Author Archive for Security
Sunday, June 11th, 2017
BY GAGANI WEERAKOON Courtesy Ceylon Today With back to back terror attacks rocking London and Manchester, British Prime Minister Theresa May called that time has come to say ‘enough is enough’.Britain came under three terrorist attacks in the last three months. Premier May said that as terrorism breeds terrorism and perpetrators are inspired to attack, not only […]
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Sunday, June 11th, 2017
බී. අයි. ආබ්ඞීන් සභාපති Sada Haritha ගරු මුදල් හා ජනමාධ්ය අමාත්ය, මංගල සමරවීර මැතිතුමා, මුදල් හා ජනමාධ්ය අමාත්යාංශය කොළඹ. ගරු ඇමතිතුමනි. සංචාරක අමාත්ය ජෝන් අමරතුංග මහතා විසින් ප්රාදේශීය මාධ්යවේදී බෙනට් ෆර්ඩිනැන්ඩස් මහතාට තර්ජනය කිරීම – පහර දීමට උත්සහ කිරීම සම්බන්ධව ඊයේ, එනම් ජූනි 08 වන දින මුතුරාජවෙලට, කොළඹ කසළ බැහැර කිරීම සම්බන්ධව නාගොඩ ප්රදේශවාසීන් සමග සංචාරක […]
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Friday, June 9th, 2017
lankanewsalert.com බොරු කියා පච හලලා වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව රටේ ජාතික ආරක්ෂාව බිළි දෙන බවත් හමුදාව දිවි පුදා බේරා දුන් මව්බිමද බිලි දෙමින් පවතින මොහොතක නිහඩව සිටිය නොහැකි බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රි විමල් වීරවංශ පවසයි.පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී අදහස් දක්වමින් මන්ත්රිවරයා මේ බව කියා සිටියා. අද ආණ්ඩු බලයට පත් වී සිටින පිරිස එදත් අදත් ත්රිවිධ හමුදාවට නිගරු කල බව පෙන්වා දුන් […]
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Friday, June 9th, 2017
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information regarding the destruction of property by a former police officer. Mr. M G Sarath Gamage legally bought land belonging to a former police officer six years ago. However, when he began construction on the land, the […]
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Friday, June 9th, 2017
Dr. Mareena Thaha Reffai, Dehiwela It is only in srilanka we can find an order issued by the Highest authority, no less than the Honorable executive President of the sovereign country, Socialist Republic of Srilanka ( blow the trumpet) being totally and callously ignored by all the arms of law, pretending they cannot fulfill it and […]
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Friday, June 9th, 2017
DECCAN CHRONICLE. CHENNAI: MDMK general secretary Vaiko was denied entry into Malaysia on Friday as he was detained at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport for his alleged links with the now defunct Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which is still banned in several parts of the world. Immigration officials at the Kuala Lumpur airport […]
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Thursday, June 8th, 2017
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information regarding the arrest, detention and torture of Mr. D V Jeevan Kumara Gunasinghe from Thambuwa, Ma-Eliya in the Kurunegala District. On 2nd January 2017, he has been illegally arrested, detained, tortured and brought to the Polpithigama Police […]
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Tuesday, June 6th, 2017
Gamini Gunawardane Rtd. Snr. DIG Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his recent Wesak visit to Sri Lanka had stated in his speech made at the BMICH to celebrate the International Wesak Day, had stated among other things that Whether it is on land or in the waters of Indian Ocean the security of our societies […]
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Tuesday, June 6th, 2017
”යුද අපරාධ වුණා – අතුරුදහන් කළා” කියා ඔප්පු කරන්න හදන්නේ ඊළම හදා ගන්න මිස වෙන මොකටද? පාර්ලිමේන්තුව ගිනියම් කළ විමල්ගේ කතාව
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Wednesday, May 31st, 2017
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information concerning Mr. Jayalath Kandambige Chaminda (39), a resident of Meegahajandura, Bandagiriya in Hambantota District in Sri Lanka. He had been extra-judicially killed on 27 April 2017, by officers attached to the Central Anti-Vice Unit of Walana, […]
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Tuesday, May 30th, 2017
Capt Ranjith Weerasinghe Trincomalee Tank farm with 100 tanks in 850 acres of land need not be given to any country or any foreign company. Whatever the agreement with LIOC, all the tanks must be taken back to the government possession immediately as the COPE finds that there is no legal agreement signed to lease […]
