By Charles.S.Perera 53, rue du Petit Pont, 93220, Gagny, France, 4 March,2014.  Honourable Delegate to the 25 Session of the UNHR Council, Geneva,  Your Excellency, Please reject the USA Resolution Against Sri Lanka and Let Sri Lanka live in Peace.  Sovereignty of a nation should be respected under all circumstances. But  the USA and its […]

Bernard Wijeyasingha Maybe Sri Lanka too should adopt the US policy on terrorism . Those who want to damage the US or US interests abroad as in Libya or the Middle east should be considered as “freedom fighters” by Colombo and given whatever support Sri Lanka can give including hosting them within Sri Lanka, supporting […]

The Sinhala Language version of Bertolt Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle   Directed by Parakrama Niriella   Produced by Janakaraliya Cultural Foundation of Sri Lanka   Bagged  5 Major Awards included with Best Direction and Best Play From the State Theatre Festival 2014   It will perform next on the 27th March 23, 2014 for the […]

Courtesy RT Download video (7.36 MB Fifteen years after NATO invaded Yugoslavia, memories of the 78-day bombing are still haunting present-day Serbia. Above all, people ask why the alliance brought them death and destruction. RT presents its documentary ‘Zashto?’ from the war-torn country. On March 24, 1999, when NATO started its ruthless bombing campaign against […]

The meeting rooms at the Palais des Nations in Geneva have been reverberating with pro-LTTE rhetoric during the 25th session of the UN Human Rights Council sessions which are now underway. Meetings on human rights, conflicts, sexual violence among other issues, have been discussed in these corridors by many parties and players who are using […]

Ira de Silva London, Canada The Editor The Island Colombo, Sri Lanka   Dear Sir:   India does not want Chinese ships to enter it’s waters to help  search for the missing Malaysian plane while every other country is doing what they can to help in the search. This typifies Indian attitude to the other countries […]

Malin Abeyatunge It was reported in the print media that Mr. Rauff Hakeem of SLMC, currently the Minister of Justice has sent a dossier to UNHRC consisting 50 pages  titled “Religious Violence in Sri Lanka” blaming that under the  present Government there are religious intolerance and hate campaigns citing around 241 anti-Muslim attacks and 52 […]

By Charles.S.Perera Sovereignty of a nation should be respected under all circumstances. But  the USA and its Allies do not recognise that time honoured democratic principle.  For USA the sovereignty of a developing  country ends when USA decides to intervene into its internal affairs. USA known  for its torture camps, killing of  innocent men, women […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada 22 March 2014 Hon. John Baird, PC, MP, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Government of Canada Hon. Deepak Obhrai, MP, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Hon. Lynne Yelich, MP, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs House of Commons, Ottawa, Ontario. Dear John […]

The Royal Asiatic Society of Sri Lanka (RASSL) will hold its 7th Annual Research Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences on Thursday 27th, Friday 28th and Saturday 29th March 2014 at the Mahaweli Centre, 96 Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha (Nelum Pokuna Mawatha), Colombo 7. Registration will be from 7 AM to – 8.15 AM the 27th, the sessions commence at8.15 AM. Around 370 abstracts have […]

By A. Abdul Aziz.  (Given below is the excerpt from the addresses delivered by the Head of the World-wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad on various occasions in the recent time.)  In today’s world we find so much strife, restlessness and disorder. In some countries members of the public are fighting and waging […]

Bernard Wijeyasingha USA The inclusion of the 13th amendment in the latest round of human rights resolution against Sri Lanka should be a wakeup call to Colombo that this issue of singularly giving the Northern and Eastern provinces land and police acts when it goes against Sri Lanka’s laws of equal treatment to all provinces […]

By Bandu de Silva            The above Caption summarises what Satya Moorthy wrote in Ceylon Today newspaper dated 13th March 2014. The article had been originally featured in the Observer Research Foundation, Chennai Chapter. Satya Moorthy’s article which was entitled “Why India should not vote against Sri Lanka at UNHCR ” would have warmed the […]

Courtesy Voice of Russia, Foreign Policy, RT Despite its claims to respect any nation’s right to self-determination, the US, in reality, has quite often stood behind coups in many countries, backing one political force and not recognizing the legitimacy of another. Now, it seems a similar story is being repeated. Not recognizing the legitimacy of […]

Dilrook Kannangara Global human rights violators have found a large loophole in International Law and International Humanitarian Law. Exploiting this loophole they have developed armed drones to kill civilians with impunity. For the sake of the continuation of the human race, these vile killers must be condemned and stopped. UNHRC must be moved against drones. […]

