By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island November 9, 2017, 11:16 pm Former Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, MP, yesterday alleged that a fresh high profile attempt was being made to secure asylum for bogus refugees at the expense of Sri Lankan government. President’s Counsel Rajapakse pointed out that the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government was being targeted by those […]

Courtesy The Island November 9, 2017, 11:17 pm Former Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, PC, yesterday said the possibility of those who had been seeking political asylum in Europe inflicting injuries on themselves couldn’t be ruled out. MP Rajapakse pointed out that the British media in April this year reported how a Sri Lankan asylum […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island November 7, 2017, 12:00 pm April 5, 2012: Lord Naseby, PC, Baron of Sandy and Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group in UK meets wartime Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Temple Trees Lord Naseby has challenged the UN Panel of Experts (PoE) findings pertaining to Sri Lanka’s […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Former Deputy Minister and retired Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera yesterday said that a recent statement made by Lord Naseby in the House of Lords pertaining to the Vanni war death toll could be the basis for Sri Lanka’s defence at the Geneva based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Addressing […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today How did we arrive from Nandikadaal to Orumittha Nadu? Usually, it is the victor who becomes the post-war architect. It is they who persecute the defeated, get compensated for the damages incurred during the war and decide what the problem was and the appropriate solution. However, in our case after […]

By SANJA DE SILVA JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island “Engaging in arguments and debates in the international domain over the number of civilians who may have died at a particular time in the country will not help resolve any issues, in a meaningful manner, locally, except a feel good factor for a few individuals who may think that […]

by Lakshman I. Keerthisinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today On the basis of the evidence available to this Commission and the prevailing law, the suggestion that the crime of genocide was or may have been committed during the final phase of the war is without foundation.-Paranagama Commission At the ongoing 36th session of the United Nations Human Rights […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island October 24, 2017, 12:00 pm The British parliament was told, on Oct 12, 2017 that Velupillai Prabhakaran killed Jaffna Mayor Alfred Duraiappah in 1973. The statement was made by Michael Morris, Baron Naseby PC, during a debate on Sri Lanka. Having declared that he launched the All-Party Parliamentary Group on […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island October 26, 2017, 12:00 pm War crimes: Cabinet spokesman and Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera yesterday said that the government could act on Lord Naseby’s recent call to Theresa May’s government in the UK to review the much-touted UN allegation that 40,000 Tamil civilians perished on the Vanni front in 2009 […]

මනෝප‍්‍රිය ගුණසේකර සහ රන්ජන් කටුගම්පොළ උපුටාගැණීම ලංකාදීප පර්පචුවල් ටෙ‍්‍රෂරීස් සමාගමේ අධ්‍යක්‍ෂ අර්ජුන් ඇලෝසියස් විසින් මිලදී ගෙන හිටපු මුදල් ඇමැති රවී කරුණානායක මහතාට දුන්නේ යැයි කියන ‘මොනෑක්’ නිවාස සංකීර්ණයේ හිමිකාරිය වු අනිකා විජේසුරිය මහත්මියට රවී කරුණානායක මහතාගේ සමීප ඥාතියකු බව කියන පුද්ගලයකුගෙන් එල්ල වු බව කියන ජීවිත තර්ජන පිළිබඳ පරීක්‍ෂණ  රහස් පොලිසියෙන් ඉවත් කරන්නැයි පොලිස්පතිවරයාට දේශපාලන බලපෑම් […]

ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Dear Friends, Mr. Lalsiri Sampath Sugathapala (33) of Meehonda Wewa, Horowpathana was a resident of Horowpathana Police Division. He went missing on 14 April 2017. He was a regular soldier attached to the Sri Lanka Army. After resigning from the military he joined a company in Colombo. […]

ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Dear Friends, According to information received by the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC), a 15-year-old girl in 10th Grade at A/Madatugama Sri Rewatha Navodya Vidyalaya, Madatugama, Kekirawa was arbitrarily expelled by the Principal. When she began vomiting during an outdoor celebration of International Children’s Day on 2 […]

ආසියානු මානව හිමිකම් කොමිසම, හොංකොං පරිවර්තනය: නීතීඥ රදිකා ගුණරත්න පහත දැක්වෙන වගුවෙන් දැක්වෙන්නේ 2017 ඔක්තෝබර් මාසය වන විට ගතවූ මාස 10කට ආසන්න කාලයක් මුළුල්ලේ අධිකරණයෙන් පිටත සිදුකළ ඝාතන 09 ක් සහ ඝාතන උත්සාහයන් 01 ක් පිළිබඳව ය. එම ඝාතන 09 සිදුවී තිබෙන්නේ පොලිස් ස්ථාන තුළ වන අතර, අනෙක් ඝාතන තැත වාර්තා වන්නේ බන්ධනාගාරයෙනි. මෙම සිද්ධි […]

 lanka C news බස්නාහිර පළාත් සභාවේ එජාප මන්ත‍්‍රී රන්දීර් රොද‍්‍රිගු ඇතුළු පිරිසක් නිධානයක් කැඩීමට ගොස් සිටියදී පොලිස් විශේෂ කාර්ය බලකාය සමග සිදුව ඇති වෙඩි හුවමාරුවකින් පසු එක් පුද්ගලයකු මිය ගොස් ඇත. මෙම වෙඩි හුවමාරුව සිදුව ඇත්තේ දිවුලපිටිය, හේන්පිටගෙදර පාසල අාසන්නයේදී වන අතර යෙඩි හුවහාරුවෙන් තුවාල ලැබූ පුද්ගලයා රෝහල් ගත කිරීමෙන් පසු මිය ගොස් තිබේ. ඔහු […]

