By Afshain Afzal ‚ ‚ ‚ ‚ ‚ ‚ ‚ ‚ ‚ ‚ ‚  Unaware of what is going to happen on return to duty after merry weekend, it came as a total surprise. The security was at the lowest in and around Naval Headquarters, while everyone failed to apply the drills rehearsed over time and again. It is a usual practice in all the […]

By Lim Kooi Fong On February 16, 2002, the Buddhist News Network (BNN, now Buddhist Channel, www.buddhistchannel.tv) interviewed the late Chief Venerable Dr. K. Sri DhammanandaMahaNayakaThera. This candid interview revealed rare and important details of the growth of local Buddhist education during the lifespan of Chief as a monk in Malaysia. It can be said […]

By NJ Thakuria Political crisis and confusion galore are mounting in Bangladesh over the next general election, which must be completed between October 25, 2013 and January 24, 2014. Before the fiver-year term of the present Awami League led coalition government is over by December 2013, it has to pave way for handing over the […]

Shenali D Waduge Tamil National Alliance leaders headed by R. Sambandan, Abraham Sumanthiran and Chief Ministerial Candidate Wigneswaran have gone on the defensive all of a sudden. This itself reveals that things are not going so smoothly on the TNA camp or campaign trail. TNA-â„¢s 2013 manifesto has not shown to be anything different to […]

Chaminda Perera in Jaffna Courtesy The Daily News * Massive exodus from party fold * Local leaders ditch TNA, join govt A majority of TNA supporters are being marginalised by the TNA leadership for being -Ëœlow caste-â„¢ and they have started leaving the party in droves, many leaders of local government bodies controlled by the […]

By‚  GOMIN DAYASRI Lady trudges looking like a tramp but holds a trump being the High Commissioner of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Her roots beckon a South Indian origin; born to a South African family belonging to the Tamil Valhalla caste and responds to the name of Nevenatham Pillai. Should create no […]

Shenali D. Waduge Unless and until anyone can prove that ethnic animosities between the Sinhalese Buddhists and Tamil Hindus had prevailed throughout Sri Lanka-â„¢s history there is no compelling need to use uncritically western concepts such as -Ëœreconciliation-â„¢. Genesis of Reconciliation The Government and people of Sri Lanka must be warned of embracing ideas that […]

Malin Abeyatunge Today-â„¢s Daily Mirror (13/9/2013)reported that Channel 4 News & Documentary maker Callum Macrae is to travel to Sri Lanka for the CHOGM. Let us be blunt. Under no circumstances that the GoSL should grant Callum Macrae and his Channel 4 team visa to visit Sri Lanka for any reasons. He and his Channel […]

Courtesy The Daily News   Defence Secretary in an‚ an interview with The Australian newspaper said that the United States had given its fullest support to destroy the LTTE’s floating armouries in the deep sea between 2006 and 2008. “One turning point in the war came when the Sri Lankan navy was able to sink these […]

Ranil Senanayake ‚ It is tragic when proponents of industrial agriculture attempt to deceive us with subversive methods to defend the -Ëœdebt trap-â„¢ that our farmers have got into. Further, use of the LTTE bogey seems to be a new trick in the arsenal of the multi national agents to keep our farmers hooked onto using […]

by Thamizhchelvan Courtesy: Vijayvaani.com on 14 Sep 2013 Present scenario: It is more than four years since the LTTE was crushed, and it is sad and unfortunate that the Sri Lankan Tamils are yet to see a lasting solution to their continuing problems. President Rajapakse has not lived up to the commitments he made during […]

In Hindsight By Sarath Kumara September 14th 2013 The nerve of Channel 4 News and documentary maker Callum Macrae intending to travel to Sri Lanka to cover the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) as they continue to highlight war crimes committed against the country’s minority Tamil population!! As though they have not caused enough […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala On May 26, 2009 when the UNHRC met for the first time to consider the post-war situation in Sri Lanka Ms. Navi Pillay was busy elsewhere. Because she could not attend she sent a recorded message to UNHRC. It was pre-recorded on May 25, 2009, which was only eight days after […]

Shenali D Waduge Separatism and TNA go hand in hand. Its election manifestos of 2001, 2004, 2010 and now 2013 see no major difference. There is no major difference in the fact that Tamils have kept on voting for the TNA despite its allegiance to the LTTE. What must be also reiterated is that though […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar September 12th 2013 It all points to the decorum and pragmatism of President Mahinda Rajapaksa who has made a statement on an issue which he has probably witheld all along towards maintaining certain related protocols yet endorsed by many discerning Sri Lankans that the TNA are indeed aspiring Tamil Tiger activists […]

