උපුටාගැණීම www.mahinda.info [NEWS] ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් වාර්තාව සහ ඒ සමග ඇතිවුණ ජාත්‍යන්තර තත්ත්වය ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට බලපාන ආකාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් හිටපු රාජත්‍රාන්ත්‍රිකයෙක් වන ආචාර්ය දයාන් ජයතිලක මහතා පැහැදිළි කිරීමක් කළේය. එහිදී විකීලීක්ස් වාර්තාවක් ඇසුරෙන් දයාන් ජයතිලක මහතා පෙන්වා දුන්නේ 2009 අප්‍රියෙල් මාසයේදී යුද්ධය නවත්වන ලෙස එක්සත් ජනපදයේ රාජ්‍ය ලේකම් හිලරි ක්ලින්ටන් මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාට දැන්වූ බවයි. එනමුත් […]

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උපුටාගැණීම www.mahinda.info [NEWS] ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට එල්ලවී ඇති යුද අපරාධ පිළිබඳ සෙයිඞ් අල් හුසේන්ගේ වාර්තාව පරාජය කිරීමට තවමත් කාලය තිබෙන බව ජිනීවාහි හිටපු නිත්‍ය නියෝජිත ආචාර්ය දයාන් ජයතිලක මහතා පෙන්වා දෙයි. පසුගිය ආණ්ඩුව විශ්‍රාම ලත් විනිසුරු මැක්ස්වෙල් පරණගම සහ සර් ඩෙස්මන්ඞ් සිල්වා යන මහත්වරුන්ගේ මූලිකත්වයෙන් සකස් කළ අතුරුදන් වූවන් පිළිබඳ කොමිෂන් වාර්තාවෙන් එම චෝදනා පරාජය කළහැකි බව […]

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By Neville Ladduwahetty The Preamble to Sri Lanka’s 1978 Constitution states that Sri Lanka is a DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST REPUBLIC whilst ratifying the immutable republican principle of REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY, and assuring to all peoples FREEDOM, EQUALITY, JUSTICE, FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHTS and the INDEPENDENCE OF THE JUDICIARY”. Continuing, the Preamble states: WE, THE FREELY ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES OF […]

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Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former defense secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa said yesterday he now regretted to have finished the war because he had to undergo lots of trouble as a result of doing so. Mr. Rajapaksa expressed these views when he came to the Presidential Commission of Inquiry appointed to investigate serious acts of fraud, corruption […]

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Courtesy Island *Disquiet within Sinhala community over OHCHR report *Gazetting of ministry functions and institutions delayed further *IMF warns of ballooning budget deficit and makes strict ‘recommendations’ *Rupee slides, stock market stagnates & higher interest rates on the cards *Mutterings of discontent within UNP September 19, 2015, 7:48 pm The release of the OHCHR report […]

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By Sandun Jayawardana Courtesy The Nation President Maithripala Sirisena has ‘corrected’ his Foreign Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera’s statement made to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) regarding the Sri Lankan Government’s stance on the death penalty. Speaking at an official function in Galle on Friday (September 18), the President pledged to implement the death penalty […]

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Courtesy Island No CEPA talks in India says Ranil September 19, 2015, 8:13 pm President Maithripala Sirisena Friday said that the report of High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva would have been hundred times more severe than it was but for the regime change of January 8 this year. The president, flanked by Prime […]

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By Shamindra Ferdinando  Courtesy Island President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday claimed the recently released Geneva report that dealt with accountability issues during the conflict would have been a 1,000 times worse than the one the country was confronted with had there been a government under Mahinda Rajapaksa. The January 8 revolution prompted the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights […]

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By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy The New Indian Express COLOMBO: The United States’ draft resolution on alleged war crimes in Sri Lanka has called for the involvement of international judges, prosecutors and investigators  in the domestic judicial mechanism which Colombo is expected to set up to try cases of war crimes, a Geneva-datelined report in WeekendFT” said on […]

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