By Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy The Island March 10, 2018, 12:05 pm The violent clashes in the Kandy District come more than three years after the election of a government that said much about peacebuilding, accountability, and reconciliation. In fact, reconciliation was the keyword in the Yahapalanaya or good governance propaganda. But what do we have of […]

Courtesy The Island The Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) yesterday called for a Presidential intervention to halt the outsourcing of the laundry in government hospitals to an Indian Company. GMOA Secretary Dr Haritha Aluthge warned that all health service trade unions would unite in fighting against such projects. Dr. Aluthge said the parties involved in […]

Thilanka Kanakarathna Courtesy The Daily Mirror Though some ministers blamed the police for their failure to control the prevailing tense situation, the Police is also part of the government, former President and MP Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday. Speaking to journalists at his residence in Mirihana, Mr Rajapaksa said that the government should be held responsible for […]

Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror Joint opposition MP Gamini Lokuge said yesterday the recent communal clashes could have been prevented if the government had obtained the services of the intelligence agencies. He told parliament that the government had imprisoned or interdicted most of the officials of these services over various allegations. “Several capable officers of […]

By Dr. Tilak S. Fernando Courtesy Ceylon Today Three years ago, on the 4 March 2015, Dr. Buddhadasa Bodhinayake had to answer the inevitable call from above, at the age of 75, in London. This tribute is, therefore, devoted to this great personality (an old boy of Ananda College), on his third death anniversary, for the […]

By Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha Courtesy Ceylon Today Evans did not respond to my letter as he promised. When I met him a year later in Geneva and asked him about this, he said he thought he had replied, but then confessed that he had heard that I was a dangerous man to engage with. This was […]

By Ravi Ladduwahetty Courtesy Ceylon Today Chairman of the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Prof. G.L. Peris on 5 March alleged that the Government has appointed the Commissioners to the Office of the Missing Persons (OMP) even ahead of the debate on the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance, which is […]

By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that he intervened and fulfilled a duty which the government should rightly do, at this time of discord among communities. He made these comments while speaking to reporters following a discussion with Buddhist, Muslim and Hindu religious leaders in Kandy this morning, regarding the tense situation which […]

Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror Southern Provincial Councillor M.K Kasun and his wife Tharaka Perera were arrested by the Police for assaulting a private bus driver when he had allegedly blocked the way of the vehicle of the PC member at the Koswatta Junction in Battaramulla today, Police Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekera said. The bus […]

 They say the white man speaks with a forked tongue. The double speak & hypocrisy is seen clearly in the manner the West preaches to the rest of the world while doing the exact opposite by policy. The statistics by West speak for themselves. At times Western nations partner with political Islam when it suits […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala …… my administration, I believe, has had the most successful year in the history of the Presidency,” Donald Trump, Conservative Political Action Conference, Maryland, February 23rd, 2018 Since it is generally agreed that one week is a long time in politics it is time to ask, at the end of one […]

Shenali D Waduge In Sri Lanka, there is the majority Sinhala Buddhists and there are the minorities that comprise Tamils, Muslims, Christians & Catholics. The people live peacefully but there are many others who do not want them to live peacefully. It is always important to dissect who are the benefactors of racial tensions and […]

By Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy The Island March 9, 2018, 12:20 pm Police said yesterday the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) had arrested Amith Jeevan Weerasinghe, alleged to be one of the masterminds of the communal unrest in Kandy and nine others, in predawn raids in Digana and Poojapitiya. The TID also arrested Weerasinghe’s second in command Sureda […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera News Item last year…… IGP WANTS TO CHANGE THE COLOUR OF THE UNIFORM TO BLUE ……………. AND CHANGE THE LOOK Derana TV news 23/4/17 ….. T wrote about it sometime back.Not only colour  we need to do a full make over and change the name to Rajapurusha” !!!!!! Read Below https://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2017/01/11/sri-lankan-police-new-name-needs-new-out-look-and-training/ SRI […]

– Kumar Moses (Defence Analyst specializing on VEOs Violent Extremist Organizations) During the past fifteen (15) years, Sri Lanka saw increasing violence perpetrated by or involving Muslims. Concurrently, a large number of Sharia “universities”, learning centers and libraries were set up in the island, particularly after 2012. Muslim population which was below 7% before a […]

ලියුම්කරු කීර්ති රත්නායක ජාතිවාදී ගිනි දලු වලින් වැසීගිය  මහනුවර ප්‍රදේශය තවමත් යථා තත්වයට පත්ව නැත. ව්‍යපාරික ස්ථාන දින ගනනාවකට වැසී ගොස්ය. ගමනා ගමන  සේවා ඇන හිට ඇත. දවසේ පඩියෙන් ජීවත් වන පවුල් වල කුසගිනි නිවීම පවා  බරපතල අභියෝගයක් බවට පත්ව ඇත. ලීසිං , බැකු ණය හිර වී අනාගතය අවිනිශ්ච්චිත අඩියකට පත්ව ඇත. දෛනික ජන ජීවිතය උඩු යටිකුරු වී ඇත . මෙහි […]

පාලිත ආරියරත්න විදේශිය මානව හිමිකන් කාරයන්-  (මොවුන් අති  භයානක උවදුරකට අප රට ලක්  කර තිබේ ගමේ හා නගරයේ සිටින ශි බුද්ධිය ඇති තරුණ තරුණියන් ක්‍රමානුකුලව සොයාගෙන් ඔවුන් හට මානව හිමිකම් විධායක තනතුරු ලබාදී දේව වාදී ආගම්  ස්වරුපයෙන් වර්තමානයේ ඇති මානව හිම්කම් පද්ධති කියාදී ඔල මොට්ටල කොට අප රටට විරුද්ධව (පුජක නියායන්වලට හා ඔවුන්ගේ අගමික  තර්ක […]

