Ruwan De Silva. Courtesy The Island February 16, 2017, 9:47 pm A news headline in a morning daily under the caption “Ex Navy Chief Highlights US Role against LTTE” intrigued me, because U.S. Ambassador Blake’s every public announcement throughout his eventful diplomatic assignment in Colombo, at this country’s worst time of long internal insurrection against successive […]

BY S VENKAT NARAYAN Our Special Correspondent NEW DELHI, February 11: Months before then Sri Lankan President Junius Richard Jayewardene signed a controversial agreement with then Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in July 1987 in Colombo to disarm the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), he had ordered his own troops twice to take Jaffna […]

Courtesy jurist.org The Sri Lankan [official website] Foreign Minster [official website] said Wednesday that the country will petition the UN for more time to investigate the allegations of war crimes occurring during the country’s 26-year-long civil war [BBC country profile]. Sri Lanka promised the UN in 2015 to investigate the estimated 65,000 missing peoples from […]

Amit Baruah Courtesy The Hindu  Former Sri Lanka President claimed his troops refused to take Jaffna, reveal declassified papers Sri Lanka was forced into making a deal with India as its own armed forces had twice refused to take Jaffna”, then President J.R. Jayewardene has been quoted as saying in a declassified document, nearly 30 years […]

By D. B. S. Jeyaraj Courtesy The Daily Mirror What was your first military operation”? was a question posed to Veluppillai Prabhakaran in a media interview many years ago. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader replied Alfred Durayappah”. Prabhakaran was of course referring to the popular former Mayor and ex-MP Alfred Thangarajah Durayappah who […]

Arun Ram| TNN Courtesy The Times of India CHENNAI: An influential businessman who had secret links with Sri Lanka-based Tamil radicals was helping forest brigand Veerappan with information and, probably, arms. What’s more, the same man, when threatened with exposure over his Lankan links, helped the Special Task Force trap and gun down the bandit 12 […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The Norwegian embassy refrained from responding to serious accusations that a Norwegian or Norwegians of Sri Lankan origin had been involved in an alleged assassination attempt on Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Parliamentarian M. A. Sumanthiran in January, this year. Megapolis and Western Development Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka has alleged that […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island February 1, 2017, 9:58 pm Alleging that five former LTTE cadres arrested in connection with an alleged attempt to assassinate TNA lawmaker M.A. Sumanthiran had been produced before the Kilinochchi Magistrate and District judge and remanded till Feb 13 on a charge of possessing explosives and narcotics instead of under […]

Courtesy The Hindu Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has accused the Sri Lankan government of dropping its guard on the LTTE by scaling down intelligence operations in the island’s Tamil-majority north and east. Commenting on the recent arrest of four ex-LTTE members, for allegedly plotting to assassinate Tamil legislator M.A. Sumanthiran, the two-time President said: They […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island January 27, 2017, 9:21 pm POST-CONFLICT APPLICATION of IHRL and IHL The position originally adopted by some participating in the e-mail exchange was that IHRL and IHL concurrently apply in Armed Conflict. Since then they have conceded that the Law applicable to Armed Conflict of a non-International nature is IHL […]

By D. B. S. Jeyaraj Courtesy The Daily Mirror Nallavan” (not his real name) is a Tamil youth living in a Northern village. He was a former member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) organization who had surrendered to the armed forces in May 2009. He was incarcerated for a period of time and […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island January 26, 2017, 9:47 pm During the course of an e-mail exchange, the question as to which Laws should guide issues relating to Sri Lanka’s Armed Conflict became a contentious topic. The opinion of some was that International Human Rights Laws (IHRL) and International Humanitarian Laws (IHL) should operate concurrently […]

Courtesy Adaderana The views of US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May on matters of national security offer a window of opportunity” to the Sri Lankan government to re-negotiate the September 2015 UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution on it, says Dr.Dayan Jayatilleka, former Sri Lankan Ambassador to the UN in Geneva […]