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Saturday, May 27th, 2017
BY PANCHAMEE HEWAVISSENTI Courtesy Ceylon Today In an interview with Ceylon Today, Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara said several recent incidents have compelled him to live in hiding as there is an attempt to assassinate him after arrest. The Thera further said he had to keep changing his hideouts for the protection of his life as he […]
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Friday, May 26th, 2017
By Shamindra Ferdinando May 23, 2017, ……..The Island. Controversy surrounds Sri Lanka’s decision to do away with the annual Victory Day parade in the wake of the change of government in January 2015. Mathripala Sirisena was able to achieve what war winning Army chief General Sarath Fonseka failed in January 2010. The previous government celebrated […]
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Monday, May 22nd, 2017
Lessons in strategy from an overlooked victory -By Peter Layton Courtesy The Diplomat How to win a civil war in a globalized world where insurgents skillfully exploit offshore resources? With most conflicts now being such wars, this is a question many governments are trying to answer. Few succeed, with one major exception being Sri Lanka where, […]
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Monday, May 22nd, 2017
Director Communication and Publications Institute of National Security Studies Sri Lanka INSSSL’s Threat Lens on Cyber Security: The Evolving Threat Landscape in Sri Lanka” was held on Thursday, 18th May at the Ministry of Defence with the presence of experts in cyber security and information technology in the country. Representatives from the Ministry of Telecom and Digital Infrastructure, Central […]
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Friday, May 19th, 2017
lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් අද දිනයට මුදල් ගෙවා එම ස්ථානය වෙන් කර තිබුණද හදිසියේම යොදාගත් කටයුත්තක් වෙනුවෙන් එම ස්ථානය ලබා දෙන්නැයි උපදෙස් ලද බව ඊයේ පස්වරුවේ සංස්කෘතික දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව විසින් දන්වා ඇත. ප්රභාකරන් සමරමින් පෙරේදා දිනයේ මුල්ලිවයික්කාල්වල උත්සවයක් ඇතුළු ජන සංහාර සතියක් උතුරේ පැවැත්වුනේ කිසිදු බාධාවකින් තොරව බවද එම සංවිධානය සදහන් කරයි. මේ සම්බන්ධයෙන් […]
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Sunday, May 14th, 2017
Courtesy DECCAN CHRONICLE. Chennai: The opposition cannons fell silent yet again as Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Sri Lanka on May 12 — his second trip to the island nation in two years, to reinforce the traditional connect between the two nations. His two-day visit to Sri Lanka (to attend the biggest Buddhist festival ‘Vesak […]
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Sunday, May 14th, 2017
Courtesy The Island May 14, 2017, 11:05 pm The Frontline Socialist Party (FLSP) demands to know what Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka, who boasted of having spared its leader Kumar Gunaratnam’s life in 1989, had done to other JVP suspects held in the Kantale army camp. FLSP Central Committee Member Pubudu Jagoda told The Island that […]
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Thursday, May 11th, 2017
ගම්මන්පිල මහ බැංකු වාර්තාවට අනුව දශක ගණනාවකට පස්සේ 2015 දී සහ 2016 දී ලංකාවේ සංක්රමණ ධන අගයක් ගෙන තිබෙනවා. 2016 මහ බැංකු වාර්ථාවේ පනස් දෙවන සංඛ්යාසටහනේ පෙන්වනවා ලංකාවේ ශුද්ධ සංක්රමණ අනුපාත දශක ගණනාවකට පසු 2015 දීත් 2016 දීත් ධණ අගයක් ගෙන ඇති බව. වෙනත් වචන වලින් කියනවා නම් ලංකාව අත්හැර වෙනත් රටවල පදිංචියට ගිය පිරිසට […]
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් පිවිතුරු හෙළ උරුමය මූලස්ථානයේදී පැවති මාධ්ය හමුවේදී එම පක්ෂ ප්රධාන ලේකම් උදය ගම්මන්පිල මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය. මහ බැංකු වාර්තාවේ බොරු ඉලක්කම් දක්වලා මේ තිබෙන්නේ 2016 මහ බැංකු වාර්තාව. වෙනත් වචන වලින් කිව්වොත් 2016 දී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථිකයට මොකද වුණේ කියලා මහ බැංකු අධිපතිතුමා විසින් මෑතක දී මුදල් ඇමතිතුමාට […]
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island May 9, 2017, 8:30 pm Former members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) recently launched an unprecedented campaign to discourage yahapalana government from handing over military managed agricultural farms and pre-schools in the Northern Province to the Northern Provincial Council (NPC). Hundreds of ex- LTTE cadres demonstrated in […]
