ස. අකුරුගොඩ ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ මූළික අයිතිවාසිම් පෙත්සම විභාගකල ශේෂ්ඨාධිකරණය ඉදිරිපත්කළ කරුණු සලකාබලා ගෝඨාභය මහතා අත්අඬoගුවට ගැනීම වලක්වන ලදි. කෙසේ හෝ ගෝඨාභය මහතා අත්අඞoගුවට ගෙන හිරකූඩුවට දැමීමේ උවමනාවෙන් කටයුතුකළ අයට මෙම අධිකරණ තීන්දුව දරාගත නොහැකිවීම පුදුමයක් නොවේ. ඒ පිලිබඳව පළමුවෙන්ම ප්‍රසිද්ධියේ අදහස් දැක්වූ පික්පොකට් අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිoහ කියා සිටියේ මෙම අධිකරණ තීන්දුවට එරෙහිව පොදු රාජ්‍ය […]

Durand Appuhamy Negombo Courtesy: The Island (May 21, 2015) On the 18th/19th of May 2009 what were our security forces observing on the shores of Nandikadal lagoon? No, they were not observing a “day of remembrance”, they were celebrating a Day of Victory over unmitigated tyranny of a maniac killer of Tamils and other Sri Lankans. Those […]

Adaderana SLFP Parliamentarians Dilan Perera, C.B. Rathnayake, Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena and Pavithra Wanniarachchi have resigned from their respective ministerial portfolios. Perera announced their decision at a press conference held in Colombo this morning. Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena, State Minister of Housing and Samurdhi Dilan Perera, State Minister of Public Administration & Democratic […]

Shenali D Waduge  Much of the terminologies in use appear to provide loopholes and enable lawyers to wriggle through technicalities that project & at times protect terrorists as freedom fighters, insurgents while to the victims they are nothing but terrorists. It is in looking at the backgrounds of these terror groups, how they arose, how […]

Ratanapala 20 May 15 The recently commemorated ANZAC day is a remembrance day – in fact a day to remember an ignominious and yet honorable defeat of the allied forces – mainly Australian and New Zealanders in Turkey. On the other hand Victory Day or VE Day  8-9 May were celebrated throughout Russia, Europe and […]

තිස්ස ගුණතිලක, සිඞ්නි නුවර සිට  1803 වෑගොල්ලෙ සටනින් ජය ලැබීමෙන් පසු සිංහල ජාතියට ප්‍රථම ජයග්‍රහණය ලැබිය හැකිවූයේ අවුරැදු 206 කට පසු 2009 මැයි මස 29 දා නන්දිකඩාල් කලපුවේදි ත්‍රස්තවාදය විජයග්‍රණය කල මානුෂිය මෙහෙයුම අවසන් කිරීමෙනි. අවුරැදු දෙසිය ගනනක් පුරා අපට අප රට ආක්‍රමණය කලවුන්ට එරෙහිව කල මොනම සටනකින්වත් ජයග්‍රහණයක් ලැබීමට  නොහැකිවිය. එනම් අවුරැදු දෙසිය ගනනක් […]

from Sinhalanet While hartal continues in Jaffna to protest the Victory Day over the LTTE Tamil terrorists in Jaffna city centre this morning a Tamil person widely suspect as an agent of pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists backed political party TNA had come to the Sinhala villagers settlement in Nawakkuliya  temple in vehicle  and has said that […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා මෙයට කලින් ලිපියෙන් අපි මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේනට විකල්පයක් යෝජනා කෙළෙමු. ඒ ඔහුගේ අවශ්‍යතාව පරිදි පාර්ලිමේන්තුව ලබන වසරේ අප්‍රේල් වන තුරු පවත්වාගෙන යෑමට ය. එහෙත් එය කොන්දේසි විරහිත එකක් නො වී ය. ඒ කොන්දේසි අනුව රනිල් පික්පොකට් අගමැති ධුරයෙන් ඉවත්කර සංධාන ආණ්ඩුවක් පිහිටුවිය යුතු ව තිබිණි. මෛත්‍රිපාල ඒ කරාවි දැයි අපට ප්‍රශ්නයක් විය. අප […]

