Byƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  Gomin Dayasriƒ”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‚  There is a time to criticize and a time to be constructive. Country is being systematically throttled with a lasso thrownaround its neck by an alien fist.ƒ”š‚  Reconstruct is the proper term. Lets stand firm and heave the wretched curse of the albatross stuck around our neck andbreathe again like a free […]

Asada M Erpini 13th Amendment (13A) to the constitution of the sovereign Republic of Sri Lanka and implementing it by the Sri Lankan government “ƒ¢¢”š¬…” according to some, even going beyond the 13th Amendment “ƒ¢¢”š¬…” constitute the catchphrase of the day for all those outsiders who think that they hold the magic wand that will […]

ƒ”š‚ Shenali Waduge In a country as small as Sri Lanka where over 14.8m of the 20m population are Sinhalese and possibly less than 10% are Sri Lankan Tamils, a question never answered is what are these grievances that the Sri Lankan Tamils finds exclusively to be theirs and how much of these grievances are relevant […]

By A. Abdul Aziz,Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Sri Lanka. (Given below is an excerpt the Friday Sermon of Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Supreme Head of the world-wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam, delivered on 23rd March 2012 at “ƒ”¹…”Baithul Futhuh’, London, U.K., gave a discourse on Ten Conditions of Initiation in Ahmadiyya Community as […]

Harvey Perera March 2012 Ms. Jayalalitha/Mr. Karunanidhi, You have launched a campaign against Sri Lanka and the Sinhala people in particular.ƒ”š‚  This has been going on a long time through various Tamil leaders.ƒ”š‚  However, of late, due to the activities of Navi Pillai of the UNHCR who is now trying to launch a Resolution against […]

By Stanley Perera Suresh Premachandra tells TNA to agree to a third party either USA or EU to negotiate with the Government of Sri Lanka.ƒ”š‚  GoSL mustƒ”š‚ notƒ”š‚ fall into this trap again.ƒ”š‚  GoSL must remember how the LTTE took GoSL for a ride during the 27 years of TERRORISM.ƒ”š‚  TNA being the sole representative of the […]

By Stanley Perera-Sri Lanka When the Tamil Tiger Terrorist leader Veloopillai Prabhakaran appointed 22 TERRORIST to the Sri Lanka’s parliament as the sole representative of LTTE, Sivajilingam in his maiden speech threatened the Government of Sri Lanka to send the 4000 Sri Lanka army personnel based in Jaffna in body bags to Colombo.ƒ”š‚  The Speaker […]

ƒ”š‚ Mahinda Weerasingheƒ”š‚  & Ranjith Soysa Erik Solheimƒ”š‚ has been stripped of his Ministerial titles of, both environmental issues and foreign aid; it has been reported by the Norwegian media. The world reacted with shock! ƒ”š‚ Kjell Magneƒ”š‚ Bondevik, ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ Jonƒ”š‚ Westborg, Erik Solheim and Arne FjƒÆ’†’ƒ”š‚¸rtoft’s were comrades in arms, knew each other well, and were covering for each other’s […]

Asada M Erpini There are media reports that the LTTE activists in the West are moving to push for a referendum in the North and East of Sri Lanka for a re-merger of the two provinces. Buttressing that call is the statement by the Eastern province Chief Minister that it is not the Tamil National […]

By Gamini Gunawardane We need not loose heart over the outcome at Geneva though the LTTE supporters abroad may be dancing for joy as if they had won their eealm “ƒ”¹…”war’. They have had several set backs. So this may be some consolation and justification for continuing their “ƒ”¹…”struggle’ and collecting funds from their deluded […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 Canada 29 March 2012 The Editor THE EMBASSY, Ottawa ƒ”š‚ Editor Kubes Navaratnam in his Opinion essay Post-conflict Sri Lanka needs Canadian R2P, seems confused and is unable to see the forest for the trees.ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  He says that Sri Lanka has used the notion […]

Susantha Wijesingheƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  There is a news item, that New Delhiƒ”š‚  plans to send an all-Party Delegation to Sri Lanka, led by Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha, Sushma Swaraj, in April, toƒ”š‚ press for stopping all atrocities against Tamils, and also to look into their living conditions, after the end of LTTE.ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  Who says there […]

ƒ”š‚ Arcadius The poor villager stood at the doorway of his thatched dwelling.ƒ”š‚  He watched the flowering medium-sized murunga (billygoat plum) tree, which he had planted in the front-yard not too long ago. He absorbed the elegant beauty of its small, creamy-white flowers that dotted the spikes of its leaves. This murunga tree provided the man […]

By Stanley Perera It was during the last Presidential election campaign, the Terrorist Organisation LTTEƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  made a huge financial donation to Hillary Clinton.ƒ”š‚  Soon after this donation Hillary Clinton announced that there are good Terrorists and Bad Terrorists insinuating that LTTE Terrorists are good Terrorists because they made a financial donation to Hillary’s election campaign.ƒ”š‚  […]

