Thilanka Kanakarathna Courtesy The Daily Mirror Although the yahapalana government is attempting to obtain an Interpol ‘Red Warrant’ on him it had withdrawn some 150 some such warrants including those issued on former LTTE terrorists because of the influence by Tamil politicians, former envoy Udayanga Weeratunga said today. He said in a statement that he was […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today When a foreign delegate lands in Sri Lanka, the Tamil National Alliance wastes no time in lamenting to them about the delay in installing the new Constitution. When Prince Edward, the Earl of Essex, came on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II for the 70th Independence celebrations, it was no different. […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Army Commander Mahesh Senanayake said that they would not be conducting an inquiry the actions of the Defence Attache of the Sri Lankan High Commission in UK Brigadier Priyanka Fernando after he was spotted making a throat slitting gesture towards protesters who thronged the Embassy office in the UK. “On the […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින “සිවිල් වැසියන් 40000ක්‌ මියගිය බවට කරන ප්‍රකාශ මහ බොරුවක්‌” මයිකල් මොරිස්‌ හෙවත් නේස්‌බි සාමිවරයා බ්‍රිතාන්‍ය සාමි මණ්‌ඩලයේ ප්‍රධානතම ක්‍රියාකාරියෙකි. 1975 වසරේදී ඔහු ශ්‍රී ලංකාව සඳහා වූ සර්වපාක්‍ෂික පාර්ලිමේන්තු කණ්‌ඩායම ආරම්භ කරනු ලැබීය. නේස්‌බි සාමිවරයා 2014 ජුනි මස දිනෙක හිටපු ඇමරිකානු ජනාධිපති බරක්‌ ඔබාමා දෙවැනි ජගත් සංග්‍රාමයට සහභාගි වූ යුද විරුවන් සම්බන්ධව කළ […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ඩොලර් මිලියන 15ක්‌ අවි මිලයට ගැනීමට ලබාදුන් ස්‌විස්‌ කොටි නායක රගුපති ඇතුළු 13කට නඩු ස්‌විස්‌ටර්ලන්තය තුළ කොටි සංවිධානය තහනම් නැත. මේ නිසා ස්‌විස්‌ කෝකියකු වූ රගුපති නමැත්තා ස්‌විස්‌ටර්ලන්තයේ කොටි ශාඛාවේ ප්‍රධානියා ලෙස ක්‍රියාකරයි. ස්‌විස්‌ කොටි ක්‍රියාකාරීන් ජීනිවා සුරිච් බාසල් ලුසොන් – වින්ටතුර් ඇතුළු ප්‍රදේශ රැසක අරමුදල් එකතු කරද්දී ස්‌විස්‌ පොලිසිය නිහඬව සිටියේය. […]

මනෝඡ් අබයදීර  උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින මාස දහයකට ආසන්න කාලයක්‌ නිරපාරදේ රිමාන්ඩ් ගත කර සිටි කොමදෝරු ඩී. පී. කේ. දසනායකට සහ කමාන්ඩර් සුමිත් රණසිංහ ඇතුලු නාවික හමුදා විරුවන්ට පසුගියදා ඇප ලැබුණි. යහපාලනයේ ඊලාම්ගැති ප්‍රතිපත්තිය රට ඉදිරියේ තබමින් නාවික හමුදාවේ වීර පිරිස මාස දහයක්‌ පුරා හරිහමන් හේතුවක්‌ නොමැතිව රිමාන්ඩ්ගත වී සිටියේය.     දෙසැම්බර් 4 වෙනිදා සිට 14 වෙනිදා […]

BY RALPH VAN DOORN     http://blogs.worldbank.org Imagine there is a small fire in your house: someone forgot to put out a cigarette stub and accidentally set your rubbish bin on fire. You will need just one bucket of water to put it out. But up the ante, and it is no longer possible for an individual to handle […]

