Dilrook Kannangara Popular Buddhist monks are demanding an investigation into the deaths of Venerable Sobhitha thero allegedly killed in 2015. However, the memory of Venerable Gangodawila Soma thero lives on. He too died under mysterious conditions during a previous UNP regime. Yet again, hundreds of Buddhist monks were killed by the UNP regime and its […]

Dilrook Kannangara Sri Lanka has become the new money laundering capital. Hackers around the world deposit money in Sri Lanka, launder it and transfer it as good money. Recently $20 million was laundered in Sri Lanka. Today Sri Lanka is truly the Plunder of Asia! Sri Lanka also welcomes well known financial crooks, unnamed dubious […]

Dilrook Kannangara Current Sri Lankan T20 team lacks players who are both fast and furious (high strike rate and high average). In this case, it makes sense to send big hitters early despite their lower average. Let them face as many balls. As things are Team Sri Lanka has little chance of winning the T20 […]

Dilrook Kannangara The attempt to legally ban animal sacrifice at places of religious worship is a welcome effort. The disgusting and uncivilised practice of sacrificing animals in religious rituals has no established history in Sri Lanka. It amounts to torture of animals. It is ridiculous to allow the torture and killing of animals in the […]

 Dilrook Kannangara Large protests have become an almost daily occurrence. Various cross sections of the society are affected by the incompetence of the government. Every step the government takes, it trespasses on people’s rights. Things will get even worse when IMF lays down tough conditions for the intended loan facility. Already $2 billion have been […]

Dilrook Kannangara The artificial ethnic group called Ceylon (Sri Lankan or Eelam) Tamils was introduced in 1911. It never existed before. It was an artificial and erroneous invention. Until then in all censuses (1881, 1891 and 1901), all Tamils were called Tamils – a people of Indian extraction. The 1911 census introduced this artificial ethnic […]

Dilrook Kannangara Politics turned ruthless after 1977. Scores of political opponents have been killed, assaulted, imprisoned and otherwise harmed since then. What’s more worrying is the support these vengeful acts get from a section of the society. There is always a justification for any political act of revenge. Vengeful politics is here to stay. What […]

Dilrook Kannangara  November 2015 brought South India one of the biggest natural disasters it faced in decades. Floods killed over 500 people, displaced over 2.5 million people and caused over $15 billion property damage. Mismanagement, corruption and callous disregard for human life, especially those considered low-caste” have pushed many South Indians into utter desperation. Another […]

– දිල්රුක් කන්නන්ගර හද්දා ගොන් කමකට අත ගසමින් UNP ආණ්ඩුව පොහොර සහනාධාරය කපා ඒ වෙනුවට මුදල් දීමට තීරණය කර ඇත. ලැයිස්තුවෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තු රිංගා ගත් බත් බැලයෙක් කියනුයේ වස විස පොහොර නිසා ගොවීන් ලෙඩ වන බැවින් මෙම තීරණය ගත් බවයි. මෙහි ගොන්කම වන්නේ එම මුදලින් ගොවීන් එම වස විස පොහොර ම ගන්නා බැවිනි. ආදේශක පොහොර හඳුන්වානොදී […]

Dilrook Kannangara Absence of war in Sri Lanka has been a big problem for USA which had major plans for Tamil Tigers (LTTE) particularly for its sea wing – Sea Tigers. LTTE was one of few non-Islamic terrorist groups which made it extremely valuable for USA, much more valuable than Free Syria Army (also known […]

Dilrook Kannangara Today the executive presidency is a threat to democracy, national security and law and order. Its dictatorial powers decide which party wins the general election, who should be the prime minister and opposition leader and even whose crimes are punishable and whose crimes are to be forgiven. Further, the executive president decides the […]

Dilrook Kannangara Tough times call for tough measures. That is exactly what the debt ridden Lankan government has done. Money laundering is the latest state sponsored industry in the island nation. A few weeks ago, the finance minister appealed to locals and foreigners with Swiss bank accounts to move their accounts to Sri Lanka with […]

Dilrook Kannangara The cowardly attack on civilians in Paris has all the hallmarks of a Tamil Tiger attack. ISIS that carried out the terrorist attack was obviously inspired by Tamil Tigers and used the same template in its attacks. Many would agree that the scourge of terrorism must be rooted out from the world. However, […]

Dilrook Kannangara The SLFP is dying, if not already dead. The nation is in dire need of a progressive political party unburdened by dynasties and their handpicked appointees. In another four (4) years, this time, the presidential election campaign will be in full swing. Unless a new political force is formed, the next president will […]

 Dilrook Kannangara Credible accounts of the last stages of the war indicate the presence of Indian troops in Mulaitivu area. Did they eliminate the LTTE hierarchy to cover up their involvement with the terrorist outfit? Quoted from the Times of India A PIL filed in the Supreme Court has said Indian military personnel took direct […]

Dilrook Kannangara Nepal’s constitution has triggered Nazi action, particularly, Operation Himmler, from India, again. At the same time, India uses same Nazi action against Sri Lanka, to change the Sri Lankan Constitution to appease Indian ethnic communities living in Sri Lanka. This repetitive behaviour of India is the same conduct Nazi Germany followed to invade […]

