Archive for May 15th, 2019
Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
Is there proof beyond reasonable doubt that the attacks on 13/14 May 2019 in various parts of North Central/Western province was by Sinhalese? Were the attacks a form of collective guilt that Germans suffered after end of World War 2 when Allies treated all Germans as guilty as Hitler? But then why did ‘attackers’ come […]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
In a disillusioned world where false flags and fake news gains momentum daily, it’s not surprising that distortions are taking place. Iraq was destroyed based on a false weapons of mass destruction propaganda, Libya, from the most developed country in North Africa, is in ruins today after promising ‘liberation’ from a dictator but not getting […]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
Something is not right. While 57 of the 68 foreign terrorist groups banned by US are Islamic and all having some link or the other to each other as well as an underlying link to Western governments & their intelligence. According to the Global Terrorism Index 2018 compiled by the Institute for Economics & Peace […]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
By Rohana R. Wasala (Please bear with me, Readers. In the following sentence from Part I: Most of the observations these reputed intellectuals make through this statement about the failures of governance that facilitated the recent attacks on some mosques and hotels (in Negambo, Colombo and Baticaloa) are generally correct;….”, the word ‘mosques’ is a […]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
Dr D. Chandraratna We need to examine the making of Islamic extremism now so that precautionary measures can be taken to avert future catastrophe/s. Before you venture into rehabilitating the yesterday’s terrorist the government must start a conversation with those who have studied the problem to identify well in advance before they strike in order […]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
By A. Abdul Aziz. (Given below is an excerpt of the Friday Sermon delivered by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Supreme Head of the world-wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam, on 10th May, 2019, at ‘BaithulFuthuh’, London, U.K. gave a discourse on Ramazan and our Responsibilities. Ahmadiyya Supreme Head recited Holy Qur’an – verses 184-187 of […]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
Peter Koenig Courtesy Countercurrents.org Sri Lanka, Easter Sunday, 21 April 2019: More than half a dozen bomb blasts shook the country killing from 250 to more than 350 people. Depending on who counts, the death toll varies. The devastation took place in in several catholic churches and luxury hotels. Other explosions, including from – what […]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
Ministry Of Science , Technology & Research ස්විට්සර්ලන්තයේ ජිනීවා නුවරදී පැවැත්වෙන සංවර්ධනය සඳහා වූ විද්යා හා තාක්ෂණ කොමිසමෙහි (CSTD) 22 වන සැසිය සඳහා විද්යා, තාක්ෂණ හා පර්යේෂණ අමාත්ය සුජීව සේනසිංහ මහතා ඇතුළු නියෝජිත පිරිසක් සහභාගී වී සිටියි. මෙම සැසිය 2019 මැයි 13 සිට 17 දක්වා පැවැත්වේ. සංවර්ධනය සඳහා වූ විද්යා හා තාක්ෂණ කොමිසම, ආර්ථික සහ […]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
අද (21) පැවැති ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුනේ මාධ්ය හමුව අද (21) පැවැති මාධ්ය හමුවට සහභාගි වු නියෝජිතයින් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්තී ලක්ෂ්මන් යාපා අබේවර්ධන මහතා ,පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී අනුර ප්රියදර්ශන යාපා මහතා, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී එස්. එම්. චන්ද්රසේන මහතා පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්තී ලක්ෂ්මන් යාපා අබේවර්ධන මහතා රටේ නොසන්සුන්තාවය ඇති වෙලා මසකට ආසන්නයි. නමුත් තවමත් රට අස්ථාවරයි. මේ වෙනකල් නොසන්සුන්තාවය පාලනය කර […]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
Walter Rajaratne Sydney His holiness Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the bishop of Colombo is the man of the moment. At the most decisive time when the country needed a voice of sanctity, he delivered. And, delivered in no uncertain terms that doused the heat that was running at volcanic molten lava scale when the majority Sinhalese […]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
Priyantha Hettige Setting The Scene: Threats to us and our survival For true freedom, people need transparency in all things. The fact is, for democracy (and freedom) to survive we need good information; we need to understand. When government hides things or give us false information, our freedom is diminished. In fact, there are so […]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
Dr Sarath Obeysekera It is sad to see how politicians behave.Some government ministers and MP’s were criticising the Leader for running away from the country during the most needed times in the country Yesterday when I saw TV clippings I saw two prominent ministers sitting in a meeting with our president during the discussion with […]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
