By Walter Jayawardhana

Tami Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi said at a press conference in Chennai that the Sri Lanka government has assured the ten MP’s who visited Sri Lanka that another 58,000 Sri Lankan Tamils who are staying in state run camps will be taken back to their homes to be resettled.
Speaking to reporters after [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Speaking at the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of the Joseph Vaz College, Wennappuwa President Mahinda Rajapaksa said to surmount future challenges it is necessary to arm the future generation of Sri Lanka with language knowledge and information technology.
“The children should be enthused to learn local and foreign languages as well as information technology “, [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
The 260 Sri Lankan boat people’s incident took a dramatic turn when they threatened to blow up their cargo ship and jump into the sea if Indonesian authorities force them to disembark at the Indonesian port Merak.
The boat people said they are from Jaffna but vouched that they were not Tamil Tigers fleeing [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Twenty two Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) suspects including their leader Nadaraja Matintiran charged with the offense that they extorted money from the country’s Tamils were brought before a French court in Paris on October 12.
In addition to the LTTE group, their front working in France called the Tamil Coordination Committee was [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
President Mahinda Rajapaksa said in Kalutara after declaring open Vernon U.Fernando Memorial Soccer Stadium that the meaning of recent victories reflects the determination of the people not to let the country to be betrayed and their great ambition for the country to be developed.
The President’s obvious reference was to the series of electoral [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated that he is dead against the suggestion that any Israel soldier or a politician to be taken before a war crimes tribunal
He said he would never allow any of his soldiers or politicians to be allowed to be put on trial for what they call war [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Pakistan sources said the sole survivor among terrorists who staged a hostage drama at the country’s military headquarters last Saturday (October 10) was also involved in the attack against the Sri Lanka cricket team in Lahore early this year.
Aqeel alias Dr. Usman , so nicknamed since he was a former army sepoy of [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
The decision of the people of the Southern Province given by an overwhelming majority has given a decisive message to the international community and other elements “attempting to build an incorrect vision of the government” said President Mahinda Rajapaksa issuing a message immediately after the final election results were issued.
The President simply called [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
The ruling coalition led by President Mahinda Rajapaksa obtained a historical victory by winning a two thirds majority of seats at the Southern Provincial Council elections, yesterday.
Giving another body blow to the opposition United National Party (UNP)the ruling United People’s Alliance (UPFA)decreased the number of seats of the UNP of the last council [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Sri Lanka Janahanda Foundation has organized a Musical extravaganza where Sri Lankan singers will entertain the expatriate community here, said Sri Lal Dias, the President of the Foundation.
The musical evening will be held on October 10 between 5 p.m. and 12 p.m. according to the organizers.
The concert will have songs and dances.
Dias said [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Film Director Seeman who was vehemently campaigning to stop Sri Lanka’s war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and failed has now started another campaign demanding to withdraw Sri Lanka’s Deputy High Commissioner from Chennai.
Seeman got arrested by the Tamil Nadu Police during the campaign for making anti-Indian speeches on sedition charges [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Russian Ambassador in Sri Lanka Vladmir Mikhaylov declared that the standards maintained at the Internally Displaced Persons camps in the Northern Province in Sri Lanka are not second to similar camps elsewhere in the world.
He was speaking at a ceremony to hand over equipment and food worth 72 million Rupees to the IDP’s [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
A Pakistani team of investigators arrived in Sri Lanka to probe whether the terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was linked with terrorist elements in Pakistan in the Lahore attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team.
The Pakistan team is expected to review the probe on the same subject conducted by Sri [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Addressing few hundred thousand people of the last Southern Provincial Council election rally of the Freedom Alliance at Muwanpelessa in Suriyawewa , Hambatota which became virtually a sea of heads President Rajapaksa in no uncertain terms said not that Sri Lanka is against any country in the world but it will never bow [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
President Mahinda Rajapaksa addressing a mammoth gathering of more than one hundred thousand people at the Samanala grounds in Galle said it was a victory for the country that the United States has clearly stated that there has been no record of Sri Lanka using rape as a military tactic.
