Courtesy China.org.cn The Sri Lanka Army on Wednesday said it would hold the largest ever military exercise in July to coincide with 10 years since the end of the island’s 30-year civil conflict between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels. In a statement, the army said the month-long military exercise will begin on July 1, […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader Udaya Gammanpila, MP, yesterday said that former Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswarazn’s rejection of scientific findings of Beta Analytic Institute of Florida, USA, in respect of samples of skeletal remains sent from the Mannar mass grave site, underscored the difficulties in post-war national […]

Courtesy Adaderana The United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture is set to carry out its first visit to Sri Lanka from 2 to 12 April to examine the treatment of people deprived of their liberty and the safeguards in place for their protection against torture and ill-treatment. The four-member delegation will meet government officials […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, March 28 (newsin.asia) – The Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority (SLTDA), on Thursday said it had launched 22 new police units in tourist areas across the island to ensure the safety of tourists and locals. In a statement, the SLTDA said that presently there were 11 tourist police units in the country […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island UPFA MP Dullas Alahapperuma on Monday (March 25) said that the denial of a visa to Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka to attend the United Nations was as wrong as denying Lt. Colonel Ratnapriya Bandu an opportunity to visit Geneva, Switzerland. The Switzerland embassy, in Colombo, denied a visa to […]

By Kusal Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror How the war-affected Tamils are being used by extremely opportunist Western power bloc to manipulate Governments for their geopolitical agenda A big joke made rounds about Sri Lanka sending out two opposing but official teams for the ongoing Fortieth UNHRC Session in Geneva; one by President and another […]

Author- Lucy Stronach, Research Assistant (Intern) at INSSSL ‘Russian Interest in the Indian Ocean’ was the overarching theme at the latest Round Table Discussion held at the Institute of National Security Studies Sri Lanka (INSSSL) on March 19th, 2019. Guest speaker, Ms. Ksenia Kuzmina, Program Manager for South Asia and Asia Pacific for the Russian […]

By Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Ceylon Today While the top two leaders of the country disagree on most of the issues, they patched up their serious differences on the issues faced by Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva. During the discussion held with President Maithripala Sirisena, the Minister of Foreign Affairs […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today It was an unbelievable act when the Yahapalana Government co-sponsored the Resolution 30/1 in 2015. A Government to have accepted to have committed war crimes and therefore to co-sponsor a Resolution against its own country is unprecedented. Outraged, national movements predicted that history would never again witness such a treacherous […]

by C.A.Chandraprema Courtesy The Island The latest resolution in the UNHRC that is to be co-sponsored by Sri Lanka has the following 31 countries as its sponsors: Britain, Albania, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Czechia, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Romania, […]

By Saman Indrajith  Courtesy The Island March 14, 2019, 11:03 pm Women and children in the Northern Province were being exposed to a sinister racket of producing rape films sponsored by members of the same community who were resident abroad, JVP MP Bimal Rathnayake, yesterday, told parliament. Participating in the Committee Stage Debate of the […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island March 12, 2019, 9:19 pm The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights obviously believed the lies propagated by the interested parties. The Commissioner went to the extent of referring to the Mannar mass grave site in her latest annual report (section 23) submitted to the UNHRC. The following is the […]

The police have seized 161 kg of heroin at Rawatawatta in Moratuwa from a suspected criminal gang member’s house. The haul was recovered from the house of an acquaintance of the drug kingpin Makandure Madush” named Kelum Indika Sampath alias Kevuma”. The police have arrested two persons and 3000 T-56 live ammunition along with the […]

Sithum Chathuranga and Romesh Madusanka Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Carbon dating report from the Beta Analytic Institute of Florida, USA has revealed that the skeletal remains found in the Mannar mass grave dates back to a period between 1499 and 1719 AD (Anno Domini). However, the analysts are of the opinion that it was impossible […]

වන්නි රොමේෂ් මධුෂංඛ lanka C news මන්නාරම් සමූහ මිණීවලේ කාල නිර්ණය සඳහා වූ කාබන් පරික්ෂණයේ වාර්ථාව අද (07) මන්නාරම් අධිකරණය මගින් ප්‍රසිද්ධියට පත් කරන ලදි. මේ අනුව ඇමරිකාවේ ෆෝරීඩාහි පිහිටි බීටා ඇනලටික් නැමති රසායනාගාරයට ලබා දුන් මන්නාරම් සමූහ මිණීවලෙන් රැගත් සාම්ඵල 6ම වාර්ථාව අද දින පසිද්ධියට පත් කරමින් එලි දක්වා තිබුනේ සමූහ මිණීවලේ ඇටසැකිලි වල කාල […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Supreme Court has issued an order preventing the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) from arresting or detaining the Retired Admiral Wasantha Karannagoda over the abduction of 11 youths. The Supreme Court judge bench consisting of Justices Buwaneka Aluwihare, Vijith Malalgoda, and Preethi Padman Surasena issued the injunction considering the Fundamental Rights (FR) petition […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island President Maithripala Sirisena, who is also the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces yesterday (March 06) said that he was trying to settle issues arising out of Geneva Resolution 30/1 co-sponsored by Sri Lanka in Oct 2015 through dialogue and consensus. President Sirisena warned that he would deal firmly with those […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and the Attorney General’s Department have determined that there is sufficient and clear evidence to prove that the former DIG Nalaka de Silva’s involvement in the alleged VIP assassination plot. When the case was taken up today (06), the CID and the AG Department have informed the Fort […]

