සාකච්ඡා කළේ – අනුරාධා හේරත් උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම ඔබ බලයට පත් වී වසර තුනහමාරක කාලයක් ගතව තිබෙනවා. ජනපති ලෙස ඔබ බලාපොරොත්තු වූ ඉලක්ක සපුරා ගන්න හැකි වුණාද මේ කාලය තුළ? ඔව්, බොහොම පැහැදිලිව. මම නම් සතුටු වෙනවා. මේ රටේ ජනතාව ලබා ගත්ත ජයග්‍රහණ රාශියක් තිබෙනවා. හැබැයි ඒ ජයග්‍රහණ පිළිබඳව හෝ මේ ජයග්‍රහණ ලැබුවයි කියන එක ජනතාවටත් විශේෂයෙන් […]

පටබැඳිගේ අමරබන්දු උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම වර්ෂ 1990 ජුනි 11 වැනි දින ලංකාවම කඳුළෙන් නැහැවූ මහා ඛේදවාචකයක් සිදුවූ දිනයක්. අම්පාර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ කල්මුණ, පොතුවිල, අක්කරපත්තුව ආදී පොලිස් ස්ථාන රැසක් සහ මඩකළපුව දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ පොලිස් ස්ථාන රැසක පොලිස් නිලධාරීන් 600ක ගේ ජීවිතය තිරිසන් කොටින්ගේ අමානුෂික වෙඩි පහරකට ලක්වූයේ රට පාලනය කළ පාලකයන්ගේ වරදින්. පොලිස් සැරයන් මනෝජ් එවකට රාජකාරි කළේ කල්මුණේ පොලිසියේ. […]

සාකච්ඡා කළේ – උදේනි සමන් කුමාර උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම ආණ්ඩුව අනුගමනය කරන අධිකරණ ක්‍රියාවලිය සම්බන්ධව බරපතළ චෝදනා එල්ල වී තිබේ. යුක්තිය පසිඳලීමේදී ආණ්ඩුව මන්දගාමී වීම පිටුපස දේශපාලන න්‍යාය පත්‍ර ඇති බවට ආණ්ඩුව බලයට ගෙනා පාර්ශ්වම චෝදනා කරති. ආණ්ඩුව ප්‍රතිවාදී බලවේග මැඬලීමට නීතිය යොදා ගන්නා බවට විරුද්ධ පක්‍ෂ චෝදනා කරයි. මෙයින් පැහැදිලි වන්නේ අධිකරණ ක්‍රියාවලිය තුළ බරපතළ අවුලක් […]

By Lakshman I. Keerthisinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.” – Noam Chomsky, Imperial Ambitions: Conversations on the Post-9/11 World Although it is an open secret that the service personnel in powerful countries in the world such as the US and the UK have committed many war crimes, most of […]

The Sri Lankan Government has approved a proposal by a Tamil MP to pay reparations for war-affected & missing persons which include families of LTTE unlawful combatants. LTTE remains a banned terrorist organization, without first holding LTTE on trial for its war crimes against the State of Sri Lanka & its people what kind of […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS ‘War crimes’ is a new thing. Nobody bothered about war crimes, when in World War II, major cities like London, Dresden and Berlin, were bombed, killing millions, or when    bombs were dropped on Hiroshima, or when Biafra was starved into submission in the Nigerian Civil War of 1967. The present day notion of […]

Richard J Rogers Partner, Global Diligence LLP PRESS RELEASE: 14 June 2018  This week the Sri Lankan Government approved a Bill to pay reparations to war affected persons, including the families of missing persons. The ‘Reparations Bill’ will establish an Office for Reparations to be based in Colombo. The Bill will be sent to Parliament for […]

R Chandrasoma While the plight of Man in an unfriendly Universe and the struggle to achieve an emancipation that radically terminates his existential woes are the chief concerns of the Buddhist Pilgrim, there are issues – both historical and cosmological – that cannot be ignored. Let us start with planetary history – as currently revealed […]

Dr Hector Perera         London After a long day of school, you ride the bus home and anxiously anticipate having a snack as soon as you burst through the front door. But what kind of snack will you choose? Will it be a healthy apple or celery with peanut butter? Or will you head for the potato chips and soda? The answer probably depends upon what’s available in the […]

 lanka C news අධිකරණය විසින් බරපතල වැඩ ඇතිව වසරක සිර දඬුවම් නියම කරන ලද බොදු බල සේනා සංවිධානයේ මහ ලේකම් පූජ්‍ය ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥාණසාර හිමියන්ට බන්ධනාරගාරයේදී ජම්පරය ඇදීම ප‍්‍රතික්‍ෂෙප කර ඇත. තම සිවුර ඉවත් කලොහොත් උපවාසයක නිරත වන්නේ යයි උන් වහන්සේ සදහන් කර ඇති බවද වාර්තා වෙයි. උන් වහන්සේ සිවුර පමණක් ඉවත් කර අදනකඩයට උඩින් සුදු […]

By Yonette Joseph and Tiffany May Courtesy The New York Times LONDON — In 1922, the same year he received the Nobel Prize in Physics, Albert Einstein set out with his wife Elsa on a five-and-a-half-month odyssey of discovery of a new world: the Far East and Middle East. Along the way, he was feted by a Japanese empress and […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින  යහ පාලන රජය එක්‌ මාසයක්‌ තුළ ගෙන ඇති ණය ප්‍රමාණය රාජපක්‍ෂ රජය 2014 මුළු වර්ෂය තුළම ලබාගත් ණයට වඩා වැඩි මුදලක්‌ බවත්, මේ අනුව ඉකුත් මැයි මාසයේදී පමණක්‌ ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ රාජ්‍ය ණයට එකතු වූ මුළු මුදල රු. බිලියන 842 ක්‌ බවත් ශ්‍රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ හිටපු අධිපති අජිත් නිවාඩ් කබ්රාල් මහතා පවසයි. […]