He said accordingly the [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
President Mahinda Rajapaksa addressing more than one hundred thousand supporters who converged on Sanath Jayasuriya Stadium IN Matara said the Southern voters who have been always patriotic should teach the bitterest lesson to those who insult Sri Lanka by trying to destroy the good image of the country in front of the world.
“Some [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
The United States went back on the statement of Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton and said the US does not have any recent evidence of women being raped while in Sri Lankan government custody.
Hillary Clinton generating widespread condemnation mentioned Sri Lanka as a country which uses rape as a military tactic while [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Police arrested an army bomb expert who allegedly planted a bomb in a school van that killed a 12 year old child and seriously injured 12 others , most of whom were students and parents who came to drop them off to the vehicle.
Police said the arrested man who is an army sergeant [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
President Mahinda Rajapaksa said at the inaugural celebrations of the Sri Lanka Army’s 60th anniversary that terrorism was born and nurtured in Sri Lanka due to lack of development and immediately after the crushing of terrorism the state has taken over the responsibility of ushering in the much needed growth that would help [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has received widespread condemnation from government spokesman and and other political parties for mentioning Sri Lanka as a country using rape of women as a military weapon with a host of other countries.
“This is a total fabrication tarnishing the image of a sovereign nation that should [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
A group of around ten out of forty protestors chanting slogans scaled a wall and damaged some property of the Sri Lanka High Commission in New Delhi on a holiday when no officials of the mission was available police sources said.
“We deeply regret this unfortunate incident which has involved an act of violence [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
The Hindustan Times newspaper said the Communist Party of India, popularly known as the Maoists of India have borrowed the idea of child conscription to their army from Sri Lanka’s Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
According to an item published by the Hindustan Times they have imitated the Tamil Tigers by recruiting children [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
The Australian Communication and Media Authority after an investigation found certain programs broadcast by the SBS Radio were bias towards Tamil Tigers and contravened the radio station’s own code of principles.
The authority said the Tamil language programs on the activities of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were bias towards the terrorist outfit.
The [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Singapore’s former Reform Party Man who was a powerful committee member of the party Balraj Naidu has been arrested and produced in court for an extradition hearing over an alleged arms deal with Sri Lanka’s Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE).
Naidu was arrested on a warrant and produced in courts said, Singapore’s Strait [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Cairn Energy Plc, the UK listed Indian oil giant is expected to drill for offshore oil in Sri Lanka in January 2011.
The company’s advertisements asking for offshore oil rigs have appeared in the Economic Times newspaper in New Delhi.
The advertisement said Cairns wants to hire a drill ship or a semi-submersible rig in [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
India’s External Minister S.M. Krishna told the United NationS that there is a new beginning in Sri Lanka today.
He said , “ peace, security, stability and the welfare of India’s neighbourhood is vital for India.”
This was an obvious reference to the end of the war by Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)and the [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Prime Minister Rathnasiri Wickramanayaka addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York said the Charter of the United Nations does not allow the UN to interfere in the internal affairs of member nations.
He said , “It is imperative that the prohibition reflected in Article 2(7)of the charter that the UN should not [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
President Mahinda Rajapaksa said there is no possible way of reverting back to the inglorious past of letting the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) once again run the Eastern and Northern Province as allowed according to a document produced by the United National Party, trampling the human rights of all people with [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka promised anew that his government would quickly re-settle all the civilians in the country’s IDP welfare camps but he said the country cannot risk its hard won security from terrorism by being negligent of terrorist combatants hiding among the civilians.
He was addressing the United Nations general assembly [...]

By Walter Jayawardhana
Whether Sri Lanka receive the GSP+ concession or not, President Mahinda Rajapaksa said he would see the local industries are protected.
The President further said, “I cannot betray a whole country for the sake of US $ 150 million.”
The President’s statement is an obvious reference to a boast by the opposition United National Party [...]