Yohan Perera and Ajith Siriwardana Courtesy The Daily Mirror A large number of terrorists had already been arrested, out of which, 12 were hard-core members, President Maithirpala Sirisena told Parliament today. He said that 13 safe houses belonging to those who were responsible for the Easter Sunday carnage had been taken over by the security […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Police has arrested the Assistant Director of the Langama Pasala Hodama Pasala project of the Ministry of Education,Marikkar Dilshan Muhammad, for allegedly encouraging Islamic extremism and the Islamic State (IS). The suspect was arrested in Norochcholai on 4 May evening, according to the list of persons, provided by the office of the […]

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Courtesy Adaderana The State Ministry of Defence has addressed a letter to the President of All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU) As-Sheikh Rizwe Mufthi denying a statement made by him at the all-religious leaders’ meeting held recently. The Secretary of the ministry N.K.G.K. Nammawatta says, the President of ACJU had stated that he had handed over […]

Courtesy Adaderana A 25-acre land plot in Riditenna area of Valaichchenai police division has been identified as a site occupied by the terrorist group responsible for the suicide bombings on Easter Sunday. The Criminal Investigation Department, officers of Valaichchenai Police Station and the Police Special Task Force had carried out the search yesterday (06). Said […]

Courtesy Adaderana Complying with the request made by the security forces, 15 swords have been handed over to the Beruwala Police Station today (07). On May 4th, the police requested the public to hand over the illegal swords, kris knives and sharp dagger to the nearest police station by Sunday (May 5th). However, on Monday […]

Courtesy Adaderana The safe houses used by the suicide bombers in Easter Sunday terror attacks and bank accounts owned by them will be confiscated, says President Maithripala Sirisena. The President stated this addressing the parliamentary session commenced this afternoon (07). Accordingly, 13 safe houses and 41 bank accounts belonging to the suicide bombers are to […]

Courtesy Adaderana A person has been arrested in Negombo while in possession of 8 cell-phone jamming devices, the Police Spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekara said. The suspect is a resident of Negombo area. SP Gunasekara stated this addressing a press conference held in Colombo today (07).

Courtesy Adaderana A cache of anti-aircraft bullets have been recovered from Alagalla area in Vavuniya last evening (06), says Irattaperiyakulam Police. Accordingly, 85 anti-aircraft bullets were found by Irattaperiyakulam police officers, who acted on a tip-off received from the residents of the area. The Irattaperiyakulam Police had searched the area further with the help of […]

Courtesy Adaderana A set of clothing similar to the uniform of the Sri Lanka Army has been found in a garbage pile behind the main bus stand in Hatton. Employees of the Hatton-Dickoya Municipal Council had discovered the clothing set inside an abandoned polythene bag and had informed authorities on the matter. The pair of […]

By Shynee Jananjalie  Hewavidana Easter Sunday. 8am. Out of the blue, my dad received a text from one of his friends asking if our family were safe. Safe from what?” A pause. Switch on the news”, the next text grimly informed us. We all bundled into a room and switched on Sky News. Emblazoned on the screen was the breaking […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 15.5.19 The brilliant execution of the Easter Sunday bomb blasts clearly indicated a foreign hand said experts.  There is an international force behind this, said Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith. A foreign entity, most likely a foreign state or state intelligence agency was behind the attacks. The locals are merely pawns, said analysts. The […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS Revised 17.5.19 Jihadist radicals in the East and elsewhere were closely monitored for years by Sri Lankan intelligence, said analysts. Yahapalana tried to crush the intelligence sector of the military, by imprisoning its best men. But, in spite of this, the military had obtained prior intelligence relating to these attacks and conveyed the […]

මතුගම සෙනෙවිරුවන්           දේව මෙහෙයන්ට සාභාගි වූ අහිංසක ජනතාව ඉලක්ක කර ගනිමින් මරාගෙන මැරෙන බෝම්බ කරුවන් විසින් එල්ල කරන ලද ප්‍රහාරයේ කඳුළු කතාව තවමත් අවසන් වී නොමැත.මුස්ලිම් අන්තවාදය පෝෂණය කරන ලද දේශපාලන සුනඛයන් සිය නගුට දෙපරන්ද අස්සේ සඟවා ගනිමින් එකිනෙකාට බුරමින් සිටින කාලකණ්නි හෝරාව ද  පසු කරමින් සිටිමු.මළ මිනී උඩින් සිය දේශපාලන අභිමතාර්ථයන් ඉෂ්ට කරගත […]

මාධ්‍යය නිවේදනය JOINT SRI LANKAN ASSOCIATION FOR SRI LANKA  ශ්‍රී ලoකාවේ සාමය, ඒකීය භාවය සහ මානව අයිතීන් රැකීම උදෙසා ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාවේ  වික්ටෝරියා, නිව් සවුත් වේල්ස් සහ කුවින්ස්ලන්ත ප්‍රාන්ත වලසිට කටයුතු කරන ‘ස්පර්'( SPUR ) නමින් හදුන්වන සoවිධාන එකතුව, එම අරමුණු සඳහා කටයුතු කරන බටහිර ඕස්ට්‍රේලියා ප්‍රාන්තයේ ‘වැස්පර්‘ ( WASPUR ) සහ ගෝලීය ශ්‍රී ලoකා සoසඳය ( […]

