By D.B.S. Jeyaraj/Daily Mirror Courtesy NewsIn.Asia The 21 km-long Puthukkudiyiruppu-Oddusuddan road progressing through the hinterland of North-Eastern Mullaitivu District, links Puthukkudiyiruppu on the A-35 Paranthan-Mullaitivu highway and Oddusuddan on the A-34 Mankulam-Mullaitivu highway. It was along this road that a trusted deputy of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran was killed by the […]

DECCAN CHRONICLE. | SP LOGANATHAN Rameswaram: Less than 24 hours after a huge cache of ammunition was stumbled upon at the backyard of a house in the coastal fishing hamlet of Anthoniyarpuram near Thangachimadam in Rameswaram on Monday night, there was renewed hectic activity at the spot on Tuesday with the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) […]

Press Trust of India  Rameswaram: A Sri Lankan national, was arrested at Uchipuli Valangapuri coast near Rameswaram while two others escaped into a nearby forest, police said on Wednesday. Sagaya Stephen from Thalaimannar was seen moving around in suspicious circumstances near the coast last night along with two others when he was arrested, ‘Q’ Branch inspector […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Government has issued an extraordinary gazette on Wednesday listing 14 individuals as designated persons who have connections with the LTTE in terms of terrorism-related activities and funding and financing of terrorism, to the List of Designated Persons. The Gazette which was issued by Defence Ministry Secretary Kapila Waidyaratne, adds amendments […]

Courtesy Adaderana Two individuals in possession of LTTE military uniforms, flags of the terrorist organization and a stock of claymore explosives have been arrested this morning (22) on the Oddusuddan road in Mullaitivu. According to the police, the suspects were taken into custody in a sudden search carried out by the police, while the goods […]

මුලතිව්- ශෂිකුමාර් උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම මුලතිව් _ ඔඩ්ඩුසුඩාන් ප්‍රදේශයේදී කොටි සංවිධානයට අයත් නිල ඇඳුමක්, කොටි සංවිධානයට අයත් කොඩියක් සහ බෝම්බ ඇතුළු යුද උපකරණ තොගයක් ත්‍රිරෝද රථයකින් ප්‍රවාහනය කරමින් සිටි පිරිසක් අත්අඩංගුවට ගත් බවට ඔඩ්ඩුසුඩාන් පොලිසිය කියයි. ඔඩ්ඩුසුඩාන් පේරාරු මංසන්ධිය ප්‍රදේශයේදී මාන්කුලම් පොලිසියට අයත් රථවාහන පොලිස් නිලධාරීන් පිරිසක් පසුගියදා (21දා) රාත්‍රියේ මුර සේවයේ යෙදී සිටියදී පැමිණි ත්‍රිරෝද රථයක් […]

චාමර අමරසූරිය උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ. ත්‍රස්ත සංවිධානයේ නායකයන් ඇතුළු එම සංවිධානයේ සාමාජිකත්වය දැරූ දැනට විදෙස් ගතව සිටින පුද්ගලයන් 14 දෙනකුට මෙරටට ඇතුළු වීම තහනම් කරමින් අති විශේෂ ගැසට් පත්‍රයක් නිකුත් කර තිබේ. ආරක්‍ෂක අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම් ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ කපිල වෛද්‍යරත්න මහතා විසින් මෙම අති විශේෂ ගැසට් නිවේදනය නිකුත් කර ඇත. අංක 2076/18 දරන එම අති විශේෂ ගැසට් […]

ඩබ්ලිව්.කේ. ප්‍රසාද් මංජු උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ. සංවිධානය සමඟ එක් වී කටයුතු කළ විදෙස් ගත පුද්ගලයන් මෙරටට පැමිණ කිලිනොච්චියට ගොස් ඔවුන්ට අවශ්‍ය කටයුතු සිදුකරගෙන මුදල්ද රැගෙන රටින් පිට වූ පසුව ඔවුන්ට ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට ඇතුළුවීම තහනම් කරමින් ගැසට් නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කිරීම හාස්‍යයට කරුණක් බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා ‘ඉරිදා මව්බිම’ට ප්‍රකාශ කළේය. ලෝකයේ බොහෝ රටවල් ත්‍රස්තවාදයට එරෙහිව […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia New Delhi, June 20 (The Hindu): The Indian Central government has told Tamil Nadu that releasing the four foreign nationals convicted of committing the gruesome assassination of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, in connivance with three Indian nationals, will set a very dangerous precedent and lead to international ramifications.” In its communication to […]