By Walter Jayawardhana reporting from Los Angeles The recent statement that some cadres of ƒ”š‚ Sri Lanka’s crushed Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have joined Maoists of the Sothern Indian state of Karnataka is a process that continued to happen without any break with the fall of the movement back in 2009 by the Sri […]

L. Jayasooriya The postmortem on India is still not over. Yesterday on March 26th Minister GL Peiris at a televised news conference using the most scathing words possible against India in the politest possible language and tone stated what Sri Lanka felt about India. That gives us some self respect which this government has denied […]

Hameed Abdul Karim ƒ”š‚  When you think of the word “ƒ”¹…”law’ the images that come to your mind are of a stern looking judge seated on an elevated position in the centre of a court house flanked by a grim looking, if not frightened, members of a jury, lawyers dressed in their flowing robes quarrelling […]

By Gunadasa Amarasekera-Courtesy The Island On 2nd March 1815, we ceded our sovereignty to the – greatest empire at the time-The British Empire- of which it was said “ƒ”¹…”the sun never set’. On 22nd March 2012 we were intimidated into taking the first step to cede our sovereignty to the most powerful empire of today”ƒ¢¢”š¬‚the […]

By Mario Perera, Kadawata ƒ”š‚ Unsolicited gratuitous advice is now being tendered to Sri Lanka by members of an exclusive Home for the Aged Club. This self constituted club comprises former Heads of State of certain nations. They all bear the label EX. One of them is Nelson Mandela. He is an ex in more senses […]

Asada M Erpini After delivering a body blow to Sri Lanka at the 19th Sessions of the UNHCR in Geneva on 20 March 2012 on alleged human rights violations, the US is now sending a team of business leaders, entrepreneurs, and investors to Sri Lanka to enhance bilateral economic relationships. ƒ”š‚ Investors in business concerns are […]

Ranjith Soysa In interpreting and understanding the defeat suffered by Sri Lanka at the UNHRC any fool will be able to conclude that the US led West prefers a weak and unstable Sri Lanka in order to meet the objectives of their geo-political strategy in South Asia. India too needs a weak Sri Lanka embroiled […]

March 28, 2012 ƒ”š‚ Caritas yesterday dismissed allegations from a senior cabinet minister accusing the Church’s social arm of involvement in a major conspiracy to create anarchy within the country. ƒ”š‚ Health Minister Maithripala Sirisena said Caritas members had organized recent farmers’ protests and had gone to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva to speak […]

G Parthasarathy Courtesy: Daily Pioneer (India) March 28, 2012 Wars and conflicts are almost inevitably bloody and marked by huge civilian casualties which the Americans describe as “collateral damage”ƒ”š‚.ƒ”š‚  Estimates of the number of Iraqis killed after the American invasion of Iraq, avowedly in order to rid the country of nuclear weapons which never existed, […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatungeƒ”š‚  ƒ”š‚ Abstractƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  Using children in armed conflicts has been reported in many countries around the world.ƒ”š‚  Various rebel groups in Africa, Asia and Latin America exploit children in their armed struggles against their respective regimes. Often these children are kidnaped from their parents and indoctrinated, given brief training and along with the […]

Asada M Erpini The media on 26 March carried a statement by Prof. G.L. Peiris that Sri Lanka will reject the resolution that was adopted at the UNHCR sessions in Geneva on 22 March. The statement is one of the most decisive and firm responses to the intrusive resolution that was spearheaded by the US, […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala ƒ”š‚ There was absolutely no moral or acceptable reason for India to abandon its immediate neighbours in the SAARC and Asian regions and rush to join hands with distant America and the West to back the US Resolution against Sri Lanka at the 19th session of the UNHRC in Geneva. This attempt […]

Dilrook Kannangara It is no secret Tamil Nadu has emerged the sworn enemy of Sri Lanka. Sri Lankans other than Tamils are threatened, attacked and humiliated in Tamil Nadu. Even Tamils with different political views to that of Tamil Nadu are subject to harassment. Pilgrims, politicians, film directors, academics and many others from the island […]

By Senaka Weeraratna In calling for accountability for alleged war crimes on the part of Sri Lankan military personnel in the closing phase of operations against LTTE terrorism which were combined with humanitarian rescue of thousands of civilians trapped in LTTE controlled areas, India has opened a Pandora’ s Box. ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚ ƒ”š‚  It is unlikely that […]

C. Wijeyawickrema There was a bakery owner that I knew who voted for AnandaTissa de Alwis in 1977. He was a Buddhist. One dayI told him thatATdeA was not a Buddhist. He could not believe that a Christian could have two very highly Buddhistfirst names and would not have voted for him had he knew […]

Shenali Waduge Libya extends over 1759540 square kilometres (679362 sq mi) and is home to 6.4million people. On 17 March 2011, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1973 on Libya proposed by France, Lebanon & UK. Regime change in Iraq took 8 years and trillion dollars, the Liberating Libya took just 7 months but NATO […]