Editorial Courtesy The Island December 8, 2017, 9:56 pm Never do government politicians who find themselves up the creek without a paddle scruple to scapegoat the police to save their own skin. They defend only their khaki-clad, blue-eyed boys who get into trouble by carrying out their illegal orders. Stooges in uniform stick their necks out […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island December 8, 2017, 10:34 pm Leader of the Joint Opposition parliamentary group Dinesh Gunawardena, MP, has questioned the rationale behind the British government’s rejection of its own Colombo-based wartime Defence Attaché Lt. Colonel Anton Gash’s confidential reports sent to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Gash’s cables originating from Colombo […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island December 5, 2017, 8:46 pm Five years after the release of the Report of the Secretary General’s Panel of Experts (PoE) on Accountability in Sri Lanka, in March 2011, South African Yasmin Sooka, a member of that questionable outfit, proudly claimed to possess unhindered access to those who had fled […]

The speech of Information and Media Minister Mangala Samaraweera on the demise of the late journalist Sivaram Dharmaratnam, made on the occasion of Adjournment Debate on May 06, 2005. (Courtesy The Daily News) Honourable Mr. Speaker, We strongly believe that the people’s right of access to information, free from any hindrance, must be secured by any Government. […]

Courtesy NDTV A three-member bench of the Court of Appeal yesterday dismissed the petition filed by Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Information Secretary and parliamentarian Vijith Herath, seeking the arrest of the LTTE leader, saying there was no basis to proceed with the application.Lankan Court Rejects Plea Seeking Arrest Of LTTE Leader Accused In Rajiv Gandhi […]

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island December 1, 2017, 11:07 pm The Global Sri Lanka Forum (GSLF) has been assured by Lord Naseby of his continued support for its efforts to counter unsubstantiated war crimes allegations against the armed forces as well as the previous political leadership. The assurance was given when a GSLF delegation met […]

 lanka C news ගත වූ කාලයේදී මෙරට මහත් ආන්දෝලනයකට ලක් වූ ඇවන්ගාඩ් මුහුදු ආරක්‍ෂණ සේවයේ සභාපති නිශ්ශංක සේනාධිපති මහතා ඊයේ පැවති දෙරණ 360 වැඩසටහන සදහා සහභාගී විය.ශ‍්‍රී ලංකාවට ඉතා විශාල වශයෙන් විදේශ විනිමය ගෙන දුන් සහ විශ්‍රාමික රණවිරුවන්ට රැකියා හයදහසක් පමණ සැපයූ අති සාර්ථක ව්‍යාපාරයක් වූ ඇවන්ගාඩ් මුහුදු ආරක්‍ෂන සේවය වත්මන් රාජය බලයට පැමිණි පසු […]

By Sanja De Silva Jayatilleka Courtesy The Island “The [Security] Council reiterated that “any acts of terrorism are criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of their motivation, wherever, whenever and by whomsoever committed,” reaffirming the need for all States to combat, by all means, threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts.” (‘Four peacekeepers killed in […]

By Dr. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island November 27, 2017, 8:34 pm “May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.”—Voltaire Gotabhaya is perhaps the most able person in public life today; one capable of replicating in Sri Lanka, a Mahathirian Malaysia. I have worked with President Premadasa and not only […]

තරිඳු ජයවර්ධන උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප පොලිස්පතිවරයායේ ක්‍රියාකලාපය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පතිවරුන් ඉදිරිපත් කළ කාරණා  පොලිස් කොමිෂන් සභාව ඊළඟට රැස්වන දිනයේ සාකච්ඡා කරීමට නියමිත බව එම කොමිසමේ ප්‍රකාශකයෙක් පැවසීය.   ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පතිවරුන්ගේ සාකච්ඡාවක් පසුගිය සිකුරාදා පොලිස් කොමිෂන් සභාවේදී පැවැති අතර එහි දී ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ නියෝජ්‍ය පොලිස්පතිවරුන් මතුකර තිබුණේ පරිපාලනය සම්බන්ධ ඇතැම් වගකීම් පොලිස්පතිට නොපවරා කොමිසම මගින් සිදු කරන […]

By Ravi Ladduwahetty Courtesy Ceylon Today The Joint Opposition (JO) will press the Government this week to withdraw or annul the Resolution that it jointly signed and co-sponsored with the United States on Sri Lanka. “We will press the Government to withdraw the Resolution as it is based on the war crime charges where the numbers […]

By Methmalie Dissanayake Courtesy Ceylon Today Minister of Foreign Affairs and Development Assignments Tilak Marapana yesterday (25) said that the Government would use Lord Naseby’s statement, regarding the final phase of Sri Lanka’s war against the LTTE, in an appropriate forum. Marapana made this remark prior to the debate on Heads of Expenditure of Foreign Affairs […]

By SANJA DE SILVA JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island Following Sri Lanka’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) held at the Human Rights Councils in Geneva on the 15th of November 2017, and the adoption of its Report on the 24th, a draft outcome document called “Draft report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review”, which includes recommendations […]

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Boston Lanka This is the story of Adele Ann Balasingam. A story of a woman, who began her career as a nurse and later became a women military leader of a terrorist organization. A story of a woman’s journey from Hospital to battlefield, from being a healing nurse to a killer Nurse.