The present government came to power assuring the citizens of Sri Lanka an uncorrupt, transparent, no-wastage government. That promise was thrown to the bin after coming to power. The people were sold that the Cabinet would be just 25 MP (100 day program) however 19a created a bogus national government with the right to unlimited […]

If you have in yourself even an iota of Sinhala blood or have the slightest patriotism for your motherland Sri Lanka, please listen to this brave soldier lamenting about what the traitors amongst us are doing to our motherland – the only land of the Sinhala people! And once you listen to it, please share […]

උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම වර්ෂ 2020දී පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත ජනාධිපතිවරණය සඳහා ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා ඉදිරිපත් වුවහොත් ඔහුට ඇමෙරිකාවේ හෝ බටහිර රටවල සහාය හිමි නොවන බව ඇමෙරිකානු තානාපති අතුල් කේශාප් සහ හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහත්වරුන් අතර ඉකුත් දා පැවැති හමුවේදී තානාපතිවරයා විසින් පැවැසූ බව පළ වන වාර්තා සනාථ කිරීමට හෝ ප්‍රතික්‍ෂේප කිරීමට කොළඹ ඇමෙරිකානු තානාපති කාර්යාලය මෙතෙක් සිදුකර […]

By Malinda Seneviratne Courtesy The Daily Mirror Anyone who has read Noam Chomsky’s ‘What Uncle Sam really wants’ would not get too excited when a US President, Secretary of State or Ambassador talks about democracy. Neither would they lose any sleep over such worthies speaking in somber tones about individuals, parties or governments they dislike. Chomsky’s […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, June 13 (newsin.asia): Mystery surrounds what transpired during  outgoing US Ambassador Atul Keshap’s courtesy call on former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa last Sunday. On Wednesday, The Island daily quoted a source close to the former President to say that Ambassador Keshap told Mahinda Rajapaksa (MR for short) that his younger brother and former Defense […]

by Senaka Weeraratna The emotional and extraordinary farewell accorded to Col. Rathnapriya Bandu by the Tamils of Vishwamadu a village that once produced hard core LTTE cadres, has dramatically opened a new vista to win the hearts and minds of Tamil brethren living in the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka. The Message is clear: […]

Courtesy Eurasia Review Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena held a special discussion at the Presidential Secretariat on the Shasya Shakthi Project implemented in parallel to the Gramashakthi people’s movement, the national program of poverty alleviation. Under the first stage of the Shasya Shakthi Project, solar powered agricultural water supply systems will be introduced in 3,000 […]

Courtesy The Daily Mail (UK) Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena is under pressure to address war-era abuses Sri Lanka on Wednesday announced the first steps in a long-delayed process to compensate victims of the civil war, nearly a decade after the end of the conflict which claimed 100,000 lives. The government said it had approved […]

Financial Tribune ( Iran) Iran has called for a meeting of its joint economic commission with Sri Lanka to be held in Tehran in August. As per our own assessment, the May 2018 state visit by the Lankan delegation to Iran was very good and productive,” said Iran’s Ambassador to Sri Lanka Mohammad Zaeri Amirani […]

It has been 10 years since the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the end of the protracted ethnic war in Sri Lanka. In any conflict transformation process, it is critical to find a lasting political settlement to resolve the r… Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/main-article/whither-reconciliation-674829.html

By Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror The JO consists of several parties. These parties have their distinct identities. They work together under the leadership of former President  They want the government to deliver what it promised JO will agitate for early parliamentary dissolution  16-member group is not homogeneous at all The situation in the country is […]

Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror While saying that it was useless to make comments on MP Dayasiri Jayasekara’s statement that the list of 118 was first mentioned by the CaFFE, Keerthi Tennakoon, Executive Director of Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CAFFE) said they would not bother what Dayasiri says. He told Daily Mirror that […]

By Tatiana Nenova/www.infosrilanka@worldbank.org Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Sri Lanka and foreign investments read a bit like a hit and miss story. But it was not always the case. Before 1983, companies like Motorola and Harris Corporation had plans to establish plants in Sri Lanka’s export processing zones. Others including Marubeni, Sony, Sanyo, Bank of Tokyo and Chase Manhattan Bank, […]

By Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka/DailyFT Courtesy NewsIn.Asia I was delighted to read Lalith Weeratunga’s revelatory article ‘The Troika’. (http://www.ft.lk/opinion/The-Troika–How-crucial-relations-with-India-were-managed-in-the-last-phase-of-the-separatist-war/14-656815). I regard Lalith as a friend and I respect him as one of the finest public servants we have had. President Rajapaksa could not have had a better Secretary to the President, at a crucially testing time in our […]

By Dr.Lopamudra Maitra Bajpai Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Ice manufacturing in colonial Sri Lanka in the second half of the 19 th.century was a landmark in South Asian history.  The Sri Lankan ice making industry was the first and the earliest in the region. The name of the pioneering company has changed several times over the years. Today […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Civil society activists who campaigned for Maithripala Sirisena at the January 2015 presidential election are sharply divided over the JVP proposed 20th Amendment intended to further dilute executive powers and do away with the next presidential election. The 20 Amendment proposes that the parliament elects the next president. Chrishmal Presidential […]

By Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy The Island The Chairmen, CEOs and boards of directors appointed to SriLankan Airlines since the exit of Emirates management had not contributed to the development of the company, Captain Ruwan Vithanage, President of the Airline Pilots’ Guild of Sri Lanka (AAPGSL) told the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) on irregularities at SriLankan […]