Part II –  H. L. D. Mahindapala The Sri Lankan delegates assembled in Geneva to combat the US-sponsored resolution against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC in 2012 were tense. Though they were lobbying frantically no one knew which way the voting would go. The most critical issue was whether India would back Sri Lanka or […]

Shenali D Waduge The mainstream news released what is said to be the script of the supposed Resolution (3rd) America is hoping to pass in Geneva next month. It is a calculated move to send 2 messages to Sri Lanka’s leaders – to subtly give a clue what US wants and how Sri Lanka’s leaders […]

The plum blossom  I completely disagree with the analysis of Dr. Dayan Jayathilake in 09th February’s Sunday Observer.   It is obvious to anyone with an iota of a brain that bogus human rights concerns are used by the criminal countries US, UK, Canada and India to create fear within the Sri Lankan Government so […]

By Warna Hettiarachchi in Toronto Canada  Tamil Tigers were defeated in SL in 2009. However, LTTE’s funding roots were established overseas with their masterminded international network of terrorism, gun-running, arms-smuggling, arms trading, money laundering, slave-trading, human trafficking, Human smuggling, credit/debit-card scams, passport/travel document scams, international shipping network vessels with varying flags,  tax evasion businesses, bank […]

Warna Hettiarachchi Toronto Canada Ms. Catherine Rusell, Your objective is to introduce tension and disharmony in Sri Lankan society where women and men exist in perfect harmony with equal rights before Americans even knew about it. We had a female PM and a female President of our nation, where America never had a woman president! […]

ශෙනාලි ඩ෠වඩුගේ  LTTE ය පරාජය කල හැකි වේ යයි විශ්වාස නොකල දෙමළ ජනතාව තවමත් එය සිහිනයක් යයි සිතන බව දෙමල වැසියෙකු ප්”à¶»à¶šà·à· කිරà·à¶¸ කෙනෙකු හට පරිකල්පනය කල හැකිද ? LTTE යේ අවසානයෙන් මාස කිහිපයකට පසු එය නැවත ප්”à¶»à·à¶«à·€à¶­à·Š වනු ඇතැයි දෙමල ජනතාව තුල සිතුවිලි තිබු බව දෙමල ජාතිකයෙකු විසින් ප්”à¶»à¶šà·à· කරයිද ? දෙමල ජාතිකයන් […]

Vijayani Edirisinghe Courtesy The Daily News After questioning, Bahu and Co. likely to be arrested within the next few days List had 43 names and 15 of them were false Nava Sama Samaja Party (NSSP) leader Dr. Wickremabahu Karunaratne has been summoned to the Gampaha Police Station today for questioning for allegedly submitting a nomination […]

Dr Hector Perera                London When we boil some water in a cooking pan, water gets converted to steam then escape to the atmosphere but if we put a lid then there will be a pressure inside the cooking pan due to evaporating water molecules. Once it gets to a certain pressure some steam would escape […]

Part I- H. L. D. Mahindapala  The Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Lalith Weeratunga, has made a  bold and strategic move which was reported by Reuter at the end of his  diplomatic tour  of the West. He told Reuter’s: “If there is an international investigation, the whole period has to be investigated – from the […]

Shenali D Waduge  The ‘foot soldiers’ of the West take the form of intelligence agencies, Christian Evangelical groups, NGOs/INGOs, US-West funded Humanitarian/Charity Organizations and the local stooges of these entities. The motive are sometimes real but often inflated or even concocted  – WMD was the lie used to invade Iraq, ‘liberty’ was used in Libya, […]

Asoka Weerasinghe. Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada 7 February 2014 Rathika Sitsabaiesan, MP., NDP Member for Scarborough-Rouge River, Ontario                                                                                                                                             House of Commons, Ottawa. Dear Rathika: I have just started to catch up with the Rathika’s Jaffna Gum Shoe Saga of your travels to Jaffna in the North of Sri Lanka.   What […]

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The plum blossom  It is obvious to anyone with an iota of a brain that bogus human rights concerns are used by the criminal countries US, UK, Canada and India to create fear within the Sri Lankan Government so that they are terrorised to hand over land and police powers and other powers to the […]

Mahinda Gunasekera  Canada   By E-mail        February 8, 2014 Prof. Dr. Jochen Hippler, INEF University, Germany Dr. David Rampton, London School of Economics Associate Professor Dr. Jake Lynch, University of Sydney Mr. Ken Macnab, President CPACS Council, Sydney Mr. Dennis Halliday, Transnational Institute Prof. Yiftachel, Ben Gurion University Dr. Shapan Adnan, National University […]

U. B. Gunasinghe, PhD Dear Patriotic Sri Lankans: This short communication is to request for help in write a short email to the Whitehouse regarding UNHRC in Geneva.  The idea emanated from a discussion with some of the Sri Lankan patriotic in the area about letter campaign I started.  It was suggested that bombarding with […]

