DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA, Attorney-at-law As a Sri Lankan citizen and a lawyer, I am thoroughly disgusted with C. V. Vigneswaran the Chief Minister of the Northern Province and the rest of the crowd of Eelamists who according to the newspapers commemorated the LTTE dead at a ceremony held in Vellamullevikkal on or about 18th May 2018.[1] […]

 වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග  වසර 30 කාලයක් පුරා ඇදී ගිය ඊලාම් යුද්ධය එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ සංවිධානය පරාජය කිරීමෙන් පසුව නිම විය​. මේ කාලය පුරා යුද විශලේෂකයන් , සමහරක් හමුදා නිලධාරීන් සහ බොහෝ දේශපාලකයන් විශ්වාස කලේ ප්‍රභාකරන් සහ එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ සංවිධානය  යුදමය වශයෙන් පරාජය කල නොහැකි බවයි. නමුත් ශ්‍රී ලාංකික හමුදාව එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊය පරාජය කළහ​. ත්‍රිවිධ හමුදාවක් සහිතව විශාල භූමියක් පාලනය කල […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The first’ war cry’ over the ‘war crimes’ of Sri Lanka  came from  Britain’s Channel 4” television station. In  25. August 2009, Channel Four” broadcast one minute long footage showing Sri Lanka army brutally executing naked persons during the final stages of the war. As further gunshots ring out, the camera pans to […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Channel 4 issued a second version of it’s ‘war crimes’ video, with the title, Sri Lanka’s Killing fields”. It was telecast on 14 June 2011.  The documentary was made by ITN Productions and presented by Jon Snow, of Channel 4 News using a dossier compiled by Channel Four. The footage consisted of three […]

RANJITH SOYSA The President, Sirisena paid tributes to the members of Sri Lankan defence services personnel for the sacrifices made in the protection of the country and the state at the Government war memorial meeting. He was highly critical of the individuals who would not know  the difference between a soldier and a terrorist, One […]

By W. Pathirana. Retired Senior Lecturer, University of Colombo. A couple of recent news paper articles on similarities between Sinhalese and Bengali languages prompted me to submit this article. During the years 1967 – 1975 as a university student in Kolkata, the writer’s interest in Bengali language grew more intense with time as surprising similarities […]

By Malinda Seneviratne Courtesy The Daily Mirror Minister Mangala Samaraweera, speaking to the media at the Finance Ministry on Tuesday (May 22), stated that knowing well the crimes committed by Gotabaya Rajapaksa, he is in fact frightened of the former defence secretary. That’s political-speak, obviously. Mangala, after all, was never scared of the LTTE, was never […]

Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror The 16-member Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) group that broke away from the government called on former President Mahinda Rajapaksa today and pledged to cooperate with the joint opposition in the future political matters. MP Dayasiri Jayasekara told Daily Mirror that he and his colleagues had expressed their willingness to […]

Darshana Sanjeewa Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Fort Police questioned several trishaw drivers in connection with the deaths of two British rugger players, after a visit to a nightclub in Colombo. Police are hoping to identify and arrest the trishaw driver, who is believed to have given brown sugar narcotics to the ruggerites, while they were […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 23 (newsin.asia) – China, on Wednesday said that as of the end of 2017, Chinese companies had completed more than US 15 billion dollars worth of infrastructure projects in Sri Lanka and made great contributions to the economic and social development of the island country. China’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka, Cheng […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island May 23, 2018, 10:15 pm The yahapalana government is apparently labouring under the delusion that a sure-fire way of propping up the ailing economy is to ink free trade agreements (FTAs) with as many countries as possible. Its desperation seems to know no bounds. It came to power, promising to perform economic […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Alleging that civil society groups were a threat to the country, the Government Medical Officers’ Association (GMOA) has declared war on Purawesi Balaya and National Movement for a Just Society (NMJS). They played a pivotal role in January 2015 campaign to oust the Rajapaksa administration. GMOA Secretary Dr. Haritha Aluthge […]

ALI SUKHANVER Luckily or unluckily, Pakistan’s is one of those few countries where you can say and write whatever you like and you remain safe until unless the person you talk about takes your words serious. Some people may say that things were quite different almost ten to fifteen years back when the electronic media […]

Nimal Tissa Wijetunga The more the Tamil politicians talk about, commemoration of war dead in the North, more they talk about Tamil Elam, more they talk about separatist agenda, more you talk against Buddhism and more you talked about Tamil Genocidal Day, do not expect any reconciliation with the Majority and by doing so, the […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The Global Sri Lanka Forum (GSLF) celebrated Sri Lanka’s triumph over terrorism in May, 2009 with a public gathering in Dubai. Former Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohina addressed the gathering. On the invitation of the GSLF, Mrs S.G Juliet, mother of Corporal Gamini Kularatne of the Sixth Battalion of the Sinha Regiment […]

