By Walter Jayawardhana
Many Sri Lankan Tamils who were living in the Oceanic Viking ship have now admitted to living in Indonesia for years and not coming directly from Sri Lanka when they were picked up by the ship.
“It’s been revealed that most of the Sri Lankan asylum seekers in a standoff with Australian authorities off [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana

Canada’s Commissioner of Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) William Elliot said that security experts fear the migrant smuggling ship intercepted off the West Canadian coast could be the first wave of defeated Tiger fighters fleeing for safe haven following their devastating defeat in May this year, in Sri Lanka .
The RCMP Commissioner said [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
A NDTV television broadcast said 78 Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers , who are determined to reach Australia on board an Australian cargo ship have refused to step on Indonesian soil and adamantly refused to do anything else than going to Australia.
In the ship the Tamils, who are mostly Tamil rebels fleeing away [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Pix by Sudath Silva President Donated US $10,000 US Dollas for SriLanka Lumbini Development trust
President Mahinda Rajapaksa making brief statement to the pressmen gathered there said that the development of Lumbini, one of the most sacred sites of the Buddhists all over the world was not only the responsibility of the Nepalese government but also [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
For thousands of years Sri Lankans through their native traditions knew what food is good or bad for particular ailments.
In fact, food was part of medicine and vice versa.
Not only their mostly vegetarian food but the spices that used to cook them were basically the natural way of treating or avoiding diseases. That’s [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana

The Nepalese Maoist leader and former Prime Minister Pushpa Kumar Dahal Prachanda told the visiting Sri Lankan President in Kathmandu that he wished to learn from the Sri Lankan experience of the rehabilitation of Tamil Tigers.
 The Times of India said Rajapaksa met the former Prime Minister in a thirty minutes discussion in the [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
President Mahinda Rajapaksa was given a warm and rousing welcome when he visited the country for the second time within the last few months.
His earlier trip had to be disrupted when terrorists attacked the Sri Lanka cricket team in Lahore Pakistan when he was touring the country last time.
Declaring open the Sri Lanka [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Shan Wijayalal de Silva took oaths as the Southern Province Chief Minister with four other colleagues as his ministers at a ceremony presided over at the Presidential Secretariat in Galle Face Colombo.
President Rajapaksa addressing them said they received the ministerial portfolios not only to serve their district but all three districts of the [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
President Mahinda Rajapaksa will visit Nepal on a two day official visit to continue his journey which had to be disrupted due to the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore Pakistan , a Nepalese news service announced.
The news service said the Sri Lankan leader will arrive in Kathmandu, Thursday [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
The Washington Times sternly told the US State Department in an editorial that America should support the Sri Lankan government or keep its nose out of Colombo’s business commenting about the possible war crimes report on the island nation submitted to the Congress last week.
Alleging the US is taking the wrong side in [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
President Mahinda Rajapaksa ordered yesterday that the commercial lending rates of the country’s state banks be reduced by almost half with immediate effect.
The state owned banks, have been have been charging 15-22 percent before the reduction took place.
“President Mahinda Rajapaksa had ordered state banks to reduce lending rates in between 8-12 percent,” a [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
In Indonesia, an unfriendly attitude towards Tamil asylum seekers whose ships are receiving some accommodation , is being created say reports emanating out of the country.
On October 27 some youth said to be representing Kijian Riau island province held a demonstration against the Tamils.
“Reject Sri Lanka immigrants. Riau Island is not an accommodation [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Sri Lanka was quite capable to face ay international pressure on alleged war crimes or any other problems said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei V. Lavrov addressing a press conference at the Foreign Ministry in Colombo.
“This is because the country had a proper judicial system and the Russian government had always supported the Sri [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Liberal Party back bencher Wilson Tuckey in Australia said he has been vindicated by the admission of a senior Tamil person in Australia there could be terrorists on the asylum seeker boats.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation published the following report quoting Tuckey .
“Liberal backbencher Wilson Tuckey says a senior figure within the Australian Tamil [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
The American Lawyer magazine’s Litigation Daily website recently published an interview on the case in which Sri Lankan victims of terrorism sued alleged share market swindler Raj Rajaratnam for unspecified damages charging him and his father for donating millions to the terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Michael Elsner of the Plaintiff firm [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Central Intelligence agencies of India have found fresh evidence of joint training camps and meetings conducted by the Maoists with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam elements crept into India in the forests of South and Central India , the Times of India reported.
Predicting the long term ambitions of Tamil Tigers establishing bases [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
The Australian has revealed that the Tamils smuggled out of Sri Lanka to Australia and Canada are actually ex-fighters of the Liberation Fighters of Tamil Eelam and the ships used were the remnants of the same ships that were used to smuggle in weapons by the Tamil Tigers.
The Australian quoting Singapore based terrorism [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
The Billionaire hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam was sued by Sri Lankan victims of Tamil Tiger terrorism for unspecified amounts of damage for the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)caused violence and havoc for their families in a law suit filed in Newark, New Jersey.
 Raj Rajaratnam (52)with about US 3.7 billion assests was [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has arrived in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam for a three day official visit Thursday October 22.
During his visit the President will have bilateral talks with his Vietnamese counterpart Nguen Minh Triet and other high officials and enter into several new agreements.

