Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror Non- Governmental Organizations (NGOs) linked to the LTTE assisted the investigations conducted by former CID IP Nishantha Silva, who fled the country last year, former President Maithripala Sirisena informed the PCoI probing Easter Sunday attacks. Testifying before the Commission on Wednesday, the former President said that several Buddhist monks, […]

Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror Prabhakaran’s youngest son was a commander of LTTE baby brigade, but the Sri Lankan army never killed him, SJB MP Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka told Parliament today. He said this in response to an allegation made by Tamil National People’s Front MP Selvaraj Gajendran that the […]

Lahiru Pothmulla Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Sri Lanka Podujana Permauna (SLPP) today called for an immediate investigation into the release of MP Rishad Bathiudeen’s brother Riyaj Bathiudeen, who was arrested over alleged involvement in the Easter Sunday Attacks. Responding to a question asked at the SLPP weekly news briefing over the concerns raised by […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks was told by former President Maithripala Sirisena today (05), that he was left in the dark regarding the crucial foreign intelligence warning, up until the day following the attacks. The former Commander in Chief at the time added that then-Defense Secretary […]

Courtesy Adaderana Investigations have revealed that the ‘Save the Pearls’ organization, belonging to currently detained Hejaz Hizbullah, has received funds from an institute in Qatar suspected to be funding terrorist activities. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) informed the court today (23), that the said institute had deposited an amount of Rs 13 million to the […]

By P.K.Balachandran/Weekend ExpressCourtesy NewsIn.Asia Besides exacerbating Tamil-Sinhala ethnic tension in Sri Lanka, the commemoration of Thileepan’s death could sour the Lankan Tamils’ relationship with India Colombo, September 17: The commemoration of the 33 rd.Anniversary of the fast-unto-death of the Tamil Tiger hero Thileepan this year has become an issue in Sri Lankan politics. It has […]

BY ASHMAN ADAM Courtesy Malay Mail KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 17 — The Kuala Lumpur High Court today dismissed a taxi driver’s legal bid to delist the now defunct Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a terrorist group in the country. Malaysiakini reported Justice Mariana Yahya issuing the ruling over V. Balamurugan’s judicial review application during […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia He was commenting on former MP M.K. Shivajilingam’s commemorating the 33 rd anniversary of the fast-unto-death undertaken by Thileepan, a member of LTTE chief Prabhakaran’s inner circle Colombo, September 16 (newsin.asia): Dr.Rohan Gunaratna, an international expert on terrorism who is now Honorary Professor at the Sir John Kotelawala Defense University, Sri Lanka, has […]

Courtesy Hiru News Former senior DIG of the Eastern province Edson Gunatillake says that muslim radicals have been taking arms since 2008 and 2009 under the pretense of fighting the LTTE, and spread their radicalistic ideas. He expressed this view last evening while giving his statement before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on the Easter Attacks. […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Mahinda sought a summit with Prabakaran   Prabakaran didn’t understand the outside world    Tigers rejected civilian evacuation plan   Balasingham knew rebels would lose Sri Lanka’s 30-year war would be remembered, in part, for the crucial role played by Norway. The Norwegians managed to secure peace talks between the Government of Sri Lanka […]

Courtesy WION News Sufi Scholar in Sri Lanka have raised alarm on radical groups. Sufi scholar is receiving threats from Wahhabi groups. According to reports, 48 radical islamic groups are active in the country. https://www.wionews.com/videos/sri-lanka-sufi-scholar-warns-against-extremist-groups-325404

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් ජාත්‍යන්තර රතු නිවේදන නිකුත් කර ඇති ,  එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ සංවිධානයට සම්බන්ධ පුද්ගලයින් 338 දෙනෙකුගේ නම් අසාදු ලේඛනයෙන් ඉවත් කිරීමට හිටපු අමාත්‍ය මංගල සමරවීර මහතා ඍජුවම කටයුතු කර ඇතැයි බුද්ධි අංශ මාණ්ඩලික  නිලධාරි කර්නල් ෂම්මි කුමාරරත්න මහතා අද ප්‍රකාශ කළා . ඒ දේශපාලන පලිගැනීම් පිළිබඳ සොයා බලන ජනාධිපති පරීක්ෂණ කොමිෂන් සභාව හමුවේ සාක්ෂි […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the Easter Sunday terror attacks has informed MP Rauff Hakeem to appear before its police unit. Accordingly, the parliamentarian will be recording a statement with the police unit of the PCoI on Friday (September 04).