Courtesy Adaderana Dilith Jayaweera, the Joint Managing Director of TV Derana, says he will definitely proceed to file legal action against the Sirasa media organization and the Director of MBC Network (Pvt) Ltd, Rajendran Rajamahendran, over false and defamatory statements made against him. Mr Jayaweera on Monday (18) sent a letter of demand to Mr […]

Courtesy Adaderana At least 127 persons have been arrested in connection with the tense situation occurred near the Jaffna Court complex, this morning (20), the police said. Police used tear gas to disperse the protesters who were behaving violently near the Court over a rape and murder of a girl in Kayts. The tense situation […]

Courtesy Daily Mirror UPFA Parliamentarian Vasudeva Nanayakkara today claimed that he and several other MPs were personally told by President Maithripala Sirisena that he had no problem with former president Mahinda Rajapaksa contesting and functioning as the Prime Minister if elected. Speaking at a media briefing held at Abayaramaya, Narahenpita Mr. Nanayakkara said: Even though […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා අද පවත්වාගෙන යන පික්පොකට් ආණ්ඩුව ඉන්දියාවේ අධාරය මත බටහිර රටවල්, විශේෂයෙන් එංගලන්තය හා ඇමෙරිකාව යන ඇංග්ලො සැක්සන් ප්‍රභේදයේ යුදෙවු ක්‍රිස්තියානි රටවල් විසින් සැලසුම් කර ඇතිකරන ලද්දකි. මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන ඊනියා පොදු අපේක්‍ෂකයා වීමට පෙර සිට අද දක්වා ම රනිල්ලා ක්‍රියාත්මක වන්නේ සිංහල බෞද්ධ සංස්කෘතියට එරෙහිව යුදෙවු ක්‍රිස්තියානි සංස්කෘතියෙහි නියෝජිතයන් ලෙස ය. අද රනිල් […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala President’s Counsel, Romesh de  Silva’s brilliant analysis of the politically manipulated Police unit investigating financial crimes confirms that the My-3 regime”  has created an illegal arm of the Police  to pervert justice. His submission to the Supreme Court, has unerringly alerted the public to the Gestapo role of the  Financial Crimes […]

Mahinda Gunasekera May 19, 2015 Attention of His Excellency, Maithripala Sirisena, President of Sri Lanka, the Hon. Ranil Wickremasinghe, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka and Members of the Cabinet. Your Excellency Maithripala Sirisena, the Hon. Ranil Wickremasinghe, Members of the Cabinet and Party Leaders, The annexed article by the veteran journalist H.L.D. Mahindapala shows that […]

By the Economic Observer Courtesy Island At the time President Rajapaksa took government at the end of 2005, country’s external debt was US$ 9,568 billion. By the time he handed over the government, in 2015, this amount was US$ 24,051 million. Therefore, during his period of government, net external government debt has increased only by US$ […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena today said that the Sri Lankan Parliament will be dissolved after appointing a constitutional council and that there will be a new Parliament by September. The President made this announcement during a meeting with heads of media organisations at the Presidential Secretariat this morning. He stated that in the past […]

Royal Asiatic Society Sri Lanka (RASSL) Monthly Public Lecture on The Buddha’s Sri Lankan Visits on Astro-Archeological Point of View” by Dr. Kavan Ratnatunga, Astrophysicist, Post Graduate Institute of Archaeology on Monday 25th May 2015 at 5.00 p.m. at the Gamini Dissanayake Auditorium,No. 96, Ananda Coomaraswamy Mawatha, Colombo 07. All are welcome. The description of the event on […]

