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Saturday, August 12th, 2017
උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින “උතුරේ සිදුවීම් වලට ප්රධාන හේතුව විදේශ මුදල් උතුරට ගලාඒමයි” – උතුරු මහ ඇමැති සී. විග්නේස්වරන් උතුරේ ආවා කල්ලිය මෙහෙයවන්නේ ස්විස් සන්නා බව හෙලිවේ අපේ ‘මුදල් පෙට්ටි වලට ප්රෑන්ක් 50 සිට 200 දක්වා ලැබෙනවා – ස්විස් නව කොටි නායක රගුපති හෙලිකරයි 2009 මැයි මස කොටි පරාජය වූවත් කොටි ඩයස්පෝරාව පරාජය වූයේ නැත. […]
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Thursday, August 3rd, 2017
Swaran Singh Author is Senior Fellow at Institute for National Security Studies Sri Lanka (Colombo) and professor of Diplomacy and Disarmament at Jawaharlal Nehru University (New Delhi). On Saturday, Sri Lanka finally signed a $ 1.1 billion deal selling China 70 percent stake in its strategic Hambantota port. The fact that the Chinese signatory, the […]
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Thursday, August 3rd, 2017
satp.org The Inspector General of Police (IGP) Pujith Jayasundera during a discussion held with the religious leaders and civil society organizations at the Auditorium of the Jaffna Police Station in Jaffna District on August 1 said terrorism had not been eliminated completely from the country and the attempts made by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil […]
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017
පියසිරි අජිත් ලියනගේ අටවැනි දිනට යෙදෙන සෙන්පති ඩෙන්සිල් කොබ්බෑකඩුව 25 වැනි ගුණසමරුව නිමිත්තෙනි මම අවුරුදු 23 ක සේවා කාලයක් අවසන යුධ හමුදාවෙන් විශ්රාම ලැබුයෙමි. එම සේවා කාල පරාසය තුළ මට නා නා විදිහේ ගති පැවතුම් ඇති නා නා පන්නයේ නිලධාරීන් සමඟ සේවය කරන්නට අවකාශ ලැබිණ. තම උරහිසට නායකත්ව සංකේතයක් ලද විට එය තමන් සතු බූදලයක් […]
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017
Courtesy The Island The UNHRC which has passed many now well-publicised strictures on Sri Lanka, two of them more recently, with the active co-sponsorship of the present government, is once again in the news. The so-called Leader of the Opposition in Parliament (with a small contingent of 15 M.P.s supporting him, which itself is a […]
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Wednesday, August 2nd, 2017
පාලකයින්ට දේශද්රෝහී චෝදනාව යටතේ දඬුවම් දෙනවා
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Tuesday, August 1st, 2017
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about the extrajudicial killing of Mr. A D Pushpakumara. He was arrested on 18 June 2017 by police officers attached to the Pitigala Police Station following a domestic violence complaint made by his wife. He was […]
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Thursday, July 27th, 2017
Mahinda Gunasekera, 84 Tambrook Drive, Agincourt, Ontario, Canada M1W 3L9 July 26, 2017 His Excellency, Maithripala Sirisena President of Sri Lanka, Colombo 1, Sri Lanka Copy to: Hon. Ranil Wickremasinghe, Prime Minister Your Excellency, Honourable Prime Minister, Cabinet Ministers and Elected MPs, Confusion prevailing in respect of Reconciliation, Constitutional Changes and UNHRC Resolution The messages […]
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Thursday, July 27th, 2017
Editorial Courtesy The Island July 27, 2017, 9:50 pm We thought the practice of deploying goons to operate alongside the riot police to crush public protests would end with the 2015 regime change. The present-day leaders, in the run-up to the last presidential election, promised a clean break from the past and a new political culture. […]
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Thursday, July 27th, 2017
Vavuniya High Court on July 26 sentenced K. Dasan, a former cadre of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for abducting and recruiting children to fight during the war, to life imprisonment, reports Colombo Page. In 2008, complaints have been lodged with the Police that the suspect had abducted children on several occasions. However, the Police […]
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Thursday, July 27th, 2017