Dilrook Kannangara UNHRC is under de facto Tamil rule and so is India that bends to every Tamil demand. Next year being an election year where the ruling coalition struggles to maintain its shrinking power, Indian rulers will fall for Tamil demands particularly leading up to the UNHRC sessions when another resolution against Sri Lanka […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar September 9th 2013 It appears that the UN is either a bunch of mixed up deadbeats with agendas often laced heavily in bias or circumspect myopia starting from the top with secretary general Ban Ki Moon, human rights ambassador Naveen Pillai and now an associate spokesperson by name of Farhan Haq […]

P.A.Samaraweera, Australia Callum Macrae from the UK Channel 4 News, produced a documentary highlighting so called ‘war crimes’ in Sri Lanka during the war in 2009. The feature length documentary titled, ‘ No Fire Zone’ depicted Eelam war iv through a doctored film that it was violence against the Tamils. In 2011 he directed another […]

Jay J In Sri Lanka Muslims cannot complain because…. 1. The Muslims are not indigenous people of Sri Lanka. 2. The Muslims came as traders/visitors and NEVER owned land in Sri Lanka until after the British. Anyone in doubt can read Robert Knox 3. The Muslims follow Islam and Islam’s holy text refers to Buddhists, […]

Dr. Tilak Fernando I am very grateful to Peter Wijesinghe who contacted me recently having read some of my ƒ¢¢”š¬’Life Abroad’ columns, as I consider him as an encyclopaedia of Sri Lankans and their activities in London considering his knowledge, experience and the vivid memory over six decades of life in the UK. Peter qualifies […]

Sent by: Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Vanderwert Place, Dehiwela Someone has decided to put up a No U turn board on Galle road in Dehiwela where the Waidya road joins the Galle road. Even after 8pm when the opposite lane is almost emptyƒ”š‚  the motorists travelling from Wellewathe side ƒ”š‚ have to go all the way […]

By R. Madduma Bandara The Metropolitan Police of London were embarrassed today (11 September) by mistakenly publishing Tamil Tiger flag in its web site in section under ƒ¢¢”š¬’Information about contact points’ (http://www.met.police.uk/contact_points/). This particular web page contains the key information about the new Met contact points translated into few languages such as Bengali (Bangladesh), Lithuanian, […]

By Philip Fernando TNA candidates have pledged allegiance to the unitary state of Sri Lanka when submitting nomination papers to PC elections. Not to have commented on that seemedƒ”š‚ muddled thinking. ƒ”š‚ Worse, it smacked of mendacity-not being forthright with the electorate. The vitality that should have surrounded the aspirations of aƒ”š‚ manifestoƒ”š‚ escaped the framers. ƒ”š‚ Insteadƒ”š‚ TNA’s political rhetoric […]

By mahinda karunaratne My tribute to those who dies at site, After both Aircrafts were broken in to the two towers (file photo) ƒ”š‚ Although a nostalgia to me after 12 years, but the fear, uncertainty and pain I had to endure by me in particular in my own situations I was in new York that […]

By Janaka Alahapperuma Senior official of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Liu Yunshan who is on an official visit to Sri Lanka called on President Mahinda Rajapaksa to promote bilateral cooperation at the President’s House on Tuesday (10 September). During the meeting with the President the Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau of […]

Shenali D. Waduge There is nothing to be surprised about the TNA manifesto ƒ¢¢”š¬- while it attempts to distance itself from the LTTE it continues to cling on to the one slogan that it can bind the Tamils and that is the dream of a separate Tamil State. That dream appears to be close to […]

By Susantha Goonatilake That ƒ¢¢”š¬…”gentlemanƒ¢¢”š¬‚, wanted to marry Navi Pillay. This would not even fit in to the category of ƒ¢¢”š¬…”beauty and the beastƒ¢¢”š¬‚ because she definitely is not a beauty. But the ƒ¢¢”š¬…”beastƒ¢¢”š¬‚ part ƒ¢¢”š¬- I will let you decide that. But into our problems,she has definitely married most acutely. Navi Pillayas part of […]

Shenali D Waduge Let’s explore a very simple question. Exactly how does the TNA propose to give dignity to the Tamils by living away from them? Do they propose to run ‘Eelam’ by remote control from Colombo? How many trips have the chief ministerial candidate made to Sri Lanka’s North or even East during LTTE […]

Jay ƒ”š‚ This is written on behalf of the many Buddhists whose voice is being taken away by politicians whoƒ”š‚ have fallen prey toƒ”š‚ the ‘Multicultural’ googly. The Muslims of late have found it a good excuse to play victim and use the power of the petrodollars that are used as carrots upon politicians to get their cunning […]

Lalin Fernando Navaneethen (Tamil for freshly churned butter for the Gods) Pillai (Pillay in SA) came blowing hard to make waves in a country that had faced natural and manmade tsunamis. She knew there were turncoats here. She left with her credibility if not her facial expressions in tatters. It confirmed her propensity for voicing […]