S M Hali  Courtesy  Daily Times India has long been blamed for the intransigence of its intelligence agency RAW in Sri Lanka. Indian role in creating, training, financing and supporting the LTTE as a terrorist movement and India’s war crimes committed on Sri Lankan citizens by the IPKF are well documented. Prabhakaran, a RAW protégé, […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Many analyses on the bloody Easter Sunday massacre had dealt with the incredible lapses of the incumbent Government. The attempt had been to pinpoint the party who might be directly responsible for the carnage and the present prevailing situation of fear and uncertainty. However, several entities including V enerable […]

LEON BERENGER Courtesy The Daily Mirror A suspected jihadist training camp was uncovered at a location in Mullikulam, on the Kaththankudi border, yesterday during a search and locate operation carried out by the Security Forces, a senior official said. He said the camp, located on some 15 acres of land, was sandwiched between a town […]

Courtesy Adaderana Over 140 million cash owned by the terrorist group responsible for the suicide bomb attacks on Easter Sunday has been identified during several raids carried out for the past two weeks, says the Police Media Spokesperson SP Ruwan Gunasekara. Addressing a press conference held in Colombo today (06), he stated that the Criminal […]

Courtesy Adaderana Island-wide search operations conducted with the aim to ensure the security within the country was carried out today as well (06). During a raid at a house in Thalapitiya, Galle police have arrested a person along with over 1000 clothes similar to uniforms of the tri-forces and the Sri Lanka Civil Security Force. […]

A majority-Christian city in Sri Lanka known affectionately as “Little Rome” has been rocked by clashes between Christians and Muslims after the Easter Sunday suicide bombings claimed by ISIS that left 257 people dead. The Catholic Church has called for calm after Christians attacked Muslim-owned shops, homes and vehicles in Negombo. “I appeal to all […]

Simon Shen Courtesy ejinsight.com The recent carnage in Sri Lanka could be indicative of something even more profound and worrisome.  As the threshold for launching terrorist attacks is getting lower and lower, they could become increasingly frequent around the world in the days to come. In particular, the rapidly growing prevalence of drones has allowed […]

Courtesy The New Arab Sri Lanka‘s Roman Catholic Church appealed for calm and an alcohol ban Monday after clashes between Christians and Muslims in a town scarred by Easter Day’s suicide attacks. Hundreds of security forces entered Negombo to impose a curfew after dozens of Muslim-owned shops, homes and vehicles were attacked. St. Sebastian’s church in […]

Courtesy Euronews  with Reuters All suspected plotters and those directly linked to Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday bombings have either been arrested or are dead, the country’s acting police chief said on Monday. In an audio statement circulated by the defence ministry, Chandana Wickramaratne, the acting Inspector General of Police, said security forces had also confiscated bomb-making material […]

by Zachary Halaschak  Courtesy  Washington Examiner Despite claiming responsibility for the Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, the Islamic State did not directly organize the deadly terror attacks. It was a locally led attack. It uses the ideology of ISIS to get the credit for ISIS so it has a success story,” Lt. Gen. Mahesh Senanayake, commander […]

ගාල්ලේ දෙව්සිරි පී හේවාවිදාන ලංඩන් නුවර සිට ලියයි පාස්කු ඉරිදා මිනිස් සංහාරයෙන් ලොවම හ~ද්දී මාධ්‍ය ඉදිරියේ ෙනදෙවන අපේ දේශපාලකයෝ ගාල්ලේ දෙව්සිරි පී¡ හේවාවිදාන ලංඩන් නුවර සිට ලියයි¡ පසුගිය මාර්තු 15 දා නවසීලන්තයේ ක‍යරසිඑජයමරජය නුවර පල්ලි දෙකකට කඩා වැදුණ ඕස්ටේ්‍රලියානු අන්තවාදියකු දේව මෙහෙයට සහභාගී වෙමින් සිටි අහිංසක මුස්ලිම් වන්දනාකරුවන් 49 දෙනෙකු බිහිසුණු ලෙස ඝාතනය කළේය¡ එයට […]

Dr Sarath Obeysekera Even before the Easter bomb blast I have been talking about possibility of connection of drug trade with increased tourism and other crimes. When president started to wage the war against drug trade , remaining intelligent agents were concentrating on netting up Drug Masters  . I wrote an article about  Paolo Escobar […]

Worried Citizen In my opinion, the events that unfolded were the culmination of what began in Jan 2015 when President Mahinda Rajapaksa was overthrown and Maithripala Sirisena appointed. As we all know this was funded and helped by several countries, in the West and even India. The election was manipulated to appoint Ranil Wickremasinghe as […]

BY JOHN HANNAH | MAY 3, 2019, 7:03 PM Courtesy foreignpolicy.com Trump should not waste his opportunity to begin repairing Wahhabism’s trail of wreckage. Here’s a sobering fact: Even after the destruction of the Islamic State’s territorial caliphate in Iraq and Syria, there are today more jihadis fighting in more countries than there were on Sept. 11, 2001. […]

By Dr. S. I. Keethaponcalan Courtesy eurasiareview.com On April 24, 2019, three Catholic churches and three high-end hotels in Colombo were blown up leading to the death of hundreds of people including several foreign nationals. As of today, more than 250 people have been killed. The explosions also maimed hundreds more. It was later revealed that […]