BY AMAL JAYASINGHE Courtesy The Island (AFP) Fifteen people including six children died in a battle between Sri Lankan security forces and suicide bombers who blew themselves up in the latest fallout from the Easter attacks, police said Saturday. Three men set off explosives that killed themselves, three women and six children inside what was […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 27 (newsin.asia): The United States has said that while applying improved safety mechanisms to protect Sri Lanka’s citizens from new threats, it is imperative that the Sri Lankan government do so in ways that also protect rule of law and that do not infringe upon the human rights of individuals or groups, […]

By Udaya P Gammanpila Courtesy Ceylon Today Profile pictures have been changed to National flags and white flags, Pray for Sri Lanka” posts have gone viral,  people are lining up to donate blood,  everybody is weeping for the Easter Sunday terrorist attack victims in unison; shedding petty racial, religious and political differences.   All of […]

By Sulochana Ramiah Mohan Courtesy Ceylon Today By Sulochana Ramiah Mohan Sri Lankans have been left in shock following the ruthless killing of 253 innocent people, including children, on Easter Sunday, by  a zero-tolerant homegrown Islamic militant group. Since 2014, the local Media has been highlighting about possible Islamic militant infiltration in Sri Lanka. But, […]

Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror Three suspects were taken into Sri Lanka Navy custody with one kilogram of C-4 explosives and a three-wheeler near the Wellawatte railway station today, Navy Spokesman Isuru Suriyabandar said. He told Daily Mirror that the suspects were handed over to the Army and they would handover them to the […]

Yohan Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former President Chandrika Kumaratunga yesterday called for the banning of Madarasa Islamic Schools in Sri Lanka saying the children are taught extremism in those institutions. Ms. Kumaratunga expressed these sentiments at the all party-all faith conference held at the parliamentary complex last evening. Madarasa schools have been existing in […]

Hafeel Farisz Courtesy The Daily Mirror Three suspects allegedly radical Islamist extremists and two weapons of the two Policemen killed at a checkpoint in Vavunathiwu on November 29, 2018 were recovered by officers of the Criminal Investigations Department today. Sources confirmed that the three suspects were arrested in Kalmunai and the weapons were recovered in the […]

Courtesy Adaderana UPDATE: (3.24 p.m.) – UNP Colombo Municipal Councillor Noordeen Mohamed Thajudeen, who was arrested over the discovery of 46 sword in Slave Island, has been handed over to the Colombo Crimes Division (CCD), according to the Police Spokesman.  Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) member, Noordeen Mohamed Thajudeen, has been arrested in connection with the 46 […]

Courtesy Adaderana A person has been arrested along with 51 sticks of water-gel explosives, 215 detonators and a motorcycle during a search operation at Erakkandi, Trincomalee. The suspect was arrested with the explosives by Sri Lanka Navy personnel, who were carrying out a search in the area

Courtesy Adaderana Police have recovered 49 knives from the premises of a mosque in the Maskeliya area during a search operation carried out this morning. The police officers who engaged in a search operation of the mosque premises had discovered 49 knives and 3 small axes inside a storage room. The person in charge of […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Deputy Mayor of Negombo, Mohamed Ansar, has been arrested for the pssesion of a sword, a dagger and 37 mobile phone batteries, Police said. The arrest was reportedly made during a search operations by police officers.

Courtesy Adaderana All day people were coming in and out of the house with the pale-pink walls, and neighbours were becoming suspicious. An elder in the village of the eastern Sri Lankan city of Kalmunai was summoned to confront the men who had rented the property a few weeks before. The discussion soon became tense, […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena has taken steps to ban two local Islamist groups in Sri Lanka suspected of carrying out the attacks on churches and hotels on Sunday. In terms of powers vested in him as the President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka under Emergency Regulations No. 01 of 2019, the […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 27 (Reuters): The wife and daughter of Mohamad Zahran Hashim, the suicide bomber cum mastermind of the serial bombings in Colombo and two other cities on April 21, were injured in the explosion in the Islamic State safe house at Sainthamarudu in Eastern Sri Lanka on Friday night. The shootout at […]

Written by Arun Janardhanan |Batticaloa Sixteen members of the family, including seven children and Zahran’s parents, had gone missing three days before the Easter Sunday blasts. A day after 15 individuals, including six children, were reported killed in suicide blasts at a suspected Islamist safe house in the Sri Lankan town of Kalmunai, a plainclothes military intelligence […]

Courtesy Nation (Pakistan) PDP chief says Easter bombings aim at pitching people of different religions against one another KARACHI    –   Pasban Democratic Party (PDP) Chairman Altaf Shakoor has said that India is the enemy of both Pakistan and Sri Lanka, and recent terrorism in Sri Lanka seems an international conspiracy for which fingers are being […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS After the election of Yahapalana regime in 2015, there are many concerns to people of Sri Lanka and the major question was whether the government was a responsible government which focused to protect people and fulfill the needs of people. Immediate after the election of the president, the Central Bank of Sri […]

Palitha Senanayake The position Sri Lanka confronts today as a nation clearly is a case of electing political apologist of terrorism to power before the nation could recover completely from 30 years of terrorism. Ranil Wickremesinghe, like his current political mentor Chandrika Kumaranatunge, were such avowed supporters of the theory of ‘appeasing terrorist to win […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane     There are ample historic records which describe vividly the atrocities committed by Muslims against millions of Buddhists in several countries. Their criminality has not subsided despite their living among other religions in different countries. Buddhists have been the most victimized and harassed religious community in the world, owing to actions of Muslims […]

Dilrook Kannangara The incompetent Prime Minster quite correctly stated that returnees from Syria could not be punished sufficiently as the law does not cover it. As per the current Sri Lanka law, they have committed no grave crime. However, can the people and the nation rely solely on the law and legal means to save […]

Prof. Hudson McLean Terrorism of any type, destroying human life & property, deserves Zero Tolerance.  A three decades of death & destruction by the Tamil Tiger Terrorists LTTE ended by the Leadership of President Rajapaksa & Defence Secretary Gothabhaya Rajapaksa. Sri Lanka suffered the thirty years of a dirty war, supported by several foreign governments, […]

RANJITH SOYSA In its efforts to complete investigations into the Easter Day carnage and to revamp the national intelligence services the Government is obviously seeking the assistance of the FBI and other similar organizations in the West and India. The government should first draw up suitable guidelines when seeking such  advise to prevent the situation […]

Chandre Dharmawardana It is often asked  why educated youth  coming from good homes” join extremist organizations.  Simple  references to  brain washing”, or the stupidity of the young are no explanations. There is no scientifically recognized   process called brain washing”.   It is also  naive to assume that  educated youth  join the IS (Islamic state)  to go […]

Courtesy Adaderana President Maithripala Sirisena says he would not excuse himself from the lapse on the part of intelligence information sharing and the government should bear the responsibility for failing to prevent the attacks on Easter Sunday. The President stated this addressing the Heads of media institutes today (26). Stating that a major search operation […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s former defence secretary, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, said on Friday he would run for president in elections this year and would stop the spread of Islamist extremism by rebuilding the intelligence service and surveilling citizens. More than 250 people were killed in bomb attacks on hotels and churches on Easter Sunday that the […]

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