Archive for November 30th, 2014

මේ කොය් යන්නේ , මොකදැ ය් යන්නේ

Sunday, November 30th, 2014

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න  මහින්ද රජයෙන් ඉවත් වී යන ගණන  ටික ටික වැඩිවෙනු පෙනේ . මැතිවරණය ට සමීපවන විට  තව තව  අ  ය යන්නට බැරි නැත. හිරුනිකා,, නවීන් හා ,, ජීවන් ද ගියේය .  ජීවන්  නෑ නා  නිසා යන්නට ඇත. නවීන් කොහොමත් ඒ ජා ප   යෙකි  මෙතෙක් හිටියේ වාසියටය.  හිරුනිකා යන්නේ ඇ ය් .?   තාත්තා මරාදැමූ  හතුරා […]

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Sri Lanka Get Ready: Lessons from Tribunal against Yugoslavia

Sunday, November 30th, 2014

Shenali D Waduge  In May 1993 UN’s 1st war crimes court and 1st tribunal since the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals was created by the UN Security Council in accordance with chapter VII of the UN Charter. When ICTY officially shuts down in 2016 the UN should be questioned on the ruckus surrounding alleged claims of […]

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JHU – Where will they end up?

Sunday, November 30th, 2014

S. Akurugoda According to the latest available news items, JHU, has given-up further discussions with the Government and is going to  talk to the Maithripala Sirisena expecting a positive response to their proposals. The outcome of the JHU-Maithripala talk is very clear since we do not see any difference between the so-called proposals of the Maithripala […]

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Sanctions on Sri lanka by the EU and Britain.

Sunday, November 30th, 2014

Garvin Karunaratne Former Government Agent, Matara District The British Parliament deciding to recommend that the EU should impose sanctions on Sri Lanka tells me  that our leaders have to be prepared. If we are to face the onslaught we have to become self sufficient as far as possible fast and get our economy on a […]

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Ethics and Religion

Sunday, November 30th, 2014

By Rohana R. Wasala (This is the second in a series of five articles written on the subject of religion by the author, courtesy The Nation, where they were first published,  sometimes under different titles from those that will appear here. The first was ‘To contain religious fundamentalism’ [Lankaweb, 14.11.14]) Most ordinary people believe that there […]

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Dr Lorna Devaraja – The uncrowned queen of the Muslims

Sunday, November 30th, 2014

Hilmy Ahamed Dr Lorna Srimathie Dewaraja, the brilliant historian of repute who did not receive the recognition that she rightly deserves in her life time for her contribution to the Muslims of Sri Lanka should be engraved in their hearts and minds for her contribution with her luminous academic research and publication, The Muslims of […]

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JHU to sign MoU with Maithripala

Sunday, November 30th, 2014

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) today announced it is due to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Common candidate Maithripala Sirisena within the next few days, after which they would be actively involved in his campaign. JHU member Venerable Athuraliye Rathana thera speaking to Daily Mirror said Mr. Sirisena […]

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Only Parliament can abolish Executive Presidency – G.L

Sunday, November 30th, 2014

Dharma Sri Abeyratne Courtesy The Daily News The Executive Presidency cannot be abolished by a President since it has to be done through Parliament, External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris said. Even though executive powers are vested with the President in accordance with Article 4 B of the Constitution,the President is not able to abolish the […]

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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) – Symptoms or can we call it “Ants in the pants” behaviour?

Sunday, November 30th, 2014

Dr Hector Perera         London A child’s teacher may be the first person to suspect that a child has ADHD, especially if he is hyperactive and often disrupts class. As an experienced teacher, I must say that I have come across a number of such cases but they had to be dealt very tactfully. If I […]

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Sri Lanka joins in measures to protect migrant workers at the Abu Dhabi Dialogue

Sunday, November 30th, 2014

Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka Geneva A series of initiatives aimed at boosting protection and improving conditions of employment for millions of foreign workers in the Gulf have been agreed upon at the Third Ministerial Consultative Meeting of the Abu Dhabi Dialogue (ADD) comprising Asian countries sending and receiving labour, which concluded in Kuwait last […]

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WHY MAHINDA RAJAPAKSA IS NOT A DICTATOR 

Sunday, November 30th, 2014

Harvey Perera  In my view Mahinda Rajapaksa (MR) is not a dictator. Nor is he a killer” as the UNHRC and as some in the West try to make out. Here are facts from the recent history to refresh Sri Lankan minds since the Joint Opposition seems to have developed selective amnesia. When the LTTE […]

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FALLOUT FROM THE CROSSOVERS

Sunday, November 30th, 2014

JANAKI CHANDRARATNA, PERTH, AUSTRALIA  There is no question the recent political events in Sri Lanka are appalling from any ethical standard.  The betrayal by the Secretary of the ruling party, Mr. Maithripala Sirisena surpasses many other political betrayals, in the world, as he saw it fit to sign off on the incumbent President’s nomination for […]

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ශ්‍රීලනිපය දෙකඩ කරන පොදු අපේක්‍ෂක මෙහෙයුම බුද්ධි අංශයට හෙළිදරව් වූ හැටි

Sunday, November 30th, 2014

සමන් ගමගේ Courtesy Divaina මෙතෙක්‌ සැඟවී සිටි පොදු අපේක්‍ෂකයා දැන් කරළියට පැමිණ ඇත. හේ අන් කිසිවකුත් නොව ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස්‌ පක්‍ෂයේ හිටපු මහ ලේකම් මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතාය. ඔහු මේ පැමිණ සිටින්නේ ප්‍රභාක්‌රන්ගේ ත්‍රස්‌තවාදය මේ බිමෙන් අතුගා දමා රටට සාමය උදා කළ මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ සමග තරග කිරීමටය. අපට ශාපයක්‌ වූ කොටි ත්‍රස්‌තවාදය මේ බිමෙන් අතුගා දැමුවේ මහින්ද […]

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මහින්ද – මෛත්‍රී ගල උඩ සටනකට දෙපැත්තම සූදානම්

Sunday, November 30th, 2014

බුලිත ප්‍රදීප් කුමාර Courtesy Divaina මේ දිනවල අපේ දේශපාලන කරළියේ හැම තැනකම තිබෙන්නේ “යන්නෙ කොහෙද – මල්ලෙ පොල්” මාදිලියේ කතා යෑයි කිවහොත් නිවැරැදිය. යන්නෙ කොහෙද – මල්ලෙ පොල් යෑයි කියන්නේ සාමාන්‍ය හැසිරීම් රටාව ඉක්‌මවූ ඔල්මොරොන්දන් ගණයේ හැසිරීම් වලටය. අපේ රටේ දේශපාලනයේ ක්‍රියාකාරීව සිටින බොහෝ දේශපාලනඥයෝ අද ඒ වාගේය. ඒ ඔවුන්ට කිසිවක්‌ නොවැටහුනා සේ සිටීම වත්මන් දේශපාලන […]

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