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් පසුගිය ආණ්ඩුව පාස්කු ප්‍රහාරයේ විමර්ශන නිසි අයුරින් සිදු නොකළ බවට කොළඹ අගරදගරු අති උතුම් මැල්කම් කාදිනල් රංජිත් හිමිපාණන් පවසනවා. උන්වහන්සේ රජයෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටින්නේ ආගම සහ භාෂාව පදනම් කරගත් දේශපාලන පක්ෂ තහනම් කරන ලෙසයි. රාගම – තේවත්ත – ශ්‍රී ලංකා අප ස්වාමිදූගේ ජාතික බැසිලිකා සිද්ධස්ථානයේ රෝගීන් ආසිරි ගැන්වීමේ වාර්ෂික දේව මෙහෙය කොළඹ […]

By Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Ceylon Today Former Norwegian peace negotiator Erik Solheim, who defended Tiger terrorists and their vision of the so-called ‘Tamil cause’ for over three decades, finally acknowledges that he knew Tiger Leader Velupillai Prabakaran had ordered the killing of former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi. Solheim, in a twitter message, said that […]

Courtesy Hiru News he former director of the State Intelligence Service told the Presidential Commission that the series of Easter attacks could have been prevented if all security forces worked togther and had arrested Saharan’s follower as a precautionary measure.

Courtesy Hiru News The founder of the Nelligala International Buddhist Center Venerable Wathurakumbure Dhammaratana Thero says that he received a letter of threat, three weeks after the Easter attacks. The thero made this statement while testifying before the Presidential Commission appointed to probe the Easter Attacks. Dhammaratana Thero further added that the Zaharan Hashim had […]

Courtesy Hiru News Former Director of the State Intelligence Service Nilantha Jayawardena stated that the State Intelligence Service also knew before the Easter attack that Rifkan Bathiudeen, the brother of former Minister Rishad Bathiudeen, had helped Saharan Hashim, who was evading court despite being issued a warrant, to flee to India by boat from Mannar. […]

By Camelia Nathaniel/Daily News The role of one who goes as “Maniarasan” based in France, has come to light Colombo, August 4: Since 2009 after the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was militarily defeated, there have been several attempts to revamp the LTTE military outfit. From 2012 there have been 12 such attempts that […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia The decision was taken on July 30, 2020 Colombo, August 1 (newsin.asia): The European Council on July 30 decided to renew the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) of Sri Lanka, along with 20 other organizations including Babar Khalsa, Hizbul Mujahideen’ and Khalistan Zindabad Force. Here are the details: COUNCIL […]

Courtesy Adaderana Director of the State Intelligence Service (SIS) Nilantha Jayawardena revealed that former deputy ministers Ameer Ali and M.L.AM. Hizbullah had supported terrorist and extremist groups in the country. He made this revelation on Thursday (30), testifying before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) probing the Easter Sunday terror attacks, for the fourth consecutive day. During […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former Director of State Intelligence Service (SIS) Nilantha Jayawardena revealed at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks that Mawlawi Naufer, who is currently under arrest, had served as the theoretician of the banned-terror group National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ). Giving evidence at the Presidential Commission of Inquiry yesterday (28), Jayawardena […]

Courtesy Adaderana Former Director of the State Intelligence Service (SIS), Nilantha Jayawardena has told the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) probing Easter attacks that the National Security Council was kept informed of all threats posed by Zahran Hashim but no action was taken to arrest the ringleader of the carnage. Senior DIG Jayawardena was the […]

Courtesy Hiru News Riyaz Bathiudeen, the brother of former MP Rishad Bathiudeen, who is in the custody of the CID, was brought to the Police Investigation Unit of the Presidential Commission appointed to Investigate the Easter Attacks at around 9 am today to record a statement. Our correspondent stated that he was taken back at […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Presidential Commission appointed to inquire the Easter Attacks today commenced questioning the then Director of the State Intelligence, Nilantha Jayawardena, who was the first to receive prior information and warning on the series of terrorist attacks on Easter Sunday. At the request of Nilantha Jayawardena and the Attorney General’s Department, which […]

Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror A senior officer attached to the State Intelligence Service (SIS), after his retirement, had connections with an Islamic organisation that wanted to establish an Islamic state, a senior SIS official investigating Islamic extremism on Thursday night informed the PCoI probing Easter Sunday attacks. The witness made the above statement […]

Courtesy Hiru News It has now been revealed that the extremists had a plan to launch a second attack targeting the Sri Dalada Perahera in Kandy after the Easter Sunday attack. A State Intelligence official working in the Eastern Province testified for the second day yesterday in connection with the Inquiry of the Presidential Commission […]

Written by Arun Janardhanan courtesy The Indian Express Probed by the Colombo Crime Division, Criminal Investigation Department and the Terrorism Investigation Department, the probe into the Easter Sunday blasts has result in the arrest of around 200 suspects, and the investigation is in its final stages. The wife of one of the suicide bombers who struck […]

Courtesy Hiru News The Presidential Commission to Investigate the Easter Attack has drawn attention to the sudden transfers of two police officers who were initially investigating the Ampara Saindamarudu blast. The Commission commenced to hear evidence yesterday regarding the explosion that took place in a house in Saindamardu, Ampara on April 26 last year. SSP Samantha […]

By Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy The Island Pulasthini Rajendran alias Sarah, the wife of Achchi Mohammdu Mohammadu Hasthun, suicide bomber, who blew himself up at St. Sebastian’s Church in Katuwapitiya, most likely had fled to India by sea in September 2019 and a person who helped her escape had been arrested, Chief Inspector Arjuna Maheenkanda, yesterday […]