Shenali D Waduge  When the goal of both Christianity & Islam in partnership with its denominations desire to rule and dominate the world and use the modus operandi of conquests, commerce, conversions using billions in funding dispersed through heritage Christian and Muslim dominated nations and via faith-based funding championed through NGOs what defences are available […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar March 18th 2014 As the UNHCR Summit approaches perhaps is is in desperation and in anticipation of a non culpability ruling or a vote that would favour Sri Lanka that Sri Lanka’s antagonists in the name of self envisioned and blinkered animosity appear to have stepped up their campaigns to once […]

S. Akurugoda  As per a news item appeared in the Daily Mirror dated 14th march 2014, UNP National Leader Ranil Wickremesinghe vowed to topple this government in the same way he toppled the government of former President Chandrika Kumaratunga. He has told  a rally at Avissawela that the UNP would form the next government in […]

Dr Hector Perera       London As a University student in England, I had plenty of problems when I had to live, study and cook in a single room. With a very limited budget I could not afford to buy takeaway food for daily consumption, except for an occasional treat. The University canteen food was very reasonable […]

වම් ඉවුර à·ƒà·. ඒ. චන්ද්”à¶»à¶´à·Š”à¶»à·šà¶¸- Divaina අප මේ ජà·à·€à¶­à·Šà·€à¶±à·Šà¶±à·š ජාත්”à¶ºà¶±à·Šà¶­à¶» බල තුලනයේ රැඩිකල් වෙනස්”Œà¶šà¶¸à·Š ගණනාවක්”Œ සිදුවෙමින් පවතින යුගයකය. එක්”Œ පැත්තකින් බටහිර ජාතà·à¶±à·Š ද අනෙක්”Œ පැත්තෙන් චà·à¶±à¶º හා රුසියාව ප්”à¶»à¶¸à·”ඛ සන්ධානය අතර කඹ ඇ ල්ලකට ලංකාව ද මැ ව෠සිටà·. මේ බල අරගලයේද෠ලංකාව මේ වන විට සිටින්නේත්, සිටිය යුත්තේත් චà·à¶±à¶º හා රුසියාව පැත්තේ බවට කිසිදු […]

Nicolas J.S. Davies, AlterNet The U.S. is backing Ukraine’s extreme right-wing Svoboda party and violent neo-Nazis whose armed uprising paved the way for a Western-backed coup. Events in the Ukraine are giving us another glimpse through the looking-glass of U.S. propaganda wars against fascism, drugs and terrorism. The ugly reality behind the mirror is that […]

 Charles.S.Perera Your Excellencies, UN Commissioner Navi Pillai’s report calling  for an International Independent  Investigation  should be rejected  as her  impartiality is questionable due to obvious conflict of Interest. Delegates to the 25 Session of the UNHR Council in Geneva have been hearing complaints against Sri Lanka for no other reason but for the eliminating of […]

By Shelton A. Gunaratne(1)  The dasa-raja-dharma or the ten royal virtues contains the Buddhist ideal of governance or kingship. These virtues are applicable to all leaders in society, but particularly to those whom we chose to govern us. The people in Asia have used them for more than 2,500 years to judge the performance of their […]

Dilrook Kannangara SLMC is part of the government coalition. However, it always undermines the government and the nation due to its allegiance and association with Middle Eastern extremist cults. It does this while enjoying the perks of being part of the ruling coalition. It is high time the ruling party made a decision to expel […]

Lanka Bauddha Sanrakshana Sabhawa Sponsored by the Lanka Bauddha Sanrakshana Sabhawa was held on February 15,2002 in Colombo. The following Resolutions were adopted at this Seminar: 1) This House RESOLVES to request the Government and in particular its Minister of Mass Media to establish a Media Commission or a statutory authority with similar powers for […]

Prof. Hudson McLean Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: Russian Roulette A Gun to Sri Lankan Sovereignty.   Russia / USSR has been a good supportive friend of Sri Lanka from the days of Ceylon. And to add to that, Sergei Lavrov the Russian Foreign Minister, who was attached to the Embassy of USSR in […]

 Shenali D Waduge When 96% of world media is owned by 6 companies we do not need to go far to conclude the nature of biased coverage. The fact that media houses are owned by a handful has gone to show that we cannot trust the coverage being relayed. In Sri Lanka’s case all that […]

Shenali D Waduge  The incident of a former LTTEr living in an Indian-built home in Kilinochchi shooting a Sri Lankan policemen during a search operation cannot be ignored. In the 1970s Prabakaran had just 26 men and over a handful of decades later that number turned into thousands and led to thousands of corpses and […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A woman had been arrested in Kilinochchi on charges of harbouring an LTTE suspect, who was absconding after shooting a police Sub Inspector, the Police said. “She was arrested on charges of harbouring a criminal. She was produced in Kilinochchi Magistrate’s Court and will be brought in Colombo today for further […]

