Author Archive for Forum & Letters
Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Sunil Vijayapala Oxley, Australia
Dear Sir,
I sincerely feel I should respond to some of the comments made by Lanka Peiris, in your prestigious journal (Oh what an outlet for desperados like us) on my article on What Mahinda Should Be Doing.
I truly respect the views of Lanka and observations made by him/her (I am confused of the [...]
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Saturday, March 6th, 2010
Daily News
President Mahinda Rajapaksa informed the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon on Friday the move to appoint an expert panel to advise him on Sri Lanka was ‘totally uncalled for and unwarranted.’
In a telephone conversation with the UN Chief the President has emphasized, in the backdrop where there is no such action against [...]
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Sri Lankanews
Sri Lanka Leading Environmentalist , Mr Piyal Parakrama was passed away 3rd March after a sudden illness. He was one of leading figures behind the three decades of contemporary Environmental protection struggle/ movement in Sri Lanka.
His Funeral procession will be held on Tomorrow ; Saturday 6th march 2010 in Borella public cemetery..time 16:30 hrs
For further [...]
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Ranjit Wickremeratne
From the day our current President became the President of my motherland you guys are harassing our Government and the people in various forms WHY? There should be a reason which I cannot understand. President Bush told many times that any country harbours and supports terrorists or terrorism were guilty as the terrorists. We never supported [...]
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Press Release Media Secretary
Mr. Milinda Moragoda, Minister of Justice and Law Reform, and the leader of the Sri Lanka National Congress (SLNC), a constituent party of the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) has launched a website www.slnc.org dedicated to ‘Promoting Access to Vote for Sri Lankan’s Abroad.’ recently.
At the launch SLNC stated that “The [...]
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
By Stanley Perera
There has been worldwide outcry accusing UNO ambassadors of corruption and calling for an independent inquiry. UNO does not seem to be much perturbed and not interested in the world opinion. Until an independent inquiry into the allegations of corruptions by the UNO’s ambassadors is completed those corrupt men and women must be [...]
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Sarath Wijesinghe Senior Solicitor Senior Attorney –at- law – Former Chairman Consumer Affairs Authority –
Image building
Image building of Nationhood is paramount to a “Nation” in the world family which needs respect and recognition of the colleges of the group of Nations. Nation is a territory or country as a political entity or a grouping [...]
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
Anura Seneviratna, Janaka Alahapperuma, Dr MB Ranatunga, Sumith de Silva, Asanka Haradasa, Ira Mediwake, Sapumal Watteaarachchige, Ranjith Wijetunge, Sam Samararatne (for expat Hela team).
Supposedly, terror was swept away recently in Heladiva (Sri Lanka) but it was worse than terror, an attempted undercover invasion of the Sovereign Island to form a second Tamil Nadu and [...]
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Thursday, March 4th, 2010
By Jolly Somasundram former Civil Servant.
“The time has come the Walrus said to talk of many things -of sailing ships and sealing wax and —whether pigs have wings.” Lewis Carroll, Walrus and the Carpenter.
So with the Tamil Leaders! After years of politically representing and leading the NE Tamils, with the external assistance of the Diaspora, [...]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
by hela puwath
WHY IS US EMBASSY (USAID ) BUTTING-IN TO TAMIL LAND OWNERSHIP ISSUES?
Rebecca Cohn, and Ambassador Butenis, why is the US Embassy (USAID) involved in Tamil land ownership issues?
What business has the US in Sri Lanka’s Land issues? And why is the Sri Lanka government allowing the US to interfere in the internal affairs [...]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
ලලිත් ගුණවර්ධන ජාතික ලේඛනාරක්ෂක දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ සහකාර අධ්යක්ෂ
1796 දී මෙරට මුහුදුබඩ පළාත් ලන්දේසීන්ගෙන් අල්ලාගත් ඉංග්රීසිහු උඩරටට ඇතුළුව 1815 පෙබරවාරි 18 වැනි දින ශ්රී වික්රම රාජසිංහ රජු අල්ලා ගැනීමත් සමග සමස්ත දිවයිනේම ස්වාමීත්වයට පත්වූහ. 1796 සිට 1815 දක්වා ලංකාවේ මුහුදුබඩ පළාත් පාලනයට ඔවුන්ට ගිවිසුම් හෝ සම්මුතීන් අවශ්ය නොවූවත් 1815 දී උඩරට යටත් කිරීමත් සමග මෙවැනි ගිවිසුමක් අවශ්ය [...]
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Sri Lanka news
Admiral Sarath Weerasekera, after successful completion of his duties as the Director General of the Sri Lanka Civil Defence Force has decided to enter politics and will contest for the parliament seat from Digamadulla district.
Admiral Weerasekera served our country for 35 years as a Naval officer and acted as the chief of [...]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
by hela puwath
U.S. Government takes Sri Lankan officials on land study tour to Timor-Leste http://srilanka.usembassy.gov/pr-25feb10.html
Feb 26, Colombo: The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is taking 13 government officials from central and provincial ministries on a 7-day study tour to learn how land ownership issues are being resolved in Timor-Leste (also known as [...]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Sunil Vijayapala Oxley, Australia
1. Create a separate Ministry for Development of North and East to show his commitment and seriousness to Tamils and Muslims. Appoint joint Ministers from minorities to head a team of experts from all fields.
2. Our greatest enemy for the last two hundred years was Britain. Sever all diplomatic connections with this [...]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
ALI SUKHANVER
The war against Pakistan’s nuclear program seems more vibrant and more violent and certainly more popular than the international war against terrorism. These two wars are being headed by two different countries separately; one is the super power of today and the other is aspiring to be the super power of tomorrow. The most [...]
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Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Press Release Media Secretary
Lawyers from the Jaffna Bar Association met with Justice and Law Reform Minister Milinda Moragoda on Monday to discuss issues connected with the implementation of justice in Jaffna. This dialogue was part of the Northern Justice Initiative launched by the Ministry to address issues connected to the justice system in the post-conflict [...]
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Vajiragnana Warnakulasuriya, Melbourne, 98088763
Dateline
To the Attention of George Negus
This refers to the War Stories on Sri Lanka on the attach link
http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/about/id/600331/n/War-Stories
And Afghanistan’s Bagram’s Creature Comforts video clips of 28/02/10.
http://www.sbs.com.au/dateline/story/watch/id/600341/n/Bagram-s-Creature-Comforts
I believe Jinny Stien was sent to Sri Lanka, after Mr.George Negus inquired late last year from the Sri Lankan High Commissioner Mr.Welgampaya in Canberra, whether visa [...]
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
Press Release – Media Sec. for Minister Milinda Moragoda
Women could play a vital role in bringing about a positive change in the political culture which prevails in Sri Lanka. However, unfortunately the number of women entering politics remains abysmally low. This was one of the views expressed by Leader of the Sri Lanka National Congress [...]
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Sunday, February 28th, 2010
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 [...]
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Sunday, February 28th, 2010
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 [...]
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
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 [...]
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
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 [...]
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
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 [...]
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Saturday, February 27th, 2010
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 [...]
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
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. [...]
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
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 [...]
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Friday, February 26th, 2010
“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 [...]
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
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 [...]
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
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 [...]
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
Press Release Gamini Sarath Godakanda
As always, his campaign to be free of posters, cut-outs, firecrackers
The Leader of the Sri Lanka National Congress, Milinda Moragoda is to be a candidate for the Colombo District, contesting on the UPFA list in the upcoming General Elections. Today (24.02.2010) at the Vajiraramaya Temple, he announced his pledge to continue [...]
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