Author Archive for Security
Saturday, March 10th, 2018
Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror UNP MP Mujibur Rahman said yesterday he was ashamed to remain in the government as it had been unable to take any action to stem racism during the past two and half years. He told parliament that he had requested the President, the Prime Minister and the Law and Order […]
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Saturday, March 10th, 2018
By Manushi Silva Courtesy Adaderana Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe visited Kandy today (10) to observe the situation and the damages to the residences and businesses in the aftermath of violence that sparked off in the in Kandy Administrative district. The PM arrived in Digana at 7 am today, Ada Derana correspondent reported. Speaker Karu Jayasuriya, Law and […]
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Friday, March 9th, 2018
Thilanka Kanakarathna Courtesy The Daily Mirror Though some ministers blamed the police for their failure to control the prevailing tense situation, the Police is also part of the government, former President and MP Mahinda Rajapaksa said yesterday. Speaking to journalists at his residence in Mirihana, Mr Rajapaksa said that the government should be held responsible for […]
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Friday, March 9th, 2018
Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror Joint opposition MP Gamini Lokuge said yesterday the recent communal clashes could have been prevented if the government had obtained the services of the intelligence agencies. He told parliament that the government had imprisoned or interdicted most of the officials of these services over various allegations. “Several capable officers of […]
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Friday, March 9th, 2018
By Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha Courtesy Ceylon Today Evans did not respond to my letter as he promised. When I met him a year later in Geneva and asked him about this, he said he thought he had replied, but then confessed that he had heard that I was a dangerous man to engage with. This was […]
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Friday, March 9th, 2018
By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that he intervened and fulfilled a duty which the government should rightly do, at this time of discord among communities. He made these comments while speaking to reporters following a discussion with Buddhist, Muslim and Hindu religious leaders in Kandy this morning, regarding the tense situation which […]
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Friday, March 9th, 2018
Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror Southern Provincial Councillor M.K Kasun and his wife Tharaka Perera were arrested by the Police for assaulting a private bus driver when he had allegedly blocked the way of the vehicle of the PC member at the Koswatta Junction in Battaramulla today, Police Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekera said. The bus […]
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Thursday, March 8th, 2018
By Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy The Island March 9, 2018, 12:20 pm Police said yesterday the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) had arrested Amith Jeevan Weerasinghe, alleged to be one of the masterminds of the communal unrest in Kandy and nine others, in predawn raids in Digana and Poojapitiya. The TID also arrested Weerasinghe’s second in command Sureda […]
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Thursday, March 8th, 2018
Courtesy Colombo Telegraph Colombo Telegraph is in possession of video footage that show members of the Special Task Force (STF) of the Police Department or Sri Lankan Army in cahoots with those who have perpetrated violence against Muslims in Kandy district. The video clearly shows the assailant humiliating his victim, bragging about what he did, while […]
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Thursday, March 8th, 2018
lanka C news සිංහල – මුස්ලිම් මරා ගැනිල්ලකට පාර කැපුවේ ආණ්ඩුවේ ආශිර්වාදය ලබන සිංහල හා මුස්ලිම් මැරකම් කණ්ඩායම් බව රට පුරා සිදුව ඇති ලේ වැකි සිදුවීම්වලින් පැහැදිලි වන බවට ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ ජාතික සංවිධායක පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී ජයන්ත සමරවීර මහතා චෝදනා කරයි. පිටකෝට්ටේ පිහිටි ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ ප්රධාන කාර්යාලයේ පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවකදී ඒ මහතා මෙසේ චෝදනා […]
