Herold Leelawardena As has been always, the sole aim of the BBC is to discredit MR government. No wonder BBC chose to send a LTTE sympathizer with a Nelsonian eye as their special correspondent to report on the plight of IDPs returnees. It is sad that BBC correspondent emphasises the suffering of only a section […]

By Shelton A. Gunaratne ƒ”š‚©2010ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  professor of mass communications emeritus, Minnesota State University Moorhead. Minnesota (pop. 5.23 million) is known as the “Land of 10,00 Lakes.”ƒ”š‚ Therefore, it is no wonder that Minnesotans like water sports such as boating, canoeing, fishing and water skiing. Weekend trips to family cabins on Minnesota’s numerous lakes are a […]

Embassy of Sri Lankaƒ”š‚  Kuwait. The annual Ramadan celebrations jointly organized by the Sri Lankan .Embassy and the Sri Lankan Manpower Welfare Association ( SLMWA ) of Kuwait was held at the Embassy premises amid a gathering of over 1500 devotees belonging to all ethnic and religious denominations. The program of activities commenced on 27th […]

Dr.P.A.Samaraweera, Australia On the 25th of August a group of Buddhist monks had protestedƒ”š‚ against an animal slaughter ritual in the Munneswaram Kaliƒ”š‚ Kovil in Chilaw.ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ It is alleged thatƒ”š‚ around 400 goats and a countless number of fowls had been inhumanelyƒ”š‚ slaughtered at this ritual. ƒ”š‚  Hinduism promotes non-violence and vegetarianism. There are many sects of Hinduism and this […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent ., Gloucester . Ontario . Canada ƒ”š‚  August 30, 2010 ƒ”š‚  The Editor (Letters) THE OTTAWA CITIZEN ƒ”š‚  Sir: ƒ”š‚  You reported that “More to be done, Obama says”,ƒ”š‚  and this is five years after the Gulf Coast was hit by Hurricane Katrina. People are still waiting to be sent […]

Written by M Rizvi. Dear Editor, I thank Lankaweb and Mr Kumar Moses for the opinion piece titled – The Dangerous Possibility of Islamic Terror in Sri Lanka. It contained many new insights to a subject matter that is rarely taken up in the openƒ”š‚ though media around the world talk about it at lengths. As […]

Dr. Tilak Fernando Several positive feedbacks to my article, “ƒ”¹…”We need to get the act right’ (published on August 2) prompted me to write an addendum to it in the hope that we all, as patriotic Sri Lankans, expect and wish that Sri Lanka’s aim in promoting tourism in an excellent scale meets with the […]

Wick. Gankanda August 23, Monday 2010 To: Marcus Brauchli – Executive Editor, Donald Graham – Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and Ann McDaniel – Senior Vice President Washington Post Company 1150 15th Street, NW Washington, DC 20071Dear Mr. Brauchli,ƒ”š‚ I am writing to expose glaring misrepresentations in your article ‘Sri Lankan asylum-seekers deserve hearings’ published on […]

Ahmed The Tamils of Sri Lanka, throughout history, have attempted to categorize the Sri Lankan Muslims as belonging to the Tamil race. This has been mainly for selfish reasons in a bid to eliminate the minority Muslim community from having its own unique identity. The Government of Sri Lanka, however, treats the Muslims as of […]

By Charles.S.Perera ƒ”š‚ The LSSP remnants Tissa Vitharana and Wasudeva Nanayakkara still hanging onto the Government as a sad reminder to a great political party that dominated the then political arena of Sri Lanka, had said that they oppose the Executive Presidency. ƒ”š‚ Marxism opposes parliamentary system of government “ƒ”š‚¦.”ƒ”š‚ In explaining the class nature of bourgeois […]

Sarath Wiesingheƒ”š‚  LL.M ( London) Solicitor”ƒ¢¢”š¬…” ƒ”š‚ Sri Lankan Ambassador to United Arab Emirates Ship Sun See was initially sailing towards Australia with 490 Sri Lankans allegedly seeking Asylum in some country with resources and a comfortable life. Anybody fleeing the birthplace in fear of persecution will be prepared to go to the closest safe haven, […]

Jayantha Ahangama ƒ”š‚ Mr. Sunil Vijayapala, writing on Aug. 24, correctly called Anuradhapura the capital. Then he apologized. Why did you apologize, Sir? Anuradhapura was the ruling capital when we were a dignified nation. When people become dignified, Anuradhapura becomes the capital. The capital is in our minds. For all self-respecting Lankans, the capital *is* Anuradhapura. […]

Dilrook Kannangara It was recently reported that the President has secured the desired number of seats (150) for Constitutional change. Although there is a quantitative advantage it comes at a loss of quality. When national traitors are accomodated to get the two thirds, their anti-national demands also must be given. The calibre of these opportunists […]

By Noor Nizam, Sri Lankan Peace Activist & Political Communication Researcher, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, ƒ”š‚ Friday 27th., August 2010.The leader of Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) Rauff Hakeem said on August 27th., Friday evening that they have decided to support the UPFA government to make the necessary amendments to the existing constitution. When asked […]

By Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge The word autism was coined by the Swiss Psychiatrist Eugine Bleuler in 1910. In 1938, Hans Asperger of the Vienna University Hospital adopted Bleuler’s terminology and in 1981 the Clinical Community widely recognized Autism as a separate diagnosis. Autism is classified as a Pervasive Developmental Disorder affecting young children and […]

ALI SUKHANVER ƒ”š‚ Suppression and oppression give birth to depression; the worst of all psychological diseases. Most of the time violence is a result of depression. When someone feels that he is being deprived of his basic human rights and finds himself unable to raise a voice against that deprivation and injustice, he turns to violence. […]

