By Admiral Ravindra C Wijegunaratne* The month of August 2006, fifteen years ago was a very eventful month for Sri Lanka Navy. I was the Commandant of Naval and Maritime Academy (NMA) and Flag Officer Naval Fleet (FOCNF) based in Trincomalee; both were busy appointments. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a Tamil separatist […]

Courtesy Adaderana New Zealand has granted refugee status to a Sri Lankan who may have unknowingly helped funnel money to terrorists behind the Easter bombings, Radio New Zealand reported. The Immigration and Protection Tribunal in New Zealand found the man was not involved in supporting terrorist goals and did not know who the money went […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM, Spokesperson, United Sri Lanka Assn It is now clear that the Aukland Supermarket terrorist’  heinous acts  had all to do with his being radicalised by ISIS ideology and nothing to do with his Sri Lankan origins. Reference to this only unfairly tarnishes those of Sri Lankan origin and exposes them to […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM As a New Zealander , I join the Prime Minister Jacinda Arden, The NZ Police  and the rest of New Zealand in unreservedly condemning today’s (3/9/21) , terrorist attack in Auckland that injured several. As a New Zealander of Sri Lankan origin, I condemn this even more ,as  our two thousand […]

Courtesy The Straits Times COLOMBO (AFP) – A Sri Lankan man who went on a knife rampage in a New Zealand mall was “brainwashed” by neighbours from the Middle East, his mother said on Saturday (Sept 4). Ismail Fareeda spoke to a local TV channel about her son as the Sri Lankan government promised to work with New […]

By: Sam Hurley and Jared Savage Courtesy NZ Herald THE SUPERMARKET TERRORIST* Aathil Samsudeen came to NZ in 2011, escaping a tortuous regime in Sri Lanka* He was granted refugee status in 2013 but within five years had become angry and isolated* He was the perfect candidate to be radicalised in his own living room, through Isis-inspired social […]

Courtesy inews The Sri Lankan national, 32, was known to police as an Isis-sympathiser and had been under surveillance for five years The terrorist who stabbed seven people in an Auckland supermarket before being shot dead by police has been named as Ahamed Samsudeen. The Sri Lankan man, 32, who launched his frenzied attack on Friday, was known […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has commenced questioning close contacts of the Sri Lankan who carried out the attack at a supermarket in Auckland, New Zealand, police said. Authorities revealed that the suspect, Ahmed Adil Mohamed Samsudeen, also known as Ahmed Adil Mohamed Samsudeen, a resident of Kaththankudy. It was reported […]

Courtesy AsiaNews.it Police in New Zealand killed a Sri Lanka man after he stabbed six people inspired by jihadi ideology. In the South Pacific nation, Muslims are a fraction of the local Sri Lankan community, compared to over 9 per cent of the population in their country of origin. Extremism is growing as evinced by […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Government of Sri Lanka says that it has been made aware that the UK Home Secretary has decided to maintain the proscription of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a terrorist organization under the UK Terrorism Act No. 7 of 2000. The Home Secretary’s decision, which has been taken following […]

M.R. Narayan Swamy Courtesy The Wire But even after their death, the Tigers seem to have the ability to keep tormenting Sri Lanka’s Tamils. Ever since the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was militarily crushed in May 2009, it has been asked repeatedly: Can the group be resurrected by Sri Lankan Tamils? I insisted […]

WION The so-called Islamic State may be on the retreat in Iraq and Syria but it would be premature to predict the demise of its ideology in India.

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Early this month (August, 2021), a farmer in Vilavotei, Kilinochchi, whilst preparing his paddy field, detected a part of a uniform worn by Sri Lankan soldiers with skeletal remains. He promptly informed the Police. The investigators found besides the aforementioned also evidenced that strongly suggested a site used by […]

By Toby Antony Express News Service Courtesy The New Indian Express The NIA has found that the conspiracy to smuggle drugs and weapons from Pakistan using fishing vessels started in the second half of 2020. KOCHI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) probing the seizure of five AK-47 rifles and `3,000-crore worth of heroin from a Sri Lanka boat […]

Courtesy Adaderana The National Investigation Agency (NIA) of India conducted searches at multiple locations in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, in the Vizhinjam arms recovery case, where heroin and arms were seized from six Sri Lankan nationals in March this year. NIA teams conducted searches at seven locations, spread across Chennai and Tiruvallur districts in Tamil […]

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Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZMSpokesperson  , United Sri Lanka Assn, Wellington NZ Rt Hon Jacinda ArdenPrime Minister of New Zealand. Dear Prime Minister, Tamil Genocide / Mullivaikal  Massacre Remembrance Day In Auckland –  Stirring Up Communal Strife In New Zealand  Based On A Disproven Allegation The United Sri Lanka Association (USLA) of Wellington and it’s members […]

The Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka The Hon.Minister of Tourism and Aviation has instructed this office of the following: 1. For Passengers not arriving via the Sri Lanka Tourism Bio Bubble and who have not been vaccinated or only partially vaccinated can be carried by Airlines only up to a maximum of 75 passengers […]

