Sri Lanka News All, We do not know why the BBC has put this article with videos in today’s news. It has 5 short stories which try to make Sri Lanka look bad. Viz. They talk about mass graves without saying that the tests showed the bodies were over 4-500 years old. We should have […]

National joint committee. srilanka 231, Kirula Road, Colombo 5, Sri Lanka.  16th May 2019 Dear Mayors John Tory and Mayor Patrick Brown, Re: Proclamation of May 18, 2019 as “Tamil Genocide Remembrance Day” National Joint Committee on behalf of  all peace loving citizen of Sri Lanka wish to strongly protest against your intention to proclaim […]

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Dr Sarath Obeysekera It is republish again with few additions OUR MEMORY IS SHORT LIKE THE MOMORY OF A FISH …….. Posted on March 15th, 2016 Lankaweb Dr Sarath Obeysekera They say that fish keep going around the tank wall because he forgets where he was  >>>>> > We Sri Lankans are also like fish […]

By KRISHAN FRANCIS | Associated Press | Courtesy Stars and Stripes COLOMBO, Sri Lanka  — Sri Lanka’s army chief said Thursday that other groups of Islamic militants could be operating in the country independent of the one that carried out Easter Sunday bomb attacks. “There could be other groups, definitely,” Lt. Gen. Mahesh Senanayake said. […]

Courtesy Reuters COLOMBO (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday it was holding its forecast for Sri Lanka’s 2019 economic growth at 3.5% in spite of devastating Easter bombings, saying it was too early to assess financial damage.FILE PHOTO: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) logo is seen outside the headquarters building in Washington, […]

By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI Courtesy fox business In this Friday, May 10, 2019, photo, the 17th century built Dutch fort, which was a popular tourist site, stands empty in Galle, Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka was the Lonely Planet guide’s top travel destination for 2019, but since the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and luxury hotels, foreign tourists […]

By Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha Courtesy Ceylon Today It is not surprising that security scarcely figures in Maithripala Sirisena’s manifesto. He talks about food security and energy security, which are of course both most desirable, but their promotion by government must come after the provision of physical security, which is its first and foremost obligation. But […]

By Sumanasiri Liyanage Courtesy Ceylon Today Political parties often times come to power making promises. As one of the TV advertisements says, politicians can avoid the blame by saying that they give promises” but not guarantees”. The so-called Yahapalana Government came to power on 8 January 2015. Parliamentary democracies seem to believe that a four […]

NIRANJALA ARIYAWANSHA Courtesy Ceylon Today Many top ranking Police officials have raised concerns over granting bail to nine suspects linked to the Easter Sunday bombings by Colombo Additional Magistrate, Priyantha Liyanage against opposition raised by the Wellampitiya Police and blaming the Officer-In-Charge of the Wellampitiya Police, Gamini Hewavithana for giving bail to suspects who were […]

Courtesy Adaderana President’s Counsel Ali Sabry says that the number of members in terrorist leader Zahran Hashim’s group grew significantly following the ethnic clashes in March last year and that this goes to show extremism feeds extremism. He said Zahran’s terrorist group had only 20-25 members in the past, but after last year’s unfortunate clashes […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Police curfew will not be imposed on any part of the country today (16) over the prevailing peaceful situation in the country, said Police Media Spokesperson. Police Media Spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekera made mentioned this at a media briefing held today. He further stated that no violent incidents have been reported in North […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Commander of Sri Lanka Army, Lieutenant General Mahesh Senanayake, states that Minister Rishad Bathiudeen had called him three times over an arrest of a suspect linked to the Dehiwala bombings on Easter Sunday. The Army Commander revealed this today (16) at a press conference, answering a question raised by a journalist regarding […]

The persons responsible for the Easter Sunday attacks had been running 17 safe houses and 07 training centers for the suicide bombers, Ruwan Gunasekera, the Police Media Spokesman, said on Wednesday. Accordingly, training workshops for terrorist activities have been conducted in camps discovered in Wanathavilluwa, Hambantota, Nuwara Eliya, Kandy, Aruppola, Kattankudy, and Valaichenai areas. The […]

Courtesy Adaderana The No-Confidence motion against Minister Rishad Bathiudeen has been handed over to Speaker Karu Jayasuriya a short while ago, stated MP Udaya Gammanpila. The Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) Leader stated that the motion has been signed by nearly sixty-six parliamentarians including the MPs of the Opposition. MP Shehan Semasinghe stated that they will […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]