The Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office at Geneva
Monday, 08 June 2009
The Right of Reply exercised by Hon. Mohan Peiris, President’s Counsel, and Attorney-General of Sri Lanka during the general debate under agenda item 4 of the UN Human Rights Council
Mr. President,
Sri Lanka has taken serious note of the observations made [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
The Democratic Tamil National Alliance led by the Tamil United Liberation Front accused the LTTE proxy party Tamil National Alliance (TNA) of keeping mum when the LTTE forcibly took away 8000 students for military training after they sat for the GCE Ordinary level examination.
 Sangaree in a statement said , “Some of them are [...]

Y. Gumperaliya
Who are the Sri LankanTamils: The Tamils in Sri Lanka and the Sinhalese are celebrating the demise of the fascist terrorist leader Prabahakaran while the Tamil diaspora abroad are weeping and angry. I wonder why? What the international groups are unaware is there are different groups of Tamils – the Jaffna Tamils (Vellalas) who [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
The Scotland Yard said Michelle Samaraweera, the 35 year old Sri Lankan woman who most probably met her insensate killer at the dead of night on a London Street was a victim of a dangerous serial rapist.
 Detective Chief Inspector Caroline Goode of the Homicide and Serious Crime Command of London’s Metropolitan Police said [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Niranjan Devaadithya who is also known as Nirj Deva has been reelected to the European Parliament from the South East of the United Kingdom.
He kept his seat, according to results issued on Sunday with the other three Conservative Members in an election which became very disastrous for the ruling Labour Party in [...]

Mario Perera, Kadawata

 
The office you were called to hold
Is not for those who favours seek
Its meant for people strong and bold
No place there for the weak and meek
 
The post which holds out bounteous hope
To the suffering and the needy
As livelong they through tunnels grope
With nothing to feel cheery
 
We looked upon your name with glee
There [...]

By S. Akurugoda, Melbourne, Australia
At his last official press briefing at the Ministry of Justice last week, outgoing Chief Justice Sarath Nanda Silva described that the 13th Amendment to the Constitution as ill-conceived and hurriedly pieced together by picking bits and pieces of the Indian Constitution in keeping with the Indo-Lanka Accord and hence [...]

Dilrook Kannangara
The hot topics today are IDPs and celebrations. However, IDPs are alive today because of the heroics of our soldiers. The same goes for celebrations. When colossal sums of money spent on these two, it is imperative to give equal or even more significance to the welfare of families of fallen and disabled heroes. [...]

Ira de Silva  Ontario, Canada
Ms. Navanetham Pillay
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Geneva, Switzerland
Dear Madam,
I have written to you already regarding your vindictiveness towards Sri Lanka. As a Tamil from South Africa you probably feel that you can use your current position to continue to harrass Sri Lanka after the LTTE were defeated militarily. LTTE [...]

By Lt Col (Retd) Anil Amarasekera.
 
 ”Tamil Tigers are among the most dangerous and deadly extremists in the world. For more than three decades, the group has launched a campaign of violence and bloodshed in Sri Lanka, the island republic off the southern coast of India.” said a report of The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).  [...]

By Ven Y. Wimala
Vavuniya, Sri Lanka – When I arrived in Sri Lanka just days ago, the national flag was flying everywhere. Everyone I spoke with was happy that the war has finally ended. Incredibly, I noticed fewer road blocks and less military presence on the streets than before. It took a while for me [...]