Kamal Weeraratne (RP) Courtesy Ceylon Today Attorney General Sanjaya Rajaratnam yesterday informed the Supreme Court a probe conducted into the April 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks, had revealed that SJB MP Rishad Bathiudeen and his sibling Riyaj Bathiudeen had supplied a stock of State-owned copper, at a concessionary rate, to a copper factory owned by […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් ලංකා ගුරු සංගමයේ ප්‍රධාන ලේකම් ජෝසප් ස්ටාලින් මහතා මෙරට පැවති යුද්ධය අවසාන කාලයේදි ඊට බාධා කළ පුද්ගලයකු බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී මධුර විතානගේ මහතා සඳහන් කරයි. එවන් සිදුවීම් කිහිපයක් පිළිබඳ තොරතුරු තමන්ට ලැබී ඇති බවත් එම තොරතුරු ත්‍රස්ත විමර්ශන අංශයට ලබාදීමට කටයුතු කරන බවත් මන්ත්‍රීවරයා පැවසීය. යුද සමයේ දී රටේ ආරක්ෂාවට […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම ලංකා සී නිව්ස් මෙරට ප‍්‍රභූ ඝාතනයක් සඳහා හිටපු කොටි සාමාජිකයන් යොදා ගෙන ඔවුනට අරමුදල් සැපයීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් කොටි සංවිධානයේ ජාත්‍යන්තර ජාලයේ ක්‍රියාකාරිකයෙකු ත්‍රස්ත විමර්ශන කොට්ඨාසය විසින් අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඇත. ඔහු අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඇත්තේ කටාර් රාජ්‍යයේ සිටියදී ජාත්‍යන්තර පොලිසියේ සහාය ඇතිවයි. මේ වන විට සැකකරු නිරෝධායනය සඳහා යොමු කර ඇති අතර එම කාලය අවසානයේ ඔහු […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Madras High Court, on Thursday, allowed Nalini Sriharan and her husband Murugan, convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, to make video calls to Sri Lanka and London. Nalini’s mother Padma had filed a petition before the Madras High Court, seeking permission to allow Nalini and Murugan to speak to […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Flabbergasted by LTTE being rechristened as ‘independence group’ Retired infantry Maj. Gen. Chagie Gallage says the recent US declaration that some sections of traditional Tamil homeland remains so militarized 12 years after the war with ‘up to one soldier for every two civilians in the most war affected regions,’ […]

Sri Lankan American Action Coalition (USA) FOR THE ATTENTION OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE Sen. Menendez, RobertSen. Cardin, BenjaminSen. Shaheen, JeanneSen. Coons, ChristopherSen. Murphy, Christopher S.Sen. Kaine, TimSen. Markey, Edward J.Sen. Merkley, JeffSen. Booker, CorySen. Schatz, BrianSen. Van Hollen, ChrisSen. Risch, JimSen. Rubio, MarcoSen. Johnson, RonSen. Romney, MittSen. Portman, RobSen. Paul, […]

By Rathna Kulathunga Toronto – May 25, 2021. Bill 104: Tamil Genocide Education Week Act was passed in Ontario without fact checking and amid a huge line-up of deputation requests to the Clerk of the committee by thousands of concerned Sri Lankans of Canadian Origin. This Bill was released to the 3rd reading without modification on […]

M R Narayan Swamy Courtesy The Hindu Rajiv Gandhi is greeted before his address at an election rally in Sriperumbudur on May 21, 1991, moments before he was killed by a suicide bomber.   May 21 marks the 30th anniversary of the grotesque killing of the former Prime Minister, who was believed to be on […]

Insight – නැණස At last Great film, today the first time I have seen it.First time I read about the so-called white flag incident, but Share among the world in the English version, the different version on the atrocities of LTTE against their own, how many died of Army bullets, how many committed suicide by […]

Courtesy Hiru News Intelligence Bureau and Kerala Police have started to dig into Kerala connections of All Ceylon Makkal Congress Leader and Parliamentarian Rishad Bathiudeen after he was arrested by Sri Lankan Police on April 24 in connection with April 2019 Easter Sunday attacks that killed 279 people and injured hundreds. While the specifics of […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, April 26 (ECONOMYNEXT): Sri Lanka’s ruling party MPs have requested President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to initiate legal action against the entire cabinet of the United National Party (UNP)-led Yahapalana government over the 2019 Easter bombings, a top minister said. Minister of Agriculture Mahindananda Aluthgamage told reporters yesterday that the Presidential Commission of Inquiry […]

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The Samagi Jana Balavegaya (SJB) yesterday (25) protested against the arrest of its Vanni District member Rishad Bathiudeen and his brother, Riyaj in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday carnage under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). Rishad Bathiudeen is the leader of the All-Ceylon Makkal Congress (ACMC), a constituent of […]