Jay Deshabandu
United Nations Secretary General wants UN agencies to have immediate and unimpeded access to the government IDP welfare and care camps. He knows very well that more than 8000 LTTE carders have given up their arms and mingled with the civilians in the government care camps. Those carders are still sleeping bombs; and, if [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Minister Janaka Bandara Tennekoon revealed that the nomination dates have been gazetted to call nominations to the Jaffna Municipal Council elections and Vavuniya Urban Council elections.
He said in Colombo elections for these local bodies are being held after 11 years .
He said, according to the promise by President Rajapaksa, nominations for the [...]

Ira de Silva London, Ontario, Canada
The Editor
National Post
Toronto, Ontario
Dear Sir:
Re: 30,000 disabled by Sri Lankan shells – May 25,2009
Reference the claims of Dean Nelson and his partners in crime the foreign NGO’s who say that “nearly all of the people had been the victims of relentless Sri Lankan shelling of the civilian safe zone”
indicates the [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Gneral Sarath Fonseka said in a television program by the state owned ITN that the last ditch effort made by certain countries in the West to impose a ceasefire on Sri Lanka in the guise of saving civilians was actually made to save Prabhakaran and his top men.
He said this effort was made, [...]

herold leelawardena
A dollar shark named Kusal Perera recently wrote; “Tamil separatism survives on the strength of Sinhala nationalism.” He is not alone in disseminating such views. Conspirators of INGOs and NGOs, evangelists of ecumenical Christian sects, colonialists of the neo liberal West and separatists of the Elam and the federal bandwagons have been spreading [...]

By Charles.S.Perera
Terrorists are not educated, in the sense they do not have a philosophy to defend, They do not differentiate between good and bad. They have one object in mind and pursue it like a blinkered horse.  
A university education by itself does not qualify one to be accepted as educated. There are certain social norms [...]

No moral or legal basis to interfere in SL’s internal affairs -Prof. G. L. Peiris
After 30 years, the writ of the central government now runs throughout the whole country, consequent to the successful elimination of LTTE terrorism, and the responsibility for the revival of the battered economy now rests solely with the State Sector, said [...]

by Dayan Jayatilleka
 
In this handout photo taken Tuesday, May 19, 2009, and released by the Sri Lankan Army, the army claims to show the body of Tamil Tiger rebel leader Velupillai Prabhakaran in Mullaittivu.
The degree of denial of Prabhakaran’s death within the expatriate Tamil consciousness is the best evidence of the pathology of Tamil ultra-nationalism. [...]

Daya Nikahetiya
 You devoted your life
to defend other’s lives
Marched to the battle field
to face the enemy challenges
Leaving behind the family
the kith and kin….
and all your loved ones
Knowing the danger
Risking your own life
for the sake of other’s lives!
You sacrificed everything you had
and joined the battle front
To fulfil your commitments
in the name of our motherland
To maintain its dignity
…..and [...]

Ranjit Rupesinghe Brisbane, Australia
The Editor
TIME Magazine
Since Romesh Ratnesar’s crocodile tears were shed on page 5 of this week’s Time, Sri Lanka’s security forces have single handedly expunged from the pearl of the orient, the world’s most savage terrorist group.
Ratnesar’s piece smacks of monumental hypocrisy. He has finally lifted his pen to convey his [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada
May 25, 2009
The Editor (Letters)
THE OTTAWA CITIZEN
Sir:
“Up to 30,000 Tamil civilians were left severely disabled by Sri Lankan army shelling in the so-called ‘no-fire zone’, it is claimed on Sunday,” you reported, and all of Ottawa will be horrified by this alleged attacks by [...]

Ranjit Rupesinghe Brisbane, Australia.
The Editor
TIME Magazine
Dear Sir
In your most recent edition you have chosen 100 persons as the world’s most influential. With all its inevitabilities most of them were from the western world. Be that as it may, included in your list is Gen. Ashfaq Kayani of Pakistan and a couple of other [...]

Ravi Randeniya
Our war on terror is now over, guns are silent and it is time to reflect on how awful it all was. Well wishers rushed in with sound counsel on how to move forward to impose a lasting peace – now we have reached a phase for reconciliation and nation-building. Certainly we never [...]

Prof. Hudson McLean
Rejoice! All Citizens of Sri Lanka! Its the dawn of a new beginning! Sun will now rise from the East without the shadow of Terrorism.
No more separate States. One country under one democratically elected leader.
The neighbour of Sri Lanka, India, with a population of over one billion citizens have elected their government with [...]