Reports from Vietnam said that the President and his [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Evidence that Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was also gunrunning weapons for other separatist terrorist groups in India using its navy for profit has been unearthed in the Indian state of Assam.
“There was a noting in one of the accounts statement that the ULFA paid Rs.2.3 million to the LTTE towards purchase [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
United Kingdom’s influential Financial Times in an editorial in no uncertain terms advocated Sri Lanka should continue to enjoy the GSP Plus trade concessions without any break.
In an editorial published in its October 21 issue the Financial Times said, “Trade deals should be a means for poor countries to haul themselves out of [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam’s arms procurer and later leader Kumar Pathmanadan under interrogation has revealed that US citizen Raj Rajaratnam who was arrested by the FBI had been a leading contributor of money to the terrorist group, Sri Lanka government sources said.
These contributions are intricately connected with the opposition politicians outside the [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Addressing massive jubilant and cheering crowds both in Sinhala and Tamil after declaring open Sri Lanka’s longest bridge at Kinniya and Irakkandi Bridge President Mahinda Rajapaksa said racist politics in Sri Lanka has come to an end.
“Hereafter in this country there is no room for racist politics,” he said.
The 396 meters long Kinniya [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Speaking to a felicitation ceremony at Aluvihara, Matale organized to honour elements of war that led to the crushing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)after nearly three decades President Mahinda Rajapaksa said some people who question today what did the government do for the soldiers forget they are the very people [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
The Wall Street Journal reported the Sri Lanka born hedge-fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam who has been arrested and released on Dollars 100 million personal recognizance bond has also been investigated for contributing money for the Tamil Tiger terrorist group.
The newspaper said Federal agents had uncovered documents showing that the founder of the Galleon [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Chandana Sirimalwatte, the editor of the Lanka was taken in for questioning by the police for allegedly spreading gossip claiming that there is rift between General Sarath Fonseka and the government.
Police spokesman Nimal Mediwake confirmed that he had been taken for questioning.
The Lanka had alleged there had been attempts to discredit General Fonseka [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Chandana Sirimalwatte, the editor of the Lanka was taken in for questioning by the police for allegedly spreading gossip claiming that there is rift between General Sarath Fonseka and the government.
Police spokesman Nimal Mediwake confirmed that he had been taken for questioning.
The Lanka had alleged there had been attempts to discredit General Fonseka [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
American Broadcasting Corporation’s ABCNews.com revealed the Sri Lanka born billionaire Raja Ratnam who was arrested by the FBI for a 20 million insider trading scam was the leading contributor to the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) connected TRO and controversial campaign funds of Hilary Clinton.
Months ago Clinton announced that she had returned [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana

The founder of Galleon Group Hedge Fund , Sri Lanka born Raja Rajaratnam was arrested charged with criminal offences of Insider trading securities frauds.
 Galleon is a major hedge fund player known for its investments in technology stocks.
 The FBI said Rajaratnam was charged with four counts of conspiracy and eight counts of securities fraud. [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Pro-Tamil Tigers British parliamentarian Keith Vaz is facing the greatest danger to his political career, the Daily Telegraph reported.
In an anti-sleaze movement certain British political elements are organizing to put up single candidates against politicians such as Keith Vaz, the newspaper said.
“Anti-sleaze candidates could pose a serious threat to Alan Duncan who was [...]