Sarath Wijeisnghe- Solicitor, Attorney-at law/former Ambassador to UAE and Israel Fall of Sinhala Rule” and the Consequences 2358 years of the Sri Lankan Kings rule fell on 2nd March 1815 due to the coup of the Chief tens headed by Ehalapola who signed the disputed historic and decisive Convention to hand over the country and […]

If minorities are discriminated in Sri Lanka who can explain the following: Can you think of any country with a sizeable population where industry and property are dominated by the minority communities?  Colombo the commercial hub of Sri Lanka, its population is dominated by Tamils and Muslims leaving Sinhalese in the minority  The […]

චාර්ල්ස් ඇස්. පෙරේරා විසිනි සිරිසේන ජනාධිපති තුමා සමග සිටින  ශ්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස්පාක්ශිකයින් රෙදි ඇඳන් සිටිත් නම් පාරලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත්කර තිබෙන ව්‍යවස්ථා අතුරු වාර්තාවට චන්දය නොදිය යුතුය. එස්ඩබ්ලිව්ආර්ඩී බණ්ඩාරනායක මැතිතුමා එක්සත් ජාතික පක්ෂයෙන් ඉවත් වී  පෙළගැසුනේ ෆිලිප්  ගුණවර්ධන මැතිතුමා ඇතුලූ වාමාන්සිකයින් සමග බව අමතක නොකලයුතුය.  ප්‍රශ්න නැතිවාටද මේ බටහිරට දනගහන  විකුර්ති යහපාලනය කියන වචනයටත් නිගා දෙන ආණ්ඩුව […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island October 21, 2017, 7:31 pm The front pages of the daily newspapers have become duller with the conclusion of the recording of evidence by the bond scam commission. The emergence of all manner of sensational information and disclosures during proceedings had become the order of the day and this provided lunu ambul […]

Shehan Chamika Silva Courtesy The Daily Mirror According to the personal computation of retired Deputy Governor, W.A. Wijeywardena, who testified at the Presidential Commission today, the government’s long term loss for the next thirty years would be Rs.10 billion due to the failure of not meeting the appropriate terms in the process of issuing Treasury Bonds which took […]

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By Dr.Tilak S. Fernando Last Saturday, this column highlighted how helpless Asirigama villagers in Habarana have been ‘Deprived and Discarded’. The news went viral on the Internet to generate overwhelming responses from fellow Sri Lankans and the expatriate community living aboard. The main story revolved on the seven-day-old baby Kavishka Sandaruwan, who was killed by […]

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Mahinda Gunasekera   Agincourt, Ontario Canada     His Excellency, Maithripala Sirisena President of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) Aekiya/Orumiththa Nadu State Colombo, Sri Lanka (Ceylon) Copy to: Hon. Ranil Wickremasinghe, Prime Minister Aekiya/Orumiththa Nadu State of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) Your Excellency, Honourable Prime Minister and Senior Members of the Cabinet, Proposed New National Constitution Unitary Form […]

J.A.L Jayasinghe Courtesy The Daily Mirror Asgiriya Chapter Lekakadikari the Ven. Madagama Shri Dammananda Thera said on Thursday the decision taken by the Karaka Maha Sangha Sabha of the Malwatte and Asgiriya Chapters that there was no need for a new constitution or for any amendments was with the full ‘approval’ and ‘knowledge’ of the Mahanayake […]

BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE Those supporters of the Yahapalana Regime whose apologies have diminished to the point they take refuge in what I call the ‘At Least Thesis’ in the now tired game of comparison, have rightfully found some fuel in the recent assertiveness of the Attorney General’s Department.  The reference is of course to the uncompromising […]

Upali Cooray An American, garbed in orange jumpsuit, ostensibly calculated to echo the garb of al Qaeda insurgents apprehended and imprisoned by the United States. He kneels down next to a man dressed in all black, his face covered, and a knife in hand. For many, this has become a lasting image of the terrorist […]

Dr Hector Perera         London When eat chicken curry along with other curries and rice, we hardly think of removing the skin before we eat, never thought about any healthy points either. Chicken up to twice or thrice a week is good for you. Chicken, along with fish and turkey, is white meat and often recommended […]

ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the extra-judicial attempt to kill Mr. Pathirana Champika Kumara Jayatunga (28), a resident of Biyagama Police division by SFT Officers. The victim went out with his friend to purchase a new vehicle. Their rented van […]

ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information regarding the case of 14-year-old Kahingala Waduge Kanidu Minsara Silva, who was illegally arrested, detained and tortured by the Moratuwa Police Station on 10 October 2017. Minsara is a student at Uyana Kanishta Vidyalaya. On October 8, […]

