S. Akurugoda.
Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka addressing the mass rally at the Parliament grounds called upon to appoint a Presidential Commission to probe the activities of the LTTE and its shocking caches of sophisticated arms and ammunition. During the humanitarian operation and thereafter, the Security Forces exposed the magnitude of the LTTE’s underground arsenal and said [...]

Ajit Randeniya
Following the failure of the lie-based “20000 civilian casualties in Sri Lanka” campaign to produce the impact they hoped for, the Murdoch-owned Times has now sunk even deeper in the foul smelling mire they created.
In an apparent attempt to ‘explain’ their lie, they posted on their website (on 30 May), two of the all-revealing [...]

Ganesha David
Dear Sir
You are living in Sri Lanka. Did it really look to you that our Government went about
shooting people. There may have been people caught in between but are you
so backward not to recognize the difference between sentiment and intent ?
Is it humanly possible for a Government to think they can cold-bloodedly kill people
in [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
The Observer of London reported how about 20 soldiers of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) were trying to take away a 16 year old girl down with chicken pox but prevented by her parents informing them about her illness. The girl told newspaper that she was later taken away at the [...]

Bandula Kothalawala London N7
British diplomats, licking their self-inflicted wounds from the 11th Special Session of the UN Human Rights Council on Sri Lanka, must have felt a tremendous sense of relief to learn that a pack of hyenas from the British media have already pounced on their elusive quarry.
The Times, after detailed research backed [...]

By Dr.Levins T.C.Rajaratnam*
The Universal Declaration on Human Rights is not limited in scope to ensuring the observance of human rights by Governments alone.
The Declaration has a far wider purpose: the observance of human rights by all governmental and non-governmental alike. Article 3 of the Universal Declaration, which requires that everyone has the right to life; [...]

The Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office at Geneva
Now on UNHRC archived webcast
http://www.un.org/webcast/unhrc/archive.asp?go=0111
After several days delay and protests from the Sri Lanka mission in Geneva, the webcast of the special session on Sri Lanka has now been uploaded to the archives of the UN Human Rights Council.
Upon inquiry, personnel of [...]

Piyal Samarakone
We set the example for others to follow although it’s not palatable for the West. But the truth remains, as the way it should remain, the double standard and insecure West not willing to accept, simple because preface is from a tiny Buddhist nation.
Our sincere believe Pakistan will come out victorious just like [...]

Lalin Fernando Kalubowila, Dehiwala 10350 Sri Lanka
1. Introduction
The contract between the soldier and the state is unique. It is ‘You must do your duty even at the cost of your life. If you should die in doing your duty the state will look after your wife and children’. Despite this in 1983 when 13 soldiers [...]

THOMAS A. MARKSThe Courtesy Kathmandu Post
History and geography have left Nepal a very imperfect state in search of a nation. As Sri Lanka has been given a second chance, Nepal has been given an opportunity to become a nation-state
When a victorious general was granted a “Triumph” in ancient Rome — a parade through the streets [...]

Government Information Department
As power struggles wage between factions of the LTTE overseas with Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP attempting to grab the leadership of the now defunct LTTE, Tamils living in the Northern part of Sri Lanka are vehemently opposed to any presence of a renewed LTTE terror or democratic outfit again ,reports reaching Colombo from [...]

Malin Abeyatunga
In the Past, UN blundered when Ex UN Secretary General Koffi Annan, conveyed condolences to a LTTE terrorist leader Kaushalyan who was killed by the armed forces; Then Alan Rock in a subtle attempt to appease LTTE terrorists blamed the GoSL for liaising with para military group without being able to substantiate his allegations. [...]

By Charles.S.Perera
The war in Iraq and Afghanistan continues without an end in view. America and the West are apprehensive of another attack by the Al Quaida terrorists, without any knowledge of which Western Capital would be their next target .
 In Afghanistan the Western high power nations with supposed to be well experienced Armed Forces, [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario
May 30, 2009
The Editor (Letters) THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
Sir:
The report that “The United Nations human rights chief (Navi Pillay) took the extraordinary step Thursday of seeking to override a decision on Sri Lanka by the world’s body’s top rights assembly”, confirmed my hunch that the western bloc will [...]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata
It was Anton Balasingham who bore the tag of ‘LTTE theoretician’. What that meant, in the final analysis was that he was a glorified spokesman of the terrorists. He was called Dr.A.B, although we know he did not have a doctorate. Even if he did… so what ? In the world of [...]

