Bandula Kothalawala London N7 Remember the infamous warning issued to the Government of Sri Lanka by Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister, on 17 May 2009 on the consequences of its action? ƒ”š‚  Alas, it does not seem to have done him any good or for that matter, to his Government’s dwindling fortunes. Mr Brown’s warning […]

World Food Programme http://www.wfp.org/stories/sri-lanka-easier-reach-hungry In recent days, it has become easier for WFP staff to monitor food distributions in the government-run camps housing people displaced by the last wave of fighting in Sri Lanka. Our country director, Adnan Khan, explains that WFP is now feeding 290,000 people in the camps. COLOMBO –The final stages of […]

By Walter Jayawardhana The allegation that 20,000 civilians have been killed in the war in Sri Lanka is one that is not worthy of a reply since the numbers have been calculated as a fiction , said Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama addressing the Sri Lanka Diaspora in London. ƒ”š‚ First there was this estimate, once again […]

The Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office at Geneva Friday, 05 June 2009Ambassador Gopinathan Achamkulangare of India, responding yesterday (4.6.2009) to the remarks on Sri Lanka included in the statement of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Ms. Navi Pillay said, “…it will be prudent to adhere to the outcome of […]

Ben Silva UK First of all, I wish to express my sincere thanks to nations in UN that managed to see through the smoke screen and lies propagated by neo colonialist countries. If, Prabakaran was given a life line, as the UN officials and neo colonialist nations wanted,ƒ”š‚  then the whole Indian subcontinent would have […]

ALI SUKHANVER Abu Talha is a young man of twenty one. His father works in a garment factory. After completion of his education at an Islamic school, commonly known as Madrassa, Abu Talha decided to help his father in earning bread for the family. So at the request of his father he succeeded in getting […]

The Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office at Geneva Friday, 05 June 2009 Ambassador Dayan Jayatilleka responding to statements by the EU, UK and France supporting High Commissioner Navi Pillay’s call for an international inquiry into alleged violations of international humanitarian and human rights law in Sri Lanka, made the following […]

John MacKinnon ƒ”š‚ On May 13, 2009, US President Barack Obama falsely accused the government of “indiscriminate shelling” of areas containing civilians, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of people on over the weekend. These statements were based on the fraudulent information fed to the media by the Tamil Tiger Terrorists and there is absolutely no […]

Nimal Tissa Wijetunga. Dear Editor, ƒ”š‚ Pls. publish this letter in your web site or forward to concern officials. Following the defeat of Barbaric, Ruthless, Murderous LTTE TERRORIST by the heroic security forces, Sri Lanka as a nation for the first time getting the massive support of the masses to come under one banner and one […]

Asoka Weerasinghe (Mr,) Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontarioƒ”š‚  Canada June 5, 2009 Hon. Peter Milliken, MP Speaker of the House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario. IMPORTANT FOR YOUR ATTENTION AND WISE COUNSEL: REQUEST BY LIBERALS FOR 2ND EMERGENCY DEBATE ON SRI LANKA Dear Speaker Milliken: If ever there was a day when a Member […]

LankaWeb Editorial June 5th 2009 For the length of the Sri Lankan terrorist insurrection there has been a continued interference into Administraitve decisions by unwelcome sources on various pretexts.Whether it was the EU, UK, the UN, The State of Tamil Nadu or the USA to name some where the implications do not differ from being […]

C. Wijeyawickrema Five hundred years of West European colonialism (white man’s burden) rested on a strategy of humiliation of the natives it conquered. This took place by way of both physical (guns) and psychological (primitives, barbarians, savages, infidels, idol worshippers and widow-burners who should be saved) means. Thus, the Portuguese came to Ceylon in 1505 […]