By Dr M D P DISSANAYAKE. A Legal Luminary has provided one of troublesome ƒ”š‚ political theoretical analysis in trying to compare our President withƒ”š‚  Rt. Hon. Jim Hackerƒ”š‚  who ƒ”š‚ was the Ministerƒ”š‚  ofƒ”š‚  fictional Department of Administrative Affairs (in the BBC series Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister), and later theƒ”š‚  became the Satiricalƒ”š‚  Britishƒ”š‚  […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario .ƒ”š‚ Canada ƒ”š‚  August 27, 2010 ƒ”š‚  The Editor (Letters) THE OTTAWA CITIZEN ƒ”š‚  Sir: ƒ”š‚  Canada’s fight on terrorism has amazed me once again.ƒ”š‚  You reported that RCMP Chiefƒ”š‚  Serge Therriault, head of criminal operations for the capital region said that an RCMP-led national security investigation […]

By Charles.S.Perera If “Foreign Unis will stop JVP hanky-panky”ƒ”š‚(news head line in Lakbima), ƒ”š‚ is the reason why the Minister of Higher Education Mr. S.B.Dissanayakeƒ”š‚  wants to set up International Universities in Sri Lanka, it has to be emphasised that it is not at all a wise decision . The boycotting of lectures, going on strikes, […]

Sarath Wijesinghe LL.M (London) Solicitor-Attorney-at-Law “ƒ¢¢”š¬…” Ambassador of Sri Lanka in the United Arab Emirates) KNOWLEDGE IS POWER –Knowledge is power which is derived from Education. Education is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability on an individual. In Sri Lanka parents invest on children by […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala Ranil Wickremesinghe’s maneuvers to save his position as leader of the UNP by appointing Sajith Premadasa as his deputy and uniting the rival factions has backfired after the Reformist Group headed by Premadasa discovered that the leader was undercutting his deputy from day one of the agreement. ƒ”š‚ Premadasa met Wickremesinghe last […]

ƒ”š‚ Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a neurobehavioral developmental disorder affecting about 3-5% of the world’s population. ADHD was first described by Dr. Heinrich Hoffman in 1845. He eloquently wrote about the children with ADHD and their characteristics. Contemporary studies concur that the symptoms of ADHD are caused by a neurological dysfunction […]

byƒ”š‚  Gomin Dayasri Yes, Prime Minister was once a popular British TV comedy. The ongoing reality show, “Yes, Mr President”ƒ”š‚, is a live Sri Lankan tragedy. After defeating terrorism, a Failed State, tag will not stick but a Sorry State label would, because of servile sycophancy. The Ministers, Secretaries, Advisors, Consultants, Parliamentarians, Public Servants and […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario .ƒ”š‚ Canada ƒ”š‚ 25 August 2010 ƒ”š‚  The Editor (Letters) THE OTTAWA CITIZEN ƒ”š‚  Sir: ƒ”š‚  Here is a true story that Martin Collacott and Peter Showler should make note of. ƒ”š‚  I would be concerned and be cautiousƒ”š‚ of the Tamil translators who are helping the 492 illegal […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada ƒ”š‚ 25 August 2010 ƒ”š‚  The Editor (Letters) THE OTTAWA CITIZEN ƒ”š‚  Sir: ƒ”š‚  Identifying Tamils tough task for officials, you said.ƒ”š‚  Really!ƒ”š‚  This is just a case of trying to identify 492 illegal Tamil migrants who were brought in by human-traffickers on MV Sun […]

By Shelton A. Gunaratne ƒ”š‚©2010 ƒ”š‚ Shooting the breeze during a leisurely boat ride on the upper Mississippi, more than 40 years after we left graduate school on the Minneapolis campus of University of Minnesota, turned out to be an exhilarating experience for three of us old buddies”ƒ¢¢”š¬‚Jim Bowers, Kurt Kent and me”ƒ¢¢”š¬‚mid-August 2010. Minnesota Buddies […]

– Kumar Moses At last Canada realized that Canadians have been duped by Tamils with their bad luck stories. How familiar? http://www.torontosun.com/comment/editorial/2010/08/21/15098871.html ƒ”š‚ Sri Lankans, however, are still grappling with Tamils’ duping them for close to a century with absurd allegations, sadistic nonsense, racist rubbish and usual bad luck stories. Yet Sri Lankan leaders don’t have […]

Vijaya Vickrama Sri Lankan people seeking refuge in affluent countries falsely alleging discrimination, persecution, rape, murder etc. to get sympathy of host countries, has become a common occurarnce.ƒ”š‚  These assylum seekers and their supporters go on a Sri Lanka bashing spree causing inestimable damage to our country’s reputation.ƒ”š‚  As a result, our countryƒ”š‚ runs the risk […]

Sunil Vijayapalaƒ”š‚  I was very fortunate to spend a few months in 2008 in our capital of Sri Lanka which is Anuradhapura. (sorry folks it HAS to be our capital)ƒ”š‚  One of the marvels of our ancient Sinhala history is the Yoda Ela built by King Dhatusena in 5 century AD which connects Dhatusena’s Kalawewa […]

MEDIA RELEASE Sri Lanka High Commission Islamabad As directed by His Excellency the President of Sri Lanka, Mr Mahinda Rajapaksa, a 16 Member Sri Lankan Medical Team arrived in Pakistan, with a cargo of medicines and surgical equipments, on a medical relief mission for the flood affected victims of Pakistan.ƒ”š‚  The Medical Team has been […]