,* Germany, Greece,* Latvia, Montenegro, Poland,* Romania,* Sri Lanka,* the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America: draft resolution 30/…   Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka The Human Rights Council, Reaffirming the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Guided by... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 10/10/15)

Comprehensive report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Sri Lanka
United Nations A/HRC/30/61
General Assembly Distr.: General 28 September 2015 Original: English Human Rights Council
Thirtieth session
Agenda item 2 Annual report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and reports of the Office of the High Commissioner and the Secretary-General Comprehensive report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Sri Lanka* Summary The present report contains the principal findings of the comprehensive investigation conducted by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights into alleged serious violations and abuses of human rights... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 10/10/15)

Peoples Voice Muted in Parliament
Desarasa
Today (2015.10.08), when Hon Dinesh Gunawardena, MP, raised a matter of "public interest" (transferring of permanent employees of Central Bank who had given hard evidence to parliament on the infamous bond scandal under good governance in February 2015) under section 17 of Standing Orders in Sri Lanka Parliament (Mr Gunawardena is one of the senior most MPs with over 30 years of experience in Parliamentary tradition & practice), the Speaker did not allow it even to be mentioned in Parliament and went further by adjourning Parliament sittings. issue: under the guise of "regular transfers" close to some... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/10/15)

Demand an Independent Investigation Into the U.S. Bombing of a Doctors Without Borders Hospital!
This weekend, a US airstrike claimed the lives of ten humanitarians from Doctors Without Borders and 12 patients — including three children.
Sign the Petition The staff came from all over the world, offering their time and talents to heal the people of Afghanistan's war-torn Kunduz province. Patients journeyed from miles away for medical and surgical care they could get nowhere else in the region. This was a tragic loss of life. Demand an independent international investigation to find out the truth about the US bombing of Doctors Without Borders' hospital. On Saturday, US planes repeatedly bombed Doctors Without... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 10/10/15)

Australia must side with the opponents of ISIS, not the creators of ISIS
Citizens Electoral Council of Australia Media Release  Friday, 9 October 2015
If Islamic State inspired 15-year-old Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar to kill NSW Police accountant Curtis Cheng on 2 October, then the deadly consequences of recent Australian government foreign policy have now blown back onto the Australian people. Islamic State has not emerged as a backlash against Australia and our leading allies; it is the synthetic creation of our closest allies, with our government’s support. US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) documents from 2012 prove that Australia’s closest allies, the United States and the United Kingdom, along with France, Saudi Arabia... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 10/10/15)

CNN launches dud against Russian campaign in Syria
Robert Bridge Courtesy RT
Robert Bridge has worked as a writer and journalist in Russia since 1998. His articles have been featured in a number of publications, including Russia in Global Affairs, Drudge Report, Russia Insider and Infowars.com. Bridge is the author of the book, “Midnight in the American Empire”, which was released in 2013. Published time: 9 Oct, 2015 17:12Edited time: 9 Oct, 2015 17:15 https://www.rt.com/op-edge/318147-cnn-iran-russian-missiles/ Get short URL 1.3K127 Once upon a war, Western journalists eagerly jumped aboard the US military bandwagon to cover its overseas adventures; these days,... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 10/10/15)

නයි පොළගුන් පිරි තබ්බෝව මහ වනය මැදට දිනිති රැගෙන ගියේ අද්භූත බලවේගයක්‌ද?
හේමන්ත රන්දුණු Courtesy Divaina
"සුදු දුවේ උඹට මොකද වෙලා තියෙන්නෙ. උඹ මොකාට හරි බය වුණාද, එහෙමත් නැතිනම් උඹට අසනීපයක්‌ද?" පුංචි දිනිතිගේ හැසිරීමේ කිසියම් වෙනසක්‌ දුටු ඇගේ මව ඒ පිළිබඳව ඇගෙන් විමසුවාය. එහෙත් දියණියගෙන් ඊට පිළිතුරක්‌ නැත. ඇය එදින කාලය ගත කළේ කිසියම් චකිතයකින්ය. වෙනදා මෙන් ඇය කෙළි සෙල්ලම් කළේද නැත වරක්‌ ඇය නිවස තුළ වූ පැදුරු ගොඩේ සැඟවී සිටියාය. තවත් වරෙක නිවස අසල මල් පඳුරක්‌ යට වකුටු වී උන්නාය. දිනිතිගේ මේ හැසිරීමෙන් දෘශ්‍යමාන වූ වෙනස ගැන සොයා බලන්නට තරම් දැනීමක්‌ ඇගේ මවට තිබුණේ නැත.     තබ්බෝව කරුවලගස්‌වැව පහරිය ප්‍රදේශයේ පදිංචිව සිටි දිනිති... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 10/10/15)

කරුවලගස්‌වැව කළුවර අතරින් අංජනම් එළිය සොයා ගිය ගමන
ජයසූරිය උඩුකුඹුර  Courtesy Divaina (තව කොටසක්‌ හෙට)
දිනපතාම වාගේ අලුත් ප්‍රවෘත්ති සොයමින් සිටින අපිට නොයෙක්‌ ප්‍රවෘත්ති ගැන ලියන්නට ලැබෙන්aනේය. ත්‍රාසය භීතිය මුසුවූ පුවත් එදා බොහෝ විට අපට ලියන්නට ලැබෙන්නේ නගරයේ සිටය. නමුත් අද ඈත පිටිසර ගම්මානවලින් අසන්නට ලැබෙන ඇතැම් පුවත් ලොවම මවිත කරවන තරම්ය. වයස අවුරුදු තුනක දැරියක්‌ හුදකලාවේ අලි, කොටි, වළසුන්ගෙන් ගහණ වනයක්‌ මැද කිලෝ මීටර් 15 ක්‌ ඇවිද ගොස්‌ අතරමංව පසුව මධ්‍යම රාත්‍රිය ද පසුව තිබියදී සොයාගත් පුවතින් ත්‍රාසය, භීතිය මෙන්ම විමතිය ද එක්‌කොට ඔබට කියන්නට අපට අවස්‌ථාව ලැබුණේය. මේ සිදුවීම පුවතට එහා ගිය යම් සිදුවීමක්‌ ඇති බව අප තේරුම් ගත්තේ එම පුවත පුරාවට මතුව පෙණුන... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 10/10/15)

කරුවලගස්‌වැව කළුවර අතරින් අංජනම් එළිය සොය ගිය ගමන - II
ජයසූරිය උඩුකුඹුර Courtesy Island මෙහි මුල් කොටස ඊයේ පළවිය දේවගැති මෑණියන් දේවාරූඪයෙන් මට කී කාරණා පටිගත කර ගැනීමටද මම වග බලා ගත්තෙමි. ඇය මා හට සඳහන් කළ තොරතුරු අනුව දරුවා කැලේට ගොස්‌ ඇත්තේ කම්පනයකින් සිත තුළ ඇති වූ බියකින්ය. නමුත් අසිහියෙන් නොවේ. කැලේදී ඇය අසනීපව ඇති බවද පාන්දර 3.00 ට පෙර දරුවා සොයා ගැනීමට අපහසු වූයේ නම් දරුවා ජලය ලබා ගන්නට වැවට ගොස්‌ සතුන්ට බිලි වී විනාශ වන බව මෑණියෝ කියූහ.
මේ දේවාරූඪයෙන් කී ඇතැම් කරුණු පොලිස්‌ පරීක්‍ෂණවලට බාධාවක්‌ විය හැකි බැවින් මෙහි සඳහන් නොකිරීමට වග බලා ගත් නමුත් ඒ තොරතුරු මා පොලිසියේ බුද්ධි අංශය සමඟ කතාබහ කිරීමේදී ඔවුන්... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 09/10/15)

Reasons For Rejecting UNHRC Resolution On Sri Lanka
By H. L. D. Mahindapala –
Despite all the hot air pumped to float the UNHRC Resolution A/HRC/30/L. 29 its future is not guaranteed as the stormy atmospherics which seem to be gathering over the horizon are putting a heavy strain on the stability of the Siri-Wicky regime and, more importantly, its ability to deliver the truck load of promises contained in the Resolution, mainly to win applause from abroad. Ranil Wickremesinghe, who is carrying the heavy load, seems to be driven by a self-motivated compulsion to implement the grand reformist plan in the Resolution. Right now he is... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 09/10/15)

OHCHR International Investigation has no proof against Sri Lanka’s Military: Stop the Witch Hunt
Shenali D Waduge
In 2014 Navi Pillay appointed 3 international experts to investigate Sri Lanka. Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland, Dame Silvia Cartwright, former High Court judge of New Zealand, and Asma Jahangir, former President of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. The previous report personally initiated by UNSG Ban Ki Moon became the foundation for successive resolutions and investigations which is now being challenged by a domestic court in Sri Lanka for its illegality. UN will obviously use its immunity to hide its illegality but the fact that illegalities are taking place and shape is the message... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 09/10/15)

Is 1815 repeating? An imminent danger before Sri Lanka.  An open letter to Mahasanga and all Patriotic Sinhala Buddhist Leaders all over Sri Lanka.
Dr Sudath Gunasekara President Senior Citizens Movement Mahanuwara 4.10.2015 
Dear all, Now the much hyped UNHCHR Resolution on Sri Lanka is unanimously passed, I feel we are standing on the brim of disaster and perhaps extinction as well, as a sovereign Nation.  No wonder it was unanimously passed as Sri Lanka itself did not object to a single close there in when the Sovereignty and independence of this nation was actually blatantly and brutally murdered by USA, UK and their allies. I do not propose to go in to details of the Resolution here as everyone is aware of... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 09/10/15)

