Malin Abeyatunga In the Past, UN blundered when Ex UN Secretary General Koffi Annan, conveyed condolences to a LTTE terrorist leader Kaushalyan who was killed by the armed forces; Then Alan Rock in a subtle attempt to appease LTTE terrorists blamed the GoSL for liaising with para military group without being able to substantiate his […]

By Charles.S.Perera The war in Iraq and Afghanistan continues without an end in view. America and the West are apprehensive of another attack by the Al Quaida terrorists, without any knowledge of which Western Capital would be their next target . ƒ”š‚ In Afghanistan the Western high power nations with supposed to be well experienced Armed […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario May 30, 2009 The Editor (Letters) THE OTTAWA CITIZEN Sir: The report that “The United Nations human rights chief (Navi Pillay) took the extraordinary step Thursday of seeking to override a decision on Sri Lanka by the world’s body’s top rights assembly”, confirmed my hunch that […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata It was Anton Balasingham who bore the tag of “ƒ”¹…”LTTE theoretician’. What that meant, in the final analysis was that he was a glorified spokesman of the terrorists. He was called Dr.A.B, although we know he did not have a doctorate. Even if he did… so what ? In the world […]

Ajit Randeniya The war is not over yet; there are few other enemies to fight! It is becoming obvious-by-the-day that the so-called UN representatives in Sri Lanka, Neil Bhune Gordon Weiss and ICRC’s Paul Castellano are not UN employees at all. They may be getting paid by the UN (yes, those fat UN salaries), but […]

Prof Rajiva Wijesinhaƒ”š‚  Secretary Generalƒ”š‚  Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process 28 May 2009 The special session on Sri Lanka has come and gone, though interested parties such as the Dutch Foreign Minister seem determined to continue on an adversarial path. Nothing can be done however about those with political agendas, and though it is […]

New York 4th May 2009 As we near the May 28th, the date the US government will file its papers opposing the Supreme Court taking the case of Gerardo Hernandez, Ramon Labanino, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez and Rene Gonzalez, known worldwide as the Cuban Five, Leonard Weinglas, representing Antonio Guerrero and part of the defense […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Daya Master alias Velaudan Dayanidhi , former media coordinator of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has made three hour long voluntary confession before a Colombo magistrate revealing important information, sources in Colombo said. The Confession not open to the public was done in the magisterial chambers of Magistrate Nishantha Hapuarachchi […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Information Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa said the United National Party members continue to insult the country’s valiant armed services and issue statements underestimating their achievements. ƒ”š‚ Yapa charged that UNP senior parliamentarian Laxman Kiriella who was in a big controversy some years back after stating , “Any fool could go to war,” referring […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario .Canada May 29 , 2009 ƒ”š‚ The Editor (Letters) THE OTTAWA CITIZEN Sir: Although not reported in The Ottawa Citizen the news has reached me that the Canadian High Commission in Colombo had been vandalized by an angry mob, and I am saddened an angry at this […]