ƒ”š‚ Byƒ”š‚  Gomin Dayasri ƒ”š‚ Statistics are like bikinis. What they expose is revealing what they conceal is suggestive. ƒ”š‚ Accountability is to reach an authenticated number of civilians dead and not act silly with fairy tales of a zero civilian casualty number or become traumatized with horror stories of over 40,000 civilian deaths. In war, civilian casualties […]

L. Jayasooriya Anybody who has watched Tamara speak at the UN body in Geneva could not have failed to notice the genuine sincerity with which she defended our country and with such high emotion. With that she also proved the possibility of the existence of at least one Tamil person who considers this land that […]

Asada M Erpini Sri Lanka is no longer in “ƒ”¹…”List of Shame’, according to media reports on 12 June that cite the UN Secretary General. On the surface it appears as if UN has found something positive to say about the forever-maligned Sri Lanka. But as the reader proceeds, he would not know whether to […]

Asada M Erpini During the recent visit of the President of Sri Lanka to the UK, at the invitation of the Queen celebrating her Jubilee, Tamil women and men, most of whom would have landed on British soil claiming refugee status, protested opposite Park Hilton Hotel where the guest was accommodated. In the good old […]

Prensa Latina- Translated from the Portuguese version by: Lisa Karpova CourtesyPravda.Ru Most mass media accuses the Syrian government for the crimes of more than 90 groups that have assassinated opponents.ƒ”š‚  They are based in London or Paris – and pointed to by some observers sent by the United Nations, but none of them consulted the […]

By Walter Jayawardhana The Times of India has reported ƒ”š‚ a section of the wall of the 8th century Buddhist monastery at Jajpur’s Udayagiri collapsed recently.   Another national newspaper, the HINDU has blamed the government of India for lack of interest in preserving the Buddhist center for some time and has been complaining of the […]

What a wonderful moral story In 1923 , eight of the wealthiest people in the world met . Their combined wealth , estimated, exceeded the wealth of the government of the United States . These men knew how to make a living and accumulate wealth . It’s very interesting to read about what happened to […]

Sri Lanka News The launching ceremony of the Integration of INTERPOL Database Services with Sri Lanka Immigration Border Control System by Secretary Defence and Urban Development Mr Gotabaya Rajapaksa was held today (11th June 2011) at the main auditorium of the Ministry of Defence. The system of this magnitude is the first of its kind […]

M. A. Kaleel, Kalmunai -Courtesy The Island Mathew Russel Lee has been very critical of Sri Lanka since the defeat of the LTTE by Sri Lankan government forces. He has been relentlessly picking on the Sri Lankan Diplomatic Corps at the UN. Many have been the victims of his scathing attacks “ƒ¢¢”š¬…” Bandula Jayasekera, MG […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island During the course of his address to the National Convention of the ITAK in Batticoloa on May 26th 2012, Mr. R. Sampanthan articulated an ideology that could seriously set back efforts to evolve a political solution and foster reconciliation. This ideology is no different to that which ignited the […]

By A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Sri Lanka. ƒ”š‚ (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 8th June 2012 at “ƒ”¹…”Baithul Futhuh’, London, U.K., gave a discourse on his recent successful tour to Holland and […]