Projects for Jailed Ranaviru - Sargent Sunil Rathnayake
Dear All,
We, Global Sri Lankan Forum contacted his wife and family and made a visit. And following actions have been taken. Appointing  a senior lawyer to follow up the his Appeal - for this we are in contact with Gomin Dayasiri; and a senior lawyer is now being appointed - our initial budget for this is Rs. 300,000.00 Complete his partly built house - see the attached photos - the budget is Rs. 500,000.00 - for this we have  circulated a Face Book post - pls. refer  to attached FB link. We have assigned Ven. Bengamuve Nalaka Thero's account for these projects. https://www.facebook.com/GlobalSriLankanForum/photos/pcb.1651727171708377/1651726761708418/?type=3&theater ... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 09/10/15)

Veiled threats directed by a VIP of the Government to Sunday Divaina Defence columnist,
Ranjith Soysa
Keerthi Waranakuslsuriya the veteran defence columnist of Sunday Divaina was reporting from Geneva the treacherous role played by the individuals and NGOs et during the sessions of the OHCR for last two weeks. He had been covering the Geneva OHRC sessions for last 10 years and had set a record of 25 years of reporting as a defence correspondent of a Sri Lankan paper. Keerthi had left Sri Lanka to Geneva when the VIP of the present Government had almost instructed the newspaper owners to be have a tight control over the reporting of the OHRC sessions.... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 09/10/15)

කීර්ති වර්ණකුලසූරිය - ජිනීවා සිට
Courtesy Divaina
පුවතක පසුබිම මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේ දෙබිඩි පිළිවෙත
යේමනයේ යුද අපරාධ චෝදනා විමර්ශනය කළ යුතු යෑයි දක්‌වමින් මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයට යෝජනාවක්‌ ඉදිරිපත් කළේ නෙදර්ලන්තයයි. යේමන් යුද අපරාධ ගැන සෙවීමට විශේෂඥයන් පිරිසක්‌ යවන ලෙස මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයෙන් ඉල්ලීමක්‌ද කළේ එම රාජ්‍යයයි. එම යෝජනාවට පෙර යුද අපරාධ සම්බන්ධව වාර්තාවක්‌ මානව හිමිකම් කොමසාරිස්‌වරයා ඉදිරිපත් කර එහි නිර්දේශද ඇතුළත් කර තිබිණි. මේ අනුව යේමනයේ සිදු වූ යුද අපරාධ පිළිබඳ විමර්ශනය කිරීමේ ජාත්‍යන්තර විමර්ශනය ඉල්ලීම් බටහිර ආණ්‌ඩු එකවරම ඉල්ලා අස්‌කර ගනු ලැබීය. ජීනිවා මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිල ශාලාවේ සිදුවන තක්‌කඩිකම් හා වෙනත් නීති විරෝධී ක්‍රියා මෙරට ජනතාවට වසන් වී ඇත. එහෙත් උදේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/10/15)

The Seventeen Pandits of Nalanda Monastery
by James Blumenthal, Info-Buddhism.com, Oct 8, 2015
Much controversy has been stirred with the establishment of the "new" Nalanda University in Bihar, India. Heavily criticized for neglecting Buddhism, just how much of it has been diverted from the original Nalanda U? Prof James Blumenthal gives a run down on the luminaries that made the original Nalanda one of the greatest learning center in the world. Oregon, USA -- Nalanda Monastic University was the greatest center of Buddhist learning in India’s glorious past. With upwards of 30,000 monks and nuns including 2,000 teachers living, studying and practicing there during its heyday, Nalanda... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 08/10/15)

Nymphomania (Furor Uterinus)
By Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. and Laurent Karila, MD, PhD Paul Brousse University Hospital, Villejuif, France
Problematic sexual behaviors have been identified for centuries and Nymphomania has become a controversial subject among the clinicians. Nymphomania is considered as an organic disease, psychological disorder and a legal construct (Groneman, 2001). The term nymphomania resonates with a sense of the insatiable sexuality of women, devouring, depraved, and diseased. It conjures up an aggressively sexual female who both terrifies and titillates men (Groneman, 1994). In general notion nymphomania is defined as a neurotic condition in women in which the symptoms are a compulsion to... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 08/10/15)

Why Kalu Sudda’s let the real Sudda’s Viceroy Rule Sri Lanka
Shenali D Waduge
Regime change implies installing boot lickers agreeable and willing to turni Sri Lanka into a virtual Philippines en route to South Korea with the change of the Sri Lankan Constitution earmarked to remove the prominent place given to the Sinhala Buddhists who built Sri Lanka. Denationalizing the people and creating virtual slaves of the West is what will be orchestrated through education and other social media through the NGOs who will have a prominent place. The colonial mission has become more or less complete. The question is do we need to have a de facto government... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 08/10/15)

The Curse of Depending on USA for Exports: Sri Lanka Suffers from TPP
Dilrook Kannangara
Twelve countries finally signed the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement headed by USA. Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Mexico, Canada and Australia are other noteworthy members. They will be almost totally reducing tariffs on key traded items. The biggest winners of TPP are Vietnam and Malaysia. The biggest losers are Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Cambodia and China. Sri Lanka’s share of US apparel imports is expected to fall by 0.2% from 1% to 0.8%. Although they look small in terms of US trade, it is a drop of 20% (1% to 0.8%). With more than 22% Sri Lanka’s exports going... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 08/10/15)

Dodging an inglorious end – An Orwellian redrafting of recent history
R. Chandrasoma  Courtesy Island
We are told by high authorities in the government that our former President has good hopes of being alive in the years ahead because of the political heroism and encompassing compassion of those who defeated him at the recent historic elections. Indeed, the claim has been made by no less a person than the globe-trotting (and oracular) Foreign Minister that the former Leader (MR) escaped an inglorious end strapped to an ‘Electric Chair’ because of the pleading and promises of the New Leadership – to purge our ancient land of the political roguery and rampant... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 08/10/15)

PM delivers memorial speech in Japanese Parliament??? - අගමැති රනිල් අමතා ඇත්තේ ජපාන පාර්ලිමේන්තුව නොවේ.. මෙන්න ඇත්ත with Photos
සමීර S. ගජධීර ජපානයේ ටෝකියෝ නුවර සිට - lanka C news
The News Repot says "Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe who is on a five-day official visit to Japan, delivered a Special Memorial Speech to the parliamentarians of the Japanese National Diet today. Previously, only two state leaders have been given the opportunity to address the Japanese Parliament. They are Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Barak Obama.Meanwhile, the Government Information Department said Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will host a dinner for the Sri Lankan Prime Minister. Prime Minister Wickremesinghe will also sign several bilateral agreements with Japan". But... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 08/10/15)

Elbowing a Superpower - Russian Style
Hemantha Abeywardena writes from London Courtesy - Asian Tribune -
The fact that a 3-star Russian general gave his US counterparts in Syria just an hour’s notice to move American aircrafts out so that Russia can launch air strikes, undoubtedly, is the most significant watershed moment in the post-Soviet, geo-political landscape. In fact, the alarming development was a bolt from the blue as far as the Western alliances, both at political and military level, are concerned. At stake, among many things, is the invincibility of the alliances that often went unchallenged, following the Second World War. Having been caught... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 08/10/15)

Outstation kids clinch all honours at Grade 05 Scholarship Exam
By Dasun Edirisinghe Courtesy Island
Students from outstation schools have obtained highest marks at the Grade 5 Scholarship examination, according to results released by the Examinations Department yesterday. Kavinda Unantenna of Gangasiripura Vidyalaya in Gampola, Kavishka Wanigasekera of Makura Kanishta Vidyalaya in Malmaduwa and Melani Wijesinghe of Sri Sumangala Kanishta Vidyalaya in Ussapitiya, Mawanella have scored the highest marks at the 2015 Grade 5 scholarship examination. The three students have obtained 196 each out of 200 marks. Commissioner General of Examinations W. M. N. J. Pushpakumara said that five students had scored identical marks (195) for the second place.... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 07/10/15)

Hambantota Port takes off?
“Thoughts” – by Michael Roberts
From Daily Mirror Item dec 2014  This is actually from an old news item in the Daily Mirror in late 2014 –perhaps one that was buried in the course of election fever during the Presidential contest. There is an ironic twist here: the astrological wisdom that led His Lordship, Mahinda Rajapaksa, to call an early election stands in contrast with the unknown functionaries and Presidential diktat (guided in part by his cultivation of his own patch –a “wrong reason”) that saw one of the world’s unique inland harbours being built at Hambantota. I... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 07/10/15)

JFA condemns UP scribe’s murder
By Our Correspondent
Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) has condemned the killing of one more scribe in Uttar Pradesh and reiterated its demand for a national action plan for justice to those slain journalists. The murder of Hemant Yadav last week increased the tally of slaughtered media persons to four this year in India. Yadav, a middle aged journalist who worked for Hindi news channel TV 24, was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne miscreants on the night of 3 October 2015. The incident took place at Dheena area of Chandauli district, where Yadav faced the brutal attack. Although he... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 07/10/15)

At 750MW, Madhya Pradesh to get world’s largest solar power plant
Courtesy Times of India
BHOPAL: Next year on Independence Day, India will have the world's largest 750MW solar power plant in Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh, which will pip America's much-vaunted 550-megawatt Desert Sunlight solar project in California, commissioned four days ago. Acquisition of 1,500 hectares of land for the Rs 4000 crore project is close to completion and government agencies are likely to invite tenders from developers by April. The state government is setting up the plant in a joint venture with Solar Energy Corporation of India. The expected cost of power production is pegged at Rs 5... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 07/10/15)

