By Ravi Ladduwahetty – Courtesy Ceylon Today Veteran Sri Lankan diplomat, Sri Lanka’s former Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Secretary to the Ministry of External Affairs Dr. Palitha Kohona said the UN Human Rights Resolution which Sri Lanka cosponsored in March 2017, was a folly compounded. “The onerous nature of Resolution 30/1 and […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa blamed the Obama administration for pressuring UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to take decisions on Sri Lanka against UN protocols. In a press communiqué released yesterday, he noted that the UN Secretary General can appoint a panel of experts to advise him on a country only on the instructions […]

Asoka Bandarage In May 2009, the Sri Lankan military defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a most lethal and well-organized terrorist group in the world,” which had fought for nearly thirty years to establish a separate Tamil state in Sri Lanka.1 Since that decisive victory in what was considered the longest-running conflict in […]

උපුටාගැණීම අදදෙරණ March 30, 2017  12:24 pm 2015 ඔක්තෝම්බර් මස සම්මත කරගනු ලැබූ ජිනීවා යෝජනාව සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම ක්‍රියාත්මක කිරීමට ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජය යළි වරක් ප්‍රතිඥා දී ඇති බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසයි. තමන් තුළ නෛසර්ගිකව ඇති ජාති ද්‍රෝහී ආකල්පය හේතුවෙන් මිස එවන් වාර්තාවක් පිළිගැනීමට යහපාලකයන්ට වෙනත් කිසිදු හේතුවක් නොවන බව හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් […]

By Yusuf Ariff  Courtesy Adaderana March 30, 2017  12:22 pm  Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that though the President and Prime Minister have repeatedly stated that no foreign judges will be brought to try Sri Lanka’s armed forces, the pledge given in Geneva last week is exactly the opposite. The most dangerous aspect of the UNHRC […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island March 26, 2017, 7:39 pm Although the separatist armed conflict ended in May 2009, the first UNHRC Resolution on “Promoting reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka” was in April 2012. This was followed by Resolutions in March 2013; March 2014 and September 2015. However, the Resolution of September 2015 is […]

Courtesy The Island March 25, 2017, 8:02 pm The UNHRC resolution which was co-sponsored by Sri Lanka and passed without a vote last Thursday has given the government two years to deliver on the commitments made in UNHRC Resolution No: 30/1 of October 2015. Unlike in previous years, this year’s UNHRC resolution did not generate much […]

සමන් ගමගේ උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින නව රජය බලයට ආ දිනයේ සිට රටට යළි “මිලේනියම් සිටි” පාවා දීම සිහිගන්වමින් බුද්ධි අංශ රණවිරුවන්ට එරෙහි විමර්ශන ආරම්භ කළ රහස්‌ පොලිසිය ඉකුත් සතියේ ඇමැති සරත් ෆොන්සේකා පැවසූ බව කියමින් ආන්දොaලනාත්මක කතාවක්‌ ගල්කිස්‌ස අධිකරණයට වාර්තා කළේය. සරත් ෆොන්සේකා මෙසේ සීඅයිඩීයට කී කතාව වන්නේ කුමක්‌ද? ඉකුත් 2008 – 2009 වර්ෂයන්හිදී සිදුවූ […]

සාකච්ඡා කළේ – මනෝඡ් අබයදීර උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින දිනෙන් දින ඉහළ යන ආරක්‌ෂක බුද්ධි අංශ සාමාජිකයන් අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීම සම්බන්ධව සමාජයේ ඇතිවී තිබෙන කතාබහ පිළිබඳ සංවාදය සඳහා හිටපු ආරක්‌ෂක ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්‌ෂ මහතා සමග ‘දිවයින ඉරිදා සංග්‍රහය’ කරන සාකච්ඡාවයි මේ. ප්‍රශ්නය – ත්‍රස්‌තවාදය ජයගැනීම සදහා ත්‍රිවිධ හමුදාවට නායකත්වය දුන් ප්‍රධානියා ඔබ. ඔබ යටතේ සේවය කළ නිලධාරීන් බොහෝ […]

By Waruna Abeysekera – Courtesy The Nation Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara is a high level naval officer who played a major role during the civil war. The former Deputy Minister and former MP recently became a much talked about figure because he went to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland to counter […]

The govt. requested for international intervention – G.L. Peiris

අමරවීර ඇමතිතුමා වැරදියට තේරුම් අරන්

Dr Dasarath Jayasuriya PRESIDENT The Society for Peace Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka (SPUR), Recalling the Human Rights Council Resolution 30/1 adopted on 1 October 2015 promoting reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka; Noting with concern: The recently revealed agreement entered into by the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL), USA, and the TNA […]

By Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror Ahead of the vote on yet another resolution on Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) tomorrow, an intense debate has taken place on the move for the inclusion of foreign judges in a judicial mechanism to hear accountability and human rights issues during the war […]

By Ananda-USA As we watch the war-heroes of the Sri Lankan Nation being crucified at the UNHRC in Geneva, not only by the Tamil Eelamists who waged a brutal take-no-prisoners war in Sri Lanka and now posing as wailing victims, but also by our own government officials aiding and abetting those racist separatists, let us […]

