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 […]

Ranjith Soysa Media Coordinator  For Global Sri Lankan Forum The Attorney General Attorney General’s Department Colombo Sri Lanka REQUEST TO INDICT THE STATE MINISTER FOR CHILD AFFAIRS, Ms Vijayakala Maheswaren Dear Sir, We , the Global Sri Lankan Forum,  GSLF write to request you to take URGENT action to indict Ms. Vijakala Maheswaren, MP  in accordance with […]

මාධ්‍යය නිවේධනය. ජාතී හිතෛෂීන් ගේ සහ ජාතී හිතෛෂී සංවිධාන වෙත. මෑතක සිට ප්‍රමුඛ් දේශපාලකයින්  සහ උතුරු පලාත් සභාවේ සමාජිකයින්, සිංහලයින්ට උතුරු සහ නැගෙනහිර පලාත් තුල ජීවත්වීමේ සහ බෞධ සිද්ධස්ථාන ඉදිකිරීමේ අයිතිය ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කරමින් කරනු ලබන දෙබිඩි කතා අපට අසන්නට ලැබේ. වත්මන් පාලනය මෙම බරපතල, අයුක්තිසගත සහ රටේ ස්තාවරයට හානිකර පිළිබඳව කිසිදු තැකීමක් දක්වන බවක් පෙනෙන්නට […]

Ranjith Soysa Media Coordinator  For Global Sri Lankan Forum To all NATIONALIST MINDED SRI LANKAN INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS STOP THE DOUBLE EDGED ATTEMPTS TO PROMOTE TRADITIOANL TAMIL HOMELAND MYTH Of late, we continue to hear double edged speeches and actions on the part of leading Tamil politicians and Northern Provincial council members denying the right of Sinhalese […]

RANJITH SOYSA The President, Sirisena paid tributes to the members of Sri Lankan defence services personnel for the sacrifices made in the protection of the country and the state at the Government war memorial meeting. He was highly critical of the individuals who would not know  the difference between a soldier and a terrorist, One […]