By Walter Jayawardhana A top secret report written to Norway’s Foreign Ministry by a country’s senior diplomat and leaked to the newspaper Aften Posten has severely attacked the UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon for what is generally believed for not toeing the line of the West. Among the many things he has been criticized […]

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By Walter Jayawardhana Pandemonium reigned at an opposition United National Party (UNP)meeting at Kurunegala yesterday when Mangala Samaraweera was hooted down and was compelled to stop his speech. Ultimately the United national Party Deputy leader karu jayasuriya’s efforts to calm down the vociferous members of the meeting to stop their boos had to be given […]

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By H.L.D. Mahindapala Delivering the Eighth Neelan Tiruchelvam Memorial Lecture at the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES), Colombo, on July 29th 2007 Gareth Evans, President, International Crisis Group (ICG), has in his characteristic eloquent style clinically analyzed and described the new instrument of international intervention needed to prevent future “Holocausts and Cambodias and Rwandas […]

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LankaWeb Editorial August 19th 2009 A recent item in the Toronto Star by Human Rights Watch ~ representative Jo Becker captioned “Canada missed opportunity to right Sri Lanka’s wrongs” mayƒ”š‚  be a bold instigation urging Canada to take an anti Sri Lankan Government stance while also sounding sympathetic towards the huge anti Sri Lankan Government […]

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Embassy of Sri Lanka Washington DC USA New figures released by the government of Sri Lanka show that the number of displaced people living in government-run welfare centers has dropped by nearly 50,000 as people continue to return to their homes. According to the Ministry of Disaster Management and Human Rights, the welfare centers housed […]

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Ira de Silva London, Canada Mr. Robert Blake Assistant Secretary of State, South & Central Asia State Department Washington,D.C. U.S.A. ƒ”š‚ Dear Sir: ƒ”š‚  I have written to you in the past when as Ambassador in Sri Lanka you were doing what you could to help the Tamil Tiger terrorists (LTTE),ƒ”š‚ projectingƒ”š‚ an attitude that your mandateƒ”š‚ wasƒ”š‚ toƒ”š‚ “instruct” the […]

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Nimal Tissa Wijetunga We as Sri Lankans can very well remember the speeches, press conferences and discussions given by Malcolm Ranjith as Bishop of Ratnapura during the period of 2001 “ƒ¢¢”š¬…” 2005. The comments given by him during those speeches are full of distorted facts and specifically related with Ceasfire Agreement entered by the BIGGEST […]

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By Janaka Alahapperuma Dayaka Sabhawa of Gangarama Viharaya, Hunupitiya, Colombo-2 donated Rs.10 million to the newly established “Mahinda Rajapaksa Country Development Fund” at Temple Trees recently. Members of the Dayaka Sabhawa officially launched the Fund and handed over the donation to the President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the ceremony. Symbolically this Fund was inaugurated by Chief […]

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