පටබැඳිගේ අමරබන්දු උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම වර්ෂ 1990 ජුනි 11 වැනි දින ලංකාවම කඳුළෙන් නැහැවූ මහා ඛේදවාචකයක් සිදුවූ දිනයක්. අම්පාර දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ කල්මුණ, පොතුවිල, අක්කරපත්තුව ආදී පොලිස් ස්ථාන රැසක් සහ මඩකළපුව දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ පොලිස් ස්ථාන රැසක පොලිස් නිලධාරීන් 600ක ගේ ජීවිතය තිරිසන් කොටින්ගේ අමානුෂික වෙඩි පහරකට ලක්වූයේ රට පාලනය කළ පාලකයන්ගේ වරදින්. පොලිස් සැරයන් මනෝජ් එවකට රාජකාරි කළේ කල්මුණේ පොලිසියේ. […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island May 28, 2018, 12:00 pm The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) side-stepped The Island query whether documents that had been destroyed as reported in a section of the British and other media included diplomatic cables originating from the British High Commission in Colombo during eelam war IV. Asked whether the […]

Courtesy scroll.in The British Foreign Office confirmed that it destroyed 195 files on the island country, dating from 1978 to 1980. The United Kingdom’s Foreign Office destroyed almost 200 files on the rise of the separatist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the role of the British spy agency MI5 and Secret Air Service in […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The Global Sri Lanka Forum (GSLF) celebrated Sri Lanka’s triumph over terrorism in May, 2009 with a public gathering in Dubai. Former Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohina addressed the gathering. On the invitation of the GSLF, Mrs S.G Juliet, mother of Corporal Gamini Kularatne of the Sixth Battalion of the Sinha Regiment […]

Prof Channa Jayasumana Secretary, National University Teachers’ Association 22nd May 2018, Prof. Ratnam Vigneswaran, Vice chancellor, University of Jaffna, Thirunelvely, Jaffna. Dear Prof Vigneswaran, Jaffna University-do not let racist politicians to destroy the future of Jaffna youth and the University. We, as responsible university academics in Sri Lanka have noted with dismay the involvement of […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The National University Teachers’ Association (NUTA) today registered their protest with the Jaffna university authorities over the involvement of undergraduates in the so-called ‘Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day” observances. NUTA Secretary Prof. Channa Jayasumana asked Jaffna University Vice Chancellor Ratnam Vigneswaran not to allow racist politicians to exploit the university students for their […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Dhaka, May 22 (BDNews24.com): At least 99 Hindus including children were killed by Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army or ARSA in the Rakhine state of Myanmar in August 2017, says Amnesty International.  Amnesty has revealed that evidence collected after detailed investigation inside the Rakhine state and across Bangladesh border, including forensic reports and interviews, revealed […]

ගාල්ල දෙව්සිරි පී. හේවාවිදාන ලන්ඩන් නුවර සිට  උපුටාගැණීම  මව්බිම සිංහලයන්ට හැම දෙයක්ම මතක තියෙන්නේ සුමාන දෙකකට පමණයි කියා කිව්වේ ලෝකයේ දරුණුතම ම්ලේච්ඡ මිනීමරුවා වූ ප්‍රභාකරන්ය. ඒ කෘෘර මිනිසා මියගොස් වසර නවයක් ගත වුවද ඒකා කියූ දේ කොතරම් සත්‍යයක් දැයි මට හිතෙන්නේ අපේ මිනිසුන් දැන් හැසිරෙන විදිය දෙස බලන විටයි. මෙයට වසර දහයකට විස්සකට පෙර ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේත් විශේෂයෙන් […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 20: Nine years after the war between the Sri Lankan armed forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) ended in May 2009, reconciliation between Sri Lanka’s majority Sinhalese and minority Tamils still appears to be a far cry. And most disturbingly, the logjam is creating the ground for extremist […]

