By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando The late President Ranasinghe Premadasa signed the visitor’s book at Jinadasa Vijayatunge’s residence, Chapel Road, Nugegoda, when he visited his residence to pay his last respects to the renowned author and journalist, who died in 1989, with this single sentence observation: “This great author who brought world honour to Sri […]

Sirisena-Wickremesinghe govt is indebted to Tamil diaspora – GL

ෆොන්සේකාට දඬුවම්දීම ගැන මට කිසිම කනස්සල්ලක් නෑ… හිටපු ජනපති පවසයි

KAMALIKA  PIERIS Yahapalana government came to power on the promise that it would eliminate corruption. Yahapalana forgot this promise once they got elected and engaged in a whole bouquet of corrupt actions. These are regularly discussed in newspapers, websites and broadcast in TV news. The public are watching avidly. Sunday Times BT-RCB Poll did street […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge   In 1988 the JVP launched its 2nd insurrection against President Premadasa’s regime. The rebels and the security forces were responsible for gross violation of human rights during this period. The JVP insurrection claimed more than 60,000 lives. A large number of youth were arrested in connection with anti-government activities. The […]

34th Session Of UNHRC: FM Mangala Samaraweera’s Speech – Full Text Mr. President High Commissioner for Human Rights/ Madam Deputy High Commissioner Excellencies Distinguished Delegates Ladies and Gentlemen It is an honour for me to be here today at the 34th Session of the UN Human Rights Council which I believe has the highest number […]

Dr Parakrama Waidyanatha The government’s new agriculture policy as enunciated in its policy document ‘Toxin –Free Nation- Three year Plan, 2016, is sadly full of errors and un-achievable. The policy, among other things, stipulates replacing agrochemicals over a specified time frame( 3 years according to the document), with organic agriculture and  microbial fertilizer technologies; and […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  උදය ඉඳුනිල් කොලඹ නාලන්දා මහා විද්‍යාලයේ සිසුවෙකු විය​. එසේම ඔහු හිටපු බාලදක්‍ෂයෙකි. ජනාධිපති බාලදක්‍ෂ පදක්කම්ලාභියෙකි.  ඉඳුනිල් ඉතා හොඳ හැසිරීමක් සහිත වූ ඉගෙනීමේ දක්‍ෂතාවයක් තිබූ සිසුවෙකු විය​. බාලදක්‍ෂයෙකු ලෙස ඔහු කුසළතා පෙන්වූ අතර අප සමග බාලදක්‍ෂ කඳවුරු ගනනාවකට සහභාගී විය​. මට වසර දෙක තුනකින් ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ වූ ඉඳුනිල් සමග මම ගාල්ල රජෙස් කන්ද […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge Joseph Stalin was one of the main architects of creating a collective trauma in the Soviet Union. His actions and policies brought immense suffering to the people. The aftermath of Stalin’s repression still impacts the post Soviet Society. However despite all the negative consequences Stalin is still remembered in Russia as […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The British Imperialists who grossly plundered the wealth and resources of the Asia Pacific and African nations in competition with several other European tyrant countries, who butchered scores of natives in countries they set their dirty foot in, who created ethnic divisions in their colonized countries and made people to […]

By Rohana R. Wasala Kumar David (‘First trounce the Joint Opposition’/Sunday Island/February 19, 2017), speaking for those whom he calls ‘many experts’, asserts that ‘if amendments to the constitution live up to what is really needed, they have to be substantial and hence need to be approved at a referendum. If an entirely new constitution […]

BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE  Leader of the Opposition and the senior citizen of Tamil Nationalism R Sampanthan in an adjournment motion has made some interesting points.   All people who lived in Sri Lanka, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion, or any other difference, whether Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim or Burgher made their fullest contribution to the achievement […]

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Courtesy The Daily Mirror A funny thing happened in-between the reconvening of the Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly (Feb 21) and the adjournment motion on the Constitution held the next day in Parliament. TNA MP MA Sumanthiran and target of an assassination attempt by the LTTE, struck a discordant note in his […]

Courtesy The Island March 2, 2017, 9:28 pm The standoff between the Judicial Services Association and the Bar Association of Sri Lanka over the appointment of Ramanathan Kannan as a High Court judge still remains unresolved with the BASL not taking any action to have the appointment reversed as requested by the JSA. The most […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island March 2, 2017, 10:42 pm The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has recently recorded a statement from attorney-at-law Nagananda Kodituwakku regarding the circumstances leading to the impeachment of Chief Justice Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake on January 11, 2013. Dr. Bandaranayake was reinstated on January 28, 2015 and […]

By Shayam Nuwan Ganewatte and Sarath Dharmasena Courtesy The Island March 2, 2017, 10:39 pm Top Central Bank official Dr. M. Z. M. Aazim yesterday told the Presidential Commission of Inquiry that Governor Arjuna Mahendran had entered the Public Debt Department on the tenth floor of the CBSL building at 10.45 am on Feb 27, 2015 […]

By Ram Madhav, RSS Akhil Bharatiya Sah Sampark Pramukh Courtesy  SAMVDA New Delhi March 28: Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) – a Buddhist organisation many wish to call as Right or Ultra Right – is a new phenomenon in Sri Lanka. One may prefer to brand them in any manner one would like to. But the fact […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Yesterday I was passing by the road way in front of President’s office and noted some  union members of Tamil community  holding demonstrations. By 12 noon I was going back and police was trying control another group of people holding placards protesting about something else . Doctors and some medical staff were […]

The Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva  Human Rights Council 34th Regular Session  Report of the Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment on his Mission to Sri Lanka, from 29 April to 7 May 2016  Presented under the Agenda Item […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි “අසුචි දුර්ගන්ධය සම්බන්ධව ඌරාට පැමිණිලි කලා වගෙයි.” මේ අපේ දේශයට එකතුවූ අලුත්ම ප්‍රස්තා පිරුලයි. මේ ප්‍රස්තා පිරුලේ උපතට හේතුව වශයෙන් කියා සිටින්නේ, බෙල්ලන්විල රජමහ විහාරාධිපති සවාමින්වහන්සේ, සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිතුමාට මහා බැංකුවේ බැදුම්කර වංචාව සම්බන්ධව ඉතා අප්‍රසන්න ලෙස උන්වහන්සේ තුලවූ පිළිකුල ප්‍රකාශ කිරීමත් සමගය. බෙල්ලන්විල රජමහා විහාරාධිපති ස්වාමින්වහන්සේ යනු මහා ඥාණාන්විත, කිසිදු දේශපාලන පක්ෂයක් […]

මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය කැෆේ සංවිධානය බැදුම්කර වංචාව විමර්ශනය සදහා පත් කොට ඇති කොමිසමේ සමාජිකයින් අද ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ වෙන්දේසිය නිරීක්ෂණය කිරීම තුලින් ‘බැදුම්කර මගඩියේ’ එක් අන්තයක් පිළිබදව ඔවුනට මනා අවබෝධයක් ලැබෙන්නට ඇති බව විශ්වාස කළ හැකි යැයි කැෆේ සංවිධානයේ විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා ගාල්ලේ අද පැවති පුවත්පත් සාකච්ඡාවක දී පැවසීය.  එහිදී අදහස් දැක්වූ කීර්ති […]