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Thursday, March 8th, 2018
lanka C news මහනුවර ප්රදේශයේ ඇති වූ කෝලාහලය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අත්අඩංගුවට ගන්නා ලද එහි ප්රධාන සැකකරු හා තවත් නව දෙනෙකු හදිසි නීතිය යටතේ දින 14ක් රදවා තබාගෙන ප්රශ්න කරන බව පොලීසිය පවසයි. මෙසේ අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඇත්තේ ‘මහසොහොන් බලකාය’ නම් සංවිධානයේ ප්රධානියා වන අමිත් වීරසිංහ ඇතුළු තවත් 09 දෙනෙකි. මෙම පිරිස් විසින් ගැටුම් සදහා සැලසුම් කරන අවස්ථාවක් […]
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Thursday, March 8th, 2018
Courtesy Colombo, March 8 (newsin.asia): The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) has blamed organized external elements” for the anti-Muslim riots in Central Sri Lanka. In a letter addressed to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, the Chairperson of the HRCSL, Dr.Deepika Udagama, has said that the riots in Digana, Teldeniya and other places, appear to […]
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Thursday, March 8th, 2018
By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that they are prepared to support the government to control the problematic situation currently prevailing in the country and restore normalcy. He made these comments during a press conference held at his residence in Colombo last evening (7), flanked by several MPs of the Joint Opposition. Rajapaksa […]
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Thursday, March 8th, 2018
By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana Minister Ranjith Madduma Bandara was sworn in as the new Minister of Law and Order, a short while ago. He received his appointment letter as the new Minister of Law and Order from President Maithripala Sirisena, this morning (08) at the President’s residence, the PMD said. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and Secretary […]
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2018
අනුරුද්ධ බණ්ඩාර රණවාරන මාධ්ය ලේකම්, ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ. අම්පාර – තෙල්දෙණිය ප්රදේශවල සිදු වූ ලේ වැකි සිද්ධිදාමයේ මහ මොළකරු කොළඹ දිස්ත්රික්කයෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට පැමිණි, ජාතික ඇඳුම් අදින, උස හීන්දෑරි හාදයකු බව ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා හෙළිකර සිටියේය. අද (06) පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ පැවති කල්තැබීමේ විවාදයට එක්වෙමින් ඒ මහතා මෙසේ හෙළිකර සිටියේය. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ […]
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Wednesday, March 7th, 2018
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Nearly a decade after the successful conclusion of the war, Sri Lanka is still struggling to achieve national reconciliation. The previous Rajapaksa administration brought the violent conflict to an end on the morning of May 19, 2009 on the banks of the Nanthikadal lagoon,o n the Vanni east front, […]
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2018
Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Maithripala Sirisena declared a State Emergency a short while ago to redress the unsatisfactory security situation prevailing in certain parts of the country. The President’s Media Division said the Police and Armed Forces have been suitably empowered to deal with criminal elements in the society and to restore normalcy with immediate effect.
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Monday, March 5th, 2018
Troops moved into Digana, Kandy yesterday afternoon when the police failed to bring a tense situation there under control. Police curfew was imposed in the Kandy administrative District until 6.00 am today. Earlier the police and the STF used teargas and water cannon in a bid to disperse the protesters and arrested 24 persons. However, […]
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Monday, March 5th, 2018
පුවත්පත් නිවේදනය විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ/කැෆේ සංවිධානය මාර්තු 4 සහ 5 දින (ඊයේ සහ අද) මහනුවර තෙල්දෙණිය සහ දිගන ඇති වු පහරදීම්, දේපල අලාභ කිරීම්, ගිණි තැබීම් වලක්වා ගැනීමට පොලීසිය අසමත් වූ අතර ඔවුන්ගේ ඇදහිය නොහැකි අකාර්යක්ෂමතාව පුදුමයට කරුණක් බවත් ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්රයේ විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා නිකුත් කළ නිවේදනයේ දැක්වේ. සිංහල ලොරි රථ රියදුරෙකුට […]
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Monday, March 5th, 2018
