RANJITH SOYSA The President, the Foreign Minister and the Government deserve a big bouquet of thanks from the people of Sri Lanka for the stand taken to disassociate with the UNHRC resolution 30/1 which was co-sponsored by the previous Government. The said resolution was based on a load of misinformation supplied by the LTTE fronts, […]

RANJITH SOYSA Amnesty International continues with its tirade against Sri Lanka by going off their rocker again in their recent statement in 2020.( AI review of 2019 issued on 20th Jan 2020) For AI almost everything is rotten in Sri Lanka especially the policies and programs adopted by Sri Lanka for the protection of its […]

RANJITH SOYSA It is reported that the DMK, Tamil Nadu’s major Opposition Party and it’s BJP alley, THE PMK have expressed their opposition to Sri Lankan government’s opinion that it is not necessary to sing the Sri Lankan national anthem in Tamil at the forthcoming Independence Day celebrations. While we reject the view point of […]

Ranjith Soysa Spokesperson – SPUR , Victoria We refer to a recent statement made by the Swiss Federal Department of  Foreign Affairs alleging that due process was not followed by the Sri  Lankan law enforcement authorities when investigating the alleged abduction of an employee of the Swiss embassy, Garnier Banister Francis aka Sriyalatha Perera. If […]

RANJITH SOYSA Dinesh Guanwardana has the key on his shoulder  when he was appointed  in recognition of his ability, honesty and unquestionable patriotism , to the key position of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. He will have a lot in his plate as he has to undo the damage caused to the independence and sovereignty […]

RANJITH SOYSA We would like to request the President in connection with the highly irregular and  ‘unethical’ manner in which the Prime Minister and the ministers have approved the above bill when the country is facing an election to choose the President to take over the affairs of the country. According to section 42 of […]

RANJITH SOYSA It was indeed a source of hope and encouragement to hear the statement of Presidential candidate , Gotabaya Rajapakse that he intends to reject the UNHRC resolution co-sponsored by the Yahapalanay government in Oct 2015  which created a world record by sponsoring and adverse ruling on its own country. The resolution was based […]

RANJITH SOYSA It was indeed a source of hope and encouragement to hear the statement of Presidential candidate, Gotabaya Rajapakse that he intends to reject the UNHRC resolution co-sponsored by the Yahapalanay government in Oct 2015  which created a world record by sponsoring and adverse ruling on its own country. The resolution was based on […]

RANJITH SOYSA With the statements issued recently by ex solicitor general Dilrukshi Wickramasinghe and another former solicitor gen Suhada Gamlath, it is very clear that there had been a cabal of vicious Ministers , the supportive politicians and government servants working in hand and glove under Yahapalanya Plan who were involved in a political witch […]

RANJITH SOYSA US Ambassador while expressing her concerns regards the appointment of Gen Shavendra de Silva, a valiant soldier and exemplary leader who fought a war against the  so-called invincible Tamil Tigers, the world’s most brutal terrorist group and helped to restore the law and order for 20 million Sri Lankas condescendingly says it should […]

Ranjith Soysa The Director General of Archaeology confirmed in Mullativu Magistrate courts before the Magistrate S L. Kumar that Guru Kanda Viharaya in Nayaru on the basis of historical and archaeological evidence dates back to 2000 years, He further emphasized that the building of a new Hindu kovil inside the historical site was illegal. The […]

RANJITH SOYSA A number of prominent personalities who pounce on the Sinhala Buddhists at the drop of a hat, has denounced vehemently Mahanayke thero of Asgiriya regarding his recent statement alleging that he wanted ‘ the Muslims to be stoned . Among, those who reviled was one prominent NGO activist  who wanted legal action be […]

RANJITH SOYSA I wish to refer to the EditorialS of the Island and recent articles by Neville Laduawahetty and Dr Wasnatha Bandra  in the Island on the subject of international agreements signed in ‘secrecy’ by the  government in handing over  our assets and our people to the foreign governments especially to the USA and India. […]

RANJITH SOYSA In its efforts to complete investigations into the Easter Day carnage and to revamp the national intelligence services the Government is obviously seeking the assistance of the FBI and other similar organizations in the West and India. The government should first draw up suitable guidelines when seeking such  advise to prevent the situation […]

RANJITH SOYSA Julain Assange who revealed sordid aspects of West ‘s diplomacy including on the ‘war on terrorism’ in keeping with the principles of investigative journalism is hounded by the British Police. If not for Assange and his indefatigable production of Wikileaks many political and diplomatic sins committed by the leading Western ‘democracies ‘ would […]

RANJITH SOYSA March 8, 2019, 12:00 pm The UN’s highest court recently ruled that the UK’s claim of sovereignty over the Chagos Islands is illegal. It was stated that the UK’s continued administration of the islands “constitutes a wrongful act entailing the international responsibility of that state”. Mauritius reported to the courts that the UK forced […]

