Archive for February, 2016
Monday, February 8th, 2016
Dilrook Kannangara The artificial ethnic group called Ceylon (Sri Lankan or Eelam) Tamils was introduced in 1911. It never existed before. It was an artificial and erroneous invention. Until then in all censuses (1881, 1891 and 1901), all Tamils were called Tamils – a people of Indian extraction. The 1911 census introduced this artificial ethnic […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2016
Media Release 6 February 2015 SPUR Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights in Sri Lanka (SPUR) NSW Inc. PNSW 1730, Australia Another version of a national anthem was sung at the most sacred Independence Day, the National Day of Sri Lanka, on 4 February 2016 in Colombo. This was done at the behest of […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2016
Shenali D Waduge Before anyone forgets. It was not the Tamils that the Sri Lanka Military fought and defeated but a globally banned terrorist organization called the LTTE banned in 32 countries. This LTTE had open offices in London and elsewhere. This LTTE had LTTE fronts operating overseas who were providing material support. Nevertheless, somehow after […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2016
Dr Sarath Obeysekera We have been pushed by India to sign peace accord with Tigers and simultaneously blackmailed us to sign the agreement to develop Trinco Tank farm built by British The tanks are located far apart and laying pipeline and equipment in the tank farm and jungle clearing is very costly and Indians knew […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2016
නලින් ද සිල්වා අද ගොඩනැගීමක් හා ගොඩගැනීමක්් ගැන දේශපාලනයෙහි කතාවෙයි. එකක් ශ්රී ල නි පක්ෂය ගොඩගැනීම ය. අනෙක ඊනියා ශ්රී ලාංකික ජාතිය ගොඩනැගීම ය. ශ්රී ල නි පක්ෂය දෙකඩ වීමක් නිසා දුර්වල වන බව ශ්රී ල නි පක්ෂයෙහි සිට මෛත්රිපාල සිරිසේන සමග ගොස් ආණ්ඩුවේ ඇමතිකම් ලබාගත්තෝ කියති. ඔවුන්ට අනුව මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂට හිතවත් අය ශ්රී ල […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2016
Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge The World Health Organization (WHO) defines mental health as “a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully and is able to make a contribution to his or her community. War trauma negatively […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2016
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein is here to check the situation, says WImal Weerawansa. ජිනීවාහි එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේ යෝජනාව අනුව ශ්රී ලංකාවට කටයුතු කරන්නට සිදුවීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය විසින් කරුණු පැහැදිලි කරන අයුරු.
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Monday, February 8th, 2016
By Paul Craig Roberts Reprinted from Paul Craig Roberts, The Neoconservative Threat to World Order (Clarity Press, 2015) Are Nixon’s and the Reagan administration’s crimes noticeable on the scale of Clinton’s, George W. Bush’s, and Obama’s? January 25, 2016 “Information Clearing House” -Not much remains of the once vibrant American left-wing. Among the brainwashed remnants […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2016
By Silvia Cattori Courtesy Global Research, March 24, 2007 Reseau Voltaire 24 March 2007 http://www.globalresearch.ca/united-nations-complicity-in-war-crimes/5170 For Hans Christof von Sponeck, the former assistant secretary-general of the UN, the United Nations, far from garding the respect for international law and the consolidation of peace, have themselves become a factor of injustice. Thus, the sanctions imposed on Saddam Hussein’s […]
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Monday, February 8th, 2016
Either remove Ranil or give SLFP chairmanship to Mahinda – Prasanna පිරිසිදු ශ්රීලනිප පාක්ෂිකයෝ ඉන්නේ අපිත් එක්කයි… – ප්රසන්න රණතුංග
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Monday, February 8th, 2016
No justifiable reason to accuse entire military over war crimes – Mahinda හුසේන් කුමරුගේ යෝජනා ගැන හිටපු ජනපතිගේ අදහස… https://youtu.be/RBVYKLmrRHY