Ajit Randeniya
The war is not over yet; there are few other enemies to fight! It is becoming obvious-by-the-day that the so-called UN representatives in Sri Lanka, Neil Bhune Gordon Weiss and ICRC’s Paul Castellano are not UN employees at all. They may be getting paid by the UN (yes, those fat UN salaries), but they [...]

Prof Rajiva Wijesinha  Secretary General  Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process
28 May 2009
The special session on Sri Lanka has come and gone, though interested parties such as the Dutch Foreign Minister seem determined to continue on an adversarial path. Nothing can be done however about those with political agendas, and though it is depressing to [...]

New York
4th May 2009
As we near the May 28th, the date the US government will file its papers opposing the Supreme Court taking the case of Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez, known worldwide as the Cuban Five,
Leonard Weinglas, representing Antonio Guerrero and part of the defense team for [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Daya Master alias Velaudan Dayanidhi , former media coordinator of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has made three hour long voluntary confession before a Colombo magistrate revealing important information, sources in Colombo said.
The Confession not open to the public was done in the magisterial chambers of Magistrate Nishantha Hapuarachchi and [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Information Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa said the United National Party members continue to insult the country’s valiant armed services and issue statements underestimating their achievements.
 Yapa charged that UNP senior parliamentarian Laxman Kiriella who was in a big controversy some years back after stating , “Any fool could go to war,” referring to [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario .Canada
May 29 , 2009
 The Editor (Letters) THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
Sir:
Although not reported in The Ottawa Citizen the news has reached me that the Canadian High Commission in Colombo had been vandalized by an angry mob, and I am saddened an angry at this event.
I had condemned the [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Inspector General of Police Jayantha Wickramaratne said several journalists , mostly Sinhalese, were in the payroll of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) thickly involved in the insurgency , according to some latest investigations of the police.
 The Sri Lanka Police Chief revealed the startling information when interviewed by Sudarman Radaliyagoda for [...]

By M K Bhadrakumar  Monday, May 25, 2009, Courtesy Deccan Herald
Sri Lanka snubbed Washington by rejecting the US offer to dispatch a naval force to provide humanitarian assistance.
 The strange line-up of the member countries of the United Human Rights Council (HRC) for or against Sri Lanka at the special session of the body scheduled [...]

The Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office at Geneva
Right of Reply of Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha, at HR 11th Special Session on Sri Lanka 26-27th May 2009
It is an emotional moment today, because for the first time in many years we talk on behalf of the entire nation, all our Tamil citizens [...]

A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA
All anguish, misery and anxiety that engulfed this nation for the last thirty years due to erroneous and vacillating policies of past rulers are over. The so-called undefeatable , ruthless, astute terrorist gang has been completely annihilated and wiped out from this precious soil within a short span of two years and four [...]

The Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office at Geneva
27 May 2009
Sri Lanka’s Ambassador Dayan Jayatilleka speaks at the recently concluded 11th special session of the UN Human Rights Council.
The Resolution submitted by Sri Lanka and co-sponsors was adopted with a convincing majority of 29 for and 12 against with 6 abstaining.
Transcript [...]

Vajiragnana Warnakulasuriya Melbourne, 98088763
Refers to the article:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25542821-25837,00.html
At the outset you heading imply Sri Lanka is a different country that is going to occupy NORTH.
What a cockeyed statement is this, North, South, East & West of that country is SRI LANKA!
 This country has just eliminated the local leaders of LTTE and ushered a sense of relief [...]

Daya Thulnathissa

A wounded soldier…lying on the sick-bed,
thinks to himself “Why they are so partial
Behaving arrogantly…not knowing
the real background of the conflict
Targeting deliberately at us….
Chasing behind while trying to dominate
There Motivation is to put us down
The so called international community
is behaving sometimes like ku-klux klans
Mounting pressure on small nations
…..taking the upper hand”?
What they are doing is
….counterproductive
Their [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario .Canada
May 28, 2009
Hon. Peter Milliken, MP
Speaker of the House of Commons
Ottawa
 Dear Speaker Milliken:
I was stymied and flabbergasted with the insistence of Jack Layton, the Leader of the New Democrats presenting another petition in Parliament on May 27, wanting to convene the second emergency debate on Sri [...]

The Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office at Geneva
Excellencies, Friends,
We are focusing on Sri Lanka at a time when the 30 year conflict which has affected our country so negatively has come to an end.
Mr. President, I heard a little while ago from the previous speaker about conflict zones and [...]