Shenali D Waduge It is unfortunate that we gather to remember & honor people when they are no more. It is only upon the passing away of Most Venerable Ahangama Ananda Nayaka Thera, the Chief Incumbent of Sri Vijayaramaya, Wellawatte that his meritorious acts are being shared among all those who are unware. This picture […]

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 […]

If the General Assembly resolutions are legally non-binding of UN Member states except the resolutions of the UN Security Council, it should also mean that the UN Human Rights Council Resolutions are also legally non-binding except carrying political weight over & above their recommendation. If so, why have Sri Lanka’s government co-sponsored questionable & country-specific […]

by C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy The Island Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has always been good at brinksmanship and that is what enabled him to survive a quarter of a centrury of challenges to his leadership. He has been fighting off challenges to his leadership from 1994 i.e. from the very moment he became party leader and in that […]

Nowhere in any parliamentary democracy has anyone heard of an Opposition that supports the Government in power even debating in favor of the Government. Nowhere in the world is there an Opposition comprises just 16 MPs. If the main role of the Opposition is to question the government & hold them accountable to the public, […]

By M D P DISSANAYAKE  Reading the Constitution in its totality and in conjunction with the fundamental rights of members of parliament, the Chapter III (6) on FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS states: ” No person shall be held guilty of an offence on account of any act or omission which did not, at the time of such […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ යනු 1977 කැබිනට්ටුවේ ලාබාලතම මෙන්ම අත්දැකීම් අඩුම වූ අමාත්‍යවරයා විය​.  නමුත් කාලයත් සමග දේශපාලන ප්‍රවාහයන්ට මුහුණ දීම මගින් ඔහු මනා පරිචයක් ලැබීය​. රනිල් බටහිර සංස්කෘතියේ මෙන්ම ක්‍රිස්තියානි හැදියාව ඔස්සේ හැදී වැඩුනු පුද්ගලයෙකි. එම නිසා ඔහු තුල අනෙකුත් ශ්‍රී ලාංකික දේශපාලකයන් අතර දක්නට නොමැති ශිෂ්ට බවක් තිබේ. ඔහු සංස්කෘතියුක්ත මිනිසෙකි. ඔහු […]

Editorial the Hindu After surviving the no-trust vote, the Sri Lankan government must reboot itself The resounding defeat of a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in Sri Lanka’s parliament provides an opportunity for its bickering leaders to reassess their priorities. However, it may not end the prevailing political uncertainty as the three-way competition among President […]

Courtesy Indian Express Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe defeated a no-confidence motion late on Wednesday by 122 votes to 76, but it widened cracks in the coalition government which will be difficult to plaster over. The no-trust motion was moved by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, whose Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna won 225 out of […]

Courtesy The Week Agencies offer guarantee that women desperate for work will not fall pregnant  Sri Lankan women who move to the Middle East and Gulf states in order to take up domestic jobs are being are being told to take contraceptives before leaving. Six recruiters licensed by the Sri Lankan government said they could provide […]

Courtesy Gulf Times Sri Lanka yesterday ruled out any possibility of having foreign judges in its investigations on war time human rights abuses. President Maithripala Sirisena told the media yesterday that Sri Lanka’s position was clearly communicated to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva last month. Sri Lanka was represented at the Geneva […]

BY MADELINE RAYNOR     Courtesy mentalfloss.com APRIL 6, 2018  A huge World War II shipwreck recently saw the light of day for the first time since it was sunk by Japanese forces in 1942. Built in 1924, the SS Sagaing was used to transport passengers and goods between the UK and Burma (present-day Myanmar), which was a British colony until 1948. […]

Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror Prime Minister Ranil Wickremsinghe has given his consent to ten conditions proposed by the Tamil National Alliance (TNA), to apparently please the Tamil Diaspora, former MP and retired Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera alleged yesterday. He told the Daily Mirror that one of the main conditions was to draft a new […]

By Yusuf Ariff  Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has informed the UNP MPs to withdraw the no-confidence motion against the SLFP Ministers who voted in favour of the NCM against him. Wickremesinghe has stated that the No-confidence motions handed over by the backbencher UNP MPs was not a decision of the UNP but the views […]

නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඉදිරිපත් කළ රනිල්ට එරෙහි විශ්වාසභංග යෝජනාවේ වැඩි හරියක් තිබුණේ මහ බැංකු බැදුම්කර චෝදනා, ශ‍්‍රි ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ බැදුම්කර වංචාව සම්බන්දයෙන් පරීක්‍ෂණ පවත්වන ලද ජනාධිපති කොමිෂන් සභා වාර්තාවේ ඉදිරිපත් වූ චෝදනාය. ඒ සියලු චෝදනා වලින් රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ අගමැතිවරයා නිදහස් කිරීමටත් අගමැතිවරයා වරදක් කර නැති බවත් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව විසින් තීරණය කර ඇත. […]

By Charles.S.Perera President Sirisena as well as his Prime Ministers  are bound together like Siamese twins. One cannot leave the other. They have come to live together and die together. They are thus handicapped,  unable to do any good to Sri Lanka and its people,  other than helping each other to continue their survival bound […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA The No Confidence Motion against Ranil Wickremasinghe taught a convincing lesson to the Joint Opposition and the people of this country that the present parliament in Sri Lanka is comprised with a bunch of shameless quislings devoid of self respect, political and democratic principles, slavish to pecuniary benefits and enslaved […]

Punsara Amarasinghe PhD Candidate Faculty of Law National Research University Moscow. In the 37th session of UN human rights council, Sri Lankan Sinhalese delegates Dr. Nalaka Godahewa, Sarath Weerasekere and others were confronted by the members of Global Tamil forum and this act demonstrates the fervent interest of Tamil diaspora to defend their mythical concept […]

 Dilrook Kannangara Out of 224 MPs eligible to vote, only 76 have any concern for the nation, its finances, good governance and people’s mandate. 148 of them have no regard for the nation. Interestingly, Ranil was saved by LTTE Treaty allies! In February 2002 various political parties signed Memorandum of Understanding each with the LTTE. […]

lanka C news අගමැතිවරයාට එරෙහිව පැවති විශ්වාස භංග ඡන්ද විමසීමේදී ඒකාබද්ද විපක්‍ෂය ජයග‍්‍රහණ ලබා ඇති බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා පවසයි. අගමැතිවරයාට තමන්ගේ තනතුර බේරා ගත්තද ශ‍්‍රී ලංකා නිදහස් පක්‍ෂයේ සියළු දෙනාම එක්ව ඡුන්දය දුන්නේ නම් ප‍්‍රතිඵලය වෙනස් වන බවද ඔහු සදහන් කරයි. තමන් මීට පෙර කියූ පරිදි ජනාධිපතිවරයා සිටි පාර්ශවය විශ්වාස භංගයෙන් ජයගත් […]