සිංහල දීපය චන්ද්‍රිකාගේ කටේ නරිවාදම රෙද්ද පල්ලෙන් බේරීම

By Manushi Silva Courtesy Adaderana The Joint Opposition will initiate legal action, seeking personal compensation, against police officers who pursue unlawful orders, said former parliamentarian Professor G.L. Peiris. Addressing a media briefing held at Colombo today (23), the former foreign minister alleged that there are attempts to arrest former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The main reason for […]

By Gunadasa Amarasekera Courtesy The Island The Shorter Oxford Dictionary describes masochism as ‘a form of sexual perversion in which one finds pleasure in abuse and cruelty from his or her associates’’. Since the term is named after a novelist, I thought I could take liberties with it! I believe this term could be well used […]

කතු වැකිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින නව ව්‍යවස්‌ථාව වෙනුවෙන් නිරන්තරව පෙනී සිටින ඒබ්‍රහම් සුමන්තිරන් මන්ත්‍රීවරයා පසුගිය දිනක සිදුකළ ප්‍රකාශයක්‌ පිළිබඳව අපේ අවධානය යොමුවිය. ඒ කවරක්‌ද? “මේ ජාතික කොඩියට මමත් කැමැති නැහැ” යන්නයි. ඒ අනුව සුමන්තිරන් මන්ත්‍රීවරයාද උතුරේ අධ්‍යාපන ඇමැතිවරයාගේ ක්‍රියාකලාපය අනුමත කරනු පෙනේ. මේ රටේ ජාතික කොඩිය නිර්මාණය විය යුත්තේ දෙමළ සන්ධානයට අවශ්‍ය ලෙසද? සියලු ජනයාගේ […]

By SANJA DE SILVA JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island November 19, 2017, 8:45 pm On Tuesday, 14th of November 2017, Dinesh Gunawardena introduced a resolution in Parliament requesting that in view of Lord Naseby’s revelations in the House of Lords on the number of civilian deaths during the last stages of the war, “Sri Lanka should take action […]

by Sriyan de Silva  Concerns have been expressed about the possibility that in consequence of the Government’s ratification of the Convention on Enforced Disappearances, Sri Lanka would appear to have submitted to the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, and is therefore legally bound by the Convention. Therefore it is vitally necessary to examine and be […]

by Sriyan de Silva  The article by Mr. Neville Ladduwahetty in The Island of 07 November 2017 on Transitional Justice is a complete exposure of the hollowness of the idea that Transitional Justice applies to Sri Lanka as claimed. Further and crucially, he has pointed out [as he has done in many of his previous articles […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island November 17, 2017, 10:06 pm Police have reportedly been ordered to take legal action against anyone who will commemorate the dead Tigers including LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran on Nov. 27. Curiously, if it is against the law to commemorate the slain Tigers how come the same law does not apply to […]

SL VLOG දුෂිත තලතා, ඇතුළු විදේශ සේවා නියුක්ති දුෂිත අමනයන් නෙරපා දඬුවම් දිය යුතුය !. https://youtu.be/kwLg8kFOYNc it seems an innocent person in trouble for exposing 660M foreign employment Buero fraud by minster, working director and few. White vans sent to his house and he got arrested today

Not even the President can contain current politicians in govt – Bandula පොලිස් තර්ජන පන්සලටත් එයි-වහාම ක්‍රියාත්මක වෙන්නැයි ජනපතිගෙන් බන්දුල ඉල්ලයි

Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardene Courtesy The Daily Mirror The statement made by Lord Naseby during the sessions of Britain’s House of Lords will help Sri Lanka to safeguard the dignity of its security forces to some extent, State Minister of Foreign Affairs Wasantha Senanayake told Parliament yesterday. The State Minister made this remark in response […]

Courtesy Deccan Herald  News Service, New Delhi,  The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to respond to a plea by a convict in Rajiv Gandhi assassination case to suspend his life term until the CBI probed the role of the man who prepared the improvised explosive device (IED) for the LTTE.  The convict, A […]

Lt. Colonel (Retd) Athula Lankadeva RWP, RSP, USP, psc, MSc. Courtesy The Island November 11, 2017, 6:35 pm The Sunday Times of 29 Oct carried an article referring to Lord Naseby on demanding to remove the war crime tag from Sri Lanka. Lord Naseby researched classified documents to find that UN has fudged the casualty figure […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island November 10, 2017, 10:15 pm The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is apparently wasting its time and money on its campaign to have a hybrid war crimes tribunal set up in this country. For, UN expert and South African human rights lawyer, Yasmin Sooka, has already found the Sri Lankan troops guilty […]