Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 14 (newsin.asia): The head of the Catholic church in Sri Lanka, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, told newspersons here on Tuesday, that the clashes in the North-Western Provinces have no religious nuances and that the attacks on Muslim properties appear to have been carried out by political and not religious elements. What we […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror An invisible hand with political motives is behind the violence reported from the North-Western Province and in Minuwangoda, the Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith and Ven. Ittapane Dhammalankara Mahanayaka Thera told a news conference today. The Thera said it was clear that some invisible hand had misled the people two […]

Courtesy Adaderana An island-wide police curfew will be enforced from 9.00 pm today, says Police Media Spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekara. The curfew will be in effect until 4.00 am tomorrow (15). Meanwhile, a 12-hour police curfew will commence within the North Western province from 6.00 pm today and it will last until 6.00 am tomorrow […]

Courtesy AFP AFP / LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHISri Lanka has been under a state of emergency since the suicide bombings Sri Lankan police fired warning shots and tear gas to disperse mobs attacking mosques and Muslim-owned businesses in several towns Monday, as the country suffered a violent new backlash from the Easter suicide bombings. Police and troops […]

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GAMINI GUNAWARDANE Courtesy The Island The speed with which the Police, STF and Armed services swung into action following the explosions, despite their initial failing, is commendable. They seemed to know where to strike no sooner than the green light was given. Within hours, the police visited the most vulnerable spot in Dematagoda, and the […]

By Akitha Perera Courtesy The Island UPFA MP Kumara Welgama, on Sunday, disputed President Maithripala Sirisena’s claim, at a Kalutara District Security Committee meeting, that the security situation was under control. Welgama said that though the President had assured that normalcy had returned, his head of security had been informed by his superiors to ensure […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today The National Sangha Council (NSC) will lodge a complaint with the Police Headquarters tomorrow (14) against Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, calling for his arrest and that he be charged in Court over his involvement in the Easter Sunday (21 April) attacks. The carnage, due to the suicide bomb attacks in churches, hotels […]

Courtesy Mail Online Sri Lankan security personnel stand guard at a checkpoint on a roadside in Colombo on May 13, 2019. A Muslim man was slashed to death in Sri Lanka, police said after imposing a nationwide curfew to contain a violent new backlash against Easter suicide bombings A Muslim mas was slashed to death […]

– Army media පාස්කු ඉරිදා දින කතෝලික පල්ලි කිහිපයක් සහ හෝටල් කිහිපයක් ඉලක්ක කර ගනිමින් මුස්ලිම් අන්තවාදීන් පිරිසක් එල්ල කළ මරාගෙන මැරෙන බෝම්බ ප්‍රහාර මාලාව නිසා මුස්ලිම් සමාජය පිළිඉඳව ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුළ ඇතිව තිබූ විශ්වාසය බිඳවැටී ඇති නිසා එම විශ්වාසය යළි ගොඩනඟා ගැනීම වෙනුවෙන් මුස්ලිම් සමාජය විසින්ම ක්‍රමවේදයක් සකස් කර ක්‍රියාවට නැංවිය යුතු බව බ්‍රිගේඩියර් […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 12: Ven.Athuraliye Rathana Thera, Jathika Hela Urumaya leader and a National List Member of the Sri Lankan Parliament, has brought out a document on a comprehensive plan to fight the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) which is believed to have inspired or directed the suicide bombings in Sri Lanka […]

GAGANI WEERAKOON Courtesy Ceylon Today While noting that there are various regional and world powers trying to take advantage of the current situation, due to the strategic and geographical importance of Sri Lanka’s location, Army Commander Lt. General Mahesh Senanayake vouched that he will not agree to sign the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 11 (Reuters/News18/newsin.asia): Sri Lankan Security Forces are looking for terror-leader Zahran’s successors. A madrassah teacher and a firebrand preacher of the Wahabi and Salafi brands of Islam in Kattankudi in Eastern Sri Lanka, Zahran Hashim had led the group of suicide bombers on April 21 and perished in the attack on […]

lanka C news 2015 වසරේ සිට ඉස්ලාම් අන්තවාදය ආයුධ රැස් කිරීම් සිදු කරද්දී මුස්ලිම් දේශපාලඥයන්ට බියෙන් ආණ්ඩුව ඊට විරුද්ධ වූයේ නැති බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී පූජ්‍ය අතුරලියේ රතන හිමියෝ සඳහන් කරති. බුද්ධි අංශ විසින් මේ බව 2015 ට පෙර පටන් ම දන්වා තිබූ බව උන්වහන්සේ කොළඹදී පැවති උත්සව සභාවක් අමතමින් සඳහන් කළේය. 2016 ජනාධිපතිවරයා ඉදිරියේදීම බුද්ධි […]