Courtesy Ceylon Today The Special Task Force (STF) will, on a directive issued by President Maithripala Sirisena, provide security to Jaffna High Court Judge M. Ilancheliyan, informed sources said. An eight-member STF team, led by a Sub Inspector, will provide security to Judge Ilancheliyan’s residence and his convoy. On the directions of President Maithripala Sirisena, […]
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Thursday, July 27th, 2017
Courtesy The Deccan Chronicle Chennai: DMK Working President M K Stalin on Wednesday welcomed European Union lifting the ban on LTTE and asked the Sri Lankan Government to ensure meaningful share” of power to Eelam Tamils. In a statement, Mr Stalin said it is a moment of elation as EU’s highest court has removed LTTE from […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
lanka C news යාපනය නල්ලූර් කෝවිල ඉදිරිපිටදී පොලිස් නිලධාරියෙකු වෙඩි වැදී මිය ගියේ තමන් ඉලක්ක කරගෙන තැබූ වෙඩිල්ලකට බව යාපනය මහාදිකරණ විනිසුරු ඉලංචේලියන් මහතා පවසයි. පොලිස් මාධ්ය ප්රකාශකවරයා වගකීම් සහගතව ප්රකාශ නිකුත් කල යුතු බවත් කිසිවෙකු මෙම සිදුවීමට අතපොවන්නේ නම් එය අධිකරණයට අපහාස කිරීමක් බවත් ඔහු සදහන් කරයි. https://youtu.be/TRuP-LX0U0A
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The Joint Opposition yesterday alleged that President Maithripala Sirisena and the SLFP group in the UNP-led government couldn’t absolve themselves of the responsibility for unprecedented Central Bank bond scams in Feb 2015 and March 2016. Addressing the media at Punchi Borella, former External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris and MP […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
By Anil Perera Thirty four years ago, some criminal elements among Sinhalese carried out indiscriminate attacks on Tamils after some Sinhalese soldiers were killed by the LTTE in Jaffna. Majority of Sinhalese condemned this dastardly act and protected their Tamil neighbours. There was never a recurrence of such madness in the last thirty four years, […]
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Wednesday, July 26th, 2017
By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island July 24, 2017, 8:22 pm The Bill states that it seeks “to give effect to the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances.” The Convention that was ratified by Sri Lanka on May 3, 2016 came into force on June 24, 2016. The Bill neither specifies […]
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Monday, July 24th, 2017
lanka C news මහත් ආන්දෝලනයක් ඇති කරමින් ඉකුත් මැයි මස 21 දා අලුයම කාලයේදී කුරුණෑගල මල්ලවපිටිය මුස්ලිම් පල්ලියට පෙට්රල් බෝම්බ ප්රහාරයක් එල්ල කල බවට චෝදනා කරමින් මාධ්ය මගින් විශාල ප්රචාරයක් ගෙන ගිය අතර අසාඩ් සාලි වැනි පිරිස් මුස්ලිම් ජනතාව කුලප්පු කිරීමේ නින්දිත උත්සහයක ද යෙදුණා හ. ඇති වු තත්ත්වය හමුවේ පොලිස් මාධ්ය ප්රකාශක පැවසුවේ මෙම […]
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2017
Editorial Courtesy The Island July 23, 2017, 8:40 pm Disturbing news comes from the North. On Friday, a group of youth set upon a navy patrol who had taken into custody some suspects and a lorry for transporting sand illegally. The attackers took away the suspects and the vehicle, leaving several naval personnel injured. Navy Commander […]
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2017
ජනමාධ්ය නිවේදනයයි ජාතික භික්ෂු පෙරමුණ පසුගිය 20 වැනි බ්රහස්පතින්දා සවස කොළඹ විද්වත් වෘත්තිකයින්ගේ සංගම් ශාලාවේ පැවති මාධ්ය හමුව අවසන වෛද්ය පීඨ ශිෂ්ය කි්රයාකාරී කමිටුවේ කැඳවුම්කරු රයන් ජයලත් මහතා ආණ්ඩුවේ මැරයින් විසින් පැහැර ගැනීමට ගත් උත්සාහය මුළු රටම දකින ලදි. මෙය ඉතාමත් නින්දාසහගත උත්සාහයක් බැවින් රයන් ජයලත් පැහැර ගැනීමට ආණ්ඩුව ගත් උත්සාහය බියසුල්ලන්ගේ හීන කි්රයාවක් ලෙස ජාතික […]
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2017
Please watch how the Police of Yahapalana who tried to abduct a student using a white van was caught red handed https://www.facebook.com/FreeEducationSL/videos/1740143409349168/
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2017
President Maithripala Sirisena is reported to have asked at today’s Cabinet meeting as to who gave permission for UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism Ben Emmerson to meet LTTE suspects in prison. Mr. Emmerson who concluded his mission in Sri Lanka accused it of using torture against people detained under the Anti-terror Act […]