By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana A member of the Western Provincial Council representing the United National Party (UNP) is among the seven suspects arrested following today’s shootout in Divulapitiya, sources told Ada Derana. According to the source, the provincial councilor is also related to a prominent Cabinet Minister in the incumbent government. One person was killed while […]

If minorities are discriminated in Sri Lanka who can explain the following: Can you think of any country with a sizeable population where industry and property are dominated by the minority communities?  Colombo the commercial hub of Sri Lanka, its population is dominated by Tamils and Muslims leaving Sinhalese in the minority  The […]

Upali Cooray An American, garbed in orange jumpsuit, ostensibly calculated to echo the garb of al Qaeda insurgents apprehended and imprisoned by the United States. He kneels down next to a man dressed in all black, his face covered, and a knife in hand. For many, this has become a lasting image of the terrorist […]

ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the extra-judicial attempt to kill Mr. Pathirana Champika Kumara Jayatunga (28), a resident of Biyagama Police division by SFT Officers. The victim went out with his friend to purchase a new vehicle. Their rented van […]

ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information regarding the case of 14-year-old Kahingala Waduge Kanidu Minsara Silva, who was illegally arrested, detained and tortured by the Moratuwa Police Station on 10 October 2017. Minsara is a student at Uyana Kanishta Vidyalaya. On October 8, […]

By D.B.S. Jeyaraj Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Maithripala Sirisena held successive discussions with two Tamil delegations in Colombo on Thursday (19) on the issue of Tamils detained in various prisons under the Prevention of Terrorism Act(PTA) in general and the hunger strike undertaken by three such detainees at the Anuradhapura Prison in particular. The focus […]

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Wartime Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday said that the very basis of the controversial Geneva Resolution 30/1 had been strongly disputed by Michael Morris, Baron Naseby, PC, during a debate on Sri Lanka in the British parliament Thursday last week. Sri Lanka co-sponsored Resolution 30/1 in Oct 2015, in spite […]

Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) said today, Anika Wijesuriya, a key witness in the Bond investigation had left the country due to death threats though the government said it had enabled an environment where anyone could criticize anyone without being subjected to intimidation. SLPP Chairman Prof. G.L. Peiris said […]

ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information regarding Mr. Nalaka Danushka Kumara (33) of Moragasmulla, Rajagiriya. He is a resident in the Rajagiriya Police Division. He was abducted by a group of powerfully-built men in a Blue Van at 7 p.m. on 15 October […]

ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the attempt to extra-judicially kill Mr. Ranhotigedara Vajira Kumara (41), at the Negombo Police Division in Gampaha District. At 5:30 p.m. 12 August 2017, Vajira was driving to his business with friends on Colombo-Puttalam Road […]

ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information regarding Pitawalagedara Chandrarathna (47), resident of Bakamuna Police Division. Chandrarathna was arrested on 4 May 2017 charged with participation in a murder. After being detained for 14 days, he was found dead on 18 September 2017–murdered inside […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The West, particularly the US and the UK, must remove the threat of war crimes and foreign judges that overhangs and overshadows all Sri Lankans, especially their leaders, a British Baron told the British Parliament on Thursday. Michael Morris, Baron Naseby PC, who started the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Sri Lanka […]

සරත් ධර්මසේන – ශ්‍යාම් නුවන් ගනේවත්ත උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින  අර්ජුන් ඇලෝසියස්‌ගේ පර්පෙචුවල් ට්‍රෙෂරීස්‌ සමාගම ව්‍යාපාරික ආයතනයක්‌ නොව මේ රටට විශාල හානියක්‌ කරමින් සාපරාධී ක්‍රියාවල යෙදුණ අපරාධ සංවිධානයක්‌ යෑයි අතිරේක සොලිසිටර් ජනරාල් ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ යසන්ත කෝදාගොඩ මහතා ඊයේ (17 දා) ජනාධිපති කොමිසම හමුවේ පැවසුවේය.    එම සමාගම කළ අපරාධ, සාපරාධී ක්‍රියා ක්‍රමයෙන් හෙළිවෙමින් පවතින විට මීට මාස […]

 කීර්ති වර්ණකුලසූරිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින අපේ රටේ විදේශ කටයුතු අමාත්‍යාංශයක්‌ තිබේද? මේ බරපතළ ප්‍රශ්නය අසන්නේ විදේශ රටවල සිටින ශ්‍රී ලාංකිකයන්ය. පසුගියදා පැවති ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් සමුළුවේදී තමිල්නාඩුවෙන් කුලියට ගෙන්වාගත් තක්‌කඩි පිරිසක්‌ ලවා ජාත්‍යන්තර ප්‍රජාව මුලාකිරීමට කොටි ඩයස්‌පෝරාව ක්‍රියාකරද්දී ඊට ප්‍රතිචාර දැක්‌වීමට අපේ කිසිවෙක්‌ සිටියේ නැත.    ගෝලීය ශ්‍රී ලංකා සංසදය නොතිබුණේ නම් කොටි ඩයස්‌පෝරාව ඔවුන්ගේ බෙදුම්වාදී […]

ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the extra-judicial killing of Mr. D P Premasiri (65) of Stace Road, Grandpass, Colombo 14 in the Colombo District. On 9 August 2017, Premasiri was illegally arrested, severely tortured at his house in front of […]

By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy  Adaderana Anika Wijesuriya, a key witness who had testified before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the treasury bond scam, has fled the country due to receiving threats to her life. This was revealed to the commission today (17) by President’s Counsel Yasantha Kodagoda, Additional Solicitor General at Attorney General’s Department, during the […]