By Walter Jayawardhana

In an editorial the Washington Times newspaper said, there are nine lessons the United States and other countries  could  learn from Sri Lanka and the first one is that the widely held belief , terrorism cannot be defeated militariy should be debunked

The Washington Times said, “Perhaps the most important lesson is [...]

defence.lk
A death of a criminal, who led a murderous group that caused immense sufferings on innocent, is indeed a great relief for those who have to live under constant threat of that group. When, this criminal is one who is responsible for the deaths of over 75,000 people and one who threw a nation to [...]

Herold Leelawardena
Now that Peripaharan is dead and LTTE is defunct, getting Eelam through war may be over. Good thing, there had been no top rung survivors other than KP, the fugitive. I wish he too had been with Peripaharan and his hoodlums when our forces send them to hell to burn forever. KP is too [...]

By Canadian Friends of Sri Lanka, Ontario, Canada, Hamilton, ON. 21.06.2009
The Sri Lanka Consulate office in Toronto invited the Sri Lankan diasporas for a community meeting on the request of HE. Daya Perera the Sri Lankan High Commissioner recently posted to Ottawa in Canada. The invitation was for a Community Meeting and did not include [...]

ALI SUKHANVER
When I was a university student, I remember, one day a lady professor told the class that most of the intelligent people shall choose the personal diary for reading if they are asked to select from different material including novels, short stories and books on history, etc. The very next day some one stole [...]

Dilrook Kannangara
IRA has been a sensible rebel group. Unlike “terrorist” groups, they didn’t hold on to the impossible and the unachievable. They budged from their stance and made peace possible. The IRA was fully under the control of its political wing, Sinn Fein. This is remarkable for a rebel group that managed to succeed [...]

 C. Wijeyawickrema
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure”
Mark Twain
Group rights versus individual rights
            Tamil IDPs who began growing vegetables in front of their tents in the liberated areas do not talk about group rights. These are topics for the Washington Post (Ref. essay by Neville Ladduwahetty, The Island-June [...]

By Shelton A. Gunaratne©2009
[The writer is professor of mass communications emeritus, Minnesota State University Moorhead.]  
The newspaper industry in the United States is bracing itself for its eventual demise by 2043 (Sri Lanka Guardian, 24 Feb; 2009). The fate of the newspaper is doomed in all leading capitalist countries, where print newspaper circulation and readership have [...]

Bandula Kothalawala  London N7
According to some news reports from Chennai, India, Mr Bruce Fein, former US Deputy Attorney-General (1981-82), has reiterated his charges of “genocide” against the Sri Lankan Government in a recent seminar. In the meantime, the British media, notably, The Times have carried on their relentless campaign of disinformation and vilification against Sri [...]

Ajit Randeniya
The standard of performance of Navi Pillay as the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is fast approaching that of an unashamed Western stooge, doing their bidding in the most distasteful manner. She seems to be, quite willingly, applying different standards to assessing an publicizing Human Rights violations, taking in to consideration the [...]

Asoka S
61 years after independence from the British Raj our beloved Sri Lanka continues to be one of the poorest countries of the world. Our GDP is 83.2 Billion Dollars Vs the worlds Largest USA’s 13860 Billion and tiny Singapore’s 227 Billion. Our GDP ranking is 68 out of 220 countries and Singapore stands at [...]

Insight By Sunil Kumar For LankaWeb
June 19th 2009
The warnings and doomsday predictions by Ananda de Costa for Sunday’s T 20 Cricket Final at the Mecca of Cricket~ Lords in London England although sounding somewhat of an unmitigated paranoia does have some rhyme and reason.It also carries a profound message which cannot go unheeded! They most [...]

BY: PREM RAJ
INTRODUCTION
It has not other than the Raw which feels affectionate in brutalities. A lot of killings, a lot of blood shed, economic catastrophe, political unrest and whole social fabric in dole drum are objectives to be achieved by the RAW found in her neighbours. Small states have always been on her charter to [...]

Courtesy: SL Army

United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) has extended its support for government’s rehabilitation programme for teenage Tiger cadres who entered then government- controlled areas during the recently-concluded LTTE war for separation.
Two UNICEF representatives, Ms. Natalie Grove, Emergency Child Protection specialist and Mr. Andrew Brooks, Section Head met Major General Jagath Jayasuriya, [...]

By Dr.Levins T.C.Rajaratnam
Government of Sri Lanka Protects and Facilitates the Internally Displaced Persons more than any other in the world
Hon.Basil Rajapaksa, Member of Parliament, Senior Advisor to the President and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force for the Development of the North, whilst speaking at a meeting of the Task Force at the Vavuniya Divisional [...]

