Archive for January 6th, 2014

“BUDDHA IS SUPREME”

Monday, January 6th, 2014

H. L. D. Mahindapala In keeping with their religious beliefs, the Buddhists were preparing to celebrate the full moon day of May 1918 in all its traditional splendour. In the Buddhist calendar, it is the day set aside to commemorate the three most sacred events in the life of Buddha – his birth, his Enlightenment […]

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Stephen Rapp, are US war crimes legal?

Monday, January 6th, 2014

 Shenali D Waduge The clich© ‘thick as thieves’ must have been coined with US in mind. Does the US Government and its officials actually believe they have done the world a favour by maiming, killing and making homeless over 20million people since Vietnam? The US Government seems to have a very haughty opinion that the […]

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Can Canada tell when MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan is telling the Truth or Lying?

Monday, January 6th, 2014

Shenali D Waduge  Truth or Lies is what Canada needs to ask of its MPs for Rathika Sitsabaiesan has been caught red handed telling absolute fibs. She says she was under house arrest, then she denies it but not before she ensures her party’s leader makes a buffoon of himself by demanding from Sri Lanka’s […]

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NDP Parliamentarian R. Sitsabaisen

Monday, January 6th, 2014

Ira de Silva London, Canada Hon. T. Mulcair Leader of the Opposition House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario   Dear Sir:   Further to my letter to you of January 3, 2014 regarding the deceitful, dishonest activities of your rookie M.P. Ms Sitsabaisen on a visit to Sri Lanka, I am forwarding to you a news report […]

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Sri Lankan President holds bilateral discussions with the King of Jordan.

Monday, January 6th, 2014

By Janaka Alahapperuma President Mahinda Rajapaksa who is on an official tour of Middle East, has begun bilateral discussions with the King of Jordan on Sunday afternoon (05 January) at the Royal Hashemite Court in Amman. President Rajapaksa was received with a warm welcome by the King of Jordan His Majesty King Abdulla II Ibn […]

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‘Civilians’ in Sri Lanka’s armed conflict

Monday, January 6th, 2014

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy Island Sri Lanka’s detractors claim that it should be held accountable for the violations committed during the final stages (January to May 2009) of the conflict. The issues that dominate this claim are: 1. High number of “civilians” killed during this period. 2. Indiscriminate firing into No Fire Zones (NFZs). 3. […]

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John Pilger: ‘We Have Been Misled’

Monday, January 6th, 2014

Audio transcript Courtesy BBC Radio 4 Today January 05, 2014 “Information Clearing House – When I travelled in Iraq in the 1990s, the two principal Moslem groups, the Shia and Sunni, had their differences but they lived side by side, even intermarried and regarded themselves with pride as Iraqis. There was no Al Qaida, there […]

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