Courtesy Colombo Telegraph Colombo Telegraph is in possession of video footage that show members of the Special Task Force (STF) of the Police Department or Sri Lankan Army in cahoots with those who have perpetrated violence against Muslims in Kandy district. The video clearly shows the assailant humiliating his victim, bragging about what he did, while […]

lanka C news සිංහල – මුස්ලිම් මරා ගැනිල්ලකට පාර කැපුවේ ආණ්ඩුවේ ආශිර්වාදය ලබන සිංහල හා මුස්ලිම් මැරකම් කණ්ඩායම් බව රට පුරා සිදුව ඇති ලේ වැකි සිදුවීම්වලින් පැහැදිලි වන බවට ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ ජාතික සංවිධායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී ජයන්ත සමරවීර මහතා චෝදනා කරයි. පිටකෝට්ටේ පිහිටි ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ ප්‍රධාන කාර්යාලයේ පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදී ඒ මහතා මෙසේ චෝදනා […]

 lanka C news මහනුවර ප‍්‍රදේශයේ ඇති වූ කෝලාහලය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අත්අඩංගුවට ගන්නා ලද එහි ප‍්‍රධාන සැකකරු හා තවත් නව දෙනෙකු හදිසි නීතිය යටතේ දින 14ක් රදවා තබාගෙන ප‍්‍රශ්න කරන බව පොලීසිය පවසයි. මෙසේ අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඇත්තේ ‘මහසොහොන් බලකාය’ නම් සංවිධානයේ ප‍්‍රධානියා වන අමිත් වීරසිංහ ඇතුළු තවත් 09 දෙනෙකි. මෙම පිරිස් විසින් ගැටුම් සදහා සැලසුම් කරන අවස්ථාවක් […]

Courtesy Colombo, March 8 (newsin.asia): The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka  (HRCSL)  has blamed organized external elements” for the anti-Muslim riots in Central Sri Lanka. In a letter addressed to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Chairperson of the HRCSL, Dr.Deepika Udagama, has said that the riots in Digana, Teldeniya and other places, appear to […]

By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that they are prepared to support the government to control the problematic situation currently prevailing in the country and restore normalcy. He made these comments during a press conference held at his residence in Colombo last evening (7), flanked by several MPs of the Joint Opposition. Rajapaksa […]

By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana Minister Ranjith Madduma Bandara was sworn in as the new Minister of Law and Order, a short while ago. He received his appointment letter as the new Minister of Law and Order from President Maithripala Sirisena, this morning (08) at the President’s residence, the PMD said. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Secretary […]

Ira de Silva Canada The Editor Lankaweb A news item on March 7,2018 states that the U.S. embassy has urged the Sri Lankan government to take immediate action against those responsible for the violence. Does this confirm that the U.S. is controlling Sri Lanka’s internal administration? When violence is the order of the day in the U.S., why […]

Trnslated by :A.A.,M.NIZAM – MATARA It was with great difficulty we were able to gain the opportunity for the people of this country to face a local government election.  After making many unusual changes in the election process including making it possible to capture power even under defeat using so many technical processes the election […]

BY MALINDA SENEVIRATNE President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in recent statements have alluded to people fishing in troubled waters for political gain. It’s an ‘it’s not us’ kind of position to take. Safe.  Dangerous too. We all know how the United National Party of J.R. Jayewardene used that line to proscribe the […]

By C. A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island On the day that campaigning ended for the recent local government election, the Auditor General, Gamini Wijesinghe, made some explosive statements about Sri Lanka’s state of indebtedness. Public attention has since focused on more sensational happenings and the AG’s statement has been all but forgotten. However, some days ago, […]

Dr Ruwan M Jayatunge  In general terms meditation is the non-judgmental observation of the ongoing stream of internal experiences as they arise. However meditation is a complex mental process involving changes in cognition, sensory perception, affect, hormones, and autonomic activity (Newberg & Iversen, 2003). Grabovac and team (2011) indicate that focused attention, decentering, and emotion regulation as mechanisms of mindfulness. […]

Ruwan M Jayatunge M.D.  Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a modified form of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that was developed in late 1970s by Marsha M. Linehan a psychology researcher at the University of Washington (Linehan, 1993).  DBT is an empirically supported treatment for suicidal individuals (Linehan et al., 2015). It can be adapted to treat borderline personality […]

මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ හිටපු ජනාධිපති දිගන නගරයේ සිංහල ලොරි රථ රියදුරු මහතෙකුට මුස්ලිම් පිරිසක් විසින් කරන ලද පහර දීමක් හේතුවෙන් ඔහු රෝහලේදී මිය යාම නිසා එම ප්‍රදේශයේ ප්‍රචණ්ඩකාරී සිදුවීම් ගණනාවක් හටගෙන ඇත. මෙකී මිනීමැරුම සම්බන්ධයෙන් පොලීසිය විසින් කීපදෙනෙකු අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන තිබුන ද ඔවුන් ඝාතනය සිදුකළ අය හැටියට තවම හදුනාගැනීමේ පෙරෙට්ටුවකින් තහවුරු කරගෙන […]