Less talk, more action: Russian jets destroy ISIS HQs, tanks, munition depots – all in just 1 week
Courtesy RT
It’s been a tough week for terrorists in Syria. Over seven days Russia delivered over a hundred airstrikes at various jihadist facilities across the country, reportedly igniting panic among some groups. TrendsRussian anti-terror op in Syria According to a weekly roundup by the Russian Defense Ministry, the country’s contingent in Syria has launched some 120 combat sorties over the week, hitting over 110 targets. The bombing destroyed over 71 pieces of armor, about 30 other vehicles, several artillery pieces, 19 command facilities, two communication centers, 23 depots with fuel and ammunition, six plants used... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 07/10/15)

4 Russian warships launch 26 missiles against ISIS from Caspian Sea
Courtesy RT
 Four Russian Navy warships have fired a total of 26 missiles at the position of the terrorist group Islamic State in Syria, Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced. The missiles were fired from the Caspian Sea. TrendsRussian anti-terror op in Syria “Four missile ships launched 26 cruise missiles at 11 targets. According to objective control data, all the targets were destroyed. No civilian objects sustained damage,” Shoigu said. © Russian Defence Ministry / YouTube 19.8K2.4K5.5K READ MORE: Russian warships attack ISIS positions in Syria from Caspian... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 07/10/15)

Hilarious : Internationally banned LTTE Terrorist Fronts influence UNHRC resolutions
Shenali D Waduge
Into the hall of historical shame will enter the present UNSG, the UNHRC heads and officials and all other foreign nations that have been party to successive resolutions demanding investigations against a UN member state. The matter becomes hilarious for no other reason than the fact that the supposed ‘evidence’ against Sri Lanka comes from the documentaries, reports, witness accounts and lobbying funded and organized by internationally banned LTTE fronts domiciled in western nations and influencing the foreign parliamentarians electoral victory. Making things more bizarre is the fact that these foreign governments have netted Tamils from... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 07/10/15)

ජනපති මහින්දව විවේචනය කළ ජනපති මෛත්‍රීපාලට , එදා ඇමති මෛත්‍රීපාල පිළිතුරු දෙයි.
 උපුටා ගැන්ම www.mahinda.info
[1]. “පසුගිය වසර කීපයම අපේ රට ජාත්‍යන්තරයේ පරාජයට පත් වුණා” යැයි වත්මන් ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා ජාතිය අමතමින් පැවසුවා. [2]. ඊට හේතු ලෙස “ප්‍රබල රාජ්‍ය ත්‍රාන්ත්‍රිකයින් අපේ රටට ආපු විට මේ රටේ ප්‍රධානීන් කොළඹින් පිට ඇඹිලිපිටිය ප්‍රදේශයට ගෙන්වා මඤ්ඤොක්කා කැවීම” ආදී කරුණු ගණනාවක් දක්වයි. [3]. එම චෝදනා සම්බන්ධයෙන් මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයක් මගින් පිළිතුරු දී තිබෙනවා. [4]. එසේම අද මෙලෙස චෝදනා කරන ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල මහතාට, එදා ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්ෂයේ මහ ලේකම් මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන අමාත්‍යවරයා ලුණු ඇඹුල් සහිතව පිළිතුරු දී තිබෙනවා. පහත වීඩියෝ පටය සාවධානව අසා බලන්න. එදා ජාත්‍යන්තර සබඳතා සම්බන්ධයෙන් සෞඛ්‍ය අමාත්‍ය මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 07/10/15)

No need to establish another commission -Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) and the Center for Human Rights and Research (CHR) (NGO) welcome the move to release presidential commission reports
Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon Executive Director –Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) and the Center for Human Rights and Research (CHR)
No need to establish another commission Reports published on Sunday (04) indicated that three government mandated reports regarding mission persons and human rights violations; the Udalagama Commission report, the Paranagama report on the second mandate and the report by Desmond De Silva’s advisory panel to the Missing Persons Commission are expected to be tabled in Parliament during the course of this week. Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) and the Center for Human Rights and Research (CHR) have... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 07/10/15)

COUNTRY NEEDS A CONSTITUTION WITH DIRECT CHECKS & BALANCES TO TAME OUR POLITICIANS
Cecil Atukorale
Whatever the form of Government, a monopoly of power in state would be the end of all civilised politics, whether it be the Presidential Executive or Parliamentary Executive. Constant experience has shown us that every man/woman invested with power is apt to abuse it to carry his/her authority as far as it will go. The more politicians want power, less it is about principles. As such the existence of a constitution does not mean automatically that there also exists a democratic system to go along with it. At all stages of constitution making in the past our... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 07/10/15)

Tragic phenomenon of forcible recruitment of Tamil civilians by the LTTE
By D.B.S. Jeyaraj Courtesy The Daily Mirror
The Human Rights Investigation  report on Sri Lanka compiled by the Office of the United Nations  High Commissioner for Human Rights released last month  has revealed  much information about the alleged activities of the Sri Lankan armed forces, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and state affiliated para – military outfits such as the Eelam People’s Democratic Party(EPDP) and Tamil Makkal Viduthalaip Puligal(TMVP) during the final phase of South Asia’s longest war. While overseas members of the  LTTE demonstrate in Geneva with tiger flags and portraits  of LTTE supremo Veluppillai Prabhakaran, those... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 07/10/15)

Though Positive The Process Needs Social Trust
DecentLanka2015 Media Release
06 October, 2015 The OISL Report presented to the UNHRC Sessions concludes most importantly with the proposal for a "Hybrid" investigation into all war crimes, crimes against humanity and violation of international law that were termed as "horrendous" crimes committed. The GoSL has already rejected a "hybrid" mechanism, proposing its own "Domestic" scheme for investigations. The fourth US Resolution adopted without a division was consented to by the GoSL on the basis it allows for a domestic investigation. There are many interpretations to it by now. But what is more important to us right now is... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 07/10/15)

යෝජනා වැදගත් වූවත් කි්‍රයාවට නැගීමේදී ජනතා විශ්වාසය අත්‍යාවශ්‍යයයි
මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය ශිෂ්ටලංකා2015
2015 ඔක්තෝම්බර 06 වන දින එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් කොමිසම මෙවර සැසි වාරය සඳහා ඉදිරිපත් කළ ශී්‍ර ලංකාව සම්බන්ධ වාර්තාවෙහි ප්‍රධානම හා මූලික නිර්දේශය වූයේ වාර්තාවෙන් සනාථ කෙරුණු යුධ හා මනුෂ්‍යත්වයට එරෙහි අපරාධ සහ ජාත්‍යන්තර නීති උල්ලංඝණය අධිකරණමය කි්‍රයාවලියකට බඳුන් කිරීම සඳහා zzවිශේෂ දෙමුහුන් පරීක්ෂණ යාන්ත්‍රණයක්ZZ පිහිටු විය යුතු බවය. ශී්‍ර ලංකා ආණ්ඩුව ඊට එක`ග නොවන බව මේ වනවිට නිල වශයෙන් ප්‍රකාශ කර ඇත. zzදේශීය යාන්ත්‍රණයක්ZZ පිහිටුවන බව ආණ්ඩුව කියන්නේය. ඇමෙරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදය ශී්‍ර ලංකාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඉදිරිපත් කළ ඔවුනගේ සිව්වන යෝජනාවට ශී්‍ර ලංකා ආණ්ඩුවද හවුල් වන්නේ දේශීය පරීක්ෂණයකට ඉන් අවස්ථාව සළසන්නේය යන තර්කය මතය. ඒ සම්බන්ධව... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 07/10/15)

නිමල් මහරගේ
71 කැරැල්ල  ආරම්භයේ සිට අවසානය දක්වා පුර්ණ සමාලෝචනයක්  කෘතිය​  ඇසුරෙනි – වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග
වික්ටර් අයිවන් මහතා හමුවීමෙන් පසු මගේ මීළඟ වෑයම වූයේ නිමල් මහරගේ හමුවීමටයි. නිමල් මහරගේ කොළඹ දිස්ත්‍රික් ලේකම් සහ මහ නඩුවේ 8 වන විත්තිකරුය. ඔහුට විජේවීර  මුණ ගැසෙන්නේ 1964 අවසාන භාගයේදී. නිමල් ෂන්මුගදාසන්ගේ චීන පිලේ වැඩ කරන විට කොම්පඤ්ඤවීදියේ පක්ෂ කාර්යාලයේදී විජේවීර  මුල්වරට හමුවිය. ඔහු මෙසේ කියයි. මට මුලින්ම විජේවීර හමුඋන වෙලාවේ විෙජ්වීර විප්ලවයක අවශ්‍යතාවය මාත් එක්ක කථාකළා. විෙජ්වීරගේ වැඩපිළිවෙළ ගැන අපි පැය හත අට දිගින් දිගට සාකච්ඡා කළා. සැන්සිබාරයේ කරුමේගේ ක්‍රමයට බලය ඇල්ලීම තමයි විජේවීර ගේ ඉලක්කය උනේ. මම හා විෙජ්වීර ගුණසේකර අයියෙගේ (ඩී. ඒ. ගුණසේකර) නිවසේ බොහෝ සාකච්ඡා පැවැත්තුවා. ගුණසේකර අයියා අප හැමෝගෙම දේශපාලන ගුරුවරයා... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 06/10/15)

