Courtesy : Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The attention of the Government of Sri Lanka has been drawn to a news item telecast on Channel 4 television in the UK which is also available on the Internet which depicts Sri Lankan forces allegedly committing atrocities against Tamils.
The Government of Sri Lanka strongly and unequivocally denies the allegations [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Sri Lanka moved out 600 Hindu and Catholic priests to resettle in the original churches and temples on Wednesday from the IDP welfare camps run by the government.
They were living with the rest of the internally displaced persons who were moved there during the war with the LTTE and Sri Lanka government troops.
“We [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Addressing the Project Management Institute in Colombo, Sri Lanka’s former Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka who led the island nation to its historic military triumph said the victory was achieved by adopting guerilla tactics while letting the rebel group adopt conventional military strategies.
Pakistan , another South Asian country , attacked by guerillas has [...]

By Charles.S.Perera
According to a  recent report  in the news media, Tissa Attanayake General Secretary of the UNP had  made a very unwise and an  undignified  comment, on the invitation  the General Secretary of the  SLFP made  to the UNP and the other Opposition Parties , to join with the government to carry out together, a [...]

By Noor Nizam – Sri Lanka Peace Activist, Canada
Wednesday 26th., August 2009.
The news article written by Garvin Karunaratne, formerly of the Sri Lanka Administrative Service under the heading “The Wind Turbines of Spain, France and Portugal” dated August 25, 2009 and published in your esteem Internet Newspaper which highlights issues concerning Sri Lanka is of [...]

From Buddha’s Light International Association (BLIA) Sri Lanka Chapter
Just like the Tsunami that hit Sri Lanka destroying lives and property in December 2004, the Morakot Typhoon which hit Taiwan during the late hours of 8th August 2009 has left the tiny island shattered and destroyed. According to reports received, almost the entire southern region of [...]

Ben Silva
Our security forces risked their life to safe guard us. Their massive contribution to our safety has to be acknowledged.  Recent incidents have shown that there may be a few bad people amongst them that has spoiled the reputation of our brave security forces including the Police. Such bad people need to be [...]

By Garvin Karunaratne.
Touring the three above countries in April and May 2009, many ideas came to my mind about how  we have failed  to develop Sri Lanka.  
In turning out electrical power for the national grid.  I saw clusters of about twenty five or more wind turbines near  various cities. We in Sri Lanka have  some [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
An attempt by the Humanitarian law Project, an organization that consists of two listed terrorist organizations, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and Kurdistan Workers Party to do away the executive powers of the US President to list certain organizations as foreign terrorist groups was foiled by the 9th US circuit of Appeals.
The [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada
August 25, 2009
Ambassador Robert O Blake ,
Assistant State Secretary of State, South & Central  Asia  
State Department  
Washington DC,  USA
Dear Robert Blake:
Re:  Robert Blake: a Diplomatic-Religious Deity
I am sure the come back by President Mahinda Rajapaksa through his spokesperson  on your statement claiming that the delay [...]

Editorial Island Newspaper (SL) 25/08/09
Victory, we often say in these columns, has a thousand fathers and defeat is an orphan. While Sri Lanka was fighting the so-called most ruthless terrorist outfit in the world against tremendous odds, opponents of her war effort far outnumbered its proponents. But no sooner had the LTTE been crushed than [...]

Malin Abeyatunge
When LTTE was conclusively defeated from Sri Lankan soil and Prabhakaran was killed and no signs of the survival of second in command Pottu Amman, the Tamil Diaspora still wanted to continue their struggle for Eelam and supported the Interpol fugitive self proclaimed leader Kumaran Pathmanathan who has many aliases. Unexpectedly for the Tamil [...]

By Bandu de Silva
The administration of any country trying to throw stones at others should look at skeletons in its own cupboards before speaking out. The United States of America, perhaps, with its three century old record, is the last country that could open its mouths about human rights or humanitarian considerations. We are not [...]

By Garvin Karunaratne Ph.D.(Michigan State University)
Formerly of the Administrative Service of Sri Lanka

Not a day passes by without a dictate from the International  Super-Warlords. They have now to be called Warlords because now they have become dubious, are contradicting themselves and no longer uphold either democracy or human rights. They only know to be dictatorial. [...]

By Charles.S.Perera
Human Rights Watch is Active Again. This is the vacation period and no wonder the Human Rights Globe trotters are looking out for vacations abroad. Human rights is their “gain pain” – their job. If there is no ethnic problem some where in the world specially in a place like Sri Lanka a coveted [...]

S. Hewage
As all indications point to a dramatic failure of the Anglo-American hegemony around the world in the 21st century, the Anglo-American politicians seem frustrated and agonized by the increasingly violent resistant to occupying forces by the Iraqi and Afghan people. In an attempt to divert international attention away from this stark reality, the Anglo-American [...]