Ananda De Costa

It is Pakistan vs.  Sri Lanka again, this time in the most dangerous city on earth – LONDON.
 Sure, there is our security chief,  rightly so; we cannot depend on London police who shoot only tourists.
Yet we should be extremely careful not be carried over by cricket craze.
This time it may not be [...]

By Dr.Levins T.C.Rajaratnam
Sri Lanka enjoys freedom today because of Gotabaya Rajapakse!
The Nation has been saved by Gotabaya Rajapakse!
Sri Lanka’s territorial integrity and sovereignty was protected by Gotabaya Rajapaksa!
We live with human dignity today, because of Gotabaya Rajapakse!
Happy Birthday Sir!
He is both a historical figure and a legend-and it is sometimes difficult to separate the two. [...]

James Jayalath Melbourne, Australia
http://www.catholicleader.com.au/index.php?pgnum=2.5
 
 
Dear Editor,
 
I have read an article published by Catholic Leader about the Sri Lankan issue on 16/06/2009. Being a Catholic I was ashamed to see that you allow to published an article about  Dr. Brian Senewiratne who openly supported one of the most ruthless terrorist organisation (LTTE) (see below link for photo [...]

by Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy The Island (Sri Lanka)
In the Court of International Opinion The Public of the Countries that do not comprise what is commonly known as the International Community, which latter group represents a minority of the Peoples of the World – Petitioners Vs James Gordon Brown MP, British politician, Prime Minister and Leader [...]

Secretary General Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP) Prof Rajiva Wijesinha
Secretary General Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP) Prof Rajiva Wijesinha has written to The Toronto Star in response to its coverage of the decision to prevent Canadian politician Bob Rae from entering Sri Lanka last week. His letter is published below.
Michael Cooke,
Editor,
The [...]

Piyal Samarakone – Dubai
 
Emerging a new threat to Sri Lanka is gathering its momentum. That’s the new startling phenomena on the horizon. Should we simply ignore it? Or consider as pretty serious?
 
Kind of a dilemma which we may have to deal with as time goes by. Perhaps we should start moving our diplomatic pawns wisely [...]

Dr D.Chandraratna, Perth, Australia
Within a month or so after the elimination of the Terrorist outfit the same core group in the Tamil Diaspora has come out with the novel idea of a transnational state. The Eelam State is formed by an identity nexus among all Tamils in the world. While not dismissing totally the mundane [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
President Rajapaksa said in Sri Lanka’s ancient capital, Anuradhapura, that the joy of unification of this country was reflected exactly a month ago when all citizens despite political , racial or religious differences held the lion flag in their hands proudly to celebrate the jubilation of defeating the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario Canada
June 18, 2009
The Editor (Letters) OTTAWA CITIZEN
Sir:
Karl Nerenberg’s essay ‘Bob Rae was never soft on the Tamils”, (June 18) was not quite correct.
What he failed to identify was that Bob Rae’s efforts to promote federalism as the mantra to Sri Lanka’s woes when he went to [...]

Source: Excepts from Prithviraj R’s forthcoming book on history – 19000 YEARS OF WORLD HISTORY:
One of the most important calculations of Indian history has been done on the basis of the lifetime of a certain Indian emperor called Ashoka, considered to be one of the greatest emperors of world history. He was a Buddhist [...]

Public Communications Division
The Sri Lanka Ambassador to Oman Mr. D.M.M Ranaraja handed over a cheque worth of 4.5 million rupees to Mrs. Deepthi Bogollagama, the Chairperson of ‘Seva Vanitha Unit’ of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs at a simple ceremony held at the Ministry, on 17th June 2009. The Sri Lankan workers and the expatriates [...]

Lucky S.
The word is that the residual LTTE leadership some of whom can now access Prabhakaran’s extorted wealth is going to declare a Tamil State in Exile.
For all we care they can form an Elam state in hell too. What is the point? Prabhakaran’s killer gang has been decimated by brave Lankan Forces and [...]

Prabath Warusavithana UK
I was surprised to see the above headline news bulletin in BBC news website and Telegraph and few other foreign papers. Surprisingly enough no such news appeared in Sri Lankan media. This makes me worried about the future of our country. I don’t think we all can now relax and just concentrate on [...]

Jaliya Wickramasuriya, Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the U.S., notes in speech that Sri Lanka is “Asia’s Oldest Democracy”
WASHINGTON – Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to the United States, Jaliya Wickramasuriya, assured a capacity Georgia State University library crowd Monday that his nation’s recent victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) terrorists will ensure human rights [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
The Times of London newspaper reacting to the new announcement that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) would reorganize itself as a provisional transnational government of Tamil Eeelam said it has not eschewed violence as a means of obtaining power.
Until it was crushed as a military group by the Sri Lankan Army [...]