සමන් ගමගේ උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින අත්අඩංගුවට පත්වන විට දක්‍ෂ බුද්ධි නිලධාරියකු වූ කුමාර සිටියේ ජනාධිපතිවරයා සහ හිටපු ආරක්‍ෂක ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා ඝාතන සිද්ධියේදී දැනට ස්නයිපර් වර්ගයේ ගිනි අවියක් සම`ග අතුරුද්නව සිටින එල්ටීටීඊයේ සිටි සුපිරි ස්නයිපර්කරුවකු වූ ඉලක්කියන් මාස්ටර් නමැත්තා පසුපස හඹායමිනි.    එසේම ප‍්‍රභූ ජීවිත  ගණනාවකට අද තර්ජනයක් වී තිබෙන ඉන්දියාවේ සිට පැමිණි එල්ටීටීඊ ත‍්‍රස්තවාදීන් […]

Udaya P Gammanpila Courtesy Ceylon Today The UNP Government is now in deep trouble. Tamil separatists played a crucial role in bringing the government to power in 2015.  After securing victory at both presidential and parliamentary elections, the UNP wanted to reciprocate the support received from the separatists, who urged the UNP to co-sponsor the resolution […]

පුබුදු වික්‍රමතිලක උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම ජිනීවා සමුවට ගෙන යන අලුත්ම මාතෘකාව වී ඇත්තේ මන්නාරම සමූහ මිනීවළය. කනත්තක් වූ මෙයට සමූහ මිනීවළ යැයි අර්ථකථනය දුන්නේත් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට යුද අපරාධ චෝදනා නඟන්නට වෙර දරන බටහිර බලවේගමය. මන්නාරම මිනීවළෙන් හමුවන අස්ථි කොටස් සමූහ ඝාතනයට ලක්කරන ලද දමිළ සිවිල් ජනතාවගේ හෝ හිටපු කොටි සාමාජිකයන්ගේ බවට සමාජගත කිරීමට ඔවුන්ගේ අභිමතයය. ජිනීවාහිදී පෙබරවාරි […]

සමන් ප්‍රියංකර නම්මුනිගේ උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම රටක ජාතික ආරක්ෂාව උදෙසා දිවි හිමියෙන් කැපවීම ඕනෑම සොල්දාදුවකුගේ වගකීමය. ඒ වගකීම තුන්වන ලෝකයේ සොල්දාදුවාටත් සුපිරි බලවතුන් වැජඹෙන රාජධානියක සොල්දාදුවටත් පොදුය. 30 වසරක් යුද ගිනි ඇවිළුණු අපේ රටේ රණවිරුවන්ටත් ඒ වගකීම නිතැතින්ම පැවරී තිබිණි. ඔවුහු දිවා රූ නොතකා තම රාජකාරිය කැපවීමෙන් යුතුව ඉටු කළේ ත්‍රස්තවාදී ප්‍රහාරවලින් විනාශ වන රට රැකගන්නටය. අද්මිරාල් […]

Palitha Senanayake M/S Samantha Power Ex Senior Director of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights Of the US National Security Council   Dear madam, Human Rights Violations by Sri Lankan forces The greatest friend of TRUTH is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.” Considering the damage you have done to […]

NIMAL LEWKE Former Commandant STF Courtesy The Island It has been reported that drug dealer Makandure Madush had plans to smuggle in a specialized weapon, M 39 rifle to the country. Although I do not think much about this drug dealer and his detection was given huge publicity, and at the same time his name […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Chairman Prof. G.L. Peiris, yesterday, alleged that the proposed Counter Terrorism Bill would encourage those still pursuing a separatist agenda. Instead of countering the threat of terrorism, it would definitely facilitate the terrorism project, the former External Affairs Minister told a media briefing at Nelum Mawatha Office […]

By N. Sathiya Moorthy -The writer is Director, Chennai Chapter of the Observer Research Foundation, the multi-disciplinary Indian public-policy think-tank, headquartered in New Delhi. In calling upon President Maithripala Sirisena, who is also the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, to ensure that soldiers who neutralised the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) so very completely […]

By Nirmala Kannangara Courtesy The Daily Mirror Controversy surrounds how a foreign private aircraft, said to be carrying  ‘investors’ to the country, was granted permission to land and takeoff from China Bay Air Force airstrip early this month. This happened despite the fact that are no provisions to grant such approvals because this airport has not […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Chathura Alwis’s interview with the so-called ‘AAWA’ Group’s Arun, became an instant hit with the Sinhalese. Since then, Arun met with Ranil Wickremesinghe and participated with Nagananda Kodituwakku at a press conference. Those who participated at the media briefing stated that they are not against any person, but only […]

by Cyril Wimalasurendre Courtesy The Island State Minister Ranjan Ramanayake’s allegation that there were Ministers and MPs who used cocaine will be forwarded to the CID for investigation, Public Enterprise, Kandyan Heritage and Kandy Development Minister, Lakshman Kiriella said yesterday. “In my view, there are no parliamentarians addicted to cocaine or any other narcotic substances”, he […]

By Camelia Nathaniel/Daily News Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Mannar, February 22: The report on the radiocarbon dating test on samples of skeletal remains from the mass grave in Mannar has been handed over to the Magistrate’s Court by the Specialist Judicial Medical Officer, Saminda Rajapaksa. But the Mannar Magistrate T. Sarawanarajah told the court that because the courts […]