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Wednesday, May 10th, 2017
| lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා විසින් හිටපු ජනාධිපතිනී චන්ද්රිකා බණ්ඩාරනායක කුමාරණතුංග මහත්මියගේ ආරක්ෂාව අඩු කිරීම සදහා අධිකරණයේ නඩුවක් ගොනුකළ බවට එල්ල වන චෝදනා සම්බන්දයෙන් මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ මාධ්ය ලේකම්වරයා විසින් නිකුත් කර ඇති මාධ්ය නිවේදනයක් මෙහි දැක්වෙයි. මාධ්ය නිවේදනය හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා, හිටපු ජනාධිපතිනී චන්ද්රිකා […]
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Monday, May 8th, 2017
Courtesy The Daily Mirror In a dramatic turn of events, only hours after the government decided to reduce the security given to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa by a further 50 personnel, it was restored without an explanation being given on the about-turn. Initially, an order was sent to recall 50 personnel attached to the security […]
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Monday, May 8th, 2017
Editorial Courtesy The Island May 8, 2017, 8:14 pm The government has made a volte-face anent the latest cut in former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s security. It usually does not buckle under pressure where action against its political rivals is concerned. What really happened? On May 03, 42 police personnel attached to Rajapaksa’s security contingent were removed […]
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Saturday, May 6th, 2017
Written by Darius Shahtahmasebi If the public were to rely solely on the U.S. government and its respective mouthpieces for its source of news, one might assume Iran is to blame for the current crisis engulfing Yemen, the Arab world’s poorest country. At least 10,000 people have been killed and more than 3 million displaced […]
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Sunday, April 30th, 2017
By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island April 30, 2017, 7:26 pm The Secretary General of Amnesty International, Mr. Salil Shetty has stated during his recent visit to Sri Lanka that “a credible investigation was required to ascertain the number of civilians as well as enforced disappearances during the conflict in Sri Lanka” (The Island, April 6, […]
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Sunday, April 30th, 2017
By Sarath de Alwis Courtesy The Island April 30, 2017, 12:00 pm According to the loquacious logician of the ‘Yahapalana’ government – Minister of Health Rajitha Senaratne, the President has requested Minister Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka to quit his ministerial portfolio to become army commander or overall commander for two years to discipline the country. The […]
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Saturday, April 29th, 2017
තිස්ස රවීන්ද්ර පෙරේරා යුද හමුදාවේ අසමසම සැඟවුණු වෙඩික්කරු ලෙස (ස්නයිපර්) කොටි ත්රස්තවාදයට එරෙහිව සුවිශේෂ සේවාවක් ඉටුකරමින් වන්නි අවසන් සටනේ පුදුමාතලන්හි දී දිවිපිදූ කෝප්රල් රංජිත් ප්රේමසිරි හෙවත් නීරෝ කළ සේවය අගයමින් නීරෝගේ මව වන රීටා ප්රනාන්දු මහත්මිය වෙත ආනමඩුව ගම්උදාව භූමියේ ඉඩමක නිවසක් ඉදිකර දීමට නිවාස අමාත්ය සජිත් ප්රේමදාස මහතා කටයුතු යෙදුවේය. නිවාස සංවර්ධන අධිකාරිය සතු […]
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Thursday, April 27th, 2017
කේ. ඞී. ලාල්කාන්ත සභාපතිජාතික වෘත්තීය සමිති මධ්යස්ථානය. තමන්ගේ ඉල්ලීම් මුල්කරගනිමින් විවිධ සංවිධාන හා ජන කණ්ඩායම් විසින් සංවිධානය කරනු ලබන උද්ඝෝෂණ හා අරගල, මර්ධනය කිරීම සඳහා ඇමති සරත් ෆොන්සේකාගේ නායකත්වයෙන්, විශේෂ හමුදා බලඇණියක් ගොඩනැගීමට ආණ්ඩුවේ අනුමැතිය ලැබී ඇති බවට මාධ්ය විසින් වාර්තාකර තිබුණි. නොයෙකුත් කරුණු මත රට පුරා හතර දිග්භාගයෙන් ආණ්ඩුවට එරෙහි උද්ඝෝෂණ හා අරගල එක පිට […]
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Monday, April 24th, 2017
by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island April 23, 2017, 12:00 pm Former External Affairs Minister Prof. G. Peiris yesterday told The Island that a recent British Court of Appeal ruling that a Sri Lankan asylum seeker had got a doctor to inflict grievous injuries in a bid to deceive British authorities should prompt a wider investigation […]
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