 Sunny Sunil’s Column Of Positive Analysis February 2March 15 th 2014 While there have been many observers fron the Buddhist Clergy in the form of prominent monks from the Buddhist hierarchy in Sri Lanka admirably so, regarding the United Nations misguided calls for Human Rights Violations Investigations, not only irrelevant and illogical but also quite inapplicable in the […]

 Shenali D Waduge Now that Ananthi Sasitharan is in Geneva she needs to be given the podium to explain how her husband on behalf of the LTTE recruited young children denied them every human right a child is entitled to and trained them not only to kill but to commit suicide by biting a cyanide […]

P.A.Samaraweera, Melbourne The US was exposed on Thursday’s session of the UNHRC in Geneva for its human rights abuses by a Committee of eighteen experts. This committee is charged with upholding the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. The Committee had expressed their deep concern about the US record on human rights and had  suggested […]

Mahinda Gunasekera By E-mail 84 Tambrook Drive Agincourt, Ontario Canada M1W 3L9 March 15, 2014 The Editor Daily Island Newspaper Colombo, Sri Lanka Dear Editor, TNA claims French support for US Resolution against Sri Lanka I refer to the news report filed by Shamindra Fernando on the subject published in your edition of March 14, […]

Mahinda Gunasekera Toronto How come MP Rathika meets banned LTTE leaders in Tamil Nadu after her so called ordeal in Sri Lanka? More revelations of MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan’s visit to Sri Lanka and Tamilnadu, South India have now surfaced.  She claimed that her private visit to Sri Lanka after some 27 years was to meet […]

Bandu de Silva US -India Cooperation against Sri Lanka             The post war period, last three years especially, Indo-Sri Lanka relations were seen going through a period of stress. The first manifestation of this came with India extending support to a Resolution that US along with European Union succeeded in passing at the UNHRC in […]

By Shelton  A. Gunaratne [1)  Dear Mr. Sampanthan: May I suggest that the TNA and the GoSL consider ahimsa and dharma principles of Hinduism and the dependent co-arising (paticca-samuppada) doctrine of Buddhism to bring about amity and harmony between the Sinhala and Tamil ethnic communities in Sri Lanka.  If you try to resolve problems in […]

Mr. Bernard Wijeyasingha USA “…. The populations of the countries that have ratified the Rome Statute ((Andorra, Antigua, Dominica, Barbuda, Nauru, Liechtenstein, San Marino) is hardly 347,000 while the populations of countries that have not ratified the Statute runs into billions – China 1.25b, India 1b, Indonesia 230m, Russia, 150m, USA, 312m, Japan 125m.”- When […]

Chanaka Bandarage On Friday 7 March 2014 about 50 patriots from different parts of Australia converged to Canberra to meet with representatives of the UNHRC member countries located in Canberra.  The delegates met with nearly 30 such Missions located in Canberra.  They also met with the Office of Julie Bishop, Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs […]

Reported by: Comrade SK Senthivel, General Secretary, NDMLP Comrade SK Senthivel, General Secretary of the New-Democratic Marxist-Leninist Party addressed a meeting for the youth held at the Jaffna office of the Party. The following is an excerpt of his address. The US has exposed its imperialist ulterior motives by releasing the draft text of the […]

mahinda –  With the latest outcome as a result of search efforts being extended to Indian ocean where Sri Lanka and its ocean is fully within the circle of the suspected Aircraft path demarcated by the CIA / Pentagon and other experts.   At a time Sri Lanka is facing HR and War Crimes threat […]

Mahinda GunasekeraToronto, Canada Sri Lanka’s recent experiences with the United Nations Sri Lanka has been a member of the United Nations since December 1955 completing 58 years of membership in the world body.  Sri Lanka has made a noteworthy contribution towards the goals and ideals of the United Nations, especially in the areas of formulating […]

Shenali D Waduge  The US National Security Agency is tasked prevent terrorism but why would Obama administration need to use Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, Apple, YouTube and other web-based services gaining access to over 59,000 user accounts, monitoring phone calls, bugging buildings even watching people type on their pcs? Moreover, since when did the US […]

Wimal Now Rauf’s document submitted to UN is used by LTTE diaspora to take it up with UNHCR to say that the Singhalese are beating Muslims & Tamils. A copy of the report is given to Gajan Ponnambalam and he has taken this report to Qatar, Kuwait & Saudi Arabia and he is convincing the […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy Island Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields was meant to pave the way for Western powers to intervene in Sri Lanka. Last week, The Island dealt with some of the issues highlighted by the documentary produced by the British media outfit, Channel 4 News and the failure on the part of the government […]

Media Release  Sri Lanka MissionGeneva.  Minister of Plantation Industries and Special Envoy of the President on Human Rights, Hon. Mahinda Samarasinghe has said Sri Lanka’s opposition to the Resolution being moved by the US, UK and a few other countries against Sri Lanka was a fight on a matter of principle and that Sri Lanka […]