Courtesy Divaina පුවතක පසුබිම මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේ දෙබිඩි පිළිවෙත යේමනයේ යුද අපරාධ චෝදනා විමර්ශනය කළ යුතු යෑයි දක්‌වමින් මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයට යෝජනාවක්‌ ඉදිරිපත් කළේ නෙදර්ලන්තයයි. යේමන් යුද අපරාධ ගැන සෙවීමට විශේෂඥයන් පිරිසක්‌ යවන ලෙස මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයෙන් ඉල්ලීමක්‌ද කළේ එම රාජ්‍යයයි. එම යෝජනාවට පෙර යුද අපරාධ සම්බන්ධව වාර්තාවක්‌ මානව හිමිකම් කොමසාරිස්‌වරයා ඉදිරිපත් කර එහි නිර්දේශද ඇතුළත් […]

by James Blumenthal, Info-Buddhism.com, Oct 8, 2015 Much controversy has been stirred with the establishment of the “new” Nalanda University in Bihar, India. Heavily criticized for neglecting Buddhism, just how much of it has been diverted from the original Nalanda U? Prof James Blumenthal gives a run down on the luminaries that made the original Nalanda […]

By Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D. and Laurent Karila, MD, PhD Paul Brousse University Hospital, Villejuif, France Problematic sexual behaviors have been identified for centuries and Nymphomania has become a controversial subject among the clinicians. Nymphomania is considered as an organic disease, psychological disorder and a legal construct (Groneman, 2001). The term nymphomania resonates with a sense of […]

Shenali D Waduge Regime change implies installing boot lickers agreeable and willing to turni Sri Lanka into a virtual Philippines en route to South Korea with the change of the Sri Lankan Constitution earmarked to remove the prominent place given to the Sinhala Buddhists who built Sri Lanka. Denationalizing the people and creating virtual slaves […]

Dilrook Kannangara Twelve countries finally signed the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement headed by USA. Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Mexico, Canada and Australia are other noteworthy members. They will be almost totally reducing tariffs on key traded items. The biggest winners of TPP are Vietnam and Malaysia. The biggest losers are Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Cambodia and China. […]

R. Chandrasoma  Courtesy Island We are told by high authorities in the government that our former President has good hopes of being alive in the years ahead because of the political heroism and encompassing compassion of those who defeated him at the recent historic elections. Indeed, the claim has been made by no less a […]

සමීර S. ගජධීර ජපානයේ ටෝකියෝ නුවර සිට – lanka C news The News Repot says “Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe who is on a five-day official visit to Japan, delivered a Special Memorial Speech to the parliamentarians of the Japanese National Diet today. Previously, only two state leaders have been given the opportunity to address the Japanese Parliament. […]

Hemantha Abeywardena writes from London Courtesy – Asian Tribune – The fact that a 3-star Russian general gave his US counterparts in Syria just an hour’s notice to move American aircrafts out so that Russia can launch air strikes, undoubtedly, is the most significant watershed moment in the post-Soviet, geo-political landscape. In fact, the alarming development was […]

By Dasun Edirisinghe Courtesy Island Students from outstation schools have obtained highest marks at the Grade 5 Scholarship examination, according to results released by the Examinations Department yesterday. Kavinda Unantenna of Gangasiripura Vidyalaya in Gampola, Kavishka Wanigasekera of Makura Kanishta Vidyalaya in Malmaduwa and Melani Wijesinghe of Sri Sumangala Kanishta Vidyalaya in Ussapitiya, Mawanella have scored […]

Thoughts” – by Michael Roberts From Daily Mirror Item dec 2014  This is actually from an old news item in the Daily Mirror in late 2014 –perhaps one that was buried in the course of election fever during the Presidential contest. There is an ironic twist here: the astrological wisdom that led His Lordship, Mahinda […]

By Our Correspondent Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) has condemned the killing of one more scribe in Uttar Pradesh and reiterated its demand for a national action plan for justice to those slain journalists. The murder of Hemant Yadav last week increased the tally of slaughtered media persons to four this year in India. Yadav, […]