Dilrook Kannangara After eight (8) years of deliberations, the Nepali parliament has finally approved its Constitution. Going by modern democratic standards, it is a fairly progressive constitution. Indian ethnic groups that are minorities in Nepal protested against it. India also protested against it claiming it doesn’t represent the interests of minorities. These minority groups live […]

Dilrook Kannangara Twelve countries finally signed the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement headed by USA. Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Mexico, Canada and Australia are other noteworthy members. They will be almost totally reducing tariffs on key traded items. The biggest winners of TPP are Vietnam and Malaysia. The biggest losers are Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Cambodia and China. […]

Dilrook Kannangara Corruption allegations were big business during the 2015 January election. It was one of the biggest political slogans played by the UNP-Sirisena camp. However, now there is conclusive proof of their absurdity. Mahinda administration was far less corrupt than the present UNP-Sirisena regime. To quantify, the UNP-Sirisena regime is $7 billion-a-year more corrupt […]

Dilrook Kannangara UNHRC report is out. It recommends Sri Lanka comply with its dictates. However, if Sri Lanka refuses to comply with them and disregards all dictates, nothing will happen. UNHRC cannot enforce its decisions as Sri Lanka is not a party to the Rome Statute and doesn’t come under the International Criminal Court. The […]

Dilrook Kannangara Singapore and India succeeded in disrupting the development of Hambantota and Colombo port development projects. Had these gone ahead, a substantial amount of prosperity would have shifted to Sri Lanka depriving India and Singapore. That was why India and Singapore engineered the regime change operation. Now they are satisfied Sri Lanka’s Chinese funded […]

Dilrook Kannangara I’m appalled by hateful comments made by a prominent local NGO activists to foreign newspapers justifying political victimisation of Rajapaksa family members. He has justified using coercion and prosecution to force Mahinda into retirement. He also proposes prosecution of his brothers, wife and children to force him to retire from politics or shut […]

Dilrook Kannangara Previously no less than four (4) honeymoons between these actors ended in misery. UPFA Sirisena round hole does not fit UNP square peg. History shows the only stable governments are where the president and the PM are from the same party. A vote for the UNP is a waste. If UNP wins, its […]

– දිල්රුක් කන්නන්ගර  සිරිසේන ජනාධිපති වූයේද, ආතක් පාතක් නැති රනිල් අගමැති වූයේද සිරිසේනට ලැබුණු දෙමළ ඡන්දයෙනි. ඡන්දය දිනූ දා සිට කළේ දෙමළ ජනතාව පිනවීම මිස වෙන කිසිවක් නොවේ. අද සිංහල තරුණයන් අතර දෙමළ තරුණයන්ට වඩා සේවා වියුක්තිය සහ ඌණ සේවා නියුක්තිය දක්නට ලැබේ. විශ්ව විද්‍යාල තුලද මෙම අසාධාරණ ව්‍යාප්තවාදය දක්නට ඇත. මෙම නින්දිත පරිහානියට සිරිසේනගේ […]

Dilrook Kannangara Local folklore has it that if a night heron (Kana Koka) cries while in flight over a house it is a sure warning that death will come soon to an inmate of the house. So is Tony Blair. Wherever he has stepped in, doom and gloom followed. Now he is in Jaffna while […]

Dilrook Kannangara August 17, 2015 will be a turning point in Lankan history. It will either make or break the nation and its economy. This time voters, not soldiers will have to do their work. Although much downplayed, the May 2009 war victory saved 31,250 lives so far at the rate of 417 lives per […]

දිල්රුක් කන්නන්ගර වසර හතරක යුධ අපරාධ මගඩිය දැන් අවසන් අදියරට පැමිණ ඇත. දකුණු අප්‍රිකානු දෙමළියක යටතේ පැවැති ලෝක මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලය 2011 දී පටන්ගත්  යුධ අපරාධ මගඩිය මහින්දගේ දඩබ්බර දේශප්‍රේමී ක්‍රියා තුලින් යටපත් විය. එනමුදු 2015 දෙමළ ඡන්දයෙන් බලය ඇල්ලූ එජාප ආණ්ඩුව ඒ සියල්ල කණපිට හරවා ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ලෝක මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයට යටපත් කෙළේය. දැන් […]

Dilrook Kannangara January 2015 election brought together all strange bedfellows to defeat Mahinda. However, they contest separately in General Elections. If the January 2015 election was a General Election, UPFA led by Mahinda would have cruised home with 108 seats (still falling short of 113). But UNP would have won just 91 seats, JVP 10 and […]

Dilrook Kannangara Working without fear or favour is a term that identifies the duel impact of fear and favour on decisions. If one favours another, the first person cannot work objectively. Similarly, if one fears another, the first person cannot work objectively. Volumes have been written about foreign conspirators and those who favour them. Attacking […]

Dilrook Kannangara The SLFP is on its last legs. Formed in 1951 from the consolidation of various political groups including the Sinhala Maha Sabha (formed in 1936), the SLFP ruled the country for 34 years sharing terms with the UNP (33 years). These were with the UNP until then. It faced two previous near death […]