By Yatish Yadav  |  Express News Service  | Courtesy The New Indian Express NEW DELHI: ‘Insider Knowledge’ can be roughly defined as real-time intelligence that shapes the events and gives us a peep into situation room to highlight why decisions were made by then government. But, blunders will be too many and difficult to count if the ‘insider knowledge’ […]

සමන් ගමගේ උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ඉතිහාසයේ සිටම මේ රටට විනයක්‌ වූ කල්හි ඊට එරෙහිව බලමුළු ගොඩනගමින් පෙරට ගියේ අපේ මහ සඟරුවනය. එදා වීර පුරන්අප්පුලා, ගොංගාලේගොඩ බණ්‌ඩලා සේම වීර කැප්පෙටිපොළ ලා වැනි වීරයන් සුදු අධිරාජ්‍යවාදයට එරෙහි දිවි කැපකරමින් සටන් වැදුනේද මහා සංඝරත්නයේ ආශීර්වාදය සමඟය. දුර ඈත ඉතිහාසයේ සිටම මේ රටත්, රට බේරාගත් රණවිරුවනුත් වෙනුවෙන් සෑම තැනකදීම පෙරට […]

Stewart Bell | January 16, 2017 5:22 PM ET  Courtesy National Post TORONTO — An alleged fundraiser for Tamil rebels who has been fighting deportation from Canada for more than two decades has lost a key court battle after a federal judge dismissed his appeal. The Federal Court upheld the deportation of Manickavasagam Suresh on the […]

ලංකා සී නිවුස් මෙම ජනවාරි 26 වන දිනට පෙර ජනාධිපති මෛත‍්‍රිපාල සිරිසෙන් මහතා මිය යන බව තමන් කලින් කිවුවද සෙනසුරු වක‍්‍ර වී ඇති නිසා එම මරණය ඔක්තොම්බර් 26 වන දින දක්වා කල් යන බව ප‍්‍රවීණ ජ්‍යෙතිර්වේදී විජිත් රෝහණ විජේමුණි මහතා පවසයි. සිය ෆේස්බුක් ගිණුම ඔස්සේ සටහනක් තබමින් ඔහු මේ බව සදහන් කරයි. https://youtu.be/-M0ijcWws3w

Editorial The Island January 16, 2017, 7:51 pm The Rajapaksa government stood accused of militarising society. Intoxicated with power it went so far as to order a military crackdown on a civilian protest against the contamination of groundwater by a factory in Rathupaswala in 2013. It looks as if the yahapalana administration, which came to […]

By Harischandra Gunaratna Courtesy The Island National list MP and Head of Pivithuru Hetak Organisation Ven. Athulraliye Ratana Thera yesterday admitted that the government had not fulfilled its pre-election promises and what the masses should do was not to topple the government, but to make it fulfil its pledges. “Today, I am an independent MP striving […]

කීර්ති වර්ණකුලසූරිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් සමුළුවේ 34 වැනි සැසිවාරය මේ වසරේ මාර්තු මස ආරම්භ වේ. මෙහිදී ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට එරෙහිව 2015 ඔක්‌තෝබර් 1 දා සම්මත වූ ජිනීවා යෝජනාව පිළිබඳ ව රජය කටයුතු කර තිබේද යන්න ගැන විමර්ශනය කෙරෙනු ඇත. ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් සමුළුව ආරම්භ වීමට මාස 2 ක්‌ තිබියදී රජයේ සංහිඳියා කාර්ය සාධක බළකාය […]

රියර් අද්මිරාල්  සරත් වීරසේකර නව ව්‍යවස්‌ථාවක්‌ ගෙන ඒමට පිඹුරුපත් සැකසෙමින් තිබෙන තීරණාත්මක අවස්‌ථාවක රණවිරුවන් වශයෙන් ඉතා වැදගත් යෑයි සිතෙන කරුණු කිහිපයක්‌ ඔබතුමාගේ අවධානයට යොමු කිරීමට සිතුවෙමු. රණවිරුවා යන ගෞරවනීය නාමය ලැබුණේ ත්‍රස්‌තවාදයට එරෙහි යුද්ධය විජයග්‍රහණය කොට සමස්‌ත ශ්‍රී ලංකා වාසී ජනතාවට බියෙන් සැකෙන් තොරව ජීවත් වීමේ නිදහස ලබාදුන් බැවිනි. ඒ වෙනුවෙන් රණවිරුවන් විසිදහසක්‌ (20000) දිවි […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island January 5, 2017, 9:30 pm The Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government has, in its wisdom, decided to set up a special tribunal to handle bribery and corruption cases as we reported yesterday. Cabinet Spokesman Rajitha Senaratne has said once it is established, hey presto, the current investigation process which he considers slow will get a […]

