LTTE is a globally designated terrorist organization banned in Sri Lanka & in 32 nations including US, UK, EU, Canada & India. However, Sri Lanka’s Opposition & Opposition Leader are demanding the release of LTTE claiming them to be ‘political prisoners’. There is no legal basis to make such a demand & the citizens of […]

By Maheesha Mudugamuwa Courtesy The Island The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) yesterday blamed President Maithripala Sirisena for the defeat of what it called the no-confidence battle in Parliament last week. It said the UNP dissidents would definitely have voted for the motion if the President had not scuttled the Joint Opposition’s move to oust the […]

By Noor Nizam. Peace and Political Activist, Political Communication Researcher, SLFP Stalwart and Convener – The Muslim Voice, April 9th., 2018. What WE AS SRI LANKA MUSLIMS HAS FORGOTTEN is about the aspirations and inspirations of the Sri Lanka Muslims and Muslim Vote bank. We/our votes are sold to either the UNP or SLFP (UNF or UPFA) […]

පාලිත ආරියරත්න සහනයෙන් අසහනය කරා පිය මැනීම සදහා දිරිදීමට සිත් ඇත්තෝ රාශියක් ලහි ලහියේ නොයෙක් මාධ්‍ය වැඩසටහන් සිංහල බෞද්ධයා හට ඉදිරිපත් කරමින් සිටී. සංඛ්‍යා ලේඛණාත්මක විග්‍රහාවලින් පිරුණු එම අපචාරාත්මක වැඩසටහන් වලට  නම්බු නාම දීමට, සම්මාන දීමට තෑගි භෝග ලබාදීමට නොයෙකුත් දෙස් විදෙස් ව්‍යාපාරිකයන් එකතු වී සිටිති.දුරාචාරය ඇති කිරීමට, දුරාචාරය මැඩපැවැත්වීමේ තේමා රැගෙනද, අපචාරය ඇති කිරීමට අපචාරය […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග රනිල් ඔබට මාව  මතකද ? මම ගෝනවල සුනිල් මම ඔබගේ මිතුරු ස්ත්‍රී දූෂකයා සුනිල් සමාවෙන් පසු මම යලි උපන්නා නමුත් රතු සහෝදරයන් මගේ ශරීරය පෙනේරයක් ලෙස හිල් කලා මම මගේ ශරීරය අත හැර ඉහලට පාවී ගියා ගිනියම් බටයක් ඇතුලින් සිරිසේන කුරේ ඔබට මාව මතකද ? මම ඔබගේ ළමයෙක් මම සොත්ති උපාලි ඔබ සහ ගරු ප්‍රේමදාස දුන් කොන්ත්‍රාත් නිසි ලෙස ඉටු කලා නමුත් මට මහ පාරේ ගහලා දැම්මා මට දැන් ශරීරයක් නෑ මම භූතයෙක්ද ප්‍රේතයෙක්ද ? මට කියන්න දන්නේ නෑ චන්ද්‍රිකා ඔබට මාව මතකද මම බැද්දගානේ සන්ජීව ඔබ කියූ පරිදි මම වැඩ දුන්නා ගෙවල් ගිනි තිබ්බා පෙට්‍රල් ඇඟවල් වලට වත් කලා ඒත් මම ටාගට් එකක් උනේ ඇයි මගේ කුණු කයෙන් ආත්මය ඉවත් කලා මම තවමත් නිදහස් නෑ මට පරණ වැඩ පේනවා ඔවුන් ගේ විලාපයන් ඇසෙනවා මට සැනසීමක් නෑ    මහින්ද මාව මතකද මම ඔබගේ සුමිතුරු චණ්ඩි මල්ලී මට පිට කොටුවේම ගහලා දැම්මා ඔබ මා නිසා දුක් උනාද ? ජුලම්පිටිය අමරේ ,මේජර් නෙවිල් මේ පැත්තේ එයි කියා මා සිතුවා ඒත් ඔවුන් තවම නෑ පුතා ගේ ලේලිගේ හරඹ නම් දුටුවා මට පන්චස්කන්ධයක් නෑ ඒත් වේදනාව දැනෙනවා ඉවසන්න බෑ […]

Dharshan Weerasekera, Attorney-at-Law In this installment, I turn to the recommendation by the Interim Report (‘IR’) that the ‘Principle of Subsidiarity’ should guide centre-periphery relations in Sri Lanka.  Chapter Two of the IR is titled, ‘Principles of Devolution,’ and Section One of that chapter is titled, ‘Principle of Subsidiarity to Apply.’  This is the section […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The ‘vote of no confidence’ on Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe, debated in April 2018 was treated by the watching public and also by Parliament as yet another decisive Yahapalana election. The motion was defeated, after a stormy, heated debate with 122 voting against, 76 voting for and 26 abstentions.  The 122 votes in […]

By Rear Admiral (Dr.) Sarath Weerasekera, VSV RWP USP ndc psc The attack on the Muslims in Ampara, imposing a State of Emergency in the country, and well-articulated articles such as Jeyaraj’s, are all links of the same chain of a conspiracy – Pic by Shehan Gunasekara An article by columnist D.B.S. Jeyaraj was published […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The local government elections of February 2018   were significant, not only for the defeat of the ruling party, but also for the bungling of the Election process. Yahapalana government did not want this election to take place, and there were obstacles all along the way. Firstly, the nomination lists of several political parties […]

By Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune US National Correspondent Washington, D.C. 08 April (Courtesy Asiantribune.com):  Immediately after the end of the military battle in Sri Lanka in May 2009, the UN documents, compiled in Colombo in which Gordon Weiss was the senior official, estimated that approximately 7,000 unarmed Tamil civilians were killed during the final […]

Courtesy www.geopolitica.ru Vladimir Putin yesterday  said that 95% of the world’s terrorist attacks are orchestrated by the CIA,” and the St. Petersburg metro bombing must be investigated with this in mind. Putin said:  If the CIA have Russian blood on their hands, they will forever regret stirring the Russian bear from its peaceful slumber.” When […]