Archive for May, 2019
Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
By Vishal Arora Courtesy The Diplomat Was the attack on Sri Lanka an example of the Islamic State’s opportunism? Why did the Islamic State terror group choose Sri Lanka, and a persecuted minority in it, as the target for one of its deadliest attacks ever? This question puzzles many, given that this tiny island nation has […]
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
Syed Ata Hasnain a retired lieutenant-general, is a former commander of the Srinagar-based 15 Corps. Most important, India’s Muslims need leaders of substance who can guide, lead and advise. Many think that India has escaped the wrath of ISIS due to the inherent strength of our plurality. (Photo: AP The suicide terror bombings in Sri […]
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
By: Sudha Ramachandran Courtesy The Jamestown Foundation On April 21, multiple suicide attacks on churches and high-end hotels in Sri Lanka killed 253 people, including 40 foreigners, and injured at least 500 others (Sunday Times, April 28). The suicide bombings, which are among the deadliest terrorist attacks in the world since the September 11 attacks in […]
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
Sandun A Jayasekera Courtesy The Daily Mirror General Secretary of the SLFP, former minister Dayasiri Jayasekara made an appeal to Saudi Arabia and Qatar yesterday to not let extremist groups in those countries to finance Muslim fundamentalists in Sri Lanka like National Thawheed Jamaath (NTJ), who carried out the Easter Sunday carnage. He told reporters […]
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror Sri Lanka was still under threat from global terrorists though the country was fast returning to normal after the Easter Sunday carnage, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe today. Making a special statement in Parliament, the Prime Minister said new laws such as Counter-Terrorism Bill was needed to […]
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror A large number of terrorists had already been arrested, out of which, 12 were hard-core members, President Maithirpala Sirisena told Parliament today. He said that 13 safe houses belonging to those who were responsible for the Easter Sunday carnage had been taken over by the security […]
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Police has arrested the Assistant Director of the Langama Pasala Hodama Pasala project of the Ministry of Education,Marikkar Dilshan Muhammad, for allegedly encouraging Islamic extremism and the Islamic State (IS). The suspect was arrested in Norochcholai on 4 May evening, according to the list of persons, provided by the office of the […]
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana The State Ministry of Defence has addressed a letter to the President of All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU) As-Sheikh Rizwe Mufthi denying a statement made by him at the all-religious leaders’ meeting held recently. The Secretary of the ministry N.K.G.K. Nammawatta says, the President of ACJU had stated that he had handed over […]
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana A 25-acre land plot in Riditenna area of Valaichchenai police division has been identified as a site occupied by the terrorist group responsible for the suicide bombings on Easter Sunday. The Criminal Investigation Department, officers of Valaichchenai Police Station and the Police Special Task Force had carried out the search yesterday (06). Said […]
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana Complying with the request made by the security forces, 15 swords have been handed over to the Beruwala Police Station today (07). On May 4th, the police requested the public to hand over the illegal swords, kris knives and sharp dagger to the nearest police station by Sunday (May 5th). However, on Monday […]
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana The safe houses used by the suicide bombers in Easter Sunday terror attacks and bank accounts owned by them will be confiscated, says President Maithripala Sirisena. The President stated this addressing the parliamentary session commenced this afternoon (07). Accordingly, 13 safe houses and 41 bank accounts belonging to the suicide bombers are to […]
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana A person has been arrested in Negombo while in possession of 8 cell-phone jamming devices, the Police Spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekara said. The suspect is a resident of Negombo area. SP Gunasekara stated this addressing a press conference held in Colombo today (07).
