S L Gunasekara By The Same Author The Indo Lanka Accord “ƒ¢¢”š¬…” An Analysis Tigers, `Moderates’ And Pandora’s Package A Tragedy Of Errors The Wages Of Sin Abomination The Report Of The Eleven `Pundits’ Where Angels Fear To Tread ƒ”š‚© S L Gunasekara Published By S.L.Gunasekara, 119/3, Model Farm Road, Colombo 8. Printed By “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‚¦”ƒ”š‚¦”ƒ”š‚¦”ƒ”š‚¦”ƒ”š‚¦”ƒ”š‚¦”ƒ”š‚¦ […]

Bandula Kothalawala London N7 Mr Philip Alston has done it again! In his typical almost inimitable style, Mr Alston has presented the findings of the experts, of course, designated by him on the “execution videos”ƒ”š‚. It is quite obvious that Mr Alston has made this an exceedingly personal issue and his ten-minute presentation smacks of […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. “Give us what Colombo gets” “Col. Karuna” was the first major Tamil politician to present the Tamil problems from a non-racial perspective. For this, Mano Ganeshan branded Karuna as a “Tamil traitor.” This had been the usual habit of Tamil separatists in Ceylon/Sri Lanka since 1920s. Even G.G. Ponnambalam was given […]

Achala Gunasekara-Rockwell. PhD (ABD) USA. It has often been asked in international circles, more particularly the pro-LTTE West, as to how Buddhist monks, who have a worldwide reputation for advocating nonviolence, have for the past quarter century in Sri Lanka supported the government’s use of “ƒ”¹…”violence’ against the Tamil “ƒ”¹…”militants’ in contemporary Sri Lanka. This […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata Much ink has flowed with regard to the flaws of our present political machinery. The more frequent punching bags are those labeled family banditism and dictatorial behaviour of the president sabotaging the constitution. Family relationships and nepotism always played a part in our politics. However that did not necessarily mean that […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada The Editor (Letters) THE OTTAWA CITIZEN Sir: Your story “ƒ”¹…”IEDs: BIGGER, STRONGER, DEADLIER “ƒ¢¢”š¬…” Expect more roadside bomb attacks: NATO’, takes me back to midnight of July 23, 1983, when four IEDs, Bigger, Stronger and Deadlier were activated by the Tamil Tigers at the […]

By Shelton A. Gunaratneƒ”š‚©2010 Patrick Bennet, an Englishman, was our tour director. David Price, a Welshman, was our coach driver. Trafalgar Tours had assigned them to take good care of us and show us the best of England and Scotland over 11 days beginning June 12, 1990. If we add up the motorway distances between […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar Jan.7th 2010 The Greatest Danger of A Sarath Fonseka Leadership even in hypothetical interpretation has been exposed in his wheeling and dealing with pro LTTE Forces as well as defunct members of the terror group themselves! The Nation of Sri Lanka needs to be made aware that the biggest threat to […]

Ben Silva Mrƒ”š‚  Philip Alston, Open letter UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killings, Dear Sir, Sense of proportion and UN Malpractice It is essentialƒ”š‚  to get the correct perspective and a sense of proportion related to issues in Sri Lanka. LTTE have carried out a large number of extrajudicial killings including the killings associatedƒ”š‚  with […]

By Garvin Karunaratne, Ph.D. The UNP of 1977 to 1995 and the Ranil Wickremasinghe Administration of 2002- 2004, instead of developing our education system have actually reoriented it in favour of the rich. In actuality the UNP successfully created a two tier education system, one for the rich and another for the middle classes. Sri […]

Media Release- Public Communications Division Foreign Ministry clarifies presence of Heads of Missions/ Posts and senior Officials in Colombo The attention of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been drawn to news items published recently in some sections of the print media claiming that some Heads of Missions and Officials serving in Sri Lanka Missions […]

Group of concerned UNPers We sent you many letters recently. We will continue to do so in time to come in order to save our country and moreover our party, the UNP from extinction. It is no secret Mangala/JVP combine trapped our beloved leader Ranil Wicremasinghe to agree to put forward Sarath Fonseka who never […]

Kithsiri Senadeera “ƒ¢¢”š¬…” Sydney, Australia Under the British rule and in early post-independence era Sri Lanka’s corporate sector was dominated by British colonials and missionary educated mercantile executives. One of the first to rise to senior executive level of Sri Lanka’s corporate sector from a Buddhist school-Ananda College- was Dr D.S.Bandarage, who passed away recently. […]

RANJIT WICKREMERATNE Because we were united we were able to have Freedom and Peace in our country after very long time. It was only few months back we all celebrated our greatest victory over the most ruthless terror organization in the world L.T.T.E. Most of us thought we wont be able to achieve victory as […]

By Dr. Prashan Premaratne, Australia CIA was directly involved in the “ƒ”¹…”Bay of Pigs’ invasion in Cuba in 1961. Ever since Castro assumed power in Cuba, United States launched multiple attempts to kill Fidel Castro so that they could continue their imperial march into Americas. One of the more open acts of the era was […]