Adaderana Justice Maxwell Paranagama, Chairman of the Sri Lankan Commission on missing persons and war crimes, has said that the death toll in the final phase of Eelam War IV was not 40,000, as claimed in the 2011 report of the Panel of Experts appointed by the UN Secretary General  Ban Ki-moon, but probably a […]

By Ashley de Vos Courtesy Island September 21, 2015, 6:28 pm Sri Lanka does not need it but RAW-driven Delhi with its bold statements is using the present political hiatus in Sri Lanka to drive and acquire as much mileage as possible; in the process Delhi is compelling Sri Lanka to accept all that Delhi desires […]

මහින්ද හොරා වු හැටි අහන්න බලන්න.. – Sri AV Tv … මෙන්න සත්ත්‍ය මහින්ද හොරා වු හැටි.. අනිතයටත් බලන්න ශෙයා කරන්න අමතක නොකරන්න https://www.facebook.com/SriAvTvNetwork/videos/984662548261396/

Dilrook Kannangara UNHRC report is out. It recommends Sri Lanka comply with its dictates. However, if Sri Lanka refuses to comply with them and disregards all dictates, nothing will happen. UNHRC cannot enforce its decisions as Sri Lanka is not a party to the Rome Statute and doesn’t come under the International Criminal Court. The […]

Courtesy Ratarakimu Serious doubts about Sirisena’s words of reassurance as a man who betrayed his president for position of power, a man who broke the SLFP he worked with for a lifetime, a man whose party sits on one side of parliament but works for the otherside. Sirisena has adopted many strategies used by the […]

The Heads of Government have Lied to the Sri Lankan public  saying there are no manes ‎- when several Military personnel are named in the report. Intention is to lull the military and quell any opposition the the UN report.   Challenge the report if not Sri Lanka accepts that the hero’s of the war against […]

By Dayan Jayatilleka Why is Mangala and Ranil hiding these facts from the public?  They plan to agree to this by 24th September!!! US Draft Resolution Wants Demilitarization Of The North & East Posted on September 20th, 2015 The US draft resolution, or should I say the US-UK draft resolution, attempts to get Sri Lanka to […]

Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka in Geneva Full speech: I thank Ambassador Harper and his delegation for inviting me and my delegation to this informal consultation. I also take this opportunity to greet the Ambassador of the US to Sri Lanka Mr. Atul Keshap who is here with us today. As set out by the […]

උපුටාගැණීම www.mahinda.info මහින්ද චින්තනයේ ප්‍රතිඵලයක් වශයෙන් 2020 වෙත්දී ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සංවර්ධිත රටක් කිරීමේ ඉලක්කය සහිතව සිදුකරන ලද මහා සංවර්ධන ක්‍රියාවලියේ එක් කොටසක් වූයේ අධිවේගී මාර්ග පද්ධතිය යි. ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ මෙහෙයවීමෙන් ඉදිකළ කඩුවෙල කඩවත අධිවේගී මාර්ගය ගැනත් එය විවෘත කිරීම ප්‍රමාද වීමට හේතුව ගැනත් තොරතුරු මීට පෙර ලිපියකින් ඔබ වෙත ගෙන ආවෙමු. කෙසේ නමුත් එම […]

උපුටාගැණීම www.mahinda.info මහින්දෝදය ඉදිකිරීම්වලදී දූෂණ අක්‍රමිකතා වූ බවට චෝදනා ප්‍රතික්‍ෂේප කරනවා – ජාතික ඉදිකිරීම් සංගමය කියයි” මැයෙන් යුතුව මහින්දෝදය විද්‍යාගාර වලට එරෙහිව චෝදනා කරන උදවියට පිළිතුරු ලිපියක් දිවයින පුවත්පතේ පළ වී තිබේ. පසුගිය රජයේ පාලන කාලයේදී රාජ්‍ය පාසල් සඳහා ඉදිකරනු ලැබූ මහින්දොaදය විද්‍යාගාර ඉදිකිරීමේදී දූෂණ හා අක්‍රමිකතා සිදුවී ඇතැයි ඇතැම් දේශපාලකයන් හා වෘත්තීය සමිති නියෝජිතයන් එල්ල […]