UNITED AUSTRALIANS OF SRI LANKAN ORGANISATIONS PO BOX 4066, MULGRAVE, VICTORIA 3175, AUSTRALIA, Telephone 03-97957143 17 May 2015 Commemorating the sixth anniversary of Sri Lanka’s Hard Won Peace On 19 May 2015, we commemorate the sixth anniversary of Sri Lanka’s triumph over the LTTE separatist terrorism.  This great victory preserved the territorial integrity and unitary […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM Spokesperson, United Sri Lanka Association Wellington New Zealand. 19th May 2015 The annual United Sri Lanka Association  (USLA) Ranaviru commemoration was held at the Lak Madura , Tawa Wellington at7.30 pm , presided over by USLA president Sadun Kithulagoda  with Honorary consul Aruna Abeygoonesekera in attendance. Following the singing of the National […]

By Gagani Weerakoon and Skandha Gunasekara Courtesy Ceylon Today The three-member Committee appointed to investigate the Central Bank bond issue has called for a full-scale investigation by a duly authorized government authority since they have detected an unusual bidding pattern practised by Perpetual Treasuries, the firm that is owned by the son-in-law of the Central Bank Governor, […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා අපට වෙච්ච දේ යන්න පියදාස සිරිසේන මහතාගේ කෘතියකි. කිසිවකු පියදාස සිරිසේන මහතාට වෙච්ච දේ යනුවෙන් ලිපියක්වත් ලියා ඇතැයි නො සිතමි. පියදාස සිරිසේන මහතා ගැන අද ඉඳහිට කතා කෙරෙයි. එහෙත් ඔහු තවමත් මෙරට උසස් ගණයේ සාහිත්‍යකරුවකු ලෙස නො පිළිගැනෙයි. බමුණු කුලය බිඳ වැටීම ගැන ලියුවෝ පියදාස සිරිසේන මහතා ද බිඳ වැට්ටවූහ. පියදාස සිරිසේන […]

Shenali D Waduge  LTTE is a banned terrorist entity not just in Sri Lanka but in 32 nations as well. It remains banned despite its leader and key commanders eliminated. Since 2009 attempts have been made to commemorate dead terrorists in an obvious bid to keep the money-generating Eelam project alive. Mourning the dead – […]

Neville Ladduwahetty  Courtesy Island The Supreme Court had issued an interim stay order preventing the arrest of former Secretary of Defence Gotabhaya Rajapaksa until the full and final determination of the fundamental rights violation petition filed by him (The Island, May 14, 2015). Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe expressed “serious concern” to the point of being […]

By Rajeewa Jayaweera  Courtesy Island Cabinet spokesman Minister Rajitha Senaratne recently informed the media that May 19, which had been celebrated as ‘Victory Day’ during the Rajapaksa era would from this year onwards be observed as ‘Remembrance Day’ to recall the sacrifices of all those who had fought to maintain the unity and integrity of […]

By Express News Service CourtesyThe New Indian Express PUDUCHERRY: Amid allegations that the fisherfolk group which met Sri Lankan President Mytripala Sirisena recently included a smuggler, the National Fishworkers’ Forum (NFF)  has demanded that the State, Central, and Sri Lankan governments probe the incident and bring to book the fake fishermen associations. We expect the governments […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada 18 May 2015 Dear Don Suraweera: To continue with my response of 13th May to your Hello Friends: I just wanted to let you know about a great event that is organized in relation to reconciliation or ask forgiveness from the Tamil […]

ALI SUKHANVER Why do the so-called human rights organizations in Pakistan try to frame the security forces of Pakistan in the matter of missing persons in Baluchistan? Why do the so-called human rights activists always forget the innocent Punjabis, Sindhis, Pashtuns and even the Balochis whose brutal slaughtering at the hands of the separatists elements […]

An Australian lady lawyer protested at the raising of the LTTE flag at the meeting to remember (fabricated) genocide meeting held at Springvale Town Hall on 18th Monday, May . She was mauled by the LTTE thugs and the Poiice intervened and took her to the Police to take a statement. She protested specifically to […]

By Chandre Dharmawardana, Ottawa, Canada. In 2010 the politcal landscape was different. The UNP, the TNA and the leftist factions had all fielded General Sarath Fonseka as the presidential candidate against Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa. During that time the author composed a song which was set to music by Dr. Nimal de Silva. It is of interest […]