Courtesy The Daily Mirror Minister Harin Fernando today tweeted the image of an internal memo and report by the police intelligence of a terror attack to be carried out by an organisation called National Thawheed Jamath. Some intelligence officers were aware of this incidence. Therefore there was a delay in action. What my father heard […]

Hafeel Farisz  Courtesy The Daily Mirror Two men checked into the Shangri-La which now takes pride of place in the heart of the city on April 20, 2019. They had provided an address in Dematagoda when checking in. Close to 9 a.m. yesterday (April 21) the duo detonated two bombs. One at the packed restaurant […]

Courtesy Adaderana A total of 207 deaths have been reported in the eight explosions which occurred around the country on Easter Sunday (21). According to the Police Media Spokesperson, over 450 persons have been injured in the explosions which shook the country.

Courtesy Adaderana Three police officers have been reported dead from an explosion at Mahawila Gardens housing scheme in Dematagoda.

RT Priests walk into the St. Anthony’s Shrine, Kochchikade church after an explosion in Colombo. ©REUTERS / Dinuka Liyanawatte Just 10 days before explosions at six churches and hotels in Sri Lanka claimed some 160 lives, the national police chief reportedly sent an alert about a radical Islamist group planning bomb attacks on prominent churches. […]

RT Six explosions rocked Catholic churches and luxury hotels in Sri Lanka as Christians began Easter Sunday celebrations, with at least 161 killed and hundreds more injured, local authorities said. The blasts occurred at around 8:45am local time at St. Anthony’s Church in Colombo and St. Sebastian’s Church in Negombo, a Catholic-majority town outside of […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror At least six explosions were reported this morning at three churches in Kochchikade, Katana, and Batticaloa and three five-star hotels in Colombo, police said. Explosions were reported at St. Anthony’s Church in Kochchikade, Kotahena and St.Sebastian’s Church in Katuwapitiya, Katana. Explosions were also reported at three five-star hotels, the Shangri-La, Cinnamon […]

Courtesy BBC At least 100 people are reported to have been killed and hundreds more injured in explosions at churches and hotels in Sri Lanka. At least six explosions have been reported. Three churches in Kochchikade, Negombo and Batticaloa were targeted during Easter services. The Shangri La, Cinnamon Grand and Kingsbury hotels, all in Colombo, […]

S.H.MOULANA Courtesy The Island After the 2003 illegal invasion of Saddam’s Iraq by Bush and Blair, followed by the ousting of Gaddafi by the West in 2011, we saw an uprising in Syria, which has so far taken more than 400,000 lives of fighters as well as innocent civilians, by bombs dropped by foreign powers […]

Courtesy Swissinfo.ch The Swiss Federal Court must decide whether the Tamil Tigers are a criminal group – following a complaint from the Office of the Attorney General (OAG). The OAGexternal link has filed a complaint against last year’s verdict from the Federal Criminal Court, which ruled that 13 alleged financiers of the Sri Lankan Tamil separatist group […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Swiss Federal Court must decide whether the Tamil Tigers are a criminal group – following a complaint from the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG). The OAG has filed a complaint against last year’s verdict from the Swiss Federal Criminal Court, which ruled that 13 alleged financiers of the Sri […]

Courtesy Adaderana A speeding Canter truck has run over an Army checkpoint at Vattapalai Junction in Mullaitivu, killing a soldier and injuring another, stated Sri Lanka Army Media Division. The truck had been traveling towards Nadunkarni Junction from Mullaitivu when the driver of the truck had lost control of the vehicle due to the high […]

Courtesy joe.co.uk Four men have been arrested on suspicion of belonging to a banned terrorist organisation Police arrested four men on suspicion of belonging to a banned terror group after they arrived in the UK at Luton airport from Sri Lanka. They arrived on Wednesday night and were taken into custody before being questioned at […]

Courtesy Adaderana German authorities have indicted a Sri Lankan man suspected of involvement in killing 15 captured government soldiers while fighting for the Tamil Tigers terrorist group. Federal prosecutors said Friday that 37-year-old Sivatheeban B. is accused of membership in a foreign terrorist organization, war crimes, two cases of manslaughter and 11 cases of attempted […]

Courtesy MENAFN Date4/1/2019 10:30:09 AM  (MENAFN – Colombo Gazette) The then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi gave his bullet-proof jacket to LTTE leader Velupillai Prabakaran in Delhi, besides Rs 50 lakh as first instalment of Rs 5 crore aid to LTTE, and wanted the LTTE to allow implementation of the Indo-Lanka accord, AIADMK leader Panruti S […]

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS The yahapalana regime initiated with the 2015 presidential election had undisclosed motives and a deformed face in its operation to the country and the pattern of its operation showed that it was associated with highly dishonest elements. At the outset, Mr. Maithrepala Sirisena didn’t know about the president of the party (Swan […]

By Kalinga Seneviratne  SYDNEY (IDN) – After a White Australian of Christian background Brenton Tarrant gunned down 50 Muslims praying at a Christchurch mosque on a Friday, it took the New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern more than a day to call it a terrorist” act, and when she did so, the mainstream media in […]

