In Retrospect By Sarath Kumara April 10th, 2013 ƒ”š‚  While Sri Lanka is currentlyƒ”š‚  in reconciliation mode for all the ethnic strife of the LTTE insurgency there seems to be a very distressing issue which has surfaced in post LTTE Sri Lanka which is not only shameful but also totally unacceptable while evenƒ”š‚ contravening the teaching […]

Dr.Tilak Fernando After the evacuation of residents during the Second World War there had not been any habitation at Hyde Park Gardens, West London, except for a row of stables. Subsequently, Sri Lanka (Ceylon) High Commission moved to No.13 Hyde Park Gardens, followed by the German Ambassador (to No.14) as Sri Lanka’s neighbour. The whole […]

Courtesy : Government Information Department Sri Lanka Wednesday blamed India for the Tamil separatist war which dragged for 30 years on the island. The information department quoted Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa as telling the local media that India could never absolve itself of the responsibility for creating terrorism in Sri Lanka. Had the then Indian […]

Dilrook Kannangaraƒ”š‚  What happens in Kuragala is a national shame. Ancient Buddhist monastery, archaeological sites, Devanagala rock inscription and the historical tunnel have been claimed by a Muslim sect as belonging to Arabs in the past. They argue an Arabic sage lived and died at the location close to a thousand years ago. These claims […]

Asada M Erpini Interim Self Government? The expression sounds eerily familiar. Ah! Yes, that is the Eelam by another name that the LTTE proposed in 2003. Oddly enough, that had one more word: it was called Interim Self Governing Authority (ISGA), and now, ten years later, a member of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), the […]

B Sivakumar, TNN Courtesy The Times of India CHENNAI: Did India compensate the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) after the 1987 Indo-Lanka pact and the dispatch of Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) to Sri Lanka? The US administration believed so, according to a cable sent by its embassy here and released by Wikileaks. A […]

Byƒ”š‚  Srian Obeyesekere Courtesy The Nation The Golden Key Depositors Union (GKDU) yesterday claimed that the Attorney General had failed to issue an extradition order on the second suspect Sicille Kotelawala despite a court ruling. President, GKDU, Dushyanthi Hapugoda, speaking to “ƒ”¹…”The Nation’ said, “No extradition order has been issued by the Attorney General’s Department […]

Tax officials raid Nokia campuses in Chennai & Lots of Questions! http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-28/nokia-says-indian-court-grants-stay-on-unpaid-tax-demand.html 2013/01/09/india_nokia_tax_demand/ 1. Place Tax bill for UKƒ”š‚£340m 2. Barter loudly for 20 minutes, with much hand waving and posturing 3. Settle on bill for ƒ”š‚£24.50 plus ƒ”š‚£1,000 in cash to each inspector for their “expenses” CHENNAI: Income Tax officials are raiding the premises […]

M. Kalyanaraman B. Kolappan Courtesy The Hindu A week into the Emergency when the relationship between the Congress government at the Centre and the DMK government in Tamil Nadu was becoming increasingly hostile, Labour and Housing Minister K. Rajaram asked a U.S. diplomatic representative in Chennai whether the U.S. would give assistance to the State […]

C. Wijeyawickrema, LL.B., Ph.D. Service of a monk The monk Ven. Sobitha (S) did lot of great service to Sri Lanka, especially to the Sinhala Buddhist cause. He was never a racist; he was presenting the reasonable path. A true Buddhist monk cannot be discriminating against any other living being or destroy or harm even […]

Shenali Waduge Mass media have a power far more than Governments to tilt public opinion to their line of thinking using a plethora of modes at both international and local levels with a dangerous ability to make mountains out of molehills. The scope of their manipulation is phenomenal and profit driven. Humans are sensitive to […]

Asada M Erpiniƒ”š‚  The US Ambassador to Sri Lanka has come out with the typical diplomatic jargon that does not mean anything worthwhile, and which also could be interpreted to mean any viewpoint depending on one’s position. She is reported in the media on 09 April, to have said that the dealings with Sri Lanka […]

Special Correspondent Courtesy the Hindu Five parliamentarians from India, who arrived here Monday night, met Speaker of the Sri Lankan Parliament Chamal Rajapaksa and External Affairs Minister of Sri Lanka G.L. Peiris on Tuesday, it is reliably learnt. However, sources with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) “ƒ¢¢”š¬‚ which organized the […]

PROFESSOR ALI SUKHANVER ƒ”š‚ The General Elections 2013 shall give a new colour to the history of Pakistan. Now-a-days one could feel a great hustle and bustle among all political sections of society in Pakistan because it is the very first time that a politically elected democratic government successfully completed its tenure. The results of the […]

