Ajit Randeniya
While the Sri Lankan government leaders, politicians and the general population are looking away, busily engaged in implementing the democratic right of our people to vote, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) operatives and programs appear to be busily at work, at grass roots levels, in the northern and eastern regions of [...]

Dr.P.A.Samaraweera, Australia
The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) had its inaugural meeting last week. The GTF is the defunct LTTE resuscitated in a different format,’old wine in new bottles’ !.  It is the current LTTE network and their goal is to set up a separate state.
 
The British PM’s attendance and David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary’s speech had lent [...]

Geethanjana Kudaligamage
After reading H.L. D Mahindapal’s article “Ranil Concedes Defeat on April 8” I thought of adding some of my observations to the forum.
None of the contenders of the presidency in the opposition camp including Rtd. Gen. Fonseka or Mr. Wickramasinghe could offer the type of charisma and leadership that the nation was demanding at [...]

H. L. D. Mahindapala
Even before the nominations closed on Friday for the next parliamentary elections to be held on April 8, 2009 Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Leader of the United National Front, has admitted that he cannot win. His aim, as declared by him, is not to win the election but to prevent the ruling UPFA [...]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි.
හොරකම. වංචාව හා දූෂණය, කාලාන්තරයක් පුරා මෙරට සියලු වේදිකා දෙදරවූ මාතෘකාවන් විය. හොරකමට විරුද්ධව වේදිකා දෙදරවූ පල් හොරුන්ද, එම පල් හොරුන්ට එරෙහිව උස් හඩින් කථා කල හොරුන්ද මෙරට සුලබව දක්නට ලැබිණ. මෙරට සිටින සියළු තරාතිරම් වල ජන කොට්ඨාශයන් තුල සිටින හොරුන්ගේ සංඛ්‍යාත්මක අගය එසේ නොවන්නන්ගේ අගයට වඩා අති විශාල අගයක් ගනී. එය ප්‍රතිශතයක් [...]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම
 ඔවුන් එකට කැමරාව ඉදිරි පිට සිටින විට අනෝමා ෆොන්සේකා ගේ සඳමෙන් රවුම් මූණටත්, එහි පෙනෙන මොනා ලීසා ගේ මෙන් එහි සැඟවුනු දුකටත්, වඩා මේ දිනවල පෙනෙන්නේ සෝමවංශ ගේත්, ටිල්වින් ගේත්, විජිත හේරත් ගේත් අර්ශස්ගායෙන් පෙලෙන්නන්ගේ වැනි වූ දියාරු වුන මුහුණුය. මා තුල ජේ.වී.පී. කාරයින් ගැන හැම විටම එක්තරා කනගාටුවක් තිබුනේය.  කලකට පෙර මේ ගැන [...]

Susantha Wijesinghe
Six million children of Mother Lanka voted for the Father of the nation, while 4 million children of the same MOTHER Lanka, voted for a GODFATHER, on the 26th of January 2010. Nevertheless, the Father of the Nation, came out with flying colours. He loves the children of MOTHER Lanka. Yet, he is non [...]

By Shelton A. Gunaratne  c 2010
 My son Junius was barely 2 years old when my wife Yoke-Sim and I took him on a two-week-long tour of New Zealand. We landed in Christchurch, the big city of the South Island, on a Saturday (12 Dec. 1981) at 4.30 p.m. although we left Brisbane, Qld. (Australia), at [...]

Orpheus Perera
I present this web address to the readers, so that they can get first hand information about the American Interest in the third world. They are talking about human rights, democracy and of war crimes. American Ambassador to Colombo Robert Blake openly supported the Sri Lankan Terrorist. Why?
They are concerned about the Retired General [...]

Daya Wijesinghe   Hony. President – De Dham Rakno
Just as a large number of patriotic organizations, we too endeavoured, within the limits of our resources, for the victory of Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa. Just as they, we too are happy to congratulate him on his victory.
If somebody or some organization promotes a candidate at an election and if [...]

