By Ayshwarya Yapa Courtesy  Adadderana Leader of the Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU), Udaya Gammanpila stated that the Secretary of the National Bhikku Front, Ven. Wakamulle Uditha Thero must be arrested before Ven. Gnanasara thero for attempts to arouse racism. Udaya Gammpanpila stated that although nine years had elapsed since the end of the civil war, the […]

By Kavindya Chris Thomas Courtesy Ceylon Today Police fear that the arrest of the Bodu Bala Sena leader Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera would lead to negative consequences and even a possible public uprising, a high ranking Police official said yesterday. The official who did not wish to be named, for obvious reasons, told Ceylon Today that […]

The UNHRC Special Rapporteur Ms. Monica Pinto’s allegations following her visit to Sri Lanka in 2016 that SL Judiciary was highly politicised and judges give verdicts favouring the Government was a derogatory and contemptuous statement made towards the Judiciary with a proud history of 200 years, retired Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara said. Addressing United Nations’ […]

By Dr. Nalaka Godahewa Courtesy Ceylon Today The terrorist attack on the London Bridge and Borough Market became instant world news. Over the last few days we heard global media channels continuously reporting details of the incident. Country after country has come forward to condemn the brutal attack on British soil, which according to information available […]

ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Dear Friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information regarding Ja-Ella Police stealing the wallet of an innocent woman and subsequently filing false gambling charges against her. Several witnesses testified to the police that the woman did not participate in any gambling activity. The victim complained […]

Gotabaya responds to Rajitha’s accusation on SriLankan Airlines (English)

ලංකා සී නිවුස් බොදු බල සේනා සංවිධානයේ මහ ලේකම් පූජ්‍ය ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥාණසාර හිමියන් ප‍්‍රචණ්ඩත්වය යොමු වුයේ නම් එසේ වූයේ ඇමති චම්පික රණවක විසින් ඔවුන්ගේ දේශපාලන අරමුණු වෙනුවෙන් බාර දුන් කොන්ත‍්‍රාත් ඉටු කිරීම නිසා බව බොදු බල සේනා සංවිධානය පවසයි. එම සංවිධානයේ ප‍්‍රධාන විධායක නිලධාරී ඩිලන්ත විතානගේ මහතා කොළඹදී පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවක් අමතමින් මේ බව කියා […]

They sent a peace delegation to a local mosque in Colombo assuring international support for Muslims in Sri Lanka. Why can’t they do likewise ( visit Mosques in England and other European countries) to protect Muslims in embattled cities in Europe? Why are mainstream papers in Sri Lanka maintaining a deafening silence on this indefensible […]

Courtesy Sputnik In May 2009, a bloody civil war in Sri Lanka ended after 25 years with defeat for a rebel group who represented the island’s Tamil community. Thousands of Sri Lankan Tamils have migrated to Britain in recent years and a tiny minority appear to have been desensitized by the violence they witnessed growing […]

Courtesy The Daily News  Wednesday, June 7, 2017 – 01:00 Bodu Bala Sena(BBS) Chief Executive Officer and Coordinator Dilantha Withanage said yesterday that details of an assassination plot against BBS General Secretary Ven. Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thera by an outfit similar to that of the Islamic State or ISIS terrorist group have been revealed. Addressing […]

ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME Dear Friends, According to the information the Asian Human Rights Commission has received, a man was illegally arrested, detained and tortured by police officers attached to the Kandy Headquarters Police Station. Lahiru Perera was first questioned about an abandoned mobile phone which he picked from the roadside […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම නෙත් බොදුබල සේනා සංවිධානයේ මහ ලේකම් පූජ්‍ය ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥාණසාර හිමියන්ට මරණීය තර්ජන ඇති බව උන්වහන්සේගේ නීතිඥයින් අභියාචනාධිකරණයට දැනුම් දුන්නා. ඒ, උන්වහන්සේට එරෙහිව අධිකරණයට අපහාස කිරීමේ චෝදනාව යටතේ ගොනුකර ඇති නඩුවක් අද (12) කැඳවූ අවස්ථාවේදීයි. ඉකුත් වසරේ ජනවාරී මස 25 වැනිදා හෝමාගම මහේස්ත‍්‍රාත් අධිකරණයේ දී හැසිරුණු ආකාරය සම්බන්ධයෙන් ගලගොඩඅත්තේ ඥාණසාර ස්වාමීන් වහන්සේට එරෙහිව මෙම […]

Courtesy Express News Service   |   Published: 10th June 2017 04:36 AM  | Last Updated: 10th June 2017 01:57 PM CHENNAI: MDMK general secretary Vaiko, a vociferous Tamil rights campaigner, who just got released on bail in a 2009 seditious speech case, was denied entry into Malaysia on Friday morning, charging him of being a member of […]

Courtesy  ANI Updated: Jun 10, 2017 09:05 IST  Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], June 10 (ANI): MDMK chief and ex-lawmaker Vaiko, who arrived here after not being allowed to enter Malaysian capital Kuala Lumpur to attend a marriage, claimed on Saturday that he was deported because he was considered “a security threat” by the Malaysian authorities […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

”යුද අපරාධ වුණා – අතුරුදහන් කළා” කියා ඔප්පු කරන්න හදන්නේ ඊළම හදා ගන්න මිස වෙන මොකටද? පාර්ලිමේන්තුව ගිනියම් කළ විමල්ගේ කතාව

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]