Shripal Nishshanka Fernando
The Hon. General Secretary of the UN should stop over worrying about Sri Lanka but better take immediate needy action to tackle the poverty in Africa and other places. For thousands of years, Sri Lanka fought invaders and cowards and won without unnecessary advice. Thank you for your concern and please can get [...]

by S.L.Gunasekara Courtesy The Island 

In this Nov.. 18, 2008 file image reviewed by the U.S. Military, guards escort a Guantanamo detainee carrying a book at the Camp 4 detention facility at the U.S. Naval open air common area at the U.S. Military Base, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AP)
Can one visualize a greater violation [...]

jaya
For President Mahinda Rajapaksa today revered as a king (Maha Raja) for bringing peace to the country it was no easy journey. In 2005 a respected columnist of a leading newspaper called the presidential race as the ‘Battle of Thurstan Road’, two contrasting personalities from two neighbouring schools in the Colombo 7’s prestigious educational triangle [...]

SPUR (Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka Inc)P.O. Box 4066, Mulgrave VIC 3170, Australia

The EU and some other members of the “International Community” (IC) have unfortunately joined the LTTE international wing in adding their voice to  alleged  Human Rights violations during the last stages of the “civil” war in Sri Lanka.
 
What [...]

LankaWeb Editorial
25th May 2009
The LTTE have been vanquished due to the incredible efforts of the Sri Lankan Administration and the Armed Forces and the scourge which plagued the Nation for over 25 years is over. It is indeed a time for celebration while also being humble about the success as there has been much suffering [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr.) Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada
May 24, 2009
Rathinam Arul
Pasumai Thaayagem Foundation
No.9 (Old No:5), Lyn Wood Lane
Mahalingapuram, Chennai – 600 034 Tamil Nadu
India
 Dear Rathinam Arul:
I have read with great interest your submission to the UN’s HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, Sri Lanka: International inquiry into War Crimes, and expressing [...]

Vajiragnana Warnakulasuriya Melbourne, Australia
 
 

Your Excellency The President Of The Democratic Republic of Sri Lanka
 
Honorable Sir,

 It is with great Pride I send this congratulatory message to you.
 There are mighty nations with Militarily and most sophisticated intelligence prowess in the globe today who are proud to brag about their mightiness’, however, no country in the present World [...]

Ajit Randeniya
The most poignant memory of the disgraceful Bush and Blair campaign of lies on the bogus Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) was the 5 February 2003 presentation by General Colin Powell (the twenty first century slave of the American ruling junta) to the UN Security Council.
Against the backdrop of Picasso’s Guernica, the [...]

By Asoka Subhawickrama, Sydney, Australia
Sri Lankan Australians, numbering some 150,000, are gravely concerned about suggestions from certain quarters to give temporary protection visas to Sri Lankan Tamils who claim to be refugees of the war that ended recently.  Our political leaders better think twice before making a decision.
Internally displaced people (IDPs) in Sri [...]

Dr. Tilak S. Fernando FlySmiles Member.
I am glad that Mr. D.Fernando decided to highlight an important issue in the Daily on 23 May about boarding announcements of SriLankan flights in Sinhala at Delhi Airport.  Certainly the credit should go to the efforts made by Airport Authorities in Delhi and the SriLankan Airport Manager in Delhi. [...]

By Darmitha-Kotte
During the past 26 years when Sri Lanka faced many adversities in the efforts to eliminate terrorism we saw many “wolves in sheep’s clothing” who came to help our country but in reality what they did was fatten their own coffers & revel in the misery they created for our citizens in the name [...]

Prof. Hudson McLean
Now that the LTTE Terrorists Leadership are no more and the North East is cleared of vermin and squatters, the GoSL should now publish all information acquired from the captured, defected LTTE, including Colonel Karuna.
The most important for the ciizens of Sri Lanka to know who were behind the military capability, training, supply, [...]

Probe US, UK troops before charging us with war crimes: Sri Lanka
Colombo (PTI): Amid calls for war crimes probe against its military for its conduct during the campaign to eliminate the LTTE, Sri Lanka on Saturday said US and British troops will have to be hauled before tribunals first if any charges are brought [...]

Youtube
Army chief Sarath Fonseka says the West tried to save LTTE chief Prabhakaran even the night before he died. Meanwhile defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapakse says the West must first allow investigations in their conduct in wars before seeking to initiate war crime proceedings against Sri Lanka.
 

SANJAYA VIMALARATNE
According to news from Sri Lanka,Ranil Wickremasinghe the leader of the opposition has been doing a round of European countries such as Norway,Belgium etc. the last few weeks.Surely he is not on a personal holiday from the fact that he was supposed to meet the infamous Eric Solheim while in Norway and dignitaries from some [...]

The two students were hungry, and they had no time even to cook a meal.
So, they drove to the nearby Tamil shop in Pendle Hill to buy ready-made Sri Lankan food boxes.
They had just alighted from the car, when they observed several other cars screeching to a halt in front of them. Having learnt [...]