Sir Iftikhar Ayaz KBE; OBE due Sri Lanka
By A. Abdul Aziz. Press Secretary,  Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka.
 Sir Iftikhar Ayaz KBE; OBE will pay a short visit to the Island from 15 October to 17 October on his way to London after attending successful Peace Symposium in Indonesia and Malaysia. He will be pleased to have audience with Intellectuals, Educationalist, top political figures, journalists and media personal. Interested are advised to contact cell No. 0094 777 753440 for prior appointments. In June this year, Dr. Iftikhar Ayaz O.B.E (Officer of the Excellent Order of the British Empire) has been awarded a K.B.E (Knight Commander of... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 06/10/15)

‘THE IMPORTANCE OF INTRODUCING ANIMAL PROTECTION EDUCATION INTO SCHOOLS IN SRI LANKA’
By Senaka Weeraratna Attorney – at – Law Chapter Leader of Dharma Voices for Animals (Sri Lanka – Colombo Chapter)
A Public Talk delivered on World Animal Day (October 4, 2015) at the Dharmavijaya Foundation. New Vision We need a new vision for this country and its civilizational advancement. It must begin in our schools. The primary purpose of education is to make an individual a better human being. One aspect of that is to be in close contact with nature and appreciate nature. This was how the aim of education was viewed in the bygone age. Today the ethos in the... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 06/10/15)

මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිවරයා එදා
මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිවරයා එදා, 2010 ජනාධිපතිවරණ සමයෙදි මේ කරන කතාව ඉවසීමෙන් අහන්න. මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා විවිධ කුමන්ත්‍රණ සහ බාධක මැද යුද්ධය ජයගත් ආකාරය ඔහු පැහැදිලි කරනව.
අධිරාජ්‍යවාදී බලවේග, එක්සත් ජාතීන්, රාජ්‍ය නොවන සංවිධාන සහ ඇතැම් මාධ්‍ය ආයතන වගේම කුහක විපක්ෂය මහින්දට එදිරිව ක්‍රියාත්මක වූ බවත් මහින්ද ඒවාට සාර්ථකව මුහුණ දුන් බවත් ඔහු පෙන්වා දෙනව. යුද්ධයෙන් පසුව අවුරුදු 100කට හරියන විශාල සංවර්ධන වැඩපිළිවෙලක් මහින්ද පටන් ගත්ත කියල කියන මෛත්‍රි, මහින්ද මේ මාතෘ භූමියේ පමණක් නෙවෙයි කළාපයේම ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨ නායකයෙක් බව සහතික කරනව. ඒ අතර යුද්ධය පැරදිලා ඊළම දෙන්න උනානං මහින්දට වෙන දේ ගැනත් මෛත්‍රී කියනව. https://youtu.be/iZpGPt3hVHU ඓහෙමනං පස්සෙ මෛත්‍රී,... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 05/10/15)

Next Sri Lanka  will  cosponsor  with USA  a resolution  against  King Dutugamenu for war crimes.
By Charles.S.Perera
Now it is a question of reconciliation with the Tamils at any cost and for that it is possible the Sirisena –Ranil good governance may demand USA to investigate whether  USA could extend  the UNHuman rights violation, and even genocide  calling for  accountability of King Dutugemunu’s war against  Elara the Cholan  Tamil,  as a USA resolution at the next UNHRSession in Geneva to be cosponsored by Sri Lanka. It may be considered  a conventional war under  Geneva conventions. It could  be a possibility with Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussain as the UN Commissioner of Human Rights and  Obama’s... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 05/10/15)

The King Seethawaka Rajasinghe - the Monarch who suffered from PTSD 
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge 
 The King Seethawaka Rajasinghe (Tikiri Bandara ) the 16th century monarch of Sri Lanka was a great warrior who came to the battlefield at the age of 16. He fought against the Portuguese invaders and witnessed many deaths and destructions. He was a fearless fighter who used effectual war tactics and overpowered the fully equipped and fully trained Portuguese war machine. The King Seethawaka Rajasinghe ruled 39 years from 1554 - 1593 AD. He was a military genius and a strategist.  One Portuguese historian compared him with Hannibal. In 1562, the Battle of Mulleriyawa took place and... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 05/10/15)

An independent investigation required to probe the bombing of the hospital in Afganistan
RANJITH SOYSA
When the USA was pushing Sri Lanka for a hybrid investigation in Geneva to inquire into the allegations leveled by highly questionable sources the US air-crafts were bombing a hospital in Kunduz in Afganistan resulting in innocent civilian deaths,   The Doctors without Borders who were running the hospital have said that the US cannot come   up with any excuses as all the authorities have been kept informed of the humanitarian tasks handled by the hospital and its GPS indicators. At present, the USA has expressed its intention to carry out an investigation on their own. But, as this an act... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 05/10/15)

Lest we forget- please sign the petition
Ramanie de Zoysa
War hero Ratnayaka Mudiyanselage Sunil Ratnayaka is on death row at the age of just 38 for the crime of protecting his country from a 30 year pogrom of ruthless LTTE terror because the present Sri Lankan Government wants to appease the LTTE rump who enjoys much political succor in England, the US and Canada. At the hour of the country’s need, when innocent men, women and children were being massacred by the LTTE, referred to as the ‘most ruthless terrorist organisation in the world’ by the US State Department, we as a country looked... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 05/10/15)

White Christian West crimes through history
Shenali D Waduge
"The name of Christ has caused more persecutions, wars, and miseries than any other name has caused." - John E. Remsburg Over hundreds and thousands of years the same nations that dictate how the world today functions have been responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity that have left millions dead. They have the audacity to point fingers calling for accountability feeling no shame to admit and compensate for their crimes that continue under the same ideology but camouflaged by slogans that fit into modern thinking shaped by media and propaganda that they own and... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 04/10/15)

All Right-minded People Must Support Russia in Syria
Kumar Moses
At last some sensible action from Russia to the chagrin of the US and EU. Russian jets have pounded near-uncivilized terrorists in Syria who have already killed close to a quarter of a million people. USA and KSA (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) funded FSA (Free Syria Army) to fight against popular leader Assad. But the chaos gave rise to Saudi and Qatar funded Sunni terrorists mainly the ISIS. Since then it has been utter chaos. Europe was punished with a steady stream of refugees escaping fighting in Syria, Libya and Iraq – all US creations. However, Russia... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 04/10/15)

අක්මුල් නොදත් ගුණමකු''සිංහලයෝ''
 ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න
1505 සිට ටිකෙන් ටික  වියැකී යන්නට පටන්ගත් සිංහල ලකුණ 1796 සිට වේගවත් වී 1833 -1834 කොල්බ්රුක් කැමරන් '''''''ප්‍රතිසංස්කරණ '''' නම්වු   ව්‍යසනකරණය හෙවත් පාදඩ කරණයෙන් පසුව  කටුකොහොල් නැති   ''කාපට් පාරට ''' වැටී පරාභව  ය සොයා දිවගියේය . 1977 දී  ධර්මිෂ්ටයාගේ  සියල්ල විවුර්ත කර  සෙළුව පමණක්   ඉතිරි කිරීමේ ව්‍යාපෘතියෙන් පසුව  මුලිනුදුරා දැමු ගසක් මෙන්  සිංහල ලකුණ  බිම පතිත විය . ඉහත සඳහන් කලේ ''විශේෂ ප්‍රවුර්ති ''' පමණය . මේ විනාශය තවත් ඈතට ඈතට විහිදී යය්  .පාහියන්ගල   බටදොඹලෙන මෙන්ම  මේ මෑතදී රත්නපුරේ ලුනුගලින් හමුවූ පුරාවිද්‍යා සාධක වලින් තහවුරු වෙන පරිදි     විජය නම්''''  ඉන්දියානුවා '''  හෙලබිමට පැමිණීමට පෙර  මෙරට මිනිස්... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 04/10/15)

Govt.’s Duty Is To Stand By Our War Heroes
Mahinda Rajapakse
Though the passage of the US sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka in the UNHRC without a vote last Thursday is being hailed as a diplomatic victory for Sri Lanka, I am unable to share that view. Operative paragraph 6 of the resolution affirms the importance of the participation of foreign judges, prosecutors, lawyers and investigators in the Sri Lankan judicial mechanism to be set up to investigate alleged human rights abuses during the war. Operative paragraph 8 encourages the Sri Lankan government to remove individuals in the armed forces suspected of human rights violations through an administrative... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 04/10/15)

ඇමෙරිකානු කූටෝපායික සැලැස්‌මට එරෙහි වෙමු
අනගාරික ධර්මසේකර  Courtesy Island
අවුරුදු දෙදහස්‌ තුන්සියයක්‌ තරම් දිගු කලක්‌ තිස්‌සේ විදේශාක්‍රමණ දාසයකට මුහුණ දී ජාතික උරුමය රැක ගන්නට සමත් වූ ලක්‌වැසි දේශප්‍රේමී ජනතාවට ජය ගත නොහැකි අභියෝගයක්‌ නැති බව මගේ විශ්වාසයයි. පොදු රාජ්‍ය මණ්‌ඩලීය විනිසුරන් හා වෙනත් විනිශ්චයකාරවරුන් අයත් වන අධිකරණයක්‌ පිහිටුවන්නට යෝජනා කර ඇති ඇමෙරිකානු සැලැස්‌ම අනුව අභිචෝදක පක්‍ෂය නියෝජනය කරන නිලධාරීන් හා පරීක්‍ෂකයන් ද සහභාගි විය යුතු බවත් විශේෂ නීතිඥ කාර්යාලයක්‌ පිහිටුවිය යුතු බවත් සඳහන් වන හෙයින් එය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ ස්‌වාධීනත්වයට සහ ස්‌වෛරීභාවයට හානි කර වන බව නිසැකය. ඉතාම ශෝකජනක දෙය නම් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට හිතවත් රටවල් ද නිහඬ කරවන්නට හේතු වන අන්දමින් ලංකාණ්‌ඩුව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/10/15)

US sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka is not a victory: MR
Courtesy Adaderana
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that though the passage of the US sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka in the UNHRC without a vote last Thursday is being hailed as a diplomatic victory for Sri Lanka, he is unable to share that view. Issuing a statement on Sunday (4) he said, “Operative paragraph 6 of the resolution affirms the importance of the participation of foreign judges, prosecutors, lawyers and investigators in the Sri Lankan judicial mechanism to be set up to investigate alleged human rights abuses during the war. Operative paragraph 8 encourages the Sri Lankan government... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 04/10/15)

රණවිරුවන් රැක බලා ගැනීම ආණ්ඩුවේ යුතුකමයි – මහින්ද මැතිඳුන්ගෙන් නිවේදනයක්!
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එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලය තුළ ලංකාවට එරෙහි අ‍මෙරිකානු යෝජනාව ඡන්ද විමසීමකින් තොරව සම්මත කර ගැනීම ලංකාව ලැබූ රාජ්‍ය තාන්ත්‍රික ජයග්‍ර‍හනයක් හැටියට ඇතැම් අය හුවා දක්වනු ලැබුවද එම මතයට තමාට එකඟ විය නොහැකි බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසයි. ඔහු මේ බව සඳහන් කර සිටියේ මාධ්‍ය නි‍වේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින්ය. එම මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය පහත පරිදි වෙයි. අනිත් අයටත් බලන්නට SHARE කරන්න. // Tweet// // Tags: මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ |... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 04/10/15)

සුද්දන් කියන කියන දේට ඔළුව නැමීම රාජ්‍ය පාලනය නොවේ.. මෛත‍්‍රීගේ මඤ්ඤොක්කා විවේචනයට මහින්දගෙන් පිළිතුරු…
lanka C news
රාජතාන්ත‍්‍රිකටින් ඇඹිලිපිටියට ගෙන ගොස් මඤ්ඤොක්කා කැවුවේ යයි ජනාධිපති මෛත‍්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන මහතා එල්ල කරන චෝදනාවට මෙන්ම ජිනීවාහිදී ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාව සම්බන්දයෙන් ඡන්ද විමසීමකින් තොරව සම්මත වූ යෝජනාව ගැන හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා අදහස් පල කරයි. හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා සිය අදහස් දක්වා නිකුත් කර ඇති නිවේදනය මෙසේය. රණවිරුවන් රැක බලා ගැනීම ආණ්ඩුවේ යුතුකමයි. එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලය තුළ ලංකාවට එරෙහි ඇමරිකානු යෝජනාව ඡන්ද විමසීමකින් තොරව සම්මත කර ගැනීම ලංකාව ලැබූ රාජ්‍යතාන්ත්‍රික ජයග්‍ර‍හනයක් හැටියට ඇතැම් අය හුවා දක්වනු ලැබුවද එම මතයට මට එකග විය නොහැක. සම්මත වූ යෝජනාවේ 06 වෙනි ක්‍රියාන්විත ඡේදයට අනුව ලංකාවේ සිදු වූවා යැයි කියන... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 04/10/15)

ZEID COMMITS (POSSIBLE) CONTEMPT OF COURT AGAINST THE SRI LANKA JUDICIARY
DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA
On the 30th of September, U.N. Human Rights High Commissioner Zeid Al Hussein issued a video statement to the Human Rights Council then in session, regarding the war crimes investigation on Sri Lanka conducted by his office.  He reiterated his call for a ‘hybrid court’ to pursue the charges enumerated in the report, because in his view Sri Lanka’s domestic courts lacked the independence and impartiality to take on such a task. In my view, the High Commissioner’s statement amounts to contempt of court.  In this article, I shall briefly explain why the High Commissioner’s statement amounts... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 04/10/15)

Hanging Sri Lanka by it is neck until it is dead !
By Charles.S.Perera
It had been seen  since 1978, that each time UNP comes into power it is the death knell for Sri Lanka. It is not necessary to repeat the disasters that UNP caused from writing 13 A into the Constitution, Batalanda Torture Camps, Military safe house disaster, CFA, to Central Bank Bond scam. Now with a PM acting like a dictator inside the Parliament with a Speaker( a lackey of the Prime Minister) of the House obediently accepting  the indiscipline of the Prime Minister, and COPE report swept  under the carpet, every thing is set to hang Sri... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 04/10/15)

Ranil Wickramasinghe Emulated his Infamous Ancestor when he Sold the Country Down the River
By Gandara John
On 30 Sep 15 Ranil Wickramasinghe (RW) emulated his infamous ancestor Don Adrian Jayawardhana and did that unworthy proud when he guilefully guided inimical US forces into Sri Lanka (SL) by opening the island’s gates, from within. The beneficiary of RW’s guile was the enemy who waged a proxy war on SL for nearly 30 years and who on being militarily defeated immediately switched tactics by waging siege war on the island like they have unsuccessfully conducted on the heroic Cuban people for nearly 60 years, applying financial, trade, market and tariff embargos. It was Two hundred... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 04/10/15)

පොඩි අතුල හෙවත් වික්ටර් අයිවන්
71 කැරැල්ල  ආරම්භයේ සිට අවසානය දක්වා පුර්ණ සමාලෝචනයක්  කෘතිය​  ඇසුරෙනි - වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග.
ලොකු අතුලට තුති පිදූ මා මීළඟට හමු උනේ පොඩි අතුල හෙවත් වික්ටර් අයිවන්ය. රාවය පුවත්පතේ ප්‍රධාන කර්තෘවරයා වන ඔහු දක්ෂ සමාජ විශ්ලේෂනාත්මක ලේඛකයෙකි. සාම්ප්‍රදායික අධ්‍යාපනය ඔස්සේ නොගියද ඔහු විසින් ලියා ඇති කෘති සමාජ විද්‍යාත්මක වශයෙන් හරබරය. ඒවා යම් කාලයක අපගේ විශ්වවිද්‍යාල විසින් යම් ඇගයීමකට ලක්කරනු ඇතැයි මම සිතමි. විජය උඳුපිටිය මහතාගේ නිවසේදී පැය තුනක පමණ   71 පිළිබඳව සම්මුඛ සාකච්ඡාචක් දුන්   වික්ටර් අයිවන් මහතා මට මෙසේ පැවසීය. මට විජේවීර  මුණගැසුණේ 1967 අග භාගයේ පමණ, පැලවත්තේ කැලෑවකදී තමයි, ඒ හමුවීම සිද්ධ උනේ. මම ඒ කාලයේ සිටම විජේවීර  හා ඒ හා සම්බන්ධව බැඳිල තිබුණ ව්‍යාපාරය ගැන... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 04/10/15)

PRAIRIE AWARDS FOR LANKAN JOURNALISM -- Focus on Manik de Silva -Part 3
By Shelton A. Gunaratne
Professor of communication emeritus, MSUM, and lead author of Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era: A Buddhist Approach (New York: Routledge, 2015) The manner of interaction of the Five Aggregates that conditioned the namarupa of Mervyn de Silva and Manik de Silva respectively showed marked contrasts. Mervyn showed the characteristics of a connection-oriented Tigger (spontaneous, playful, witty, fun-loving and energetic, but irresponsible and disruptive) while Manik showed the characteristics of a status-quo oriented Eeyore (who enjoys being alone, likes independent activities, and shows profundity--a synthesis of learning and insight). Since Mervyn became... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 04/10/15)

Disappearance of Buddhism From India: An Untold Story
             Naresh Kumar
The complete disappearance of the religion of the Buddha from the land of its birth is one of the greatest puzzles of history. Once holding sway throughout the length and breadth of the subcontinent, Buddhism today survives only in the Himalayan fringes along the Tibetan frontier and in small pockets in northern and western India among recent Ambedkarite Dalit converts. Various theories have been put forward which seek to explain the tragic eclipse of Buddhism from India. According to one view, corruption in the Buddhist sangha or priesthood precipitated Buddhism's ultimate decline. While it is true... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 04/10/15)

පාලම හා පාලම් පාරුව
චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම
ප්‍රංශය හා එංගලන්තය අතරත්, ඉන්දියාවේ ධනුෂ්කොඩි හා ලංකාවේ තලේමන්නාරම අතරත් ඒ කාලයේ තිබුණේ පාලම් පාරුය. ලංකාවේ තේ වතුවලට ඉන්දියන් කම්කරුවන් ආවේ හා නිවාඩුවට ආපසු ගියේ කෝච්චියෙන් තලෙයිමන්නාරමට ගොස් පාලම් පාරුවෙන් ය.  ප්‍රංශය හා එංගලන්තය අතර වාෂ්පයෙන් දුවන නැව් තිබුණේ සාගරය ගැඹුරු නිසාත්, එතෙර-මෙතෙර යන ජන සංඛ්‍යාව වැඩිවූ නිසාත් ය. නැපෝලියන්ට හා හිට්ලර්‌ට එංගලන්තය අල්ලා ගන්නට නොහැකිවූයේ එය දුරින් පිහිටි දූපතක් වුණ නිසාය. මෙම දූපත හා යුරෝපා මහාද්‌වීපය දුම්‍රිය මාර්‍ගයකින්, බිංගෙයක් මඟින් එකට එක් කල යුතුයයි තීරණය වුනේ යුරෝපා සංගමය බිහිවී, යුරෝ පාස්පෝට් එකකින් හා යුරෝ සල්ලි භාවිතා කරමින් මිනිසුන් යුරෝපා සංගමය තුල එහෙ මෙහෙ යාමට පටන් ගත්... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 03/10/15)