The plum blossom It is very obvious from US,UK, Canada and India’s outrageous behaviour that they are out to misuse the UNHRC sessions yet again in order to force Sri Lanka to grant extra powers to the provincial councils including land and police powers and much more. Their only aim in this disgraceful exercise is […]

By Camelia Nathaniel (from the Leader news paper of 9.2.14) Although terrorism was defeated in the country in 2009, the threat still lurks as internal and external forces are still lobbying for a separate state and also still funding and fuelling separatist ideologies. According to the latest edition of the Annual Threat Assessment of the […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Spokesperson, United Sri Lanka Assn, New Zealand. Hon David Cameron MP, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.   Dear Mr Cameron,   The Global Tamil Forum and many of the other Tamil groups with whom you met as above, before going to the CHOGM, consist of LTTE membership who funded three […]

Review by: Chandre Dharma-wardana, Ottawa, Canada; Dec-2013 The separatist conflict in Sri Lanka and the souring of Canada against Sri Lanka. HOMEPAGE     Source documents from the Subcommittee on Int. Human Rights (SIHR), Canadian Parliament. Review by: Chandre Dharma-wardana, Ottawa, Canada; Dec-2013 e-mail/couriel : hrfocus11@yahoo.ca Abstract resum© Since 1980 waves of Sri-Lankan Tamil immigrants […]

Review by: Chandre Dharma-wardana, Ontario, Canada; Dec-2013 The separatist conflict in Sri Lanka and the souring of Canada against Sri Lanka. Document – 1   > Source documents from the Subcommittee on Int. Human Rights (SIHR), Canadian Parliament. Review by: Chandre Dharma-wardana, Ontario, Canada; Dec-2013 e-mail/couriel : hrfocus11@yahoo.ca Review of the presentation to the Parliamentary […]

Review by: Chandre Dharma-wardana, Ontario, Canada; Dec-2013 The separatist conflict in Sri Lanka and the souring of Canada against Sri Lanka. Document – 2 Source documents from the Subcommittee on Int. Human Rights (SIHR), Canadian Parliament. Review by: Chandre Dharma-wardana, Ontario, Canada; Dec-2013 e-mail/couriel : hrfocus11@yahoo.ca Alex Neve, Secretary General, Amnesty International, John Argue Sri […]

Lakshman I.Keerthisinghe LLB, LLM.MPhil, Attorney-at-Law Courtesy The Daily News Cease to expect to win men’s gratitude. To think that human beings can be grateful!— Catullus Combat (speaking of gratitude) It was recently reported in the media that the United Peoples Freedom Alliance Northern Provincial Councillor Angajan Ramanathan stated that none of the NPC opposition parties […]

by A. Abdul Aziz. Religious blasphemy laws can be a touchy subject, especially in Pakistan, where just bringing up the subject of the blasphemy laws and whether they are right or wrong is considered, well …blasphemous. This wasn’t always the case. The sentiment behind most blasphemy laws is easy to understand. No person or group […]

Ira de Silva Canada The Editor, The Island Colombo, Sri Lanka   Dear Sir:   This latest report that the International Organization for Migration has violated it’s mandate by arranging a secret meeting a top level U.S. delegation and  and the Tigers (they can not be considered “ex” as they are still operation as Tigers to achieve […]

Top American official forcibly enters army camp near Boossa detention facility by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy Island Commenting on the allegations made by the government, a senior spokesperson for the Office of UN Resident Coordinator told The Island: “On the basis of information the UN Resident Coordinator’s Office received from IOM, the Office understands that IOM was […]

Kanthar P (Nathan) Balanathan Retired Director & Specialist Power Systems Engineer Rowville, Melbourne Hi Gemma Pearce With due respect I would like to state that some countries are quite keen in speculating war crimes on GOSL. Could it be a shortfall on the integrity of such media not to address the crimes committed by Tamils […]

Gomin Dayasri Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo District results at the forthcoming Provincial Council elections hold the key to the outcome of the next General or Presidential election scheduled for 2014/2015. Colombo District and Colombo Municipal Council area are two worlds. UNP has to win the Colombo district or come within striking distance of winning […]

Nalin de Silva Courtesy The Daily News As Geneva gets closer the so called educated people in Sri Lanka get paranoid. Some of them think of the UNHRC punishing Sri Lanka in one way or the other, and those who are anti-government would claim that UNHRC wants to punish the government and not the country. […]

MEDIA RELEASE Sri Lanka High CommissionLondon  In his address on Sri Lanka’s Independence Day, High Commissioner to the UK, Dr Chris Nonis emphasised that the wealth of the country was in the diversity of its people of varying backgrounds, ethnicities and religions.  He said it was imperative to make optimum use of that diversity and […]

Mahinda Gunasekera Agincourt, Ontario Canada By E-mail Mr. Scott Reid, MP Member for Lanark- Frontenac-Lennox  and Addington Chair of the Sub-Committee on  International Human Rights Of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Int’l Dev. House of Commons Ottawa  Dear Mr. Scott Reid, Resumed Hearings on the Human Rights situation in Sri Lanka : Nov […]