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Sunday, February 7th, 2016
H. L. D. Mahindapala The controversy with Ms. Sharmini Serasinghe began when she initially challenged the Sinhala-Buddhists to show what they had achieved which the others haven’t. In reply it was pointed out that the Sinhala-Buddhists had made three great contributions : 1. a new language; 2. a new culture and 3, a new civilization. […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2016
By A.A.M.Nizam – Matara Although the government boasted celebrating the 68th Independence Day on Februiary 4th on a grand scale unitedly with the participation of all communities in the country including with the participation of the so-called leader of the opposition R.Sambandan, the TNA lrader for the first time in the history of this country […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2016
By Charles.S.Perera Political parties are born out of politicians’ insatiable thirst for power which can be defined as the ability to influence and control others. Power is as addictive as heroin and those who have lost it behave like hapless druggies going cold turkey having chased the dragon for years. Personal ambitions are camouflaged with […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2016
DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA Zeid Al Hussein the UN Human Rights High Commissioner arrived in Sri Lanka on the 6th of February and I’m told he’ll be here for four days. A visit by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to any country for even a day is surely be a big deal, since a person […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2016
Shenali D Waduge The West has very little to say about its crimes and they are many and the victims run into millions. The West that is responsible for horrendous crimes across all the continents of the world escape justice and are never taken to the dock but the nations that have suffered because of […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2016
By Shelton A. Gunaratne, Ph.D. (Minn.) Professor of communication emeritus, Minnesota State University Moorhead and lead author of the book Mindful Journalism and Media Ethics in the Digital Era: A Buddhist Approach (New York & London: Routledge, 2015) April 24, 2011 Sunday Island Editorial Title: Big bucks, politics and rhinoceros hides” Summary: A critical look […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2016
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග තරුණ සහ නවක වෛද්යවරුන් ලෙස අප බොහෝ කවටකම් කලෙමු. එය රාජකාරී ආතතිය මකා ගැනීම සඳහා විය යුතුය. සමහර විහිළු අහිංසක ඒවාය. සමහර විහිළු බරපතලය. වරක් හලාවත රෝහලේදී ශල්යකර්මයක් අවසන් වීමෙන් පසු රාත්රී දෙගොඩහරිජාමේ තේ බීම සඳහා හලාවත ටවුමේ පිහිටි නයිට් කඩයකට අප ගියෙමු. අප අතර සිටි තෙන්නේ හොඳ විහිළු සපයන්නෙකි. නයිට් […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2016
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ”’ මහාවංශය පිළිගන්නවානම් සිංහලයන් තිරිසනුන් බව ත් ”අපි ඉන්දියාව ගැන සක නොකලයුතුබවත් ” මංගල සමරවීර ඉන්දියානු රැස්වීමකදී ප්රසිධියේ කියා ඇත . . සිංහලකම මරාදැමීමේ අවසන් ප්රයත්නය ඉටුකරමින් සිටින මේ අවස්ථාවේ රජයේ ප්රබලයෙක් මෙසේ ඉන්දියානුන් අමතන්නේ තම අරමුණ ඉටුකරගැනීමට ඉන්දියාව තව තවත් ධර්යමත් කිරීම සඳහාය උපකාර ලබා ගැනීම සඳහාය .නපුන්සකයෙකුගේ කතා ලෙස මේවා […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2016
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න 13අ සහ පළාත් සභා අවශ්ය වුයේ ඉන්දියානුවන්ටය .ජේ ආර් ටවත් මේවා අවශ්ය නොවීය එහෙත් ජේ ආර් ත ම ස්වාමීන් වන බටහිරයන්ගෙන් බලාපොරොත්තුවූ සහය නොලැබෙන විට බලය රක ගැනීම සඳහා ඉන්දියාවට නතුවී සිංහලයන් පාවාදී ඉන්දියාව සමග ගිවිසුම අත්සන් කලේ මුළු මහත් ජාතියටම ද්රෝහී වෙමිනි .ප්රභා මරණ මෙහෙයුමේදී ඉන්දියාව මහින්ද ද බය කරන්නට […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2016
Ira de Silva Canada The National Peace Council claims that the singing of the national anthem in Tamil is a strong gesture of reconciliation by the government. It claims that the government had the courage and wisdom to have the national anthem sung in both Sinhala and Tamil overcoming the objections of “nationalists”. These opinions indicate […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2016
