Dr.Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara 16.8.2015. This will definitely boomerang on Sirisena and seriously affects the results of the Election like a Tsunami. Once upon a time there was a peacock.  Of course it did not have a beautiful feather as it has today. One day it had to attend a wedding of one of its arch […]

Shenali D Waduge  When US advisories are released regarding Sri Lanka elections it was a surprise to see Tony Blair disembark with family claiming to be on a holiday. The surprise got worse when media announced Blair had been a special invitee of UNP via foreign minister Mangala Samarasinghe. The immediate response by Sri Lankans […]

Dr Chandrika Iriyagolle The objectives of the founding fathers of the United National Party launched on the 6th September 1946 was to establish national unity through construction.  The subjugation and exploitation of Sri Lanka by the colonial powers was to be replaced by progressive economic and social reforms preserving the Buddhist cultural heritage for the […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE The following forecast had been calculated based on a quantitative analysis, trends and historical reasoning.    Three traditional methods of forecasting, viz. Best Case Scenario, Worst Case Scenario and the Most Likely Case Scenario  were  used for each district. Some of the punitive actions  taken by President Sirisena during last few […]

Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 15 August 2015 Mr. Jack MacLaren, MPP Carleton-Mississippi Mills 240 Michael Cowpland Drive, Suite 100, Kanata, ON K2M 1P6 IMPORTANT: PLEASE READ THIS LETTER ON THE TAMIL TIGERS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS IN CANADA Dear Jack: My Sri Lankan-Canadian friend Visita Leelaratna briefed me of […]

Gandara John Why did Sirisena dissolve parliament? To save Ranil from disgrace and investigation. What was the disgraceful thing that Ranil did? That he colluded with Arjuna Mahendran on the Treasury bill scam Sirisena by saving Ranil was he not harming the country? Yes he was; to Sirisena Ranil was more important than the country. […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න දෙමල හා මුස්ලිම්  පක්ෂවල   අරමුණ දෙමල හා මුස්ලිම් කලාප ලබාගැනීම බවූවුන්ගේ ප්‍රතිපත්ති ප්‍රකාශන වලින් පහ දිලිව තිබියදීත්  උන් හා එකතුවීමට  කිසිදු ජාති හිතය්ශී පක්ෂයකට  නොහැක  එකතුවුනොත් එසේ කරන්නේ මේ රට හදා වඩාගත් ආරක්ෂා කරගත්  සිංහල බෞද්ධයන්ට හතුරුවූ අ  ය පමණි  1818  හා 1848   වසරවල පරයන් එළවීමට දිවි පිදුවේ සිංහල බෞද්ධයන් පමණි දෙමලු හා […]

By Shelton A. Gunaratne Professor of communication emeritus, MSUM If the Tamil community of Sri Lanka would follow the advice that Lord Krishna gave warrior Arjuna in the battlefield as explained in the Bhagavad Gita, they could rub shoulders with the majority Sinhalese as   equal citizens in a united country exemplifying diversity within unity much sooner […]

Asoka Bandarage  BLESSINGS ON SRI LANKA  Sri Lanka, the resplendent ​land​, the Pearl of the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka, the blessed isle, Dhammadipa, where the Buddha’s teaching was written down and safeguarded for the human race.  Sri Lanka, the land ​that ​the forces of ignorance, greed and hatred seek to usurp and tear asunder. May the forces of wisdom […]

By Jerry Yellin and Dr. David Leffler  In their well-written articles published in the Daily News (Post traumatic stress disorder” 11 December 2010 and Challenge before post-war Sri Lanka 13 December 2010), Dr. Neil J. Fernando and Dr. Ruwan M. Jayatunge estimate that nearly 10 percent to 12 percent of the members of the [Sri Lankan] armed forces are […]

By Latheef Farook Ignorance of international affairs or indifference towards Island’s Muslims sentiments? A Daily Mirror report on 12 August 2015 stated that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his family arrived in Sri Lanka previous day on a two week holiday on an invitation by Foreign Minister Mangala Samarwaeera. Allowing war criminal Tony […]

by Gandara John National Endowment for Democracy – Interfering in Elections, Polls monitoring and Cultivating the ‘Free Press’  (Several organisations in Sri Lanka are funded by NED and include BASL, Transparency international and CPA) The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a Washington D.C-based quasi-governmental organization funded by the U.S. which boasts that it is “supporting […]

By Dharman Wickremaratne. Village thugs were in Sri Lanka since ancient times. They however threw their weight around only when others challenged them.  That was how these men showed their powers to the rest of villagers.Later towards the end of the 1960s these thugs were overtaken by urban hoodlums like Cheena of Dompe, Choppay of […]

– දිල්රුක් කන්නන්ගර  සිරිසේන ජනාධිපති වූයේද, ආතක් පාතක් නැති රනිල් අගමැති වූයේද සිරිසේනට ලැබුණු දෙමළ ඡන්දයෙනි. ඡන්දය දිනූ දා සිට කළේ දෙමළ ජනතාව පිනවීම මිස වෙන කිසිවක් නොවේ. අද සිංහල තරුණයන් අතර දෙමළ තරුණයන්ට වඩා සේවා වියුක්තිය සහ ඌණ සේවා නියුක්තිය දක්නට ලැබේ. විශ්ව විද්‍යාල තුලද මෙම අසාධාරණ ව්‍යාප්තවාදය දක්නට ඇත. මෙම නින්දිත පරිහානියට සිරිසේනගේ […]

By Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune Media Note  Washington, 14 August (Asiantribune.com): U.S. Department of Defense – just released June 2015 – Law of War Manual, the authoritative position the Government of the United States takes in war situations in both international and non-international warfare, gives the USG official positions on may situation one of […]

Rajanram Secrecy + hypocrisy = Ranil Wickramasinge who has now assigned the globally most hated man Tony Blair as advisor to retain his power and loot the country and the innocent people. Sri Lankan people should not vote for Ranil led party for the following reasons: He was one of those ministers who burnt Jaffna library and the Jaffna town in […]