By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana March 22, 2017  08:46 pm While welcoming Sri Lanka’s ‘promising progress’ in constitutional reforms, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein today urged the government to set up mechanisms to implement the resolution adopted at the UNHRC in 2015. I note promising progress regarding constitutional reform, with the Parliament […]

By P.K.Balachandran  Courtesy newsin.asia Colombo, March 22: Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, told the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Wednesday, that Sri Lanka must appoint foreign judges to the judicial mechanism it is to set up to try war crimes cases. But the Sri Lankan Representative, […]

sinhalanet.net A report compiled by eminent legal professionals under the theme of ‘A factual appraisal of the OISL report: A rebuttal to the allegations against the armed forces’   had been handed over to UNHRC head office in Geneva by Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera on behalf of Global Sri Lankans Forum, GSLF. The project has been initiated and […]

Courtesy The Island The brother of Sri Lanka’s former president Mahinda Rajapakse denied Tuesday involvement in war-era death squads, blaming the then army chief for an alleged secretive campaign of extrajudicial murders. Gotabhaya Rajapakse has been accused of giving orders to a shadowy military outfit allegedly involved in murdering journalists and political dissidents during Sri […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island March 21, 2017, 8:10 pm The CID has earned notoriety for its selective efficiency. It has suddenly woken up like Rip Van Winkle after eight long years and made some ‘revelations’ about the 2009 assassination of The Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunge. It has been going hell for leather during the […]

By Roosindu Peris Courtesy Adaderana Professor G.L.Peiris stated that President Maithripala should be able to cross off the sixth operative clause in the Geneva resolution, without acting like a spineless individual. He further added that the commissioner of the Human rights council in Sri Lanka will be presenting a report on the current situation to the […]

අනුර බාලසූරිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ශ්‍රී ලංකා රජයට පිටකොන්දක්‌ සහ අවංකභාවයක්‌ තිබේ නම් ජිනීවා යෝජනාවේ විදේශ විනිසුරුවන් පිළිබඳව සඳහන් වන 6 වැනි ඡේදය ඉවත් කරගැනීමට තවමත් අවස්‌ථාව ඇතැයි හිටපු විදේශ ඇමැති ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොදු ජන පෙරමුණේ සභාපති මහාචාර්ය ජී. එල්. පීරිස්‌ මහතා සඳහන් කළේය. දෙවන වරටත් ඉදිරිපත් කෙරෙන අලුත් යෝජනාවට කිසිසේත් සම අනුග්‍රයක්‌ නොදක්‌වන ලෙසත්, එම […]

Dr IMRC Iriyagolle(Not a coward) “Honour and Duty Bound With compassion and Righteousness” We the Sinhalese are the honoured and privileged custodians of our sacred Buddhist cultural Heritage and traditional homeland Sinhale(Sri Lanka-Eelam-The land of the Sinhalese).  We are therefore truly blessed.  Enshrined in our hearts and minds is the glorious and sacred legacy bestowed […]

 By Dayan Jayatilleke Hafeel Farisz confuses what I have said about Gotabaya and Gunaratnam, both of whom are the most interesting figures I find in the Sri Lankan public arena today, because they come from two different streams of struggle of our conflicted contemporary history—two different civil wars. Farisz tries to impose on me a choice […]

by Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Courtesy The Island March 19, 2017, 12:00 pm US-based Hafeel Farisz has written a double-barreled critique of Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and me, though as he says, I am the primary target because of the intellectual dimension or pretensions that I bring to bear. It is quite tempting for me to respond at the […]

Editorial The Island March 20, 2017, 8:01 pm A determined effort is being made in some quarters to dupe the public into believing that the 2015 UNHRC Resolution on Sri Lanka, co-sponsored by the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe regime, does not call for a hybrid war crimes tribunal. This claim, based on some perverted logic, does not stand […]

By Sulochana Ramiah Mohan Courtesy Ceylon Today Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi pillay told Ceylon Today, that when she met former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa during her visit to Sri Lanka and urged him to maintain investigations to establish where about of missing persons, he had stated, These people do not want […]

By Dr Palitha Kohona (Former Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN) Courtesy Ceylon Today Sri Lanka commemorated a dark day in its long and proud history earlier this month. We recalled the cession of our sovereignty to King George III of Britain following the signature of the Kandyan Convention on 2/3 March […]

Kanthar P Balanathan, Australia This article is in response to a video prepared and circulated by Dr. Mahipal Sing Rathore. The talk can be viewed on YouTube page ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBeT2OcAiyw Although the narrator attempts to focus on some issues, Mahipal has disregarded to discuss the main issues and problems generated by Tamils attempt at every […]

Sultan M Hali INDIA has tried to interfere in the affairs of every neighbour and create instability to prove its supremacy. Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka; all have suffered due to Indian illusions of grandeur. Pakistan, of course is reserved for special treatment, because India never forgave Pakistan for breaking away from […]