C. Wijeyawickrema Re-incarnation of Harold Laskiƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka (DJ), identified by Carlo Fonseka, the Colombo Marxist who once counted the number of kings in the Mahavamsa who killed a father or a sibling, as Sri Lanka’s Laski (The Island, 7/15/2009) has refused to answer a set of eleven questions I sent to him […]

By Walter Jayawardhana President Mahinda Rajapaksa addressing 117 nations participating in the Non Aligned Nations summit in Egypt said under no circumstances the world should allow terrorism to raise its head. ƒ”š‚ This is the largest international summit President Rajapaksa is participating after his troops ended a thirty yer long insurgency by one of the most […]

ALI SUKHANVER “We are not the Afghan refugees. We were living a better life in Swat. We are eager to go back to our homes; we are the Swatis.”ƒ”š‚ I remember the remarks of a young man Mukarram Khan who met me in a refugee camp for internally displaced persons of Swat near Islamabad. These […]

Khalid Khokhar 18 May 2009, is an historic day for Sri Lanka as the security forces have finally defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) militarily including its top leadership. After 26 years of ethnic conflict, the Government has been able to achieve control of entire Island including its entire coast line. The LTTE […]

Rajiva Wijesinhaƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  Secretary Generalƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process The international community was horrified by news reports in the Times of London on July 9th 2009 that over 1400 people were dying each week in Welfare Centres in Sri Lanka. The Times continues to conceal its sources. This time the allegation is attributed to […]

By Sam Reading (July 2009) An analysis of just one headline It is well known that space / time in media can be bought. Unfortunately it is always not only commercial advertisement opportunities that are sold. From an innocent looking headline to inches of news paper articles could come to being through journalists with vested […]

The LankaWeb Editorial Julyƒ”š‚ 14TH 2009 The charge has been delivered, the enemy vanquished, that is the enemy within but what about the enemy without? Why are they still lurking with their undercurrents of continued lies, innuendo and false information almost as if to pacify the mourners of the damnable LTTE which makes them not only […]

Dr.P.A.Samaraweera, Australia This week the government had ordered the ICRC, INGO’s and NGO’s to scale down their operations because now that the war had ended the government writ ran all over Sri Lanka. The government had reassessed their operations following cessation of hostilities. ƒ”š‚ The ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) entered Sri Lanka at […]

By Charles.S.Perera There is a Zen Story of two young priests returning to the Monastery. It was after rain and there were puddles of water on the road side. As they were walking they saw a beautiful young woman who was hesitating to cross the road because of a large puddle of water. The elder […]

By : Nadira Gunatilleke The American Government will provide Rs. 200 million worth ambulances, medical equipment and other items to Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry under an agreement signed between the Ministry and the American Embassy yesterday, a Ministry spokesman said. He said Healthcare and Nutrition Ministry Acting Secretary Dr. Nihal Jayatilleke and American Acting Ambassador […]

By Walter Jayawardhana President Mahinda Rajapaksa told , in no uncertain terms, some unnamed powerful nations who are trying to interfere in Sri Lankan affairs that “we are no colony of anybody.”ƒ”š‚ President Rajapaksa addressing the governing Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) delegates of the Moneragala District said, at the forthcoming Provincial Council Elections the […]

By Walter Jayawardhana Professor Rajiva Wijesinghe , Secretary General of government’s Seceratariat for Coordinating the Peace Process (SCOPP) said the recent London Times report that said 1400 IDP’s die at the Welfare camps is a gross exaggeration and a “fraudulent”ƒ”š‚ act practiced at the behest of the British Foreign office. Professor Wijesinghe said, “The response […]

By Malinda Seneviratne There can be a military victory over a military challenge but there cannot be a purely military victory over a political challenge. An enemy army can and must be defeated, an armed opponent can be killed, but a political challenge requires a political response and an idea can be defeated only by […]

Ajit Randeniya According to leading analysts of doctrinal developments in US foreign policy, the American international NGOs (INGOs) were one of the foremost elements of the “third wave of democratisation”ƒ”š‚ putsch that began in 1974, as a means of achieving regime change in “target states”ƒ”š‚ in alignment with the US foreign policy objectives. The “informal […]

