Courtesy The Nation Maybe that the likes of Ajith Perera can run away with the idea that the UNP is God’s gift to mankind, but do spare us the sanctimonious hectoring about how his party is going to course-correct Sri Lanka’s foreign policy. Appearing in a recent talk show, Perera said his government has begun […]

Courtesy The Nation The eventual outcome at the ongoing sessions of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva will be critical for Sri Lanka in terms of international implications and for its image as a progressive democracy but there is also likely to be a domestic political fallout as a result. Colombo’s emissaries […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Foreign Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera yesterday said the fresh resolution on Sri Lanka sponsored by the US, which was tabled on Thursday, is a ‘path breaking success’ achieved at the 30th session of the UNHRC. In a media statement on the fresh UNHRC resolution on SL, Minister Samaraweera who is currently […]

RE: Computer Glitch. This Computer Glitch occurred in the Sri Lankan Air line computer system may be the Worlds first computer Glitch ever occurred, as it affects only one individual customer. I live in Australia and most Air lines including Qantas, Virgin and other Air Lines close the entire Air Line ticketing system when a […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty In 2014 the UN Human Rights Council by resolution A/HRC/25/L.1/Rev.1 authorized the High Commissioner for Human Rights To undertake a comprehensive investigation into alleged serious violations and abuses of human rights and related crimes by both parties in Sri Lanka during the period covered by the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, and […]

Yahapalana News The 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) commenced today (Sep. 25) at the UN Headquarters in New York with President Sirisena and his son Daham attending the meeting on behalf of Sri Lanka sitting at the country’s podium with the other government officials. The summit on Sustainable Development was begun with the key note address by […]

S. Akurugoda Former Secretary to the Ministry of Defence Mr Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, addressing the media, has expressed  his regret for finishing the war on terror when he came to the so-called Presidential Commission of Inquiry appointed to investigate serious acts of fraud, corruption and abuse of power, state resources, and privileges (PRECIFAC) few days ago, […]

By Tamara Kunanayakam  The resolution has been drafted craftily to make it marketable to public opinion in Sri Lanka and, thus, help Washington’s new-found ally, and also to ease the fears of developing countries in the Human Rights Council, who will otherwise object to a precedent that could endanger their own independence and sovereignty. The text is scattered […]

Yahapalanaya News President Maithripala Sirisena arrived in New York on the morning of Thursday, September 24,to attend the 70th sessions of the United Nations General Assembly and was welcomed by a group which included Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera and the Sri Lankan Ambassadors in Washington D.C. and New York. Throughout the presidential election, Sirisena’s choice […]

ආබාධිතයෙකුට බිමදමාගෙන පහරදෙන ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොළීසිය.      

රිවිර සිකුරාදා පුවත්පත සදහා ධර්මන් වික්‍රමරත්න ලියන මුරගල තීරු ලිපිය – 122  2015 සැප්තැම්බර් 26 සිකුරාදා(වචන 970)       ලිච්ඡවී රාජ්‍යය හා සප්ත අපරිහානී ධර්ම දැන් නැවතත් කරලියට පැමිණ තිබේ. යහපාලනයට සමඟාමීව ලිච්ඡවී කියවීම නැවත ඇරඹී ඇත. ලිච්ඡවී කියවීම යහපාලනයට සමගාමීව ඇරඹීම හොඳ ක්‍රියාවක් වුවද එහෙත් වර්තමානයේ එය දේශපාලන වේදිකාව වර්ණවත් කරන තවත් එක් වචනයක් පමණි. […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge   Give tear out twist and kill I cross light and Burn caress and lick embrace and look I ring Full peals from the bells until they bleed Frighten the pigeons and make them fly all Around the dovecot until they fall to the Ground already exhausted I will stop up all […]

One of the steamers leaving for Italy from Libya. And everyone is taken in by the loving Europeans – those kind, loving, PC-socialists that are soon going to be overrun.  The next step is a Muslim Europe and the do gooders just can’t see it !!! All thanks to; long ago well planned US policy […]

Courtesy Adaderana A resolution calling for a credible justice process” with Commonwealth and other foreign judges” in order to prosecute for mass atrocities committed during the final stages of the island’s armed conflict has been tabled at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. The resolution, which has been negotiated since the draft was released […]

Dilrook Kannangara Corruption allegations were big business during the 2015 January election. It was one of the biggest political slogans played by the UNP-Sirisena camp. However, now there is conclusive proof of their absurdity. Mahinda administration was far less corrupt than the present UNP-Sirisena regime. To quantify, the UNP-Sirisena regime is $7 billion-a-year more corrupt […]

