TEXT OF PETITION February 4 is a day when Sri Lankans look back with immense pride on the long road our forefathers took to free our beloved island from foreign domination. This year, that pride is tempered with the reality of the numerous indignities being heaped on our nation by foreign powers and other threats […]

Shenali D Waduge Brad Adams of Human Rights Watch has spoken. He says Mr. Fonseka’s appointment is a breach of trust for victims and families who believed in this government’s commitment to deliver justice for war crimes.” The election of 2010 just months after the elimination of the LTTE ground force and the manner that […]

Shenali D Waduge US President Obama, Hillary Clinton and the Heads of the US Armed Forces actually watched live while US Navy Seals killed enemy Osama bin Laden. The entire world lit crackers in jubilation. Just 1 attack was enough for Al Qaeda & Osama to be branded terrorists. UN Secretary General did not ask […]

By A.A.M.Nizam – MATARA The government with the blind backing of its stooges, the JVP hooligans and the TNA separatists has no concern at all for the national, cultural and religious values of this country which has been deemed and safeguarded as sacred for nearly 3,000 years. The so-called Ministers, the new breed called the […]

Kanthar Balanathan, Australia  The sovereignty, democracy, national security, reconciliation process are growing to be under threat as a result of significant number of unnecessary, churlish, rash actions by India, the West and the UN. This is not a contention, but looking on a lateral view: political analysts, learned people will agree that foreign sinusoidal seagull […]

ETCA Rally Dr Anuruddha Padeniya https://youtu.be/_pWCRxBibWg

Susantha Wijesinghe It is with great deference and appreciation, we see, that you took note of indecent remarks made by a  Reporter on the song sung by Miss Kishani Jayasinghe, in her own inimitable style, for which she is talented, and has training on International stage. I see that you have even threatened to cancel licences of such […]

Sudath Gunasekara President Mahanuwara Sinhala Bauddha Jesta Purawesiyange Sanvidhanaya 13.2.2016. I was just nine years and in grade four in school when Sri Lanka got Independence from the British in 1948. We were told by teachers that we got full independence from British rule and thereafter we will have our own government instead of a […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Courtesy The Island Anagarika Dharmapala (1864-1933) is arguably Sri Lanka’s greatest national hero that emerged between 1815 – the year that the kingdom of Sinhale was brought under foreign imperial rule in its entirety for the first and the last time in its more than two thousand years of unbroken existence – […]

Dr. Ruwan M Jayatunge We openly advocate organized terror. . . . Terror, in times of revolution, is an absolute necessity  – Felix Dzerzhinsky  Polish and Russian revolutionary Felix Dzerzhinsky (1877-1926) headed Cheka (the Soviet secret police) from 1917 to 1926. He was known as Iron Felix for his mercilessness and apathy. Ironically by nature […]

 Dr Sarath Obeysekera Much hype about Sri Lanka to be a hub for marina users and convert Galle and Mirrissa  into a Marinas for yacht owners to patronize Sri Lanka and yet one should seriously analyse the infrastructure including basic facilities to be available for the tourists to enjoy when they are in Sri Lanka […]

By Concerned citizen How about investigating the following for a start: 1.0 Daham Sirisena’s huge stash of Foreign Currency.  See: http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=116619 http://www.asiantribune.com/node/86130 2.0 Implement the recommendations of the Batalanda Commission report. According to this report RW’s civic rights should have been removed.  3.0 How about also investigating Central Bank Governor who did a day light robbery of […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernand Priantha Fernando is a Senior Tourism and Management Consultant. He was a former Director of Marketing of the Ceylon Tourist Board. Fernando accounts for over 43 years of experience in the Tourist Industry, Public and Private Sectors. His expertise extends beyond tourism covering other fields such as, Employment Services, Hotel […]

ධර්මන් වික‍්‍රමරත්න වසරක් පුරා හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂට ඔවුහු නින්දා අපහාස කලහ. හොරෙක්, වංචාකාරයෙක්, මීනීමරුවෙකුයැයි ඇඟවෙන පරිදි චෝදනාද කළහ. අවසානයේ කිසිවක් ඔප්පුකර ගැනිමට නොහැකිවූ තැන දරුවන්ට චෝදනා හදමින් රිමාන්ඩ් ගත කර නිහඬ කිරීමට උත්සාහ කළහ. ලක්ෂයකට ආසන්න ජීවිත සංඛ්‍යාවක් බිලිගත් දෙමළ බෙදුම්වාදී ත්‍රස්තවාදී යුද්ධය නිමාකල රටක කඳුළු පිස දැමූ මිනිසාගේ දෑසේ කඳුළු දුටුවෙමු. එහෙත් ඒ […]