Shall we start afresh Mr President?
By Malinda Seneviratne -Courtesy The Nation
President Maithripala Sirisena is no saint. He has not attained arahathood. He’s new to the job. He is, however, a seasoned politician. He has seen many leaders make many mistakes; enough to have enabled him to learn some lessons. He’s been a big disappointment so far in terms of the much advertised promise of change. Here’s a recap: He abused   presidential powers to remove a Chief Justice and appoint a new one. He violated the basic principles of democracy in his machinations to take control of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party. He turned... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 03/10/15)

Recommendation to establish an international inquiry mechanism exceed the mandate - Ambassador Zameer Akram
Geneva, 03 October, (Courtesy Asiantribune.com):
The High Commissioner’s Report contained in document A/HRC/25/23 is not balanced and some of the elements including recommendation to establish an international inquiry mechanism exceed the mandate granted by HRC resolution 22/1 said Permanent Representative of Pakistan Ambassador Mr. Zameer Akram. Permanent Representative of Pakistan Ambassador Mr. Zameer Akram He further alleged, that Pakistan was also disappointed over the discriminatory approach followed by the OHCHR with regard to placement of Sri Lanka’s comments in response to the report on the extranet. Ambassador Mr. Zameer Akram, Permanent Representative of Pakistan further said while making a... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 03/10/15)

Comprehensive report of the Office of the UNHCHR on Sri Lanka - Recommendations
Geneva, 03 October, (Courtesy Asiantribune.com):
The Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Sri Lanka contains the principal findings of the comprehensive investigation conducted by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights into alleged serious violations and abuses of human rights and related crimes during the armed conflict in Sri Lanka. Human Rights Commissioner Prince Zeid Al Hussein The report on Sri Lanka by the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) was taken up for discussion by the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday the... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 03/10/15)

When nepotism grants regal status
Courtesy The Nation
The problem with his being in the UN delegation for Sri Lanka is obvious. The Government of Sri Lanka allowed it. The Foreign Policy Establishment allowed it. President Maithripala Sirisena’s son was part of the Sri Lankan delegation to the United Nations, and he was front and centre when his father met the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi in the sidelines of the General Assembly. He (Daham Sirisena) can write the most hilarious drivel about his UN visit for all we care. He’s not accountable to the public and neither is he a public figure... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 03/10/15)

‘I should not have taken my father to the UN’
Courtesy The Nation
Daham Sirisena, son of Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena, today admitted that he should not have taken his father on his recent trip to the UN General Assembly after significant public backlash caused a media uproar. In a Facebook update posted few days ago, Daham said, ‘I was officially invited to the UN as part of the Sri Lanka delegation to participate in youth session (a.k.a. lets have chat and then go get plastered on UN expenses). Unfortunately my mother could not attend and my father decided to take up her invite. The freeloader. Of... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 03/10/15)

Daham Sirisena, the entertainer
Courtesy The Nation
I’ve had a fantastic time reading all that’s being written about Daham Sirisena. The Big D, as I now think of him, is a fantastic creature. I mean, who wouldn’t want a walking, talking, Facebook-ing PR nightmare for a son, am I right? Let’s assume for a moment that Maithripala Sirisena actually reads this (hah! Fat chance). Mr Sirisena, here’s a question for you: ARE YOU STUPID? Look at him. JUST LOOK AT HIM. This is Daham Sirisena, Public Figure. His crowning achievements in life? 48,000 likes on Facebook, shaking hands with Narendra Modi, being... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 03/10/15)

Geneva going and USA hammering
By A Patabendige  Courtesy The Nation
“I am sick and tired of war. Its glory is all moonshine…. War is hell’ (Gen William T Sherman the US General who made ‘Georgia howl’ and burned Atlanta in the Civil war) The USA made sure that Sri Lanka dug its own grave in Geneva in 2015. Looks like the GTF, the Policy Alteration boys, and the International Community (read “white eyes only”) had been working overtime on wording the joint submission by USA and good old SL. The so called HR abuses read like a US Army Regimental war diary from its... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 03/10/15)

How the SLFP was reduced to a kavandaya
By Gunadasa Amarasekera Courtesy The Nation
If nations have their origins in civilizations, derive their nationhood from a civilizational premise, the only ethnic group  that is entitled to claim the term ‘nation’, is the Sinhala ethnic group responsible for the creation of a civilization-the Sinhala Buddhist civilization. No other ethnic group can make that claim, though they have contributed to its evolution at different periods. It is time we admit this fact without resorting to hiding behind the vacuous bogus hypocritical notion of a ‘Sri Lankan nation’. That hypocritical stance is not going to take us to reconciliation or anywhere... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 03/10/15)

Bye Obama, hello Putin
Editorial - Courtesy The Nation
What does it take to defeat terrorism? Well, the answer will vary depending on who is being asked the question. Here in Sri Lanka, for years, no decades, the dominant cry was ‘address and eliminate the conditions which cause people to take up arms’. In other words, it’s like cleaning up breeding grounds to deal with the Dengue mosquito. If those, who consider methodologies such as suicide bombers, human shields and of late summary execution that is videotaped and posted in social media, are capable to listening to reason, then the Mossie Plan, if... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 03/10/15)

Pakistan warns on critics of Sri Lanka
By Deepal Warnakulasuriya -Courtesy The Nation
Pakistan making a special statement says that those who have been critical of Sri Lanka’s effort to overcome terrorism and separatism funded from abroad would do well to look at their own track record on the so-called war on terror. Permanent Representative of Pakistan Zameer Akram made these observations in a statement to the media on Friday commenting on the Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for the Human Rights on Sri Lanka The statement said “Pakistan has always supported Sri Lanka in its efforts to overcome terrorist and... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 03/10/15)

Sri Lanka submits to US diktat - UN RESOLUTION
Courtesy The Nation
The Sri Lankan Government co-sponsored the US led resolution at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) without contesting the draft resolution, despite a pledge made by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremsinghe to media heads last week that Sri Lanka would seek amendments to the preamble. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, speaking with heads of media institutions and editors last Sunday (September 27), stated that the Government is in agreement with the operational paragraphs of the draft resolution, but was discussing amendments to the preamble. However, in response to a query made by The Nation, Sri Lanka’s Permanent... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 03/10/15)

UNHRC chief Zeid Al Hussein
By A Special Correspondent Courtesy Island
October 2, 2015, 9:18 pm • Zeid Al Hussein in broadside against Sri Lanka • Ravinatha registers timid and cowed response • Pakistan, Russia say what SL should have said • Maxwell Paranagama Commission specifically targeted • Former Khemer Rouge war crimes prosecutor coming to SL The report on Sri Lanka by the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) was taken up for discussion by the UN Human Rights Council on Wednesday the 30th September. In introducing the OHCHR report on Sri Lanka to the Council, the Human Rights... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 03/10/15)

Afghan hospital attack in Kunduz possibly criminal - UN
Courtesy BBC
Air strikes on a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz that killed 19 people were "tragic, inexcusable and possibly even criminal", the UN human rights chief says. High Commissioner Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein urged a full and transparent investigation into the attack. Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said at least 12 of its staff and seven patients were killed. US forces were carrying out air strikes at the time. At least 37 people were seriously injured, 19 of them MSF staff. "All indications currently point to the bombing being carried out by international Coalition forces," MSF... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 03/10/15)

12 MSF staff, 7 patients killed in Kunduz attack, US admits airstrike 'in vicinity' of hospital
Courtesy RT
A hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz was hit in an overnight aerial attack that killed at least 19 people, including nine Medecins Sans Frontieres staff and three children. The US has confirmed that it conducted an airstrike “in the vicinity” of the hospital. http://www.rt.com/news/317482-afghanistan-kunduz-msf-hospital/  ... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 03/10/15)

Dinesh says Sri Lanka must present its case to war crimes court... expresses strong opposition against external intervention
by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy Island
Mahajana Eksath Peramuna (MEP) leader Dinesh Gunawardena, MP, yesterday, said that the country could bring to the notice of the war crimes court envisaged for Sri Lanka, the circumstances under which the armed forces had brought the LTTE to its knees in May 2009. Reiterating his strong opposition to external intervention meant to undermine Sri Lanka’s sovereignty, Opposition heavyweight said that the country could make representations to the court. Sri Lanka should be ready to present its case relating to the crushing of the world’s most ruthless terror outfit. Former UPFA minister asserted that Sri... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 03/10/15)

Sri Lanka, the land of the ‘Rising Son’
Dr. Suneth Rajawasan Mt. Lavinia Courtesy Island
Nepotism. One of those many isms that beg definitions. No it’s not a mental condition like autism, but recent events have led me to believe otherwise. We as a nation voted out a first family earlier this year. The people rose up against family rule, against squandering public wealth for personal gain and against parading ego-displays by powerful children of the elected leaders. It was disgusting as it was excessive, and eventually democracy spoke up against it. Democracy of course, had a very powerful voice during this time: embodied by our very own present... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 03/10/15)