Shenali D Waduge A plaintiff has made history by filing a prima facie case against the United Nations Organization. Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekera has filed a case in a domestic court in Sri Lanka against the illegalities being adopted by the United Nations Organization against his country. That a bold initiative has taken place requires the […]

ජාතික සංවිධාන එකමුතුවේ සභාපති මණ්ඩල සාමාජික ආචාර්ය ගුණදාස අමරසේකර ජාතික සංවිධාන එකමුතුවේ සභාපති මණ්ඩල සාමාජික ආචාර්ය ගුණදාස අමරසේකර මහතා විසින් එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ සංවිධානයේ ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා නිත්‍ය නියෝජිත සුබිනේ නන්දි මහතාට විරුද්ධව කොළඹ දිස්ත‍්‍රික් උසාවියේදී අද දින නඬුවක් පවරන ලදි. එම පැමිණිල්ල මගින් ඔහු කියා සිටින්නේ එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ ප‍්‍රඥප්තිය සහ ජාත්‍යන්තර නීතියේ සාමාන්‍ය මූලධර්ම උල්ලංගණය කතරමින් […]

Rahul says, Lichchavisation of Sri Lanka = Balkanization of Sri Lanka = Break up of the Nation of Sri Lanka= Creation of a Union of Federal States in Sri Lanka. As John says, RW and Sambandan are speaking the same language; they are both for the break up of the Sri Lankan Nation and in […]

by Senaka Weeraratna It was a Friday fifty six years ago to be exact on September 25, 1959 at around 10.30 a.m. in the morning when I was in the class room listening to Mr. H.P. Jayawardena’s English lesson in our final year at Royal Primary School, that my eye caught a movement in the corridor […]

Press Release Towards a Revolution in Compassion A Public Talk on ‘The Importance of introducing Animal Protection Education into Schools in Sri Lanka’ on World Animal Day If Sri Lanka is taken to task internationally on lack of statutory recognition of animal rights than on human rights as we see happening today at UNHRC in Geneva we […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy The New Indian Express COLOMBO: Former Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Prof.G.L.Peiris has said that the report of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights on war crimes” in Lanka has soft pedaled the LTTE’s using civilians as a human shield, when it is a war crime under international humanitarian law. He charged that […]

by KALINGA SENEVIRATNE, CONTRIBUTOR Courtesy The Manila Times THE US, UK and the international media have hailed the August 17th election results in Sri Lanka as a victory for democracy, but, the loser may well turn out to be the voters of Sri Lanka. The political comedy that has taken place in the island republic in […]

Insight By Sunil Kumar Sept 19th, 2015 This alarming recent post by an independent very credible source  appears to throw light on  what has been long suspected  in typical fashion  as betrayers and panderers who collude to Western sources to maintain their so called good standing with the West but in doing so lower their […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala With great fanfare and  ballyhoo the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe (Siri-Wicky) government promised that they alone could conquer the international community” (meaning  the big power brokers of the West) which the previous regime of Mahinda Rajapakse had alienated.  This promise to conquer the world and restore Sri Lanka’s position in the world stage was […]

UNITED AUSTRALIANS OF SRI LANKAN ORGANISATIONS PO BOX 4066, MULGRAVE, VICTORIA 3175, AUSTRALIA, Telephone 03-97957143 20 September 2015 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Launches a Major Assault on Sri Lanka’s Sovereignty and targets the Defence Forces that defeated the LTTE, the World’s Most Brutal Terrorist Organisation. The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has released […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has urged the new Government to reject the report by the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) on war crime allegations. Issuing a statement Rajapaksa said, as the former head of state, I think it would be appropriate to make known to the public my observations […]

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වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංගගේ Combat Trauma in Sri Lanka  ලිපිය ඇසුරෙනි පරිවර්තනය ඒ එස් වික්‍රමසිංහ / නදී  කදුරුවාන  උතුරේ යුද ගැටුම් නිසා මානසික කම්පනයන්ට ලක්වූ සොල්දාදුවන් පිලිබදව මා විසින් තොරතුරු වාර්තා ලියා තිබේ. එසේම විශේෂඥ මනෝ වෛද්‍ය නීල් ප්‍රනාන්දු මහතා සහ මා විසින් ඒ සම්බන්ධයෙන් දීර්ඝ පරියේෂණ කොට ඇත. යුද ගැටුම් නිසා උතුරේ මානසික කම්පනයන්ට […]