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana A cache of anti-aircraft bullets have been recovered from Alagalla area in Vavuniya last evening (06), says Irattaperiyakulam Police. Accordingly, 85 anti-aircraft bullets were found by Irattaperiyakulam police officers, who acted on a tip-off received from the residents of the area. The Irattaperiyakulam Police had searched the area further with the help of […]
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Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
Courtesy Adaderana A set of clothing similar to the uniform of the Sri Lanka Army has been found in a garbage pile behind the main bus stand in Hatton. Employees of the Hatton-Dickoya Municipal Council had discovered the clothing set inside an abandoned polythene bag and had informed authorities on the matter. The pair of […]
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Monday, May 6th, 2019
Ratanapala Deny, delay, evade, confuse, mislead and if everything fails, cry!” Be careful when questioning Islamists! They are permitted by the Koran to lie unashamedly to deceive anyone who they consider to be their opponents or enemy. It is called Taqiyya. Be careful of artful deception and deceit – they are masters at the game […]
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Monday, May 6th, 2019
By Shynee Jananjalie Hewavidana Easter Sunday. 8am. Out of the blue, my dad received a text from one of his friends asking if our family were safe. Safe from what?” A pause. Switch on the news”, the next text grimly informed us. We all bundled into a room and switched on Sky News. Emblazoned on the screen was the breaking […]
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Monday, May 6th, 2019
By Dr. Ranjith Hettiarachi Undoubtedly, all Srilankans are shocked and devastated by the unprecedented, widespread acts of terrorism on the EASTER Sunday (April 21, 2019), inflicted on Srilanka, it’s population, the catholic community and the tourists in particular. Srilankans, both within and outside Srilanka are much grieved by the death toll and those seriously injured. […]
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Monday, May 6th, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 15.5.19 The brilliant execution of the Easter Sunday bomb blasts clearly indicated a foreign hand said experts. There is an international force behind this, said Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith. A foreign entity, most likely a foreign state or state intelligence agency was behind the attacks. The locals are merely pawns, said analysts. The […]
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Monday, May 6th, 2019
KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 17.5.19 Jihadist radicals in the East and elsewhere were closely monitored for years by Sri Lankan intelligence, said analysts. Yahapalana tried to crush the intelligence sector of the military, by imprisoning its best men. But, in spite of this, the military had obtained prior intelligence relating to these attacks and conveyed the […]
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Monday, May 6th, 2019
By Chandre Dharmawardana, Canada Newspaper reports mention how Mr. Ravi Karunanayake, the minister of Power and Energy had taken the initiative of contacting French and Canadian agencies regarding Sri Lanka’s grave energy crisis. The Minister has even explored awarding a Turkish company a tender to provide electricity from two power-ships. A sense of desperation is […]
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Monday, May 6th, 2019
මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන් දේව මෙහෙයන්ට සාභාගි වූ අහිංසක ජනතාව ඉලක්ක කර ගනිමින් මරාගෙන මැරෙන බෝම්බ කරුවන් විසින් එල්ල කරන ලද ප්රහාරයේ කඳුළු කතාව තවමත් අවසන් වී නොමැත.මුස්ලිම් අන්තවාදය පෝෂණය කරන ලද දේශපාලන සුනඛයන් සිය නගුට දෙපරන්ද අස්සේ සඟවා ගනිමින් එකිනෙකාට බුරමින් සිටින කාලකණ්නි හෝරාව ද පසු කරමින් සිටිමු.මළ මිනී උඩින් සිය දේශපාලන අභිමතාර්ථයන් ඉෂ්ට කරගත […]