UNHRC an “Honorable Victory” says Ranil-Sirisena, the new Mudalyars of the West
Shenali D Waduge
During colonial occupation as part of divide and rule policy the Portuguese, Dutch and the British were quick to shower titles and select locals who would be their virtual servants, do anything that the colonials demanded and happily go against their own people. These locals were even given titles for their subservient roles. Fast forward to 2015 we seem to return to the past with the manner in which the Sri Lankan delegation are proud to have co-sponsored a resolution giving foreign interference & decision-making right into how Sri Lanka’s land, laws, justice systems, security &... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 03/10/15)

ජිනීවා... මරේ... හායි
ධර්මන් වික‍්‍රමරත්න
රිවිර සිකුරාදා පුවත්පත සදහා ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න ලියන මුරගල තීරු ලිපිය - 123 2015 ඔක්තෝබර් 02 සිකුරාදා(වචන 1,438)    සහශ්‍ර සංවර්ධන ඉලක්ක ප්‍රගතිය දැක්වෙන එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ වාර්තාව පෙරේදා නිකුත්වූ අතර එහි සදහන් වන්නේ දුප්පත්කමේ සීමාවට පහලින් ජීවත්වන ජනතාව අර්ධයකින් අඩු කිරීමේ ඉලක්කය ශ්‍රීලංකාව ගිවිසගත් කාලයට වසර 7කට කලින් සපුරාගත් බවය. මෙය ඉකුත් සන්ධාන ආණ්ඩුව පිළිබදව හොද සහතික‍යකි. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ වර්තමාන ජාතික ආණ්ඩු සංකල්පය ඉදිරියට ගෙන එන්නේ දශක 6ක් පුරා විසම්මුතිවාදී දේශපාලනය වෙනුවට සම්මුතිකවාදී රාජ්‍ය පාලනයක් නිර්මාණය කිරීමට ක්‍රියාකරන බවට හුවා දක්වමිනි. මේ මොහොතේ  එය ගෙනවිත් තිබෙන්නේ ඒ සඳහා නොව එක්සත් ජාතින්ගේ සංවිධානය හරහා එක්සත් ජනපදය ප්‍රමුඛ අධිරාජ්‍යවාදී රටවල... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 03/10/15)

GL Peries - Geneva war crime report against Sri Lanka [Full speach]
එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් පිළිබද මහ කොමසාරිස් විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවට එරෙහි මානව හිමිකම් වාර්තාව පිළිබදව මහජන එක්සත් පෙරමුණ විසින් සංවිධානය කරන ලද දැනුවත් කිරීම් මාලාවේදී මහාචාර්ය ජී.එල්. පීරිස් මහතා දැක්වූ අදහස්..
https://youtu.be/G__8w9gnAsU... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 03/10/15)

Dayan Jayatilleke - Geneva war crime report against Sri Lanka [Full speach]
එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් පිළිබද මහ කොමසාරිස් විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවට එරෙහි මානව හිමිකම් වාර්තාව පිළිබදව මහජන එක්සත් පෙරමුණ විසින් සංවිධානය කරන ලද දැනුවත් කිරීම් මාලාවේදී ආචාර්ය දයාන් ජයතිලක මහතා දැක්වූ අදහස්..
  https://youtu.be/94BcWECAtHw... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 03/10/15)

Saudi Arabia sinks UN war crimes probe in Yemen, Washington stays silent
Courtesy RT
 The Netherlands dropped their bid to establish an independent UN-led probe into alleged war crimes in Yemen, yielding to an alternative resolution proposed by Saudi Arabia, which stands accused of causing most of the civilian deaths in the conflict. The Saudis are leading a coalition of countries, whcih since late March has been using their military to attack Houthi rebels in Yemen in an attempt to put ousted President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi back into power. According to UN numbers published on Tuesday, at least 2,355 civilians have been killed during the six months of the... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 02/10/15)

The Buddhist belief supported by science
Courtesy http://national.deseretnews.com/
 One of the core beliefs in Buddhism is that one’s "self" is constantly changing, even if you feel like you’ve been the same person all your life. It looks like science is now backing up that theory. A new research paper published in the academic journal CellPress found that the brain and body are, in fact, always changing. "Buddhists argue that nothing is constant, everything changes through time, you have a constantly changing stream of consciousness,” Evan Thompson, a philosophy of mind professor at the University of British Columbia, told Quartz. “And from a... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 02/10/15)

සරත් වීරසේකර  ට ආයාචනයක්
 ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න
ඔබ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ  සිටිය යුතුම අයෙකි  ඇත්තම කිව්වොත්  මහින්ද මෙන් ඔබ වැනෙන අයෙක් නොවේ  ජාතික ගීය දෙමලෙන් ගැයීම  වැනි දේවල් වලදී ඔබේම පක්ෂයේ  මහින්දලා ඇතුළු ය නිහඬව සිටිද්දී  ඔබ හර්දයසාක්ෂිය අනුව යමින්   එකහෙලා එයට විරුද්ධව හඬ නැගුවේය   අම්පාර ඔබට  සුදුසු පෙදෙසක් නොවේ ඔබ  ආයුත්තේ හෝමාගම  මහර ගම  වැනි ප්‍රදේශයකිනි අම පාරේ තම්බිලා  ඔබ වැනි අභෙඑථදෙශප්රෙමෙඑ රණවිරුවෙකුට චන්දය දෙන්නේ නැත  අලිමදිවට හරක් කීවාක් මෙන් එක පතේ කාගෙන ඉන්න ශ්‍රිලනි  පාක්ෂික අපේක්ෂකයන්ද හොරෙන් හොරෙන් ඔබ පාවාදී  කටුව ගසන්නේ ඔබටත් නොදැනීමය  ඔබ  චන්ද 170 ගණනකින්  පැරදුනේ  මේ කැපිලි නිසාය .  මහින්ද ගැන ඕනාවට වඩා විශ්වාසය නොතබා  රාජපක්ෂ පවුල ඇතුව... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 02/10/15)

අත්අඩංගුවේ පසුවන බුද්ධි අංශ නිලදාරින්හට සෙත් පතා පවත්වන මහා බෝධි පුජාව
'සැමට ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදය' සදහා වූ සංවිධානය එංගලන්ත කණ්ඩායම
""තම ජිවිත දෙවනු කොට සලකමින් , රටේ සහ ජාතියේ ආරක්ෂාව වෙනුවෙන් වරෙක තම ජිවිත ආශාවන් පවා අත හැරමින් හමුදා බුද්ධි අංශ යට ජවයක් දෙමින් , රණවිරු කර්නල් මුතාලිෆ් ට ගේ අකල් වියෝවෙන් වූ අඩුව පිරවීමට අපේ රටේ පිනට පහලවූ බුද්ධි අංශ නායකයින් ඇතුළු බුද්ධි අංශයේ කිහිප දෙනෙකු පසුගිය දා අත් අඩංගුවට ගෙන පවතින නිතිය තම අතට ගෙන රටට ඉතා වටිනා සම්පතක් වූ මේ... රණවිරුවන් රදවා තබා ගැනුනේ, ඊනියා දේශපාලුවන්ගේ අදුර දර්ශි අමන වැඩ වලට උඩගෙඩි දෙමින් ජාතික ආරක්ෂාව ලගු කොට තම මඩිය තරකර ගනිමින් දේශපාලුවන්ගේ බත්බුදින අතුරුගිරිය මහා බුද්ධි අංශය පාවාදීමේ... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 02/10/15)

New plan of action to advance human rights: President Sirisena
Courtesy Adaderana
We intend to implement a new programme and plan of action in Sri Lanka to advance human rights, President Maithripala Sirisena said at the General Assembly of the United Nations during the 70th Session of the UN General Assembly Meeting held at the UN Headquarters. “Sri Lanka has played a very active and responsible role as a member state of the United Nations. We intend to implement a new programme and plan of action in Sri Lanka to advance human rights. Sri Lanka succeeded in eliminating terrorism, which continues to throttle other developing countries from Asia to... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 02/10/15)

Item 2- Adoption of the resolution ‘Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka’ (A/HRC/30/L.29)
Statement by the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
30th Session of the Human Rights Council 1 October 2015   Remarks by H.E. Mr. Ravinatha P. Aryasinha Ambassador / Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka  Item 2- Adoption of the resolution ‘Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka’ (A/HRC/30/L.29)  Mr. President, I wish to thank all the members of this Council as well as Observer States, for the support that they have extended today for the adoption of Resolution 30/29 titled 'Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka', by consensus. My delegation sees this resolution... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 02/10/15)

The Essentials of Global Mental Health
Anthony Ekwo MD, MPH Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences Meharry Medical College Nashville, TN
Essentials of Global Mental Health has recently received a certificate of high commendation at the British Medical Association 2015 book award.  The Essentials of Global Mental Health identifies the great burden of mental health disorders in global health. The authors thoroughly examines various practical community level approaches for prevention and promotion of mental health through the sharing of best information about common mental health problems especially among low and middle income countries. The book defines evidence based steps toward addressing inequality in global psychiatry. I... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 02/10/15)

Chairman of Missing Persons’ Panel rebuts Zeid
Courtesy Adaderana
Responding to the UN Human Rights High Commissioner Prince Zeid’s call to disband the Sri Lankan Missing Persons’ Commission and assign its work to a more credible body, the chairman of the panel, Justice Maxwell Paranagama, contended that nobody else can do the job better. “We have been very transparent in our functioning. There were no armed forces or police personnel in the room where people testified. We held several sittings in the Tamil-speaking North and East and Colombo and examined 19,000 people including 16,000 from the North and East. The response to our call for... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 02/10/15)