Courtesy Reuters COLOMBO (Reuters) – Several dozen people threw stones at mosques and Muslim-owned stores and a local man was beaten in the town of Chilaw on Sri Lanka’s west coast on Sunday in a dispute that started on Facebook, sources told Reuters. Three weeks ago in Sri Lanka Islamist bombers blew themselves up in […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Three weeks have passed since the Easter Sunday massacres. Normalcy is slowly returning. However, there is a perceptible sense of uncertainty, bewilderment, and bitterness amongst people. Muslims are complaining of being estranged by others. When the entire economy took a catastrophic hit, it is hard to determine if the […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today The Colombo Crimes Division, in a joint search operation conducted with the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) at the Colombo office of a leading US-owned multinational software company, outsourcing services to global companies, have apprehended five of its employees on suspected connection to Islamist extremism and the Easter Sunday combined bomb attacks. According […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Leader of the Opposition Mahinda Rajapaksa stated that the government should provide a guarantee regarding the security of the country especially in a background where the schools will be starting again from tomorrow (13). Stating that the past government commenced the missions in search of extremists, he claimed that the current situation […]

Courtesy Adaderana Police curfew has been imposed within Kuliyapitiya, Bingiriya and Dummalasuriya Police division with immediate effect, stated the Police Media Spokesperson. The curfew has been imposed to diffuse a tense situation in the relevant area, the Police said. Accordingly, the police curfew will in effect until 6 am tomorrow (13). Meanwhile, police curfew is […]

Geeta Mohan Courtesy  India Today Sri Lankan army chief Senanayake said that India, China, United States, Israel, Australia and the United Arab Emirates were looking to provide high-grade military technology, including communication and surveillance equipment, to deal with future threats. We have requested India for intelligence cooperation: Sri Lanka’s army commander Mahesh Senanayake | Photo […]

Walid M. Sadi Courtesy The Jordan Times Sri Lanka has taken several additional security measures in the aftermath of the Easter Sunday attacks on churches and hotels that killed 258 people and injured nearly 500 others. Among these new measures is forbidding the wearing of the Niqab face veil by women. The authorities in the […]

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Courtesy Adaderana Sri Lanka’s security forces have made more arrests in connection with the Easter Sunday attacks as search operations continue across the island with the participation of thousands of tri-forces troops and police personnel.  A suspect was arrested in Kattankudy by Police, Thursday night (9). Investigations have revealed that the suspect had maintained close […]

Courtesy Adaderana Minister Ranjith Madduma Bandara says that attempts are being made to create a false fear that the country’s intelligence units were weakened under the incumbent government. He said that the intelligence units had done their duty correctly in the recent past and that it was them who alerted about the possible terror attacks […]

lanka C news අද මෙරට තුළ කිසිදු සහජීවනයක් නැති බවත් සහජීවනය යනු පට්ටපල් බොරුවක් බවත් එක්සත් ජනතා සන්ධානයේ මහනුවර දිස්ත්‍රික් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී කෙහෙළිය රඹුක්වැල්ල මහතා පවසයි. අද ආගම් මුල්කරගෙන දේශපාලන පක්ෂ බිහිවන බවත් පාසල් බිහි කරන බවත් මේ ගැන වහා සොයා බැලිය යුතු බවත් මන්ත්‍රීවරයා සඳහන් කළේය. අලි පැටව් තියාගත්තා කියා පන්සල්වලට නඩු දැමුවත් කඩු […]

lanka C news සෑම මුස්ලිම් ජාතිකයෙකුගෙන් නිවසකම කඩුවක් තිබෙන බව ශ්‍රී ලංකා මුස්ලිම් කවුන්සිලය නායක එන්.එම්. අමීන් මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. සමස්ථ ලංකා ජමියතුල් උලමා සංවිධානය විසින් කොළඹදී කැදවි තිබූ මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදී ඔහු කියා සිටියේ එම කඩු ආදිය තබාගෙන සිටින්නේ ආත්මාරක්ෂාවට බවයි. විශේෂයෙන්ම නිවෙස් වල සිටින ගැහැනු දරුවන් ආරක්ෂා කර ගැනීමට මෙම කඩු තබාගෙන සිටින බවද […]

By Sumanasiri Liyanage Courtesy Ceylon Today ‘Fanatics have their dreams wherewith they weave a paradise for a sect.’– John Keats Some commentators analysed the governmental change on 8 January 2015 as a revolution although no clear explanation was given as to why they deployed the term that refers to somewhat total transformation. My Longman Dictionary […]