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FB ආරක්ෂක ලේකම්ගේ පොලිස්පතිගේ කෙරුවාව,මංගලලා රාජිතලාට අනුව මම ජාතිවාදියා ගෝත්‍රිකයා වුනා,ඔවුන් අද මියගිය ජීවිතවල වගකීම බාර ගත යුතුයි.බුද්ධි අංශ 44ක් හිරේ, හමුදාවේ පන නල කැඩුවා.රටේ ඇමතිවරු දැනගෙන මිනිස්සුන්ට කිව්වේ නැහැ Pause-4:09Additional Visual SettingsEnter Watch And ScrollClick to enlargeMute9.8K9.8K661 Comments13K Shares

Sunil Vijaya When will Sri Lankan learn? It is laughable to note that ‘experts’ emerge after any conflict.  So is the case with the last Sunday’s Diabolical bombing.  In fact, this would have been the most catastrophic incident in Sri Lanka’s recent history where both locals and foreigners perished. As expats have noted our country […]

By New York Times News Service in Kattankudy Mastermind Zahran Hashim was killed in blast at Shangri-La hotel in Colombo, says Sirisena Zahran Hashim, a radical Muslim preacher accused of masterminding the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, never hid his hatred. He railed against a local performance in which Muslim girls dared […]

By Amanda Woods Courtesy  New York Post Security forces in Sri Lanka were involved in a shootout — and seized bomb-making equipment as well as ISIS flags and uniforms — during sweeping raids within the country’s eastern region Friday, according to a new report. https://nypost.com/2019/04/26/sri-lanka-raids-net-bomb-making-equipment-isis-flags/ The forces were searching for suspects linked to the Easter Sunday bombings […]

Courtesy The Straits Times Bombs, ISIS uniforms found in raid; Easter death toll cut to 253 COLOMBO • A gun battle broke out between Sri Lankan police and a group of men during a raid on a house in an eastern Sri Lankan town yesterday, with the premises believed to have been used to make […]

Adeela Naureen Courtesy The Nation A devastating series of eight bomb blasts ripped through churches holding Easter services and high-end hotels in Sri Lanka on 21 Apr 19, killing nearly 300 people, including dozens of foreigners and injuring nearly 500. International media especially that of India are in the forefront in reporting that a local […]

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 […]

Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s tourism industry fears losing around $1.5 billion in revenue this year due to Sunday’s attacks, the country’s Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera said. Tourism will be the worst affected,” Samaraweera told reporters in Colombo on Friday. We expect a 30 percent drop in arrivals and that means a loss of about $1.5 […]

H. L. D. Mahindapala The history of terrorism in Sri Lanka reveals a clear pattern. The first to take up arms in the post-Independent era were the misguided Sinhala youth. They were educated youth desperately running in search of a quick solution to establish their classless paradise. Their violence did not take them anywhere. The […]

Sri Lanka before regime change had zero terror attacks since 2009, tragically just 4 years after a well-coordinated US-RAW-LTTE-TNA-JVP-UN-US-EU joint regime change over 350 dead on just one day with hundreds more injured or battling for life. While, those that were brought into power in 2015 are pointing blame fingers at each other, it serves […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි යහපාලන රජයේ වසර හතරක් පුරා වැපුරූ මහා වෙනසේ අස්වැන්න නෙලා ගැනීමේ මංගල්‍ය පසුගිය ඉරිදා පාස්කු ඉරිදා මුළු මහත් ලෝකවාසී ජනතාව ඉදිරියේ එලි දක්වන ලදී. මේ රජය වසර හතරක් පුරා මොනවාද කලේ යයි අසමින් රජයට කොලොප්පන් කරමින් සිටි මිනිසුන්ට හොදට තේරුම් ගන්නට තරම් විශාල අස්වැන්නක් ලබාදී, අපි මෙච්චර දෙයක් වෙයි කියලා හිතුවේ නැහැයි […]

අද දින පැවැති ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ මාධ්‍ය හමුව අද දින පැවැති මාධ්‍ය හමුවට සහභාගි වී නියෝජිතයින් ·       පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී සෙහාන් සේමසිංහ මහතා ·       පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රි තේනුක විදානගමගේ මහතා ·       පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී දිලුම් අමුණුගම මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී සෙහාන් සේමසිංහ මහතා අපි ගෙවමින් ඉන්න ඛේදජනක තත්ත්වය ගැන පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ කතා කළත් රජයේ දුර්වලතාවය ගැන ආන්ජුවට අවබෝධයක් නැහැ.මේ […]

ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ පසුගිය පාස්කු ඉරිදා දින සිදුවූ සහාසික ත්‍රස්ත ප්‍රහාරයෙන් පසු තත්වය සාකච්චා කිරීම සඳහා සර්ව පාක්ෂික සමුළුවක් කැදවීම පිළබඳ ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණේ ගෞරවය පුද කර සිටින අතර ඒ සඳහා සහභාගී වීමට අප පක්ෂය වෙත ආරාධනා කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ස්තුතිය පල කර සිටින්නෙමු.  පසුගිය ත්‍රස්ත ප්‍රහාරය පිළිබඳවත් ඉන් පෙර,පසු තත්වය පිළිබඳවත් පවතින තත්වය […]