By D.B.S. Jeyaraj Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Maithripala Sirisena held successive discussions with two Tamil delegations in Colombo on Thursday (19) on the issue of Tamils detained in various prisons under the Prevention of Terrorism Act(PTA) in general and the hunger strike undertaken by three such detainees at the Anuradhapura Prison in particular. The focus […]

JOMO UDUMAN Etul-Kotte Courtesy The Island What was enacted at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCI) on the controversial bond issuance is downright disgusting. Bankers, Politicians and Corporates are getting away by just saying “I don’t know”. Unscrupulous lawyers set it up for them to lie through their cavities and plaque ridden teeth under oath. What […]

By Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy The Island October 20, 2017, 10:10 pm Bond, Bond – the Treasury Bond tragedy will not easily go away. We’ve heard so much about the dirty dealings involved in this highly manipulated Bond transaction, giving rise to major doubts about the entire financial management and related systems of government in the country. […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island October 20, 2017, 12:00 pm The yahapalana leaders specialise in tilting at windmills, nay, media outfits. Everything they touch turns into an unholy mess instantly. The whole government is in a shambles with its big guns chasing their own tails and making colossal blunders, which are legion. But, never do they own […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island October 20, 2017, 10:09 pm The focus of the entire nation is currently on constitutional reforms. In the midst of it, this government has ratified an international convention by becoming a signatory to the “The International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances”, on December 10, 2015. […]

by Shamindra Ferdianndo Courtesy The Island October 20, 2017, 10:31 pm Former Chairman of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) D. E. W. Gunasekera told The Island yesterday that the parliamentary watchdog committee lacked powers to summon ministers and, therefore, it had not been able to seek an explanation from Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe or the […]

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Wartime Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday said that the very basis of the controversial Geneva Resolution 30/1 had been strongly disputed by Michael Morris, Baron Naseby, PC, during a debate on Sri Lanka in the British parliament Thursday last week. Sri Lanka co-sponsored Resolution 30/1 in Oct 2015, in spite […]

කතු වැකිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින රටක ආර්ථිකයේ කොඳුනාරටිය වන්නේ මූල්‍ය වෙළෙඳපොළයි. නමුත් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ මූල්‍ය වෙළෙඳපොළ කෙතරම් දූෂණය වී ඇත්ද යන්න තේරුම් ගැනීමට පසුගියදා විභාගයට ගැනුණු බැඳුම්කර කොමිසමේ සාක්‍ෂි පමණක්‌ කියෑවීම හොඳටම ප්‍රමාණවත්ය. මේ මූල්‍ය වෙළෙඳපොළ තුළ රටේ ආණ්‌ඩු ලාභ ලැබීම කෙසේ වෙතත් ජාමෙ බේරාගත් ඉතිහාසයක්‌ අප දැක නැත. සිදු වූ එකම දෙය ආණ්‌ඩු පත්කිරීමට […]

By Charles.S.Perera Yahapalanaya is a misnomer,  it is a Sirisena-Ranil Dictatorship. The Present Government of Sri Lanka is a Sirisena,  Ranil and UNP Dictatorship. It is really the UNP that governs under the label SLFP-UNP joint Yahapalanaya Government. It is not a popular government though they speak of a 62 percent of the population voting […]

Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) said today, Anika Wijesuriya, a key witness in the Bond investigation had left the country due to death threats though the government said it had enabled an environment where anyone could criticize anyone without being subjected to intimidation. SLPP Chairman Prof. G.L. Peiris said […]

ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information regarding Mr. Nalaka Danushka Kumara (33) of Moragasmulla, Rajagiriya. He is a resident in the Rajagiriya Police Division. He was abducted by a group of powerfully-built men in a Blue Van at 7 p.m. on 15 October […]

මාධ්‍ය ඒකකය ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍ර‍ය ඉදිරියේ දී සක්‍රීය විය හැකි මෝසම් වැසි තත්වයට මුහුණදීම සදහා බදුල්ල දිසාපති නිමල් අබේසිරි ගෙන් බාහිර යාන්ත්‍ර‍ණයක් සකස් කිරීම සදහා ජනාධිපතිවරයා කටයුතු කර ඇත.  එහි පළමු රැස්වීම් අද පැවැත්වේ.   රු. මිලියන 600 ක මුදලක් සහන කටයුතු සදහා ලබාදීමෙන් පසුව ද, සහක කටයුතු සිදු නොවීම හේතුවෙන් මේ වන […]

ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the attempt to extra-judicially kill Mr. Ranhotigedara Vajira Kumara (41), at the Negombo Police Division in Gampaha District. At 5:30 p.m. 12 August 2017, Vajira was driving to his business with friends on Colombo-Puttalam Road […]