by Darshani Wimalasuriya Sri Lankan universities are full of violence and human right violations. Ragging has paralysed the university education structure and discipline. A new video reveals the inhuman nature of ragging that occurred at the University of Ruhuna. ƒ”š‚ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClymCgN28swƒ”š‚ ). This video contains extremely disturbing graphics and victims are forced to physical and mental violence. […]

Jayamangala It is no doubt that the Wadukkodai Resolution of 1976 calling for the youth to take up arms is being resurrected at Batticaloa at the most recent ITAK session. Not direct but indirectly. Prabahakaran carried out the Wadukkodai Resolution with thirty years of brutal terrorism. Can we vouch that there won’t be another Prabhakaran […]

Editorial-The Island Prabhakaran won many battles”ƒ¢¢”š¬…””ƒ¢¢”š¬…”some very spectacularly”ƒ¢¢”š¬…””ƒ¢¢”š¬…”but lost the war in the end because he made one fundamental mistake. He thought he could achieve his separatist goal by stepping up terror attacks on civilians and frightening the Sri Lankan leaders and public into submission. But, in so doing, he only helped them adapt to […]

Shenali Waduge Two goals have been set into motion. A group of people feel the only way to bring back balance to the world is if there were fewer people. Thus, they envisage the need to depopulate the world and conclude that the best way to do that is by poisoning the food we eat […]

Sri Lanka News President Mahinda Rajapaksa said he will never allow any power or force to snatch away the country which has been liberated from terrorism. The President said he is prepared to make any sacrifice on behalf of the future generations to transform Sri Lanka into a super country to be reckoned with in […]

Editorial The Island Sri Lanka has come under tremendous international pressure to make public the findings of special presidential commissions, especially the one that probed the massacre of a group of 17 aid workers in Muttur in 2006. It continues to be hauled over the coals at international fora for not abiding by principles such […]

Lisa Karpova Courtesy Pravda.Ru June 7th is the birthday of one of the world’s greatest leaders in history.ƒ”š‚  A man who showed that a government can truly and honestly be of the people, by the people and for the people, rather than an instrument of exploitation and robbery, keeping its citizens plastered in their particular […]

Translated from the Spanish version by: Lisa Karpovaƒ”š‚  Courtesy Pravda.Ru 07.06.2012 The representatives, of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our Americas (ALBA), before the United Nations Human Rights Council, rejected the draft resolution being discussed in the extraordinary session convened this Friday. ALBA countries reject the draft resolution against Syria at the UN […]

By Walter Jayawardhana ƒ”š‚ DMK President and Chairman of the Tamil Eelam Supporters Organization (TESO) Muthuvel Karunanidhi whose 89th birthday wish was the bifurcation of Sri Lanka started his birthday with hearing all kinds of ominous news when Chennai Corporation and Police started pulling down hundreds of illegal flex boards and then banners illegally put up […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Chairman of the Tamil Eelam Supporters Association (TESO) and President of the DMK addressing a meeting held in Chennai to celebrate his 89th birthday vowed to create a separate state for Tamils in Sri Lanka. At the birthday bash the ageing leader’s supporters decorated him with a crown and a garland made […]