By Walter Jayawardhana
Three journalists representing the controversial Channel 4 news in London who broadcast an unsubstantiated rape story based allegedly on LTTE propaganda has been arrested , police spokesman in Colombo said.
Police spokesman Ranjith Gunasekera said the three were arrested in the Eastern Port city of Trincomalee and escorted by the Police to Colombo.
They were [...]

by Charles.S.Perera
 Let India get credit for the delay in finishing off with terrorism, even at great risk to our Soldiers.
 It is true Indian Prime Minister , though he had not been exceptionally cordial towards Sri Lanka, had not been unfriendly as well.  But he kept the Tamil Nadu jokers in check without giving into their  [...]

By Shelton Gunaratne, professor of mass communications emeritus
 Philip Fernando, journalist and author
Thalif Deen, Interpress bureau chief, United Nations
 
Speaking of the ‘50s and the ‘60s, the Golden Age of Peradeniya, Brendon Gooneratne, an expatriate domiciled in Australia, wrote: “It was a period that will be remembered as a time that has passed, and will probably never [...]

Author unknown 
We’ll begin with a box, and the plural is boxes, 
But the plural of ox becomes oxen, not oxes. 
One fowl is a goose, but two are called geese, 
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese. 
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice, 
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice. 
If [...]

Malin Abeyatunga
I recently read in the print media that the Minister for Disaster Management & Human Rights Mr. Mahinda Samrasinghe saying that the Government is ready to grant amnesty to LTTE cadres who surrender. Is he serious? Is he kidding? This will be like granting another life line for them to recoup and recommence terrorist [...]

Ajit Randeniya
 
It is interesting to note that the UN employs independent ‘experts’ on ‘summary executions’, right to health, food and water and sanitation. For heaven’s sake, what skills do make one an ‘expert’ on summary executions? It could only be US army experience in Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan!
What expertise do you need to work out that [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Malcom Bruce , Liberal Democratic member of the delegation of British parliamentarians who visited the Sri Lankan IDP camps , on his return praised the Sri Lankan government for doing an extremely good job under pressure to shelter 135,000 Tamil civilians who escaped areas held by the terrorists and called the Liberation Tigers [...]

Sam Goonetillake Chief Executive  Helplanka

Responding to an appeal in the Daily Mirror Sri Lanka Helplanka – a  UK registered charity –   has come to the aid of  a  poor family in Rathgama who lost their home and all their possessions in a house fire. The 3  school going children were given clothes, shoes and books [...]

By Sesha Samarajiwa
Of late people who made a living out of Sri Lanka-bashing have been changing their tune a bit,  but obviously it’s not easy for them to get off their habitual groove. 
Let me illustrate by taking the case of Jehan Perera,  whose career, like those of his ilk,  I have been following with [...]

Simon Baker
Will HRW and AI charge the US for war crimes
A probe confirms deaths due to American airstrikes in Afghanistan:
Afghan officials have estimated up to 147 people died in the battle in the western province of Farah on Monday.
U.S. coalition blamed Taliban militants Saturday for causing what Afghan officials say are dozens of civilian [...]