Courtesy Times of India BHOPAL: Next year on Independence Day, India will have the world’s largest 750MW solar power plant in Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh, which will pip America’s much-vaunted 550-megawatt Desert Sunlight solar project in California, commissioned four days ago. Acquisition of 1,500 hectares of land for the Rs 4000 crore project is […]

Courtesy RT It’s been a tough week for terrorists in Syria. Over seven days Russia delivered over a hundred airstrikes at various jihadist facilities across the country, reportedly igniting panic among some groups. TrendsRussian anti-terror op in Syria According to a weekly roundup by the Russian Defense Ministry, the country’s contingent in Syria has launched […]

Courtesy RT  Four Russian Navy warships have fired a total of 26 missiles at the position of the terrorist group Islamic State in Syria, Russia’s Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu announced. The missiles were fired from the Caspian Sea. TrendsRussian anti-terror op in Syria Four missile ships launched 26 cruise missiles at 11 targets. According to […]

Shenali D Waduge Into the hall of historical shame will enter the present UNSG, the UNHRC heads and officials and all other foreign nations that have been party to successive resolutions demanding investigations against a UN member state. The matter becomes hilarious for no other reason than the fact that the supposed ‘evidence’ against Sri […]

 උපුටා ගැන්ම www.mahinda.info [1]. පසුගිය වසර කීපයම අපේ රට ජාත්‍යන්තරයේ පරාජයට පත් වුණා” යැයි වත්මන් ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා ජාතිය අමතමින් පැවසුවා. [2]. ඊට හේතු ලෙස ප්‍රබල රාජ්‍ය ත්‍රාන්ත්‍රිකයින් අපේ රටට ආපු විට මේ රටේ ප්‍රධානීන් කොළඹින් පිට ඇඹිලිපිටිය ප්‍රදේශයට ගෙන්වා මඤ්ඤොක්කා කැවීම” ආදී කරුණු ගණනාවක් දක්වයි. [3]. එම චෝදනා සම්බන්ධයෙන් මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මැතිතුමා මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනයක් මගින් […]

Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon Executive Director –Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) and the Center for Human Rights and Research (CHR) No need to establish another commission Reports published on Sunday (04) indicated that three government mandated reports regarding mission persons and human rights violations; the Udalagama Commission report, the Paranagama report on the second mandate […]

Cecil Atukorale Whatever the form of Government, a monopoly of power in state would be the end of all civilised politics, whether it be the Presidential Executive or Parliamentary Executive. Constant experience has shown us that every man/woman invested with power is apt to abuse it to carry his/her authority as far as it will […]

By D.B.S. Jeyaraj Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Human Rights Investigation  report on Sri Lanka compiled by the Office of the United Nations  High Commissioner for Human Rights released last month  has revealed  much information about the alleged activities of the Sri Lankan armed forces, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and state affiliated para […]

DecentLanka2015 Media Release 06 October, 2015 The OISL Report presented to the UNHRC Sessions concludes most importantly with the proposal for a “Hybrid” investigation into all war crimes, crimes against humanity and violation of international law that were termed as “horrendous” crimes committed. The GoSL has already rejected a “hybrid” mechanism, proposing its own “Domestic” […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය ශිෂ්ටලංකා2015 2015 ඔක්තෝම්බර 06 වන දින එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් කොමිසම මෙවර සැසි වාරය සඳහා ඉදිරිපත් කළ ශී්‍ර ලංකාව සම්බන්ධ වාර්තාවෙහි ප්‍රධානම හා මූලික නිර්දේශය වූයේ වාර්තාවෙන් සනාථ කෙරුණු යුධ හා මනුෂ්‍යත්වයට එරෙහි අපරාධ සහ ජාත්‍යන්තර නීති උල්ලංඝණය අධිකරණමය කි්‍රයාවලියකට බඳුන් කිරීම සඳහා zzවිශේෂ දෙමුහුන් පරීක්ෂණ යාන්ත්‍රණයක්ZZ පිහිටු විය යුතු බවය. ශී්‍ර ලංකා […]