By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Dr. Mass R. Usuf is the President of the National Association of Homoeopaths & Affiliates, Vice President of the Ceylon Homoeopathic Medical Association and holds a PhD in Palm Diagnosis, & Acupuncture; He is qualified in Acupressure, Naturopathy, Colour, Cupping and Magneto therapy; A member of the Foundation for Homeopathy, […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2016
ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න ………… දකුණු ඉන්දියානු කම්කරුවන් ඉංග්රීසින් විසින් ගෙනා එකම රට ලංකාව නොවේ. මලසියාව ෆීජී උගන්ඩාව සිංගප්පුරුව දකුණු අප්රිකාව හා බුරුමයේද මේ ප්රශ්නය ඔඩුදුවා තිබු නේය . එහෙත් මේ බොහොරටවල් නිදහස ලත් වහාම මේ ඉන්දීය කම්කරුවන්ද පිටමන් කළහ ඉන්දියාව ඔවුන් බාරගත්තේය .1949 ඉන්දීය ආණ්ඩුක්රම ව්යවස්ථාව යටතේ මේ සියල්ලෝම ඉන්දියානු පරවැසි භාවයට හිමිකම් කීඅ ය වුහ […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2016
Dr. Daya Hewapathirane A nation is a historically constituted, stable community of people, formed basically on the basis of a common culture, a common language, economic life, and psychological make-up. From ancient times, Sri Lanka or Sinhale as the island was known in known to its people from historic times is the Nation of the […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2016
By Susantha Goonatilake In 1993 with the Khmer Rouge still partly operational, my wife went to Cambodia on behalf of the UN, in charge of the UN women’s projects there, women were the majority after the Pol Pot war. I remember at the time that visitors to Angkor Wat were scarce, probably around 15,000. And […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2016
Abdul Aziz – Press Secretary. AHMADIYYA MUSLIM JAMA’AT – SRI LANKA A three member delegation from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Sri Lanka (AMJSL) comprising Mr.A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary and National Director Faith Outreach – AMJSL Moulavi K. Muneer Ahmad (Missionary – Pasyala) and Murabbi Javid Raheem visited to Archbishop House in Colombo on Friday […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2016
by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island February 6, 2016, 7:46 pm Former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday said that the UK’s outright rejection of the UN ruling that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange be allowed to go free highlighted again British double standards vis-a-vis Sri Lanka. “Obviously, the British do not practice what they preach to us […]
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Sunday, February 7th, 2016
lanka C news ඊයේ(06) එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් කොමසාරිස්ගේ පැමිණීමට එරෙහිව ලිප්ටන් වටරවුමේ සිට එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ කොළඹ කාර්යාලය දක්වා පක්ෂ සාමාජිකයින් සමග දැවැන්ත පා ගමනකින් පැමිණි විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා එම කාර්යාලය ඉදිරිපිටදී මෙසේ අවධාරණයකර සිටියේය. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා මෙසේද පැවසීය. ‘‘අපි එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ කොළඹ මූලස්ථාන කාර්යාලය ඉදිරි පිටට අවේ, ගෙවී ගිය […]
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Saturday, February 6th, 2016
Shenali D Waduge Sri Lanka is facing a very critical juncture of its history. Apart from a handful, the nation appears euthanized and incapable to understand that the nation is nearing the precipice and the collapse unlikely to be reversed. How aware or ready are we to subjugate our nation? Danger in India’s incursion What […]
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Saturday, February 6th, 2016
DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA UN Human Rights High Commissioner Zeid Al Hussain is in Sri Lanka. I’m not sure whether he has given a press conference yet, but when he does, I hope someone asks him one or more of the following questions: Your report to the Human Rights Council in September-2015, is the only official UN […]
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