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 […]

Mahinda Gunasekera Please see the annexed article written by a Pakistani observer on the subject of Indian interventions in Sri Lanka. In the penultimate para highlighted in blue, he has stated that the Indian Consulate Office in Jaffna has been providing forged papers for South Indian Tamils from Tamilnadu to travel to Sri Lanka’s north […]

Keheliya wants President to issue clarification on Mangala’s speech මංගල සමරවීර හරිද, වැරදි ද ජනපතිතුමනි රටට කියන්න…?

Avant-Garde is a world-renowned company – Mahinda Rajapaksa ඇවන්ගාඩ් කියන්නේ ලෝකය පිළිගත්ත සමාගමක්… හිටපු ජනපති මහින්ද කියයි.

Author: Dharshan Weerasekera Commissioned by – The Federation of National Organizations Sponsored by – The Global Sri Lanka Forum Editors :  Kalyananda Thiranagama  Raja Gunaratne Volume One Federation of National Organizations Colombo, Sri Lanka 27th January 2017 Dear Mr. Weerasekera, Mandate We wish to draw your attention to the following matters which form […]

The Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva  Human Rights Council 34th Regular Session  Report of the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues on her Mission to Sri Lanka, from 10-20 October 2016  Presented under the Agenda Item 3, Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Joint Opposition today made a request to President Maithripala Sirisena to advise Foreign Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera to safeguard the country’s freedom, integrity and the Constitution while dealing with the Geneva Proposals. Joint Opposition Leader MP Dinesh Gunawardena told a news briefing that it was the government’s responsibility to work […]

Derana දෙරණ තත්පරයක් නොහැර මෙම කතාවට සවන් දෙන්න.

කොළඹදී පැවති වියත්මග සංවිධානයේ වාර්ෂික සමුළුව අමතමින් මේජර් ජෙනරාල් කමල් ගුණරත්න මහතා ඉතා දීර්ඝ දේශණයක් සිදු කරනු ලැබීය. පුරා පැය ගණනාවක් පැවති එම දේශණය එහි සිටි පිරිස ඉතා උනන්දුවෙන් අසා සිටියේ විටින් විට දේශණයට අත්පොලසක්ද දෙමිනි. සම්පූර්ණ වීඩියෝව මෙතනින් https://youtu.be/RDqHjYPUme0

 Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday said it was the weakness of the government to keep thrusting itself upon the UNHRC Resolution on Sri Lanka when the US, which co-sponsored the resolution, had detached itself from it. Mr. Rajapaksa said the government should utilize the opportunities in the international arena […]

BY Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Ceylon Today Another March Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is coming to an end in few days and the wide expectation is Sri Lanka will get a reprieve for two years; despite the official rejection of the proposal for Hybrid Courts, with participation of foreign Judges, to inquire […]

By Sulochana Ramiah Mohan Courtesy Ceylon Today 2017-03-12 Rtd. Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara will leave for Geneva tomorrow leading a three-man delegation to meet UN Human Rights Chief Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein to mount an offensive against the case, now argued before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), that Sri Lankan forces committed war crimes, […]

සමන් ගමගේ උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින වත්මන් ආණ්‌ඩුව සහ ඒ ආණ්‌ඩුවේ නිලධාරීන් සිතාමතාම මේ රටේ විමුක්‌තිය උදෙසා ජීවිත පූජා කළ සහ රට වෙනුවෙන් සටනට ගොස්‌ ආබාධිත වූ සහ අනෙකුත් සමස්‌ත රණවිරු ප්‍රජාවෙන්ම පලිගනිමින් සිටින්නේයෑයි යන්න දැන් පැහැදිලිවම පෙනෙන්නට තිබේ. අප එසේ කියන්නේ කට කසනවාට නම් නොවේ. වත්මන් යහපාලනය තුළ සිදු වෙමින් තිබෙන දේ හමුවේය. ජනාධිපතිවරයා රණවිරුවන් සුරකින්නේ […]

lankanewsalert.com නැවත වරක් දරුණු ත්‍රස්තවාදයේ සෙවණැලි රට තුළ මතුවී ඇති බවත්,එවැනි ප්‍රපාතයකට රට ඇද දැමුවේ වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව බව,රියර් අද්මිරාල්(විශ්‍රාමික) ආචාර්‍ය සරත් විරසේකර පවසනවා.අද (02) ශ්‍රි ලංකා පොදු ජන පෙරමුණේ පක්ෂ කාර්යාලයේ පැවති ප්‍රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකට එක් වෙමින් ඒ මහතා මේ බව සදහන් කළා.බුද්ධි අංශ සහ හමුදාව දේශද්‍රෝහින් ලෙස දෙමළ ඩයස්පෝරාවේ උවමනාව මත හංවඩු ගසමින් රජය කටයුතු […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today The Cabinet has agreed to compensate the 16 prisoners killed during the 2012 Welikada Prison riots. Their families will get Rs Two Million each. The 11 injured will get Rs 500,000 each. In the attempt to bring the situation to control, some officers, including the Commandant of the Special Task […]

Courtesy Gulf Times Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has rejected a fresh appeal from the United Nations to allow international judges to investigate alleged war-era atrocities, vowing to not prosecute soldiers. I am not going to allow non-governmental organisations to dictate how to run my government. I will not listen to their calls to prosecute […]

By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana March 4, 2017  07:43 pm Former Sri Lankan diplomat Dr Dayan Jayatilleka today charged that Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera that has declared to the entire world that Sri Lanka is a ‘failed state’. The former Sri Lankan Ambassador to the UN in Geneva was referring to the foreign minister’s recent speech at […]