Sanjana Hattotuwa Courtesy Stuff OPINION: Coming out of a long meeting, the first I heard of the violence in Christchurch was from those in Sri Lanka who had got breaking news alerts. I was both very disturbed and extremely intrigued. Terrorism as popular theatre or spectacle is not new, and some academics would argue is a […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Sri Lanka is expected to inform the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Human Rights Council (HRC) of the conclusion of the radiocarbon dating analysis by the Beta Analytic Testing Laboratory in Florida, US, in respect of six skeletal samples sent there in […]

Asif Shahzad/Abu Arqam Naqash Courtesy NewsIn.Asia JABA, Pakistan (Reuters) – The only confirmed victim of India’s air strike against Pakistan is still unsure why he was shaken awake in the early hours of Tuesday by an explosion that rocked his mud brick house and left him with a cut above his right eye. They say they […]

පුබුදු වික්‍රමතිලක උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම ජිනීවා සමුවට ගෙන යන අලුත්ම මාතෘකාව වී ඇත්තේ මන්නාරම සමූහ මිනීවළය. කනත්තක් වූ මෙයට සමූහ මිනීවළ යැයි අර්ථකථනය දුන්නේත් ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට යුද අපරාධ චෝදනා නඟන්නට වෙර දරන බටහිර බලවේගමය. මන්නාරම මිනීවළෙන් හමුවන අස්ථි කොටස් සමූහ ඝාතනයට ලක්කරන ලද දමිළ සිවිල් ජනතාවගේ හෝ හිටපු කොටි සාමාජිකයන්ගේ බවට සමාජගත කිරීමට ඔවුන්ගේ අභිමතයය. ජිනීවාහිදී පෙබරවාරි […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island December 4, 2018, 11:38 pm The rehabilitated ex-LTTE cadres, arrested in connection with last Friday’s killing of two police constables at Vavunativu, Batticaloa, would be charged under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA), a senior police officer said yesterday. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID), investigating the incident, would have to […]

By Charunya Rajakaruna Courtesy Adaderana Former Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa questions the whether it is justifiable to compensate LTTE terrorists. He mentioned this to the media following an event held in Colombo. The event was attended by former President Mahinda Rajapaksa as well. Former Defense Secretary points out that when compensating missing persons, the government will have […]

By Nirmala Joseph Courtesy The Gulf Today CHENNAI: Informed people have rejected an allegation raised by Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena that the now-defunct Tamil Tiger outfit had planned to attack Colombo with an aircraft flying from Chennai in 2009. Speaking to the Sri Lankan community in New York where he spoke at the UN […]

By Dr.Rajan Hoole/newsin.asia Rains and early gloom harbinger the dying year. Fields are ploughed and sown in readiness for the earth’s renewal and the yield of her bounty. It was at such a time that Rajani Thiranagama was killed by the LTTE twenty-nine years ago. Her questions and aphorisms often challenged our assumptions at their core. The […]

lanka C news ස්විට්සර්ලන්තයේ ජිනීවා නුවර මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලයේ 39 මහා සභාවේ සමාන්තර සැසිවාරයකදී ජගත් දේශප්‍රේමී ලංකික සංසදය ජිනීවා ප්‍රකාශනය” නමින් ඓතිහාසික ලියවිල්ලක් එළිදක්වා ඇත. කරුණු 4 කින් යුත් ජිනීවා ප්‍රකාශනය” 1976 දී යාපනය වඩුක්කොඩේ ප්‍රකාශනයේ සිට එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලය තුළ කොටි හිතවාදීන් සම්මත කර ගත සියලු ප්‍රකාශන දක්වා සියලු මතවාදීය ප්‍රකාශවලට පිළිතුරක් […]

Statesman News Service | Chennai | September 22, 2018 4:13 am Sri Lankan President’s revelation of UPA govt helping Lanka in Eelam war sparked protest from AIADMK.  After a prolonged absence, the ghost of Tamil Elam War in Srilanka once again started haunting the state politics with a revelation by former Srilankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa. Rajapaksa’s […]

lanka C news ජනාධිපති මෛත්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන හා හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ ඝාතනය කිරීම සඳහා සිදුකරන ලද කුමන්ත්‍රණය පසුපස අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා සිටීමත් ඉතාම පැහැදිලි බව පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී එස් බී දිසානායක මහතා පවසයි. මෙම සිදුවීමේදී ඇමැති රංජිත් මද්දුමබණ්ඩාර, ඇමැති සාගල රත්නායක හා අගමැති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ හැසිරුණු ආකාරය දෙස බලද්දී අගමැති රනිල් විසින් සංවිධානය කරන […]

Sheain Fernandopulle Courtesy The Daily Mirror Former in charge of the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) DIG Nalaka de Silva, against whom allegations had been levelled over his alleged plot to assassinate President Maithripala Sirisena and former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, had connections with the LTTE, the National Freedom Front charged today. Addressing a news briefing, NFF […]

 The Sunday Observer  Colombo, September 16 (The Sunday Observer): The proposed Counter-Terrorism legislation presented to the Cabinet of Ministers last week after several rounds of revisions to the text, is human rights compliant and meets international standards, and Sri Lanka’s obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), legal experts told *Sunday […]