71 කැරැල්ල  ආරම්භයේ සිට අවසානය දක්වා පුර්ණ සමාලෝචනයක්  කෘතිය​  ඇසුරෙනි – වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග වික්ටර් අයිවන් මහතා හමුවීමෙන් පසු මගේ මීළඟ වෑයම වූයේ නිමල් මහරගේ හමුවීමටයි. නිමල් මහරගේ කොළඹ දිස්ත්‍රික් ලේකම් සහ මහ නඩුවේ 8 වන විත්තිකරුය. ඔහුට විජේවීර  මුණ ගැසෙන්නේ 1964 අවසාන භාගයේදී. නිමල් ෂන්මුගදාසන්ගේ චීන පිලේ වැඩ කරන විට කොම්පඤ්ඤවීදියේ පක්ෂ කාර්යාලයේදී විජේවීර  මුල්වරට හමුවිය. ඔහු මෙසේ කියයි. […]

By A. Abdul Aziz. Press Secretary,  Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at – Sri Lanka.  Sir Iftikhar Ayaz KBE; OBE will pay a short visit to the Island from 15 October to 17 October on his way to London after attending successful Peace Symposium in Indonesia and Malaysia. He will be pleased to have audience with Intellectuals, Educationalist, top […]

By Senaka Weeraratna Attorney – at – Law Chapter Leader of Dharma Voices for Animals (Sri Lanka – Colombo Chapter) A Public Talk delivered on World Animal Day (October 4, 2015) at the Dharmavijaya Foundation. New Vision We need a new vision for this country and its civilizational advancement. It must begin in our schools. The primary purpose […]

මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිවරයා එදා, 2010 ජනාධිපතිවරණ සමයෙදි මේ කරන කතාව ඉවසීමෙන් අහන්න. මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා විවිධ කුමන්ත්‍රණ සහ බාධක මැද යුද්ධය ජයගත් ආකාරය ඔහු පැහැදිලි කරනව. අධිරාජ්‍යවාදී බලවේග, එක්සත් ජාතීන්, රාජ්‍ය නොවන සංවිධාන සහ ඇතැම් මාධ්‍ය ආයතන වගේම කුහක විපක්ෂය මහින්දට එදිරිව ක්‍රියාත්මක වූ බවත් මහින්ද ඒවාට සාර්ථකව මුහුණ දුන් බවත් ඔහු පෙන්වා දෙනව. […]

By Charles.S.Perera Now it is a question of reconciliation with the Tamils at any cost and for that it is possible the Sirisena –Ranil good governance may demand USA to investigate whether  USA could extend  the UNHuman rights violation, and even genocide  calling for  accountability of King Dutugemunu’s war against  Elara the Cholan  Tamil,  as […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge   The King Seethawaka Rajasinghe (Tikiri Bandara ) the 16th century monarch of Sri Lanka was a great warrior who came to the battlefield at the age of 16. He fought against the Portuguese invaders and witnessed many deaths and destructions. He was a fearless fighter who used effectual war tactics and overpowered […]

RANJITH SOYSA When the USA was pushing Sri Lanka for a hybrid investigation in Geneva to inquire into the allegations leveled by highly questionable sources the US air-crafts were bombing a hospital in Kunduz in Afganistan resulting in innocent civilian deaths,   The Doctors without Borders who were running the hospital have said that the US cannot come   […]

Ramanie de Zoysa War hero Ratnayaka Mudiyanselage Sunil Ratnayaka is on death row at the age of just 38 for the crime of protecting his country from a 30 year pogrom of ruthless LTTE terror because the present Sri Lankan Government wants to appease the LTTE rump who enjoys much political succor in England, the […]

Shenali D Waduge “The name of Christ has caused more persecutions, wars, and miseries than any other name has caused.” – John E. Remsburg Over hundreds and thousands of years the same nations that dictate how the world today functions have been responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity that have left millions dead. […]