SUSANTHA WIJESINGHE
The EUs decision to withdraw the GSP+ facility, I believe is centered, on a few Individuals, who in consensus, took that cacophonous and audacious step,not realising that they themselves, are committing, BLATANT HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS, by depriving thousands and thousands of the much less priviledged Human Workforce, of Beautiful Sri Lanka, from putting FOOD [...]

MS
The LTTE, categorised by the FBI as the “the most ruthless terrorist organization in the world”, has another supporter in the European Union Parliament.
Step forward Jean Lambert, Green Party MEP (Member of European Parliament) for London and a member of the its Human Rights Sub-Committee and Delegation to South Asia (SAARC).
Jean petitioned for a ceasefire [...]

By Noor Nizam, Sri Lankan Peace Activist, Freelance Journalist and Political Communication Researcher – Hamilton, Canada, Feb.27th., 2010.
It was interesting to read an article datelined Saturday, February 27, 2010 appearing in the Sri Lankan Guardian internet newspaper where certain allegations have been made against Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa. According to the damming article it refers [...]

Sri Lanka News
Sri Lankan and Canadian flags were taken by Prathap Perera to Vancouver, BC with the hope that family and friends back in Toronto, ON would be able to easily spot him if seen on television. However this turned out to be something much more and the following is a brief recap of several events which led to a great [...]

In Hindsight By Sunny
Feb.25th 2010
 
It has been reported that Canadian security officials are concerned that last year’s defeat of Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels could trigger attacks like the 1985 Air India bombings.
While this sounds like a touch of paranoia on the part of those who suggest it, if there is a  even semblance of true [...]

Dr.P.A.Samaraweera, Australia
Despite protests by the Sri Lankan government, David Miliband, British Foreign Secretary, had addressed the Global Tamil Forum (GTF) creating sour relations between the two countries.
 
The Sri Lankan govt has expressed displeasure because the GTF is the current LTTE network in the west and their agenda is to set up a separate state called the [...]

RANJIT WICKREMERATNE
Dear voters of my homeland, think wisely irrespective of party politics and cast your valuable vote without fail this time as we are facing the most important General elections after defeating the most ruthless terrorists organization in the world L.T.T.E. This is the first time in thirty years we go to the polls as a free nation. [...]

Warna Hettiarachchi Ontario, Canada
To The Honourable World Leaders and Media Controllers,
 The previously inconspicuous island nation Sri Lanka has become the center of attention for all of you since December 2009. Over the past 30 years all you heard on this small country was a suicide bomber blasting its citizens to bits and smithereens.
 The whole problem [...]

By Dr.Levins T C Rajaratnam
On the Jaffna Political platforms Mrs.Maheswaran the leading candidate for the UNP Jaffna District may pose a few questions as to who killed her husband? Gajan Ponnambalam may pose the question as to who killed his father who was my good friend ?  I will ask the question as to why [...]

“Heritage Days” highlights authentic Sri Lankan Cuisine and Culture
On Tuesday (23 February 2010), Restaurants Associates (RA) at the World Bank and the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Washington, D.C. inaugurated the first day of “Celebrating Sri Lankan Cuisine, a special country promotion, launched under the RA’s “Heritage Days” luncheon series.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
The inaugural luncheon, prepared by two [...]

By Dr.Levins T C Rajaratnam
Edirweerasingham Sylvester Jesudasan (0777 666923) is in Sri Lanka to invest. He is very well known to Felix Perera(SLFO). Sylvester also has begun to send fresh fish and crabs from Jaffna to Colombo in Freezer trucks. The Freezer in the trucks have been removed by a notorious group. He called me [...]