Kanthar Balanathan Please read the contents of this essay, which gives a sequential list of how SL wasted public funds in the name of peace talks. All of them failed. Government of SL should have taken appropriate steps to either get through an appropriate constitution or shut up and tell the Tamils to put up […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island January 5, 2017, 9:54 pm The Consultation Task Force on Reconciliation Mechanisms (CTFRM), headed by attorney-at-law Manouri Muttetuwegama, has called for full participation of foreign judges and other personnel including defence lawyers, prosecutors and investigators in transitional justice mechanism to address accountability issues. The eleven-member committee stressed that foreign participation […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island A government appointed Consultation Task Force on reconciliation Mechanism (CTFRM) has recommended the participation of foreign judges in war crimes courts to be established in accordance with 30/1 Geneva Resolution adopted in Oct 2015. The UNP-SLFP coalition co-sponsored US-led resolution in 47-member United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Task Force […]

By Shanika Sriyananada Courtesy FT.com The UN, which has estimated that over 40,000 civilians have disappeared during the war in the north, has overlooked the over 65,00 disappearances which occurred in the South during the JVP insurrections from 1986 to 1990, according to former Chairman of the University Grants Commission and Sri Lanka’s former Ambassador […]

Bodu Bala Sena  වර්තමාන රජයේ රාජ්‍ය අමාතය වරයෙකු වන එම්.එල්.ඒ.එම්.හිස්බුල්ලා මහතා විසින් පසුගිය 14 වන දින මෙරට සාමකාමී ජන සමාජයට එරෙහිව කරන ලද වර්ගවාදී තර්ජනය මෙරට බුද්ධි අංශ මෙන්ම සැබෑ සාමය අගයන ජනයා විසින්ද ඉතා බැරෑරුම් ලෙස තේරුම්ගත යුතුව ඇත.  එය නිකම්ම තර්ජනයක් නොව මෙරට ජාතික ආරක්ෂාවට ( National Security ) එරෙහිව කරන ලද වර්ගවාදී […]

Nihal Perera Toronto This is how Tamil Diaspora and their supporters are helping anti-Sinhala Tamil politicians like C.V. Wigneswaren in Sri Lanka to gain international recognition for their future homeland – Eelam.. While our Sinhala politicians (of all parties..), are busy with their petty politics and in-fighting for power, perks, etc., Tamils and their supporters are working relentlessly to advance their […]

– මහින්ද පතිරණ FB https://youtu.be/IfRKK11Dw0M ලසන්ත හා මහින්ද අතර සංවාද හඬපටය තුළ ලසන්ත මහින්දගේ දුබලතාවක් ද පෙන්වා දෙයි. එනම් මහින්ද දුෂිතයින් පිළිබඳ ප්‍රමාණවත් අවධායනක් යොමු නොකිරීම ය. එහෙත් මහින්ද එසේ කිරීමට සූදානම් සිටිය ද ඔහුට ඒවාට එරෙහි ව කටයුතු කිරීමට සාධක නොතිබීම ගැටළුවක් වූ බව සංවාදයෙන් තහවුරු වේ. මහින්ද ඉල්ලා සිටින්නේ හොරකම් කරන පොඩි එකෙක් […]

Shailendran Muthuswamy | HENB | Colombo | Nov 3, 2016:religiousmind.com Pedophile Muslims in Sri Lanka demand Sharia Rights to marry minor girls to use them as production machine for population Jihad aspiring a majority over Sri Lankan Buddhist and Hindus. Large number of Muslim men and women in Sri Lanka affiliated with a Wahhabist group […]