Sri Lankans around the world urged the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to reject the proposed draft Resolution (HRC-25) directed against Sri Lanka. World Alliance for Peace in Sri Lanka issuing a press release said, “The draft resolution is in contravention of the basic principles of the UNHRC as enunciated in its ‘Charter,’ including […]

by Kalinga Seneviratne Special to The Nation ( Bangkok, Thailand) Courtesy:  The Nation ( Bangkok, Thailand)  Sri Lanka’s move for international peacekeepers to intervene during its civil war is now seen as a monumental mistake by most in the country Anti-government protesters blow whistles at a Bangkok rally. Caretaker Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul recently asked […]

PRESS RELEASE  Embassy of Sri Lanka Brussels Welcoming Hon. Prof. Tissa Vitarana, Senior Minister for Scientific Affairs, and the delegation, who was on a five-day official visit to Brussels, Ms. M¡ire Geoghegan-Quinn, Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science of the European Commission, said she was pleased to have this discussion with the Minister and to enhance […]

By, Dr. Nishan Wijesinha (Specialist Consultant) M I S Services, 107, St. Anthony’s Road, Colombo 3  Pulling a Chair out from underneath while one sits down is the most commonly seen act of injury by Preschoolers. We all owe each other a duty of care to act reasonably; this is the law’s way of making […]

LankaWeb Weekly Editorial, March 21st.  2014 Despite the  harsh accusations against Sri Lanka at the UNHRC Summit there remains a very salient reality that the accusers seem to have it all wrong.  They appear to be playing to the sensitivities of a world that knows  little or nothing about the realities of what transpired in Sri […]

The Pathfinder Foundation The Pathfinder Foundation (PF) has signed an MOI with the Vivekananda International Foundation (VIF), New Delhi on first week of March 2014. This follows a recent meeting Milinda Moragoda, Founder, PF had with Ajit Doval, Director of VIF in New Delhi. The two Foundations will work towards enhancing economic relations between the two countries; […]

Review by: Chandre Dharma-wardana, Ontario, Canada; Dec-2013 The separatist conflict in Sri Lanka and the souring of Canada against Sri Lanka. Document – 4 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 A review of the Testimony given by: Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu […]

MEDIA RELEASE – March 2014 SPUR (Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka Inc) PO Box 4066, Mulgrave, VIC 3170, Australia The neo-colonial arrogance of the British political and media establishment is becoming increasingly apparent during the past few months. Prior to the recent CHOGM event in Sri Lanka, British Prime Minister […]

Malin Abeyatunge  Sri Lanka is just a tiny dot in the world map. Yet two powerful countries USA and UK are very much concerned about this tiny island which is also called the pearl of the Indian Ocean. Why are these two countries  are so concerned about Sri Lanka, started bullying for almost three years […]

Dr.Tilak Fernando It is interesting to note that life experiences of those who had lived abroad have appealed to many ‘old timers’ and are being rekindled by reading various occurrences of fellow Lankans connected with Ceylon at various stages. Some of those Lankans who have undergone noteworthy incidents are eloquent in deciphering their encounters in […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada 19 March 2014 Hon. Deepak Obhrai, MP Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs,  House of Commons, Ottawa Dear Deepak: Here’s what I read last night in ColomboPage. ‘Canada calls on Sri Lanka to respect the rights of the detained activists.’ The comment […]

Chanaka Bandarage On Tuesday, 18 March 2014, a group of Sri Lankan Australians (16) from  the ACT, NSW and Vic met with Australian Parliamentarians in the Canberra Parliament and explained to them in length the adverse effects of the proposed US Resolution on  Sri Lanka.  Altogether 8 MPs and Senators from different sides of the […]

Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the UN, Geneva Mr. President, Sri Lanka wishes to exercise its right of reply on statements made regarding the arrest and detention of Ms. Balendran Jeyakumari, and the detention of Mr. Ruki Fernando and Father Praveen. Investigations revealed that K.P. Selvanayagam a.k.a. Gobi who had been overseas and returned […]

 By Bandu de Silva The administration of any country trying to throw stones at others should look at skeletons in its own cupboards before speaking out. The United States of America, perhaps, with its three century old record, is the last country that could open its mouths about human rights or humanitarian considerations. We are […]

 Shenali D Waduge Tipped to speak at the UNHRC Sessions in Geneva on 19th March 2014 is Dr. Varatharaja, one of the five doctors who appeared in the Channel 4 clips and who also admitted that he  and the other doctors lied and who has now found his way to foreign climes with the help […]