Dr Sarath Obeysekera When I see how government ministers and opposition politicians and politically motivated artists express various views indirectly supporting and even abetting terrorism and also tend to interfere in police actions against wrongdoers in various areas ,I feel sad that we lost leader like Athulathmudali who would have act differently. In eighties one […]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
Courtesy Mail Online +1 Muslim-owned shops and businesses were targetted by rioters in Sri Lanka’s North-West Province Sri Lankan authorities said Wednesday they had the situation “under control” after mosques and Muslim-owned shops and businesses were targetted in a violent backlash after the Easter Sunday terror attacks. A second overnight curfew imposed nationwide ensured there […]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
Sri Lanka’s debt crisis and Chinese loans – separating myth from reality. By Umesh Moramudali Sri Lanka is often portrayed as a country that fell into a debt trap as a result of public investment projects financed by China. One such investment project was Hambantota port, which was leased to China Merchant Port Holdings Limited (CM […]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
G Parthasarathy Courtesy The Hindu The people of Sri Lanka have shown courage, wisdom and resilience in recovering from the traumatic effects of the country’s brutal ethnic conflict between 1983 and 2010. An estimated 47,000 Tamil civilians, 27,000 LTTE members, 50,000 Sinhala civilians, 23,790 Sri Lankan soldiers and 1,500 members of the Indian Peace Keeping Force […]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
Jon Grevatt, Bangkok – Jane’s Defence Weekly China has agreed to provide aid worth USD14 million to Sri Lanka to procure Chinese-made counter-insurgency equipment, it was announced on 14 May. The funding – pledged during Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena’s visit to Beijing – is intended to boost the capability of Sri Lanka’s security forces, the […]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
Courtesy VOA COLOMBO — Sri Lanka said on Wednesday hardline Buddhist groups were likely to blame for a wave of anti-Muslim riots that swept the island this week in apparent retaliation for Easter bombings by Islamist militants. The April 21 attacks, claimed by Islamic State, targeted churches and hotels, killing more than 250 people and […]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
යුතුකම මාධ්ය හමුව 2019-05-09 මුස්ලිම් ජන සමාජයේ යුතුකම?ගෙවිඳු කුමාරතුංග https://www.facebook.com/yuthukama/videos/439840123512640/ https://www.facebook.com/yuthukama/videos/439840123512640/?v=439840123512640
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
ලසන්ත වික්රමසිංහ උපුටා ගැන්ම යුතුකම සංවාද කවය කුස්සියෙන් එළියක් පෙනෙන නිසා අම්මා පාන්දරම අවදි වී ඉඳි ආප්ප තම්බන බව නුවන්ට වැටහුණි. නිදිගැට කඩාදමමින් කුස්සියට ගිය නුවන් කළයෙන් වතුර ස්වල්පයක් ගෙන කට සෝදා පිළිකන්නේ මිදුලට විසි කළේය. අම්මා ඉඳි ආප්ප වංගෙඩිය තෙරපවමින් ඉදි ආප්ප වට්ටි මතට කවාකාර රැළි එකතු කරමින් උන්නාය. “කෝ දෙන්න ඕක. අම්මා සම්බෝල ටික හදන්නකො” “තව […]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
ඉසුරු ප්රසංග යුතුකම සංවාද කවය ප්රධාන ප්රශ්නය ඔබේ ජාතික ලැයිස්තුව තුළ ත්රස්තවාදියෙකු සිටීම නොවේ. එය නොදන්නාකම නිසා වූ අතපසුවීමක් යැයි මොහොතකට සිතමු. එහෙත් එදා පටන් කිසිදු මුස්ලිම් අන්තවාදයක් රටේ නැතැයි කියමින්, නැති බෞද්ධ අන්තවාදයකට පහර දෙමින් ඔබේ පක්ෂය අනුගමනය කළ පිළිවෙත කුමක්ද? මුස්ලිම් අන්තවාදයට නොනවත්වා මතවාදීආරක්ෂාව සැපයීම ත්රස්තවාදියෙකු ජාතික ලැයිස්තුවේ තබාගෙන සිටීමට වඩා අතිශයින් විනාශකාරීය. […]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Leader of the Opposition Mahinda Rajapaksa says he is not at all satisfied with most of the decisions and actions taken so far by the Government following the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks. According to a statement issued by his Media Secretary, taking decisions relating to the present situation prevailing in the country is […]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana The police have arrested a wanted suspect who had allegedly assisted the suicide bomber at the Kingsbury Hotel in Colombo to purchase a white-coloured van, used by the bomber at St. Anthony’s Church in Kochchikade to arrive at the location. The Criminal Investigation Department had carried out extensive investigations into this van in […]
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Wednesday, May 15th, 2019
To millions of Sri Lankans the Easter Sunday tragedy must have seemed a nightmare come true, a frightening déjà vu of the rampant violence this island nation has known for thirty years of LTTE terror (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam). The horrific attacks in which estimated 253 lost their lives and many hundreds were wounded signaled that […]
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