Insight By Sunil Kumar
August 25th 2009
There seem to be a spate of opinions about the adverse effects that will prevail on the Nation by the unthinkable displacement through violent means of President Rajapaksha so much so that it probably needs to be put into proper perspective.Hopefully it is the brainchild of paranoia but as the [...]

Media Release Public Communications Division Ministry of Foreign Affairs Colombo
Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama stated that Sri Lanka is the hub of the Asian Region and Kenya is the hub of African region and that both the countries have a great potential to enhance their commercial and business ties and also develop their economies. This was [...]

By Vindya Amaranayake Courtesy The Nation (Sri Lanka)
Responding to accusations of undue delays made by representatives from several Western countries, a senior governmental spokesman said yesterday that unless complete safety in the former conflict areas is ensured, the government will not hasten to resettle civilians.
“Resettling civilians in a former conflict zone cannot and should [...]

ආචාර්ය සෙල්ලකපු එස්. උපසිරි ද සිල්වා
ශ්‍රී ලංකා ප්‍රජාතන්ත්‍රවාදී සමාජවාදී ජනරජයේ අතිගරු ජනාධිපති ෙජ්. ආර්. ජයවර්ධන මහතා සහ ඉන්දියානු ජනරජයේ අගමැති අතිගරු රජීව් ගාන්ධි මහතා කොළඹ දී 1987 ජුලි 29 දින  ඉන්දු-ශ්‍රී ලංකා ගිවිසුමට අත්සන් තැබුවේ ශ්‍රි ලංකාවේ සියලූ ජනකොටස් හි ආරක‍ෂාව, සුභසිද්ධිය සහ සමෘද්ධිය වෙනුවෙන් සාමය සහ සාමාන්‍යත්වය ස්ථාපිත කිරීම මගින් සියලූ ජනවාර්ගික ගැටලූ විසඳීම [...]

Prof. Hudson McLean
Following an expression produced by a contributor to LankaWeb, I tend to agree whole heartedly that HE Mahinda Rajapaksa should refrain from over-exposing himself in public demonstrations.
No doubt, the President is Proud of his noble achievement, and HE should be Proud!
History has shown that Presidents and other political leaders in many countries, and [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada
August 21, 2009
Jo Becker
Human Rights Watch
55 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 403
Toronto, Ontario M4P 1G8 Canada
Dear Jo:
The  recent news item in the Toronto Star which carried a caption of what you had said, “Canada missed opportunity to right Sri Lanka’s wrong”, did have that [...]

Ananda De Costa
It is heartening to learn that the president met the parents of the youths murdered by police. His surprise visit and the good gesture made towards the grieving parents is truly commendable. We can also believe that the justice will be done regarding this brutal murder case. This a very Buddhist act by [...]

From Shripal Nishshanka Fernando
Dear Hon. Chief Minister,
Congratulations on your historical landslide win in this provincial council election!
The marvelous record you could set up during the election proves how much the citizens of Uva province trust in President Mahinda Rajapaksha and his government and in you with your energetic team. In fact it is a well [...]

Written by: Mamoona Ali Kazmi
Recently, the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) placed India on its “Watch List” for 2009 because it found the Central government had failed to take effective measures to ensure the rights of religious minorities in several States. It is not the first time that the Commission has taken [...]

By Charles.S.Perera
 In an, interview to an Indian magazine the Prersident Mahinda Rajapakse had said that India and Sri Lanka are actually each other’s heart and soul.  And else where he had said that India is Sri Lanka’s elder brother.
 The Minster of Foreign Affairs and the Secretary of Defence had also paid tribute to India  saying [...]

Mal
 
Dear CTV News,
The CTV news coverage today shows the headline news of the Taliban having cut the fingers of two voters. When the Tamil Tigers did the same to a voter in Sri Lanka, in the last general  election, this did not make any headline news! It did not even reach any form of news. [...]

Susantha Goonatilake
As for SouthIndian Tamils and Buddhism in late 19th century and early 20th century you may want to read my article       “White sahibs, Brown sahibs: tracking Dharmapala” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka New Series Vol. LIV 2008 pp 53-136.
 Below is the abstract of a paper read at the Sri [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
The Sri Lankan defence secretary has called on foreign countries to hand over Tamil Tiger rebels and their assets, worth of millions of dollars, BBC’s Anbarasan Ethirajan reported.
The report said the demand by Gotabhaya Rajapaksa came weeks after the arrest of the new Tamil Tiger leader, Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias KP who has been [...]

ALI SUKHANVER
A huge country, ultimately scattering into fragments; India is going to be the USSR of tomorrow. One of the official think-tanks of China has advised the Chinese hi-ups to settle old scores with India by breaking up the world’s ‘Biggest Democracy’ into 26 parts. Beijing should encourage Bangladesh to invite ethnic Indian Bengalis to [...]