Courtesy Firstpost Colombo: Sri Lanka’s president warned that Tamil extremists were regrouping abroad to revive their demand to divide the island nation nine years after the end of its decades-long ethnic war. Maithripala Sirisena said government forces had failed to quash the Tamil rebels’ separatism, although they were militarily conquered by May 2009 following a […]

Courtesy Mailonline Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena Sirisena came to power in January 2015 on the back of strong support from the minority Tamil community Sri Lanka’s president Saturday warned that Tamil extremists were regrouping abroad to revive their demand to divide the island nation nine years after the end of its decades-long ethnic war. […]

Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, May 18 (newsin.asia): Sri Lankan Tamils should observe May 18 every year as Tamil Genocide Day”, said the Northern Province Chief Minister C.V.Wigneswaran on Friday. He was speaking on the fourth annual remembrance day at Mullivaikkal, the scene of killings in the last stages of the war against Tamil Tiger separatists in […]

Lucien Rajakarunanayake Courtesy The Island May 18, 2018, 10:22 pm This is the Day of Peace – when the LTTE was finally defeated, at Mullivaikkal in the Mullaithivu District. The path of peace is that, or should be that, of reconciliation. It is a word we have heard so often, especially in the past three years. […]

By Eurasia Review Since the number of financial crimes have been increased with the expansion of technology, better coordination among Government institutions is essential to face this situation successfully. Accordingly the proposal submitted by Sri Lanka’s Mangala Samaraweera Minister of Finance and Mass Media to widen the composition of National Coordinating Committee for Preventing Money Laundering […]

Nijeesh N. Research Assistant, Institute for Conflict Management The Global Terrorism Index 2017 report states, “Over the last 15 years, Bhutan and the Maldives have experienced the lowest levels of terrorist impact in the region.” There were, nevertheless, several developments indicative of growing Islamist radicalization in the Maldives in the recent past, adversely impacting its national security. […]

SATP – SOUTH ASIA INTELLIGENCE REVIEW wrote: AFGHANISTAN 447 militant ‘commanders’ killed, 10844 militants injured and 2068 arrested in operations conducted by ANDSF in ‘Afghan solar year 1396’, says MoD Afghanistan: Ministry of Defense (MoD) Afghanistan Spokesman Brigadier General Dawlat Waziri said that 447 militant ‘commanders’ were killed, 10844 militants were injured and 2068 were arrested […]

By Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha Courtesy Ceylon Today Evans did not respond to my letter as he promised. When I met him a year later in Geneva and asked him about this, he said he thought he had replied, but then confessed that he had heard that I was a dangerous man to engage with. This was […]

අනුරුද්ධ බණ්ඩාර රණවාරන මාධ්‍ය ලේකම්, ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ. අම්පාර – තෙල්දෙණිය ප්‍රදේශවල සිදු වූ ලේ වැකි සිද්ධිදාමයේ මහ මොළකරු කොළඹ දිස්ත්‍රික්කයෙන් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට පැමිණි, ජාතික ඇඳුම් අදින, උස හීන්දෑරි හාදයකු බව ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණේ නායක විමල් වීරවංශ මහතා හෙළිකර සිටියේය. අද (06) පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ පැවති කල්තැබීමේ විවාදයට එක්වෙමින් ඒ මහතා මෙසේ හෙළිකර සිටියේය. එහිදී වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Nearly a decade after the successful conclusion of the war, Sri Lanka is still struggling to achieve national reconciliation. The previous Rajapaksa administration brought the violent conflict to an end on the morning of May 19, 2009 on the banks of the Nanthikadal lagoon,o n the Vanni east front, […]

By SANJA DE SILVA JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island The UNHRC’s High Level Segment is in session now, and is due to discuss Sri Lanka’s progress on the implementation of the Resolutions that this governmenteagerly co-sponsored in 2015 and 2017. Thereport of its progress is due to be presented later in the session, but one of the […]

KONARA WANIGASEKARA Kotte Courtesy The Island Why has Sri Lankan military attaché, Brig. P. Fernando, been recalled? Has the government gone bonkers? When did it start taking instructions from the British? Something that Dr ANS Kulasinghe told the Plant & Equipment (P&E) Engineer at Polgolla comes to mind. When did you start taking instructions from the […]