සමන් ගමගේ  උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින විඡේකාන්තන් හිටපු එල්ටීටීඊ සමාජිකයෙකි. කොටි සාමාජිකයකුව සිටියදී වන්නි මානුෂීය මෙහෙයුම අවසන් අදියරට ළඟා වන තෙක්‌ම හේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා ආරක්‍ෂක හමුදාවන්ට එරෙහිව හේ සටන් කළේය. දැන් ඇතැමුන්ට බරපතළ ගැටලුවක්‌ මතුවනවා විය හැකිය. ඒ “දිවයින රණවිරු” පිටුවේ කොටි ත්‍රස්‌තවාදියකු ගැන කතා කරන්නේ ඇයිදැයි ලෙසිනි. එහෙත් විඡේකාන්තන් යනු මුලදී එල්ටීටීඊ සාමාජිකයකුව සිටියද පසුව නාවික […]

Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror When the case where former navy spokesman D.K.P. Dissanayake was an accused was taken up for hearing before the Fort Magistrate Court, a key witness the CID had changed several parts of his initial statement and requested that he be allowed to made a personal statement in Court. Mr. Dissanayake […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia New York, December 20 (Reuter): Yanghee Lee, UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, has been denied permission to visit Myanmar. had been due to visit in January to assess human rights across Myanmar, including abuses against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State. But Myanmar had told her she was no longer welcome, she said, […]

Chairman, Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement Our organisation, The Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement, is extremely alarmed by attempts even by sections of the Sri Lankan media and even patriotic organisations urging the Sri Lankan Government to accept secret defence reports written by our adversaries, the US, UK imperialists, which accuse our Sri Lankan Armed Forces of […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando  Courtesy The Island Chandrika Dassanayake, wife of Commodore D. K. P. Dassanayake, who has been remanded since July over his alleged involvement in eleven wartime disappearances, yesterday told The Island that she had handed over letters on behalf of her husband as well as Commander Sumith Ranasinghe, to UN Resident Representative in […]

Courtesy  Gulf Times The United Nations yesterday urged the Sri Lankan government to urgently implement reforms to end war-time arbitrary detention and strengthen independent monitoring of tough legislation. Sri Lanka has used the 1979 Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) to pursue a tough line to prevent aiding and abetting terrorism in the island nation’s long […]

Prensa Latina Colombo, Dec 15 (Prensa Latina) The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, visiting Sri Lanka, today requested reforms to address the excessive use of pretrial detention and update the current legal framework. The delegation of that international organization declared in a statement that it visited prisons, police stations, institutions for minors, migrants and […]

Courtesy Adaderana The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has identified significant challenges to the enjoyment of the right to personal liberty in Sri Lanka, resulting in arbitrary detention across the country. The experts recognize positive initiatives, including engagement with UN human rights mechanisms, as well as the recent accession to the Optional Protocol to […]

ALI SUKHANVER ‘A foreign tourist is someone traveling abroad for at least twenty-four hours’, defined the League of Nations in 1936. The United Nations did a little amendment in the definition in 1945 by extending the maximum stay to six months. However, be it a stay for twenty four hours or for six months, every […]

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By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island December 12, 2017, 8:25 pm Sri Lanka Navy celebrated its 67th anniversary last Friday (Dec 9) with Vice Admiral Sirimevan Ranasinghe at the helm. Ranasinghe succeeded Vice Admiral Travis Sinniah last October amidst simmering controversy over Sri Lanka’s decision to acquire a frigate from Russia, nine years after the successful […]

Courtesy The Island Former Navy Chief of Staff Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera yesterday told The Island that a three-member UN delegation now on a visit here should visit military personnel, including Commodore D. K. P. Dassanayake and Commander Sumith Ranasinghe remanded at the maximum security Welikada Prison over their alleged involvement in wartime abductions. Weerasekera […]

By Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy Ceylon Today Ever since the end of the civil war in 2009, there has been a debate on the need for security sector reforms in Sri Lanka. With the defeat of the Rajapaksa administration and with the United National Front for Good Governance (UNFGG) promising such reforms, the debate has rekindled. The […]

Courtesy The Island December 11, 2017, 10:37 pm Lord Naseby has expressed disappointment over the British High Commission, in Colombo, callously dismissing wartime dispatches from its own Defence Attache, Colonel Anton Gash. Apropos a response from the British High Commission in Colombo to a query raised by the The Island, in its Dec 5, 2017 […]

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 […]