Sarath Wijesinghe – -Senior Solicitor Senior Attorney – at- law and former Chairman Consumer Affairs Authority
Diplomacy is the art and practice of conducting negotiations between representatives of groups of states. This usually refers to international diplomacy. Apart from recently codified International Instruments such as Charter of the United Nations (24.10.1945), ILO (1919), Universal Declaration of [...]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම
    හිලරි ක්ලින්ටන් සමඟ ලඟින් හිටගෙන ඉන්නා විට මිලිබෑන්ඩ් වැඩුනු මිනිහෙක් නොව කජු කිරි කොල්ලෙක් බව පෙනේ. ඔහුගේ මොළයේ වර්ධනය අතින්ද ඔහු තවම ළමා වයසේම බව ඔහුගේ හැසිරීමෙන් ද පෙනී යයි. අවුරුදු හතලිහක් දේශපාලයේ සිටි මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂව රැවටීමට පුලුවන් වේය කියා හිතා 2009 අප්‍රියෙල් මාසයේ ඔහු ප්‍රංශ ඈමති කෙනෙක් සමඟ කොළඹට පැමින සවුත්තු වී [...]

H. L. D. Mahindapala
Highlighting the rise of Irish terrorism once again The Wall Street Journal reported that last Monday, in the dead of night, “a 225-pound bomb went off in a car near the front security gates of the courthouse of Newry, a town near the border with the Republic of Ireland.”
How did the Prime [...]

Ajit Randeniya
The greatest challenge posed by Robert Blake’s recent remarks on Sri Lanka, while his agent Fonseka is yet to explain the source of the US dollar bounty, and while his neocon forces in Afghanistan are exterminating poor Afghan villagers, is to find means of expressing the utter disgust such remarks deserve; they surpass the [...]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada
February 23, 2010
Mr. Robert O. Blake
Assistant Secretary of  State
South & Central Asia                                                                                                                                                                                                                          State Department
Washington, US
Dear Robert:
I see that you are back into your hissy-fits about Sri Lanka.   The Sri Lankan media has reported under the headline “U.S. not Happy with Sri Lanka”. 
According to the Daily [...]

Ranjit Wickremeratne
He is a man who has done immense damage to our country and to it’s reputation. He openly opened his big mouth and issued a statement to the local and foreign media that his boss defence secretary Hon.Gotabaya Rajapaksa and his own colleagues in the Army was responsible for killing innocent Tamils when they [...]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි.
මෙරට ජනතාව ප්‍රශ්න ගනනාවකට මැදිව සිටී. දේශපාලකයින්ට පමණක් විසදිය හැකි ප්‍රශ්න හා ජනතාව විසදිය යුතු, නමුත් දේශපාලකයින් මත පටවා ඇති ප්‍රශ්න කන්දරාවක්ද මෙරට තුල ඔඩුදුවමින් පවතී. මහා මැතිවරණයකට අවතීර්ණව සිටින මේ වකවානුවේදී අප මුහුණ දෙන බරපතල ප්‍රශ්නයක් සම්බන්ධව සමාජයේ අවධානය යොමුකරවීම මෙම ලිපියේ අරමුණයි.
තාක්ෂණික දියුණුව මිනිසාට හොද සමාජ තත්වයක් උරුම කිරීම සදහා පාදක [...]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම
“ලෝකයේ ප්‍රථම සිංහල බෞද්ධ ජනාධිපති” යන ශීර්ෂය යටතේ ලිපියක් ලියන්නට සූදානම් වන මට ඊට කලින්, ඊට පසු බිමක් වශයෙන්, කොළඹ වසන සිංහල ක්‍රිස්තියානි කළු සුද්දන් ගැන ලිවීමේ අවශ්‍යතාවයක් පෙනී ගියේ මේ දිනවල දයාන් ජයතිලකත් ජෙහාන් පෙරේරාත් ලියන දේවල්, විශේෂයෙන්ම මානසික ලෙඩෙක් මෙන් හැසුරුන ආමි ජෙනරාල් මිලිටරි හිර භාරයට ගැනීම ගැන ලියන දේවල් නිසාය (අලි [...]

Malin Abeyatunge
Daily News(22/2/2010) reported that three Tamil National Alliance (TNA) members namely Ganeshamoorthi Gunam (Kaludavalai), Thangeswari Kadirgaman and Ramesh plus another  in the offing are to contest under UPFA. UPFA should not accept these once LTTE proxies for a couple of extra votes knowing very well that they don’t carry a wide voter base nor [...]