By Chula EVERYTHING is not fraud…..   Today the Yahapalana idiots are begging China……to come back with $$$….to develop SL…. Where is the Millions….they were sure that US – UK – EU….would give SL…..??   plus the Billions….hidden in Banks worldwide…..by MR regime…nothing has come / will not come to SL…..because it will also expose […]

ආරම්භයට පෙර… ඉතින් අවසරයි අපේ හාමුදුරුවනේ.. මල්ලි.. මගේ කට මෙහෙම රලු විදියට කෑ ගැහුවට මගේ හිත එහෙම නෑ.. ඔබවහන්සේ අපට දැනෙන්න දුන්නා.. උඹලට මඩ ගහයි. උඹලගේ චරිත ඝාතනය කරයි ඒත් ඒකට බය වෙන්න එපා.. ඔබවහන්සේ අපව දිරිමත් කලා. මේකේ වගකිවයුතු උන් හිටියට උන් මේවා කනකට ගන්නේ නෑ.. මේවා කොහොමද බලන් ඉන්නේ. රෑ දෙගොඩහරියක් වෙනකම් ඔබවහන්සේ […]

K. Godage Former Ambassador Courtesy The Island February 9, 2016, 7:29 pm To say that we were delighted when the previous government, which was heading towards establishing a totalitarian state was defeated, is an absolute understatement; we were equally happy to learn of the appointment of Mr Mangala Samaraweera as Foreign Minister, for we were […]

TEXT OF PETITION February 4 is a day when Sri Lankans look back with immense pride on the long road our forefathers took to free our beloved island from foreign domination. This year, that pride is tempered with the reality of the numerous indignities being heaped on our nation by foreign powers and other threats […]

Kanthar Balanathan, Australia  The sovereignty, democracy, national security, reconciliation process are growing to be under threat as a result of significant number of unnecessary, churlish, rash actions by India, the West and the UN. This is not a contention, but looking on a lateral view: political analysts, learned people will agree that foreign sinusoidal seagull […]

ETCA Rally Dr Anuruddha Padeniya https://youtu.be/_pWCRxBibWg

Susantha Wijesinghe It is with great deference and appreciation, we see, that you took note of indecent remarks made by a  Reporter on the song sung by Miss Kishani Jayasinghe, in her own inimitable style, for which she is talented, and has training on International stage. I see that you have even threatened to cancel licences of such […]

 Dr Sarath Obeysekera Much hype about Sri Lanka to be a hub for marina users and convert Galle and Mirrissa  into a Marinas for yacht owners to patronize Sri Lanka and yet one should seriously analyse the infrastructure including basic facilities to be available for the tourists to enjoy when they are in Sri Lanka […]

Organization for Protection of Rana-viruvo and Global Sri Lankan Forum – GSLF, launched a massive Island wide campaign to protect soldiers who fought to protect and free the country from Tamil terrorism. One million signatures campaign launched today from Bodhiraja Viharaya at Pettah in Colombo. The first signatory to the one million signatures petition was […]

by Satharathilaka Banda Atugoda Former Sri Lanka Ambassador to Germany It is reported that President Maithripala Sirisena will be making an Official/State Visit to Germany from February 13th, which is considered as a high watermark of the relations between our two countries. Visits by Heads of State/Governments as State Visits, are viewed as a crescendo of […]

Bodhi Dhanapala Quebec, Canada. [The author is a popular science writer and a science teacher in a Technical College in Quebec.] ( Courtesy Island) February 12, 2016, 6:51 pm Most of us have no idea of Einstein’s theory of relativity. Sri Lankans have heard the claim of Nalin de Silva, an ex-Dean of Science at Kelaniya, that […]

by Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec  Canada. Most of us have no idea of Einstein’s theory of relativity. Sri Lankans have heard the claim of Nalin de Silva, an ex-Dean of Science at Kelaniya  that Einstein’s theory is just an unmitigated lie (“Patta-Pal-Boruvak”) —  a “just so story” dependent on the  Judeo-Christian cultural mindset.  Truth be told, […]

Courtesy RT Scientists at Washington’s National Science Foundation and Moscow State University have confirmed the discovery of Albert Einstein’s gravitational waves. The breakthrough, possibly the biggest in physics in a century, could be the key to new understanding of the universe. Recent rumors of the success in detecting gravitational waves, or as some scientists put […]

Courtesy The Island Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa yesterday described the pledge given by the government to implement  UNHRC resolution as a great betrayal comparable to the Kandyan Convention of 1815 Following is the full text of President Rajapaksa’s statement: The President and Prime Minister have given the UN Human Rights Commissioner an assurance that last […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Every day I read news  headlines of all the National news papers about  making incidents in FCID located in BMICH and legal news about Kaduwela  Courts and Traffic congestions in Welikada due to movements of some politicians and their poor little rich kids who have been bullied by the political hopper eating […]