Shenali D Waduge Two international probes have been held against Sri Lanka vis a vis the final phase of the conflict. If both international probes with international experts claim that war crimes have been committed by Sri Lanka why is there any need for a third international investigation or a domestic hybrid investigation with international […]

By Prof. G. L. Peiris Courtesy Island   United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein holds a press conference on Sri Lanka at the UN Office in Geneva on September 16, 2015. The United Nations detailed horrific abuses committed in Sri Lanka’s civil conflict, including the disappearance of tens of thousands of […]

By Jayasuriya Udukumbura and Percy Kuruneru  Courtesy Island The government had requested the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva and US State Department to allow it to conduct a domestic war crimes probe instead of setting up a hybrid court with international judges, Justice and Buddha Sasana Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said yesterday. The government had […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි මෙ වනවිට, ශ්රී ලංකාව සම්බන්ධව, එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් කොමිසම විසින් වාර්තාවක් ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත. මේ කොමිසම සොයා බලා ඇත්තේ, ශ්රී ලංකාව තුල සිදුවෙන සියලුම ආකාරයේ මානව හිමිකම් කඩ කිරීම් සම්බන්ධව නොව, පසුගිය කාලයේ, පැවති ත්රස්තවාදයට එරෙහිව ගෙනගිය සටනේදී සිදුකරන ලද මානව හිමිකම් කඩ කිරීම් සම්බන්ධව බව ප්රකාශිතය. තවද, 1972 සෙප්තැම්බර් මස […]

By Dayan Jayatilleka The US draft resolution, or should I say the US-UK draft resolution, attempts to get Sri Lanka to agree to something that the world’s deadliest terrorist militia failed to do in thirty years of war, studded with suicide bombing. It tries to get us to agree to what a 70,000 strong contingent of […]

ALI SUKHANVER Everyone knows that Pakistan has the best military skill and talent supported by a vast range of nuclear weapons but in spite of all these realities, in the few past years our enemies succeeded in spreading an artificial air of disappointment and despair among the nation regarding the abilities of the Armed Forces […]

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT Courtesy The Hindu  They account for 21 per cent of Tamil Nadu’s population, and the Socio-economic and Caste Census has now found that Dalit households in rural Tamil Nadu touch 25.55 per cent. However, Dalits in the State continue to be at the receiving end; and there seems to be no let-up in atrocities […]

By Express News Service Courtesy The New Indian Express CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu figures among the top five States where a high number of cases of atrocities against Dalits have been reported in recent years, according to National Commission for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) Chairman P L Punia. Statistics show that since 2011, as many as 213 people […]

While all Indian politicians of post independence follow their pre independance kings dream of annexing Sri Lanka as part of Maha Bharath no regime has been more explicit and determined than the current BJP Modhi is staunch Hindu Nationalist, he has never denied the BJP instigated Muslim riots during his time as Chief Minister in […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Shenali D Waduge  Two international probes have been held against Sri Lanka vis a vis the final phase of the conflict. If both international probes with international experts claim that war crimes have been committed by Sri Lanka why is there any need for a third international investigation or a domestic hybrid investigation with international […]

මහනුවර සිංහල බෞද්ධ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ පුරවැසියන්ගේ සංවිධානය මහනුවර සිංහල- බෞද්ධ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ පුරවැසියන්ගේ සංවිධානය විසින් 2014 දෙසැම්බර් 2 දින ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද සිය (100) පනත සංදේශයේ ඇතුළත් කරුණු සාරාංශ කර මෙහි දැක්වේ. අදාල සමස්ථ සංදේශය මෙම පති්‍රකාව අවසානයේ දැක්වෙන ලිපිනයෙන් ද ලබාගත හැකිය. එක් රටක්, එක් රාජ්‍යයක් හා එක් ජාතියක් 2. එක් නීතියක් / මේ යටතේ තේස […]