Sunil Vijaya Dear Editor,    We are no experts on security however common sense would suggest the following.  Declare a 24-hour curfew and round up all Wahaabis (Saudi influenced radical islamists). both men and women and politicians and incarcerate them indefinitely, under emergency laws.  If Human Right lobby such as AI cry foul, request them to […]

International Network for Sri Lankan Democracy (INSD), Stuttgart  We at International Network for Sri Lankan Democracy (INSD) condemn the terrorist attacks carried out targeting churches and hotels in Sri Lanka claiming lives of over 300 innocent civilians including foreigners, and injuring nearly 500.   We commend the people of Sri Lanka for the patient manner in which they reacted at a time of shock and immense […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 31.7.20 This series presents some events relating to Buddhism in the north in the last three decades. New Buddhist temples were erected in the north during this period. Admiral Daya  Sandagiri, then Commander Northern naval area   built a Buddhist temple, Sanghamitta Seya,   at Dambukola patuna, where Sanghamitta is said to have   landed […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane The Bodu Bala Sena is a movement under the leadership of group of distinguished, academically accomplished, and deeply patriotic Bhikkhus and lay Buddhists, dedicated to the task of revitalizing and reinforcing cultural nationalism in Sri Lanka, the only motherland of the Sinhala community. In spite of varied challenges and threats to which […]

නීතීඥ අරුණ ලක්සිරි උණවටුන B.Sc(Col),PGDC(Col) පසුගිය සතියේ දක්නට ලැබුණ ආගම් නීතිය සහ දේශපාලනය හා බැදී උණුසුම සහ ඒවා හාස්කමකින් මෙන් සමනය වන ආකාරය අතීතයේ දක්නට නො වීය. එය යහපත් ප්‍රවණතාවයකි. 1815 උඩරට ගිවිසුමෙන් පසු 1818 ඇති වූ කැරැල්ලත්, 1962කුමන්ත්‍රණය, 1972 , 1988-1989 ආයුධ සන්නද්ධ අරගලයත්, වසර 30ක් පුරා උතුරු නැගෙනහිර මුල් කරගෙන පැවති සන්නද්ධ ගැටුමත් ලංකාවේ බහුතර සිංහල […]

අමාදම් ගඟුල [1] අන්තවාදී ශරියා නීති තහනම් කිරීමට බලකරමු [2] අන්තවාදී බුර්කාව තහනම් කිරීමට බල කරමු [3] අන්තවාදය උගන්වන ශරියා විශ්වවිද්‍යල සහ අරාබි පාසල් වසා දැමීමට බල කරමු [4] අන්තවාදී පූජකයින් මෙරටට ගෙන්වීම නැවත්වීමට බල කරමු [5] අන්තවාදයට සම්බන්දයයි සැක සිතන සියළු දෙනාගෙ දේපොල පරීක්ෂාවට බල කරමු [6] අන්තවාදීන්ට උදව්කල සියළු මුස්ලිම් දේශපාලකයින් නෙරපා දැමීමට බල […]

Dr. Daya Hewapathirane The small communities of Tamils and Muslims living in Sri Lanka, amount to a total of about 24% of the country’s total population. These communities are descendants of groups of individuals, exclusively males, who initially arrived in this island at different times in the past for various purposes, and later settled down […]

Courtesy  Brisbane Times One of the Sri Lankan bombers came back from Australia after his postgraduate studies a changed man, his sister says. Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed studied at Swinburne University in Melbourne between 2009 and 2013, The Australian reported. Mohamed, suspected to be one of the ringleaders of the atrocity in Sri Lanka, was investigated by […]

Times of India KOZHIKODE: Security agencies are probing whether any of the  ..  Read more at:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/69050078.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

One of the Sri Lankan bombers who studied at an Australian university was investigated by the Joint Counter Terrorism Team in 2014, The Australianreports.  Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed studied at Swinburne University in Melbourne between 2009 and 2013, The Australian reports and was investigated because of his links to several suspects, including Neil Prakash. Mohomed, suspected […]

By EMILY SCHMALL Courtesy  The times of Israel Suspects could have access to explosives and aim to carry out more suicide bombings, Ranil Wickremesinghe says Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe at his office in Colombo, Sri Lanka, April 25, 2019. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena) COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka’s prime minister said Thursday that […]

Get the biggest Daily News stories by emailSubscribeSee our privacy noticeMore newsletters The wife of the UK-educated Sri Lanka suicide bomber has told how he betrayed his family to join Islamic State. Devastated Shifana Mohamed, 30, last saw Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed – who attended Kingston University – when he left home for Friday prayers. The privately educated […]

BY JANITA KAN Courtesy  The Epoch Times The pregnant wife of a Sri Lankan suicide bomber detonated a suicide vest when police raided the family’s Colombo home, killing herself, her children, and police officers. A series of coordinated attacks on hotels and churches devastated Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday leaving at least 250 people dead and […]

Courtesy  NZ Herald , Section National, One of the Sri Lankan suicide bombers has family links to New Zealand, with confirmation both his sister and mother lived in Auckland. Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed was one of the terrorist bombers involved in the Easter Sunday attacks. His deadly plan was to target the luxury Taj Samudra hotel […]

By Deborah Haynes, foreign affairs editor Courtesy Sky News Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed has a rucksack, thought to contain explosives, and a suitcase at a Colombo hotel before the attacks. Image:Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed pictured at the Taj hotel in Colombo A photograph has been obtained by Sky News which, according to a security source, […]