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, […]

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 […]

 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

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

 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/

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

 Kalathma Jayawardhane Courtesy The Daily Mirror      National Freedom Front (NFF) Leader and MP Wimal Weerawansa yesterday condemned the remanding of former Navy Spokesman Commodore D.K.P. Dassanayake who was arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on Wednesday over the alleged abduction and disappearance of several youth between 2008 and 2009. MP Weerasansa told a […]

Courtesy The Island July 15, 2017, 12:00 pm The former Navy Spokesman Commodore D.K.P.Dassanayake was arrested last week on charges of causing the disappearance of 11 persons in 2008. Dassanayake, a highly decorated Naval officer who played a major role in the war, is the latest high ranking armed forces officer to be arrested under […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island July 14, 2017, 10:49 pm Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, PC, had a heated argument with Ben Emmerson, QC, Special Rapporteur at the onset of a meeting over latter leveling unsubstantiated allegations at law enforcement authorities and the judiciary. Emmerson had a series of meetings over the past few days […]

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island flays security establishment and its allies in govt  Geneva to review New Anti-Terrorism Act Alleging that ‘retrograde elements in the security establishment and their allies’ in the government were trying to undermine post-war reconciliation process, the UN yesterday warned Sri Lanka of dire consequences unless the government fully implemented Geneva […]

 Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror The government is lying when it says that the Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearances would not have a retrospective effect, the joint opposition said today. Former MP G.L. Peiris told the weekly news conference that the convention would not only permit action to be taken […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror    Former US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Robert O. Blake has said that it was a myth that he orchestrated a rescue of Tamil refugees from a northern beach to help LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran escape Sri Lankan armed forces, India Abroad news reported on Tuesday. Blake said it was also fiction […]

Courtesy DNA The wife of a former top LTTE leader was today sworn in as a minister in Sri Lanka’s northern provincial council. Ananthi Saseetharan was appointed as the minister of rehabilitation and women’s affairs by Chief Minister C V Wigneswaran in the reshuffle of the northern council of ministers. Saseetharan’s husband Velayutham Sasitharan alias […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island June 29, 2017, 9:36 pm The fundamental right to “the freedom of speech and expression including publication” in Article 14. (1) (a) of Sri Lanka’s Constitution, as well as the First Amendment to The United States Constitution, and other United Nations instruments, is being seriously undermined by the spate of […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island June 29, 2017, 10:17 pm Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, PC, yesterday said those demanding a new lenient Counter Terrorism Law (CTL) to replace the Prevention of the Terrorist Act (PTA), however in the wake of attacks in the West had adopted stringent measures which were even tougher than the PTA. […]

ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information regarding Mrs. Munisamy Mariannan Gauri. A resident of Mutwal, she migrated to Kuwait as a domestic helper on 8 April 2017. At 6 a.m. on 9 June 2017, the wife of Gauri’s employer in Kuwait telephoned. She […]