By Dr. Palitha Kohana Courtesy The Island India maintains a base in the Seychelles and has concluded an agreement to build an airstrip and a sophisticated “monitoring station” at a cost of US$45million. It has also signed a Bilateral Agreement for Navy Cooperation with Singapore that provides Indian Navy ships temporary deployment facilities and logistics support […]

By: Judy M. Courtesy care2.com Editor’s note: This Care2 favorite was originally posted on September 26, 2013. You know the statistics that eating red meat will take years off your life, and you’ve probably heard of pink slime. If, for some reason, you’re still hesitating, here are seven reasons why you might want to think twice before eating your next steak. 1. SUPERBUGS Thinking about turkey […]

The social media relayed 2 horrifying photos of the staff of HNB Branch Kilinochchi commemorating dead LTTE terrorists. Candles were lit in front of an image that had printed Remembering the Tamil Genocide” May 18 War Crimes Day” this comes in the backdrop of a meek & ineffective government allowing the commemoration of a banned […]

Prof Channa Jayasumana Secretary, National University Teachers’ Association 22nd May 2018, Prof. Ratnam Vigneswaran, Vice chancellor, University of Jaffna, Thirunelvely, Jaffna. Dear Prof Vigneswaran, Jaffna University-do not let racist politicians to destroy the future of Jaffna youth and the University. We, as responsible university academics in Sri Lanka have noted with dismay the involvement of […]

report from DAWN -Pakistan All Chinese mosques should raise the national flag to promote a spirit of patriotism” among Muslims, the country’s top Islamic regulatory body has declared, as the Communist Party seeks to tighten its grip on religion. Flags should be hung in a prominent position” in all mosque courtyards, the China Islamic Association […]

මතුගම – වසන්ත කුමාර   උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම අද මේ රටේ රණවිරුවන් සැමැරීම පසෙක දමා, නොසලකා හැර තිබෙන තත්ත්වයක් තුළ උතුරේ සියලු පාසල්වල කොඩිය අඩකුඹු කරලා ජන සංහාරක දිනයක් ලෙස සමරන්නට දීලා ආණ්ඩුව නිකම් බලා සිටින තත්ත්වයකට පත්ව ඇතැයි හිටපු ජනාධිපති පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රි මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා පසුගිය 20දා පානදුරේදී කීවේය. බස්නාහිර පළාත් සභා මන්ත්‍රි හිටපු පළාත් සෞඛ්‍ය ඇමැති […]

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Courtesy The Daily Mirror When a future historian writes the political history of the most obtuse and inept government in postcolonial Sri Lanka, he or she will doubtless identify its most myopic move as the Constitutional prevention of Mahinda Rajapaksa running for President again, thereby opening the door for the fulfilment of the […]

Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror The joint opposition said today it was hoping to request the Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) to summon the Finance Ministry Secretary in connection with the recent newspaper advertisement comparing crude oil prices during the previous government and today. JO MP and COPA member Bandula Gunawardena said the contents […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The National University Teachers’ Association (NUTA) today registered their protest with the Jaffna university authorities over the involvement of undergraduates in the so-called ‘Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day” observances. NUTA Secretary Prof. Channa Jayasumana asked Jaffna University Vice Chancellor Ratnam Vigneswaran not to allow racist politicians to exploit the university students for their […]

Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror SLFP MP Dayasiri Jayasekara alleged today that former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran, who was in Singapore, had played the key role in signing the Free Trade Agreement between Sri Lanka and Singapore. “Mr. Mahendran has been assigned the duties to function as the Sri Lankan representative […]

උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප පසුගිය දා එළි දැක්වුණු 2017 මහබැංකු වාර්තාවට අනුව වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුවේ ආර්ථික වැඩපිළිවෙළ තුන්වෙනි වරටත් අසමත් වී ඇති බව තහවුරු වේ. ආණ්ඩුවේ ආර්ථික ඉලක්ක අතර ප්‍රධාන ඒවා වූයේ කඩිනම් ආර්ථික වර්ධනය, රැකියා දස ලක්ෂය, ණය බර තුරන් කිරීම, අපනයන සංවර්ධනය, විනිමය සංචිත වර්ධනය කිරීම, ඒක පුද්ගල ආදායම ශීඝ්‍රයෙන් වර්ධනය කිරීම, කාර්මීකරණය, ඍජු ආයෝජන වර්ධනය, […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Dhaka, May 22 (BDNews24.com): At least 99 Hindus including children were killed by Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army or ARSA in the Rakhine state of Myanmar in August 2017, says Amnesty International.  Amnesty has revealed that evidence collected after detailed investigation inside the Rakhine state and across Bangladesh border, including forensic reports and interviews, revealed […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 22 (newsin.asia) – The death toll from high winds and rains which lashed out across Sri Lanka since Saturday reached eight on Tuesday while over 38,000 people were affected, the Disaster Management Center said in its latest update. The deaths were reported from the island’s south, north west and east which […]