By Malinda Seneviratne Dayan Jayatilleka has recommended to me a set of observations on “ƒ”¹…”history’ penned by Nietzsche (see his piece “ƒ”¹…”Devolution debate and historicism’ in The Island of July 11, 2009). What Nietzsche is recommending here is “ƒ”¹…”moderation’ with respect to history and historical referent and this is a goes-without-saying that doesn’t really necessitate […]

by Dayan Jayatilleka Courtesy The Islandƒ”š‚  “The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.” – Marx, 1852 Malinda Seneviratne has history on his mind, perfectly illustrating Marx’s point in the 18th Brumaire that “The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of […]

The Presidential Secretariat said, In recognition of the services rendered to the Motherland in eliminating terrorsim from the Sri Lankan soil by Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka and Navy Commander Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda in the war against terrorism, President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday promoted General Fonseka as the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) and Admiral Karannagoda […]

Prof Rajiva Wijesinha Secretary General Secretariat for Coordinating the Peace Process The above headline is clearly an exaggeration, but it is based on the style of reporting adopted recently by the Times of London in its coverage of Sri Lanka. Following its extraordinary assertion, at the end of May, that over 20,000 had been killed […]

Sri Lanka News In reply to the wild allegation and the conspiratorial lie the British tabloid has shamefully orchestrated through their daily news paper in London, IDPs Health Care Director Dr. Hemantha Herath categorically denied any outbreak of water-borne diseases or diarrhoea at Manik Farm IDPs Camp, and further assured yesterday that Currently, only six […]

Ajit Randeniya America’s ruling elite, under the spell of the neocons and other special interest groups, have traditionally based their foreign policy on the triple strategies of interference in the domestic political affairs of other countries, implementing regime change through lackeys when necessary, and as in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan, bombing and invading when other […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando PhD, MBA, BSc (Hons) Lon. “Dengue fever (and even chikungunya) is a disease which can be easily prevented to a great extent by homoeopathic prophylactic (preventive) treatment. Empiric treatment has proved the efficacy of homoeopathic prophylaxis. So, what is the Ministry of Indigenous Medicine and the Homeopathic Medial Council operating […]

Ben Silva A Promise should be honoured, ifƒ”š‚  the promiseƒ”š‚  was made willingly and if all the relevant ƒ”š‚ information related to the promise was known, at the time the promise was made. With reference to the 13th amendment, it was forced upon us by India, who destabilised ƒ”š‚ us, by forming and arming LTTE. Any agreement […]

by Ranil WIJAYAPALAƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  courtesy Sunday Observer The final stages of the battle to eliminate the LTTE has once again become a hot topic in the media, especially in the international media this week after the five Tamil doctors, who are now under the detention of the Criminal Investigation Department, made fresh statements before the media […]

ASOKA S. I cannot help thinking that many Lankans have a perception that Investors and Tourists should come to Lanka no matter what because we are the most beautiful island in the world or we offer to them something no other country does. This “frog in the well” attitude coupled with mismanagement at the highest […]

Ananda De Costa All but one of the doctors who were in LTTE no fire zone till last minute seems to have a reasonable tale to tell, he too is of Indian origin. All others appear to be buying time to get out of the country to tell their soft story including discrimination and fear […]

Piyal Samarakone “Someone’s property becomes another one’s liberty”ƒ”š‚ the practice is nothing unusual for most of our people’s dear servants commonly known as politicians. Wake of the new beginning in the country, it seems the light of good vision started shedding onto unexpected quarters, hence sparks delight in common people. “No one is permitted to […]

MEDIA RELEASE -The Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations Office at Geneva The Ministerial Declaration titled “Implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to global public health”ƒ”š‚ was adopted at the end of the High-level Segment of the ECOSOC on 9th of July 2009. Sri Lanka was referred to twice […]

C. Wijeyawickrema “A Sinhala police officer cried when Tamil IDPs died in the camp.”ƒ”š‚ “Sinhala doctors cried when a Tamil IDP child died in the camp.”ƒ”š‚ Words of TNA MP Padmini Sidambaranathan in Parliament on July 7, 2009, she herself crying twice ƒ”š‚ Which is the master? ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?”ƒ”š‚ […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando “In any other country the person in charge will apologise for any delay and beg pardon from passengers. In Thailand they will first worship passengers. That is why they get 12 million visitors a year; we beg the world to get 300,000. These are the people who come to your […]

By Noor Nizam, Sri Lanka Peace Activist and freelance journalist. Hamilton , Friday 10th., July 2009. ƒ”š‚ During the final stages of the bloody military conflict between the LTTE cadres and the brave soldiers of the Sri Lankan army in the jungles of the Wanni, specially on May 16 blighted all hopes of any International intervention […]