T. RAMAKRISHNAN  Courtesy The Hindu Says “the government may protect senior military leaders suspected of widespread abuses.” The nomination by the ruling United National Party (UNP) of former Commander of the Sri Lanka Army (SLA) and founder of the Democratic Party Sarath Fonseka to Paliament has been criticised by the Human Rights Watch, a global human […]

 Courtesy The Economic Times Just over a year after a new leader was elected and Sri Lanka’s business ties with Chinacame under close scrutiny, Colombo is reversing course by resuming a stalled port project and naming Beijing as the front runner for a new special economic zone. India is nervous about losing influence over the […]

DR Sarath Obeysekera As the ex-chairman Sri Lanka Land  Reclamation Corporation which owns and maintains canal system in Colombo and also as the Ex CEO of Colombo Dockyard and now a MD of a boat building company I can suggest following . Canal system gets dried up during drought period and over flow during rainy  […]

By Daya Gamage – Asian Tribune Political Note Washington, D.C. 10 February (Asiantribune.com): Putting a firm lid to the confusion and dissenting views – mostly within the Sri Lanka administration – that the Geneva UN resolution of October 01 never envisaged global participation of legal luminaries to probe Sri Lanka’s culpability of war crimes, and […]

John Glaser, Courtesy: Anti War website November 12, 2013 http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/11/12/us-refuses-to-cooperate-with-afghan-investigation-into-war-crimes/ Last week, Matthieu Aikins at Rolling Stone shed light on evidence that U.S. forces committed war crimes against Afghans, including extra-judicial executions, torture, and disappearances of at least 17 men. The following day, Human Rights Watch issued a statement urging an official investigation, but noted that […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Statement made by the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein at a media briefing held in the last day of his four-day Sri Lanka visit, on the judicial process into alleged war crimes committed by Sri Lankan tri-forces was malicious and unfair, Joint Opposition’s expert spokesman G.L. […]

Courtesy Adaderan The Supreme Court determines that the proposed Theravadi Bhikku Kathikawatha (Registration) Bill contravenes the constitution of Sri Lanka. Therefore the bill requires approval from two-thirds majority in Parliament and a public referendum in order to be enacted. However, the bill can be approved with a normal majority if the sections repugnant to the […]

Editorial Island February 9, 2016, 7:31 pm Good governance consists in respecting people’s verdicts at elections. Their franchise is not to be trifled with. One of the main flaws in the present Constitution is the provision for abusing the National List (NL) mechanism to appoint defeated candidates to Parliament at the expense of those whose […]

by Tamara Kunanayakam Courtesy The Island February 8, 2016, 7:28 am It should by now be obvious to any keen observer of events in Geneva and vacillations of Sri Lanka’s ruling class that the ‘human rights’ game being played out has little to do with the Sri Lankan people and everything to do with the island’s […]

Dr. Nalin Abeysekera Courtesy The Island February 8, 2016, 7:50 pm The celebrations of the 68th Independence day took place at the Galle Face Green under the theme “Ekama Deyak, Maha Balayak” (One Nation, Great Power). A cultural pageant was held in the evening at the same venue under the theme “Nidahase Hada Gasma” (Pulse of […]

Media Release 6 February 2015 SPUR  Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights in Sri Lanka (SPUR) NSW Inc.  PNSW 1730, Australia  Another version of a national anthem was sung at the most sacred Independence Day, the National Day of Sri Lanka, on 4 February 2016 in Colombo. This was done at the behest of […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera We have been pushed by India to sign peace accord with Tigers and simultaneously blackmailed us to sign the agreement  to develop Trinco Tank farm built by British The tanks are located far apart and laying pipeline  and equipment in the tank farm and jungle clearing is very costly and Indians knew […]

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein is here to check the situation, says WImal Weerawansa. ජිනීවාහි එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේ යෝජනාව අනුව ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට කටයුතු කරන්නට සිදුවීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය විසින් කරුණු පැහැදිලි කරන අයුරු.  

By Paul Craig Roberts Reprinted from Paul Craig Roberts, The Neoconservative Threat to World Order (Clarity Press, 2015) Are Nixon’s and the Reagan administration’s crimes noticeable on the scale of Clinton’s, George W. Bush’s, and Obama’s? January 25, 2016 “Information Clearing House” -Not much remains of the once vibrant American left-wing. Among the brainwashed remnants […]