R. K. Radhakrishnan (Courtesy the Hindu) Tamil Tigers might have threatened the then Chief Minister, M. Karunanidhi, in 1989 “with a significant increase in the level of militant violence in Tamil Nadu”ƒ”š‚ if he did not “boost their cause,”ƒ”š‚ the United States surmised. “While all agree that it would be counterproductive for Karunanidhi to continue […]

Shenali Waduge Since 1987 there have been a series of secretly signed agreements that have proven detrimental to the country. Silence of biased media to expose and inform the public to generate enough momentum against these agreements has meant nationalist lobbies have had to step in to fill the void. For all its past records, […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane The Muslim community associated with Myanmar or former Burma, known as Rohingya Muslims are not indigenous to Myanmar. They are a relatively recent migrant community of Myanmar. Most of these Muslims are illicit immigrants who migrated from Muslim neighborhood regions of Bengal India during the British colonial period and later from East […]

It is an unfortunate that the Press of this country, particularly in the English language mainstream, has consistently failed to conform to the general principles of journalism followed in democratic countries. Most of the politically and economically influential people in Sri Lanka as well as those living overseas rely primarily on English language newspapers.ƒ”š‚  It […]

by Walter Jayawardhana ƒ”š‚ The lead op-ed piece published by the Hindu in its latest edition said the resignation of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam from the United Progressive Alliance government is more likely that the party has used the Sri Lankan crisis to push for a separation from the UPA, because it is politically expedient for […]

By A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at “ƒ¢¢”š¬…” Sri Lanka. ƒ”š‚ A recent Press Release issued by our Press Department U.K., stated thatƒ”š‚ His Holinessƒ”š‚ Mirza Masroor Ahmad appeals for an end to inequality. The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (Jama’at) and Fifth Khalifa,ƒ”š‚ His Holinessƒ”š‚ Mirza Masroor Ahmad has spoken at length about the perilous […]

Dilrook Kannangara The speech delivered by Asanga Abeyagoonaskera, Executive Director, Lakshman Kadirgamar Institute (LKIIRSS) at the Annual Asian Relations Conference Organised by the Indian Council for World Affairs contains many inaccuracies. (http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=75924) On a superficial analysis, India has a fast growing economy; currently ranked 9th in the world in terms of the GDP and tipped […]

Shenali Waduge Winning hearts and minds of terrorists, mentality of surrender, advocating theory of “unwinnable war”ƒ”š‚ and policy of appeasing, reducing the country to a pariah state, knowingly giving a terrorist organization status on par with a sovereign state and a democratic government were the characteristics of those led by Ranil Wickremasinghe that went on […]

Asada M Erpini “Extremist organisations are disturbing the harmony among different ethnic and religious groups.”ƒ”š‚ “Ban the extremist organisations”ƒ”š‚, goes a call attributed to another group in Sri Lanka. The media are awash with the threat reportedly caused by these “extremist”ƒ”š‚ groups. ƒ”š‚ The writer has no special affiliation to or any antagonism towards Bodu Bala […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar April 7th, 2013 The haranguing of Sri Lanka by Tamil Nadu politicos at every given opportunity and India acquiescing based on the dependency of certain top dog ruling party personalities who would rather dance to Tamil Nadu tunes than acknowledge the incongruesness of it all needs to be highlighted and brought […]

ƒ”š‚ By Ravi Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island April 7, 2013, 10:03 pm Following the discovery of a mass grave near the Matale hospital and the controversy surrounding it, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has decided to appoint a commission to probe it. Presidential Spokesman Mohan Samaranayake told The Island yesterday that the President would appoint the Commission this […]

Shenali Waduge Nations and nation systems did not emerge without a history. Nations like Sri Lanka have a rich cultural and historical heritage they should not feel shy about. The modern day liberal secularists would profane a different notion but against the heritage of the past what have these liberals given for history to remember? […]

Press Release Dr. Nazreen Nawaz Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir Not content with arresting and imposing fines on Muslim women wearing niqab as well as expulsion of modestly dressed Muslim girls and women from schools and government jobs; Associated Press and other media outlets reported on Monday the 1st of […]

By Express News Service – CHENNAI / COLOMBO Courtesy the New Indian Express MDMK general secretary Vaiko and New York-based Human Rights Watch made separate calls to assist 19 Tamils being readied to be deported to Colombo from the United Arab Emirates. In a telephonic conversation, Vaiko reminded Manmohan Singh of his letter a few […]

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By Charles.S.Perera Kath Noble in her article ” Sri Lanka’s defeat ” to the Island on 27 March, 2013, states , “The UN Human Rights Council sessions ended last week with the passage of another resolution on Sri Lanka. It was a victory for the United States, which secured 25 votes in favour compared to […]