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Monday, May 6th, 2019
Bodhi Dhanapala Here is what some Canadian writers have written about the growing Islamic Fundamentalism in Canada. This article takes takes a hard view of Islam. But most Canadina authors fails to realize that the LTTE “refugees” also adopted the same methods in creeping into Canada and having a strong influence on the Canadian Governments. […]
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Monday, May 6th, 2019
වෛද්ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග හමීඩ් , ෂාරාස් , හිල්මි උඹලා අපේ එල බුවාලා මතකද අපි පිට්ටනියේ ක්රිකට් ගැහුවේ එකට වෙසක් එකට දන්සැල් බැස්සේ එකට ලේන් එකේ වලි වලදී එන්ටර් උනේ එකට ඒකාලේ උඹලාට තම්බියෝ කියලා කතා කලෙත් හද පතුලෙන්ම ආපු සෙනෙහසින් අපි අතරේ කිසි වෙනසක් තිබුනේ නෑ කොන කපපු එකට විහිළු කලත් උඹලා අපිත් එක්ක කෝප ගත්තේ […]
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Monday, May 6th, 2019
බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ මහජන ආරක්ෂාව සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඕනෑම කැප කිරිමක් කරන්න ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ සූදානම් බවත් ජාතික ආරක්ෂාව සම්බන්ධ ප්රශ්නයේදි දේශපාලන වාසිගන්නේ නැති බවත් ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුනේ නිර්මාතෘ බැසිල් රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පැවසීය. ඒ මහතා මෙසේ පැවසුවේ මහජන එක්සත් පෙරමුණ හා ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුණ අතර ශ්රී ලංකා පොදු ජන පෙරමුණ පක්ෂ කාර්යාලයේ අද (06) පැවැති […]
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Monday, May 6th, 2019
සමස්ත ලංකා වෛද්ය නිළධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය All Ceylon Medical Officers’ Association (ACMOA) සමස්ත ලංකා වෛද්ය නිලධාරීන්ගේ සංගමය විසින් සෞඛ්යය ඇමැති රාජිත සේනාරත්න මහතා විසින් මහාචාර්ය අසිත ද සිල්වා මහතා ජාතික ඖෂධ නියාමන අධිකාරියේ සාමාජිකයෙක් සහ සභාපති ලෙස පත්කිරීමට එරෙහිව රීට් ආඥාවක් නිකුත් කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලමින් අභියාචනාධිකරණයේ පෙත්සමක් නඩු අංක 222/2016 යටතේ 2016 වසරේදී ගොනු කරන ලදී.මෙම […]
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Monday, May 6th, 2019
ඉන්ඩස්ටි්ර ඕල් ගොලිය වෘත්තීය සමිතියේ ශ්රී ලාංකීය මණ්ඩලය මඩකලපුව, මීගමුව කටුවපිටිය සහ කොළඹ කොටහේන රෝමානු කතෝලික දේවස්ථාන 03 ටද අති සුපොඛභෝගී හෝටල් 03 ටද පාස්කු ඉරිදා එනම් 2019 අපේ්රල් 21 වැනි දින එල්ල කරන ලද ඉතාමත් බිහිසුනු ප්රහාරයන් හමුවේ මුළු ලෝකයම කම්පාවට පත් කළ අතර වෘත්තීය සම්ති වශයෙන් අපිද එළෙසින්ම කම්පාවට පත් වීමු. අපගේ සාමාජිකයින් […]
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Monday, May 6th, 2019
ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්රෙය් වැඩබලන විධායක අධ්යක්ෂිකා සුරංගි ආරියවංශ පාස්කු ඉරිදා බෝම්බ ප්රහාර මාලාවෙන් පසු මහජන ආරක්ෂාව තහවුරු කිරීමට රජය කටයුතු කර නැති බව ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්රය අවධාරණය කරයි. එහි වැඩ බලන විධායක අධ්යක්ෂිකා සුරංගී ආරියවංශ මහත්මිය සඳහන් කළේ ප්රහාරය එල්ල වී සති දෙකකට ආසන්න කාලයක් ගත වුව ද තවමත් ජන ජීවිතය […]
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Monday, May 6th, 2019
අද (06) දින ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුනේ මාධ්ය සාකච්ඡාව අද (06) දින මාධ්ය සාකච්ඡාවට සහභාගි වූ නියෝජිතයින් ■ ශ්රී ලංකා පොදුජන පෙරමුනේ සභාපති, මහාචාර්ය ජී. එල්. පීරිස් මහතා ■ පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී, රෝහිත අබේගුණවර්ධන මහතා ■ මාතර දිස්ත්රික් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී, මහින්ද යාපා අබේවර්ධන මහතා දැන්වත් බුද්ධි අංශ නිදහස් කරන්නයි අපි ජනාධිපතිතුමාගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටිනවා. බුද්ධි අංශ ශක්තිමත් […]
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Monday, May 6th, 2019
මාධ්යය නිවේදනය JOINT SRI LANKAN ASSOCIATION FOR SRI LANKA ශ්රී ලoකාවේ සාමය, ඒකීය භාවය සහ මානව අයිතීන් රැකීම උදෙසා ඕස්ට්රේලියාවේ වික්ටෝරියා, නිව් සවුත් වේල්ස් සහ කුවින්ස්ලන්ත ප්රාන්ත වලසිට කටයුතු කරන ‘ස්පර්'( SPUR ) නමින් හදුන්වන සoවිධාන එකතුව, එම අරමුණු සඳහා කටයුතු කරන බටහිර ඕස්ට්රේලියා ප්රාන්තයේ ‘වැස්පර්‘ ( WASPUR ) සහ ගෝලීය ශ්රී ලoකා සoසඳය ( […]
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