RANJITH SOYSA The UN ‘s highest court recently ruled that the UK’s claim of sovereignty of the Chagos Isands is illegal. It was stated that the UK’s continued administration of the islands ” constitutes a wrongful act entailing the international responsibility of that state”. Mauritius reported to the courts that the UK forced her to […]

ගෝලීය ශ්‍රී ලංකා සංසදය  හිතවත් මිත්‍රවරුනි,  වර්තමාන රජය විසින් ඉතා සූක්ෂම ලෙස රනවිරුවන් දඩයම ජයටම කරගෙන යන බව ඔබ දන්නා කරුණක්.  ජඩපාලන රජය ගන්නට යන නවතම බිල්ල හිටපු නාවික හමුදාපති අද්මිරාල් වසන්ත කරන්නාගොඩ මහතායි. මේ පිළිබඳව අතිගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමා දැනුවත් කිරීම සඳහා මෙහි අමුනා ඇති ලිපිය අප විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද අතර ඒ පිළිබඳව මහජනතාව වන […]

ආචාර්ය දසරත් ජයසූරිය සභාපති ‘ස්පර්‘ මාධ්‍යය නිවේදනය – ජනවාරි 2019 ශ්‍රී ලoකා ‘ඔරුමිත්ත නාඩුව’ – යෝජිත ව්‍යවස්ථාව හඳුන්වාදෙන මැඩපැවැත්විය නොහැකි ෆෙඩරල් රාජ්‍යය ශ්‍රී ලoකාවේ සාමය, ඒකීය භාවය සහ මානව අයිතීන් රැකීම උදෙසා, දැනට අවුරුදු  විස්සකට අධික කාලයක් ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාවේ  සිට කටයුතු කරනු ලබන, දේශහිතෛශී ශ්‍රී ලාoකිකයින්ගෙන් සැදුම්ලත්  ‘ස්පර්’ නමින් හදුන්වන අප සoවිධානය, ශ්‍රී ලoකාව තුල හා ඉන් පිටත […]

RANJITH SOYSA Spokesperson SPUR Victoria According to a recent report published , the Defence Secretary , Hemasiri Fernando has invited expatriate Tamils to contact the Defence Ministry to report about the credible atrocities committed by the security forces. This is indeed a strange attempt to offer sacrifices under the delusion that Mr Hemasiri Fernando is […]

RANJITH SOYSA We are moved and encouraged to hear that a high powered meeting had been held headed by the President with the officials including the Attorney General , CID and the Central Bank – Island report 22nd Dec- to pursue the master minds of the biggest bank robbery. We have already wasted nearly 20 […]

RANJITH SOYSA I, as a SPUR member wish to refer to D. Rajapakese’s concerns on purring SPUR (Island 19th Nov) . While he does not welcome” foreign interference” in Sri Lankan affairs, he obviously does not like when the protesting voice is originated by the overseas Sri Lankans. Be that as it may, among us […]

RANJITH SOYSA Sri Lanka’s Speaker in the Parliament is attempting to create anarchy in the country by design or through extreme incompetency. Restless and clueless in his approach in handling of the Parliament affairs he continues to make a mockery of the rules governing the Parliament sessions . A the very start he boldly said […]

RANJITH SOYSA  The Speaker of Sri Lankan Parliament disclosed that he still consider the former Prime Minister is the legal holder of the office confirming that he is still a UNP member first and his party affiliations are more important than the constitutional provisions governing the office of the speaker. As per current constitutions the […]

RANJITH SOYSA The Island editorial on Learn from History (13 Oct) touched on an important issue concerning the use of children and teachers in the North to canvass the release of LTTE suspects now in custody. As mentioned in the editorial the irony of the effort on the part of the organizers of the movement […]

RANJITH SOYSA Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission has failed the Nation’s armed forces by not screening the applicants to serve on foreign peace missions. SLHC is either not willing to handle this subject effectively may be to support the UNHRC strictures or due to SLHRC’s own local agenda to punish the ‘human rights violators’ of […]

Ranjith Soysa Kumar David was attempting to throw cold water on the massive protest rally organized by the Joint Opposition in his puffed up style (sunday island  16/09/2018).  Irrespective of his stance on the JNB , I wish to draw the attention to his comments on war winning soldiers and the members of the Maha […]

RANJITH SOYSA We are grateful to Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka and the Island-7th Sept- for the discussion on the war crimes probe initiated by the OISL Geneva with regard to the last phase of war against the Tamil Tigers. Field Marshall who commandeered the army in its fight to liberate 20 million Sri Lankans from […]

RANJITH SOYSA The great noble soldier and a gallant leader of defense forces , the Lt Gen Denzil Kobbekaduwa became a victim of a land mine  26 years ago on 8th August 1992 in Araly Point while planning an offensive operation Balavegaya.  “Though one lamp lights a hundred lamps The brightness of the first never […]

RANJITH SOYSA I refer to the article ‘screening of peace keeping people from Sri Lanka’ written by Neville Laduwahetty (Island 24 July) in which the issue with regard to the delay in screening of the members of the defence forces prior to their overseas enlistment and how the delay had been caused by the lack […]