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Thursday, July 20th, 2017
By C.A. Chandraprema Courtesy The Island =The Island Special Report precipitates reopening of probe in Ukraine = Key witness gives statement to Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office July 16, 2017, 8:42 pm Following The Island’s three part Special Report on ‘The Rajapaksa Govt.’s controversial MiG deal’ in mid-May this year, we reliably learn that the Ukrainian authorities […]
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Thursday, July 20th, 2017
By Shamindra Ferdinando July 18, 2017, Ben Emmerson, QC, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, while countering terrorism, is fully cognizant of Sri Lanka’s long and complex history of ethnic tensions and the tremendous security challenges this has generated. For almost 26 years, Sri Lanka dealt with […]
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Thursday, July 20th, 2017
35 වැනි ජිනීවා මානව සැසිවාරය අවසන් වී ජුලි 10 වැනිදාට දින 17 කි. එහෙත් ශ්රී ලංකාවට ගැලවීමක් නැත. මානව හිමිකම් කොමසාරිස් සෙයිද් රාද් හුසේන් ජුලි 10 වැනිදා මෙරටට තවත් එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ විශේෂ නියෝජිතයකු එවනු ලැබීය. ඔහු බෙන් එමර්සන් නැමැත්තෙකි. එමර්සන් යනු එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් සහ ත්රස්තවාදය පිටුදැකීමේ ක්රියාවලියට සම්බන්ධ විශේෂ නියෝජිතයායි. මොහු ශ්රී ලංකාවට […]
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Thursday, July 20th, 2017
සී. ඒ. චන්ද්රප්රේම උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින වැඩි මුදලට ප්රහාරක යානා ලබාගැනීම හා ගෙවීම් හොර සමාගමකට බැර කිරීම… රාජපක්ෂ ආණ්ඩුව බලයට පැමිණි අලුත, ශ්රී ලංකා ගුවන් හමුදාවට තිබුණු මිග් ප්රහාරක යානා හතරක් අලුත්වැඩියා කිරීමේදී හා තවත් මිග් – 27 ගුවන්යානා හතරක් යුක්රේනයෙන් මිලදී ගැනීමේදී සිදුවූවා යෑයි කියන මහා වංචාවක් ගැන මුලින්ම හෙළිදරව් වූයේ 2006 දී ඉංග්රීසි පුවත්පත් දෙකක […]
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Thursday, July 20th, 2017
Courtesy The Times of India BENGALURU: Sri Lankan national Divyan alias Dinesh alias Pulikesi, 30, who landed in Bengaluru police custody on Friday, happens to be Tamil Nadu’s most-wanted bank card fraudster who had been on the run for five years. The then TN governor had issued an exclusive detention order in 2012 to nab the foreign national, suspected to have swindled over Rs […]
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2017
By SANJA DE SILVA JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island July 18, 2017, 12:00 pm “They are commitments that Sri Lanka voluntarily undertook in the light of 70 years of experience of Transitional Justice since the Nuremberg trials…”-Ben Emmerson QC, UN Special Rapporteur One of the two resolutions adopted at the 5th regular session of the UN Human […]
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Tuesday, July 18th, 2017
Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Maithripala Sirisena is reported to have asked at today’s Cabinet meeting as to who gave permission for UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counter-terrorism Ben Emmerson to meet LTTE suspects in prison. Mr. Emmerson who concluded his mission in Sri Lanka accused it of using torture against people detained […]
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Monday, July 17th, 2017
Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror Allegations against ex-navy spokesman D.K.P. Dassanayake are baseless, Pivithuru Hela Urumaya General Secretary, Udaya Gammanpila said today. He told a news conference that Commodore Dassanayake was not involved in the abduction and disappearance of 11 youth and the statements made by Police Media Spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara with regard to […]
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Saturday, July 15th, 2017
Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe yesterday alleged that several UN Special Rapporteurs who visited Sri Lanka including Rapporteur Ben Emmerson lacked calibre and diplomacy and that he would inform the President and the Premier about these Rapporteurs. When contacted by the Daily Mirror to get a comment about the Rapporteur […]
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