PRAIRIE AWARDS FOR LANKAN JOURNALISM -- Focus on Manik de Silva Part 2
By Shelton A. Gunaratne
Professor of communication emeritus, MSUM, and lead author of Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era: A Buddhist Approach (New York: Routledge, 2015) PRAIRIE ROSES: To Manik de Silva, the septuagenarian editor of the Sunday Island for his lifetime dedication to journalism in Sri Lanka.  In an interview with Sanjana Hattotuwa of Groundviews (on March 7, 2010), Manik, “the most senior and longest-serving editor of an English-language newspaper in Sri Lanka,” confessed that his “very liberal father” Walwin A. de Silva, a former director of education and brother of renowned Trotskyite parliamentarian Colvin R.... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 01/10/15)

Implementing UNHRC recommendations problematic: Nimal Siripala
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
The implementation of the UNHRC, recommendations including the establishment of a war crimes tribunal, would create many legal issues in the country’s judicial system, as a new Constitution and a referendum would be required to implement the recommendations, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) said today. The SLFP's senior vice president, Minister Nimal Siripala de Silva said the highest court in Sri Lanka was the Supreme Court and there was no hybrid court in Sri Lanka’s judicial system. “The UNHRC report says that Sri Lanka needs to adopt feasibility legislation, specific legislation to facilitate a... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 01/10/15)

Police beat me; took nude photos of me-School boy
Courtesy The Daily Mirror
"After being held at the Kotadeniyawa police station for three days, I was beaten and accused of committing this crime. They later took photos of me in the nude,” said the schoolboy who was discharged after being on remand for 12 days on suspicion of having killed Seya Sadevmi. After he was disharged by Court he made this revelation. He also said, “On Wednesday the 16th four policemen came to my home. They were not in uniform. There was a friend of mine with me at that time. They took me and my friend with... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 01/10/15)

Resolution on Sri Lanka adopted at UNHRC without a vote
Courtesy Adaderana
The US-sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka was adopted without a vote by consensus at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, a short while ago. The draft resolution - L29 is entitled ‘Promoting Reconciliation, Accountability and Human Rights in Sri Lanka’ and was co-sponsored by the government of Sri Lanka with 25 additional co-sponsors a the 30th session of the UNHRC. The adoption of the resolution marked a high point of the current session of the UNHRC which commenced on September 14 and concludes on Friday. The resolution envisages the establishment of a Sri Lankan judicial... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 01/10/15)

පරණගම, උදලාගම කොමිෂන් වාර්තා ප්‍ර‍සිද්ධ කරන්න. කැෆේ සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රයෙන් ජනාධිපතිතුමාට විවෘත ඉල්ලීමක් Release the Undulagama and Paranagama Commission reports  CaFFE and CHR urge the President
කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් Rajith Keerthi Tthennakoon විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ/කැෆේ සංවිධානය Executive Director (CaFFE / CHR)
ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ මානව හිමිකම් කඩවීම්  පිළිබද විමසීම සදහා පත් කරනු ලැබූ මැක්ස්වෙල් පරණගම සහ නිශ්ශංක උදලාගම කොමිෂන් සභා වාර්තා ප්‍රසිද්ධියට පත් කරන ලෙස කැෆේ සංවිධානය සහ ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍ර‍ය ඉල්ලයි.  ජනපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා වෙත විවෘත ආයාචනයක් යොමු කරන එම සංවිධාන පවසන්නේ, ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජය ගෙවීගිය සමයේ සිදු වූ මානව හිමිකම් උල්ලංඝණය කිරීම් සම්බන්ධයෙන් සැබෑ වගවීමේ වැඩපිළිවෙලකට ප්‍රවිශ්ඨ වන්නේ නම්, එහි මුලික පියවර විය යුත්තේ ‘පරණගම සහ උදලාගම‘ කොමිෂන් සභා වාර්තා, අතුරු වාර්තා සියල්ල ප්‍ර‍සිද්ධියට පත් කිරීම බවයි. පරණගම සහ උදලාගම මහත්වරුන්ගේ සභාපතීත්වයෙන් යුතු ජනාධිපති කොමිෂන්... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 01/10/15)

Why does Belarus President Lukashenko take son Kolya to work?
Courtesy BBC
Image copyrightPresidential websiteImage captionPresident Alexander Lukashenko took his son, Kolya, to meet the US president and his wife Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko surprised some onlookers by taking his 11-year-old son to the UN General Assembly in New York. Kolya was photographed posing with his father alongside Barack and Michelle Obama at a reception for the summit on Monday. But he was not just there for the sandwiches. Kolya also joined world leaders in the seats of the general assembly hall as his father addressed delegates from around the world. Image copyrightAPImage captionSmartly dressed Kolya sat with... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 01/10/15)

Sri Lankan Driver Teaches Policeman Rules නීතිය නොදත් පොලිසියට නීතිය පෙන්වා දුන් රියදුරා
පොලිස් නිලධාරීන් ඉදිරියේ බොහෝ දෙනෙකු හැසිරෙන්නේ තරමක් නිවට නියාළු අන්දමටය.   පොලිස් නිලධාරීන් ඉදිරියේ බොහෝ දෙනෙකු හැසිරෙන්නේ තරමක් නිවට නියාළු අන්දමටය. ඒ පොලිස් නිලධාරීන් හා තර්ක කරන්නට යාම නැති ලෙඩ දා ගැනීමක් ලෙස සිතන නිසාය. වාහනයක් නැවැත්වූ සැනින් රියැදුරන් ලයිසන් ඉන්ෂුවරන්ස් උස්සාගෙන පොලිස් නිලධාරියා වෙත දිව යන්නේ තමා අත වැරදි ඇති නිසාම නොවේ. බොහෝ රියදුරන් හුරුව ඇති ක්‍රමය එය වුවත් විය යුත්ත නම් පොලිසි නිලධාරියා වාහනය ල`ගට පැමිනීමය. අප මේ පවසන කතාවේ අහමඩ් නමැති පුද්ගලයා කුඩා ලොරි රථයක් පදවන්නෙකි. එම බට්ටා ලොරි රථයේ ඉදිරියේ අසුන්ගෙන යා හැක්කේ 02ට පමණක් බව පොලිසියේ මතයයි. එහෙත් අහමඩ් එයට එකග නැත. අහමඩ් පොලිස් නිලධාරියා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/10/15)

‘Kahawatte Murder’ Wave and the Serial Killers of Sri Lanka  
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D.
Serial killers kill for the power and control they experience during the murders and for the added ego boost they get in the aftermath from community fears, media coverage, and the police investigations. -          Pat Brown In 1999 I did a study with the help of Dr A.P Waidyasekara Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist, Mr. Mohan Peris PC, and Mr Priyantha Jayakody of the Sri Lanka Police Force to find   any evidence of serial killers in the Sri Lankan Criminal history. Although we dug in to the criminal history of this country up to 1800 s,... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 01/10/15)

Sinhala Majority discriminated : Paid adverts ‘Tamil Only’
Shenali D Waduge
We have been told enough times that the minorities are discriminated by the majority. The paid media is quick to sensationalize and the international organizations find this an opportunity to advance their agendas for which foreign governments are ready to disburse funds. However, let’s stick to the principles of things. Where in the world do you find adverts openly canvassing through paid advertisements where land and property are sold/leased/rented to only a particular race/religion? In most countries this is an illegal act just as adverts are not allowed to include the age when calling for vacancies.... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 01/10/15)

PRAIRIE AWARDS FOR LANKAN JOURNALISM--Focus on Manik de Silva - Part 1
By Shelton A. Gunaratne
Professor of communication emeritus, MSUM, and lead author of Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era: A Buddhist Approach (New York: Routledge, 2015) MOORHEAD, MN (28 Sept. 2015)-- Because newspapers in Sri Lanka hide names of their editors and publishers from the general public while they clamor for legislation necessary for open government, I decided to mull over the dispositions/intentional actions (samkhara) aggregate of a few journalists/ publishers who have dedicated their lives for the sake of the Fourth Estate because of their love for journalism rather than for pecuniary benefits or fame.... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 01/10/15)

War winning army on the Geneva ‘human rights front’
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy Island
The combined security forces concluded ‘Exercise Cormorant Strike VI’ with an assault on enemy bases, at Punnakudha, Batticaloa, on the afternoon of September 23, 2015. The exercise involved 2,500 troops, including Army Commandos and Special Forces. Launched on September 3, the exercise covered Pulmudai, to the north of Arugam Bay, in the East. The exercise attracted 53 foreign participants, both as participants and observers. During the exercise, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) released a report that dealt with the Sri Lankan military. On the basis of unsubstantiated accusations, the... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 01/10/15)

Co-sponsorship of the Geneva resolution: Some reflections
by Prof. G.L. Peiris Courtesy Island
The events of the last week demonstrate, with poignant clarity, the folly of naïve expectation and the need for realistic thinking. This cannot be better illustrated than by reference to the reassuring statement, barely hours before tabling of the Resolution, by the Cabinet Spokesman: "The (UNHCR) Report proposes establishing a hybrid court with international judges, but I think the U.S. backed Resolution will want that expunged." Equally confident statements have been made throughout the week by several of his cabinet colleagues. The sequel, not surprisingly, has been quite different. The text of the U.S.... -Full Story-
(LankaWeb - 01/10/15)


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