Chandrasena Pandithage අද දිනය විශේෂිත දිනයකි බත්තරමුල්ල නෙළුම් මාවතේ, අතිගරු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ සම්බන්ධීකරණ කාර්යාලයක් විවෘත කිරීම සිදුකරන ලද්දේ අද උදෑසන වීම මේ විශේෂත්වයට  හේතුවයි. දැන් න්යෂ්ඨිය බිහිව ඇත. ඒ න්යෂ්ඨිය කේන්ද්රය කර ගනිමින් වහ වහා ජාතික විමුක්ති අරගලයේ මීලග පියවර සදහා ඒ වටා පෙල ගැසීමට මෙරට ජනතාව සූදානම් විය යුතුය. මෙරට ජනතාව මේ […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge  Psychoanalysis was introduced by Sigmund Freud in which free association, dream interpretation, and analysis of resistance and transference are used to explore repressed or unconscious impulses, anxieties, and internal conflicts. To Freud, psychoanalysis was clearly a social theory as well as a psychological theory (Stea, ‎2012). Some experts view that the Freudian […]

Organization for Protection of Rana-viruvo and Global Sri Lankan Forum – GSLF, launched a massive Island wide campaign to protect soldiers who fought to protect and free the country from Tamil terrorism. One million signatures campaign launched today from Bodhiraja Viharaya at Pettah in Colombo. The first signatory to the one million signatures petition was […]

by Satharathilaka Banda Atugoda Former Sri Lanka Ambassador to Germany It is reported that President Maithripala Sirisena will be making an Official/State Visit to Germany from February 13th, which is considered as a high watermark of the relations between our two countries. Visits by Heads of State/Governments as State Visits, are viewed as a crescendo of […]

Bodhi Dhanapala Quebec, Canada. [The author is a popular science writer and a science teacher in a Technical College in Quebec.] ( Courtesy Island) February 12, 2016, 6:51 pm Most of us have no idea of Einstein’s theory of relativity. Sri Lankans have heard the claim of Nalin de Silva, an ex-Dean of Science at Kelaniya, that […]

by Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec  Canada. Most of us have no idea of Einstein’s theory of relativity. Sri Lankans have heard the claim of Nalin de Silva, an ex-Dean of Science at Kelaniya  that Einstein’s theory is just an unmitigated lie (“Patta-Pal-Boruvak”) —  a “just so story” dependent on the  Judeo-Christian cultural mindset.  Truth be told, […]

 නලින් ද සිල්වා  ඩී එස් සී උපාධිධාරී සේවාර්ජිත (සම්මානිත) මහාචාර්ය අශෝක අමරතුංග මහතා පසුගිය පෙබරවාරි 03 වැනි දා ලිපියෙන් ද දැනුම සංස්කෘතියට සාපේක්‍ෂය යන අදහස ඉදිරිපත් කර ඇත. කවදත් කොතැනත් ඇත්තේ එකම විද්‍යාව යැයි කී අමරතුංග මහතා දැන් අඩුම තරමෙන් 2016 දී විද්‍යා දෙකක් ඇති බව පිළිගනියි. ඒ මහතාගේ පෙබරවාරි 03 වැනි දා ලිපියෙහි මෙසේ […]

By NJ Thakuria Guwahati: With an aim to protect the lands against excessive resource extractions in Cambodia, an influential rights body urged the authority to maintain indigenous land rights for the natives. The Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR), while releasing a report recently at Phnom Penh, fervently called  the Cambodian royal government  to accelerate […]

Shenali D Waduge  A weekend newspaper brought the news of an 11 member Consultation Task Force to enforce provisions of the US-backed resolution which Sri Lanka co-sponsored in 2015. UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion of Truth, Justice, Reparations and Guarantees of Non-recurrence, Pablo de Greiff is to arrive in Colombo next week. The names […]

By A.A.M.Nizam – MATARA UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein who ended a four day visit to Sri Lanka yesterday and extensively listened to the views and opinions of the Tamil community and failed to hold discussions with the Sinhala community organizations or joint opposition members said that it was the […]

Courtesy RT Scientists at Washington’s National Science Foundation and Moscow State University have confirmed the discovery of Albert Einstein’s gravitational waves. The breakthrough, possibly the biggest in physics in a century, could be the key to new understanding of the universe. Recent rumors of the success in detecting gravitational waves, or as some scientists put […]

Courtesy The Island Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday described the pledge given by the government to implement  UNHRC resolution as a great betrayal comparable to the Kandyan Convention of 1815 Following is the full text of President Rajapaksa’s statement: The President and Prime Minister have given the UN Human Rights Commissioner an assurance that last […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Every day I read news  headlines of all the National news papers about  making incidents in FCID located in BMICH and legal news about Kaduwela  Courts and Traffic congestions in Welikada due to movements of some politicians and their poor little rich kids who have been bullied by the political hopper eating […]

T. RAMAKRISHNAN  Courtesy The Hindu Says “the government may protect senior military leaders suspected of widespread abuses.” The nomination by the ruling United National Party (UNP) of former Commander of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and founder of the Democratic Party Sarath Fonseka to Paliament has been criticised by the Human Rights Watch, a global human […]

 Courtesy The Economic Times Just over a year after a new leader was elected and Sri Lanka’s business ties with Chinacame under close scrutiny, Colombo is reversing course by resuming a stalled port project and naming Beijing as the front runner for a new special economic zone. India is nervous about losing influence over the […]