Courtesy NewsIn.asia Colombo, March 5 (newsin.asia) – Sri Lankan Police, on Monday imposed curfew in Kandy, in the Central Hills of the island country after clashes triggered by racial violence erupted between two groups. Police Spokesman SP Ruwan Gunasekara told newsin.asia that the curfew had been imposed till Tuesday morning 6 am in order to restore normalcy […]
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Sunday, March 4th, 2018
lanka C news සරත් ෆොන්සේකා මහතා මාස හයනක් මෙරට නීතිය හා සාමය අමාත්යංශය බාරව සිටියහොත් එම කාලයේදී මෙරට තුල ඇති කරන භීෂණය හේතුවෙන් ඒකාබද්ද විපක්ෂයට දේශපාලන වශයෙන් වඩාත් වාසි සහගත තත්වයක් නිර්මාණය වනු ඇතැයි පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා පවසයි. ඉඩි අමින් උගන්ඩාවට කල දේ ෆොන්සේකා මහතා මාස හයක කාලයක් තුල ශ්රී ලංකාවටද කරනු ඇති […]
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Friday, March 2nd, 2018
මාධ්ය නිවේදනය මාධ්ය ඒකකය ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්රය තඹුත්තේගම පැවති ගොවි උද්ඝෝෂණය පහරදී මර්ධනය කිරීමට උත්සහ දැරීම සහ උද්ඝෝෂකයින් අත් අඩංගුවට ගැනීම තරයේ හෙළා දකින බව ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්රය පවසයි. එමෙන්ම මෙම ගොවි උද්ඝෝෂණය අතරතුරදී පොලිසියට සහ රථවාහන වලට පහරදීමේ සිදුවීම පිළිබඳව දැඩිව අවධානය යොමු කළ යුතු බව ශ්රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්රයේ විධායක අධ්යක්ෂ […]
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
By SANJA DE SILVA JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island The UNHRC’s High Level Segment is in session now, and is due to discuss Sri Lanka’s progress on the implementation of the Resolutions that this governmenteagerly co-sponsored in 2015 and 2017. Thereport of its progress is due to be presented later in the session, but one of the […]
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
Lasantha’s bones are in Fonseka’s closet – Ajith Prasanna (English)
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2018
Courtesy The Island February 26, 2018, 9:21 pm Apropos the Sunday Island lead story former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa has issued the following statement: “My attention is drawn to the lead story of The Sunday Island of 25th February 2018, under the caption “Police cover up in Lasantha murder emerge after key arrest”. They story […]
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Sunday, February 25th, 2018
KONARA WANIGASEKARA Kotte Courtesy The Island Why has Sri Lankan military attaché, Brig. P. Fernando, been recalled? Has the government gone bonkers? When did it start taking instructions from the British? Something that Dr ANS Kulasinghe told the Plant & Equipment (P&E) Engineer at Polgolla comes to mind. When did you start taking instructions from the […]
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Sunday, February 25th, 2018
By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana A group of Sri Lankan nationals today staged a protest in front of the Palace of Westminster, the seat of the British Parliament, against the decision to recall Sri Lanka’s defence attaché in the UK, Brigadier Priyanka Fernando. The protest was organized by the organisation Patriotic Sri Lankans in Britain and was […]
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Saturday, February 24th, 2018
Chairman, Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement Our organisation, The Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement, is extremely alarmed by secret defence reports written by our adversaries, the US, UK, which accuse our Sri Lankan Armed Forces of being responsible for the perishing of civilians during the last phases of the war with no proof whatsoever to prove such […]
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2018
ජන බල ප්රවෘත්ති රුසියාවේ හිටපු තානාපතිට එරෙහිව නැවතත් රතු නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කර ඇති බව ශ්රී ලංකා පොලිසිය විසින් යහපාලන නායකයන්ට හේත්තු ගැන්වීමට පසු ඉන්ටර්පොල් රතු වරෙන්තුවක් නිකුත් කල බවට තොරතුරු රැගෙන ජේෂ්ඨ අතිරේඛ සොලිස්ටර් ජෙනරාල් යසන්ත කෝදාගොඩ මහතා හා පොලිස් මුල්ය අපරාධ කොඨඨාශයේ අධ්යක්ෂ පොලිස් අධිකාරි පී.කේ.ඩී.ප්රියන්ත මහතා ඇතුඵ පිරිස 20 දින යළි බුඩායි නගරයට […]
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2018
මාධ්ය නිවේදනය උදයාංග වීරතුංග – රුසියාවේ හිටපු ශ්රී ලංකා තානාපති. 2018 පෙබරවාරි 20 වෙනිදා පෙබරවාරි 04 දින ඩුබායි හීදී එරට බලධාරීන් මාව රදවාගෙන සිටීමත්, පසුව මුදාහරිමත් ලංකාවේ කවුරුත් හොදින් දන්නා පුවතකි. ශ්රී ලංකා රජය විසින් මට එරෙහිව ඉන්ටර්පොල් රතු නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කිරීමට සුදානම් බවට සාවද්ය තොරතුරු ඉදිරිපත් කිරීම නිසා එක්සත් අරාබි එමීර් රාජ්යයේ බලධාරීන් විසින් මා […]
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