Thilanka Kanakarathna Courtesy The Daily Mirror Although the yahapalana government is attempting to obtain an Interpol ‘Red Warrant’ on him it had withdrawn some 150 some such warrants including those issued on former LTTE terrorists because of the influence by Tamil politicians, former envoy Udayanga Weeratunga said today. He said in a statement that he was […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today When a foreign delegate lands in Sri Lanka, the Tamil National Alliance wastes no time in lamenting to them about the delay in installing the new Constitution. When Prince Edward, the Earl of Essex, came on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II for the 70th Independence celebrations, it was no different. […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ඩොලර් මිලියන 15ක්‌ අවි මිලයට ගැනීමට ලබාදුන් ස්‌විස්‌ කොටි නායක රගුපති ඇතුළු 13කට නඩු ස්‌විස්‌ටර්ලන්තය තුළ කොටි සංවිධානය තහනම් නැත. මේ නිසා ස්‌විස්‌ කෝකියකු වූ රගුපති නමැත්තා ස්‌විස්‌ටර්ලන්තයේ කොටි ශාඛාවේ ප්‍රධානියා ලෙස ක්‍රියාකරයි. ස්‌විස්‌ කොටි ක්‍රියාකාරීන් ජීනිවා සුරිච් බාසල් ලුසොන් – වින්ටතුර් ඇතුළු ප්‍රදේශ රැසක අරමුදල් එකතු කරද්දී ස්‌විස්‌ පොලිසිය නිහඬව සිටියේය. […]

මනෝඡ් අබයදීර  උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින මාස දහයකට ආසන්න කාලයක්‌ නිරපාරදේ රිමාන්ඩ් ගත කර සිටි කොමදෝරු ඩී. පී. කේ. දසනායකට සහ කමාන්ඩර් සුමිත් රණසිංහ ඇතුලු නාවික හමුදා විරුවන්ට පසුගියදා ඇප ලැබුණි. යහපාලනයේ ඊලාම්ගැති ප්‍රතිපත්තිය රට ඉදිරියේ තබමින් නාවික හමුදාවේ වීර පිරිස මාස දහයක්‌ පුරා හරිහමන් හේතුවක්‌ නොමැතිව රිමාන්ඩ්ගත වී සිටියේය.     දෙසැම්බර් 4 වෙනිදා සිට 14 වෙනිදා […]

Chairman, Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement Our organisation, The Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement, is extremely alarmed by attempts even by sections of the Sri Lankan media and even patriotic organisations urging the Sri Lankan Government to accept secret defence reports written by our adversaries, the US, UK imperialists, which accuse our Sri Lankan Armed Forces of […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island December 12, 2017, 8:25 pm Sri Lanka Navy celebrated its 67th anniversary last Friday (Dec 9) with Vice Admiral Sirimevan Ranasinghe at the helm. Ranasinghe succeeded Vice Admiral Travis Sinniah last October amidst simmering controversy over Sri Lanka’s decision to acquire a frigate from Russia, nine years after the successful […]

Courtesy The Island December 11, 2017, 10:37 pm Lord Naseby has expressed disappointment over the British High Commission, in Colombo, callously dismissing wartime dispatches from its own Defence Attache, Colonel Anton Gash. Apropos a response from the British High Commission in Colombo to a query raised by the The Island, in its Dec 5, 2017 […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island December 8, 2017, 10:34 pm Leader of the Joint Opposition parliamentary group Dinesh Gunawardena, MP, has questioned the rationale behind the British government’s rejection of its own Colombo-based wartime Defence Attaché Lt. Colonel Anton Gash’s confidential reports sent to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Gash’s cables originating from Colombo […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island December 5, 2017, 8:46 pm Five years after the release of the Report of the Secretary General’s Panel of Experts (PoE) on Accountability in Sri Lanka, in March 2011, South African Yasmin Sooka, a member of that questionable outfit, proudly claimed to possess unhindered access to those who had fled […]

By Sanja De Silva Jayatilleka Courtesy The Island “The [Security] Council reiterated that “any acts of terrorism are criminal and unjustifiable, regardless of their motivation, wherever, whenever and by whomsoever committed,” reaffirming the need for all States to combat, by all means, threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts.” (‘Four peacekeepers killed in […]

By Ravi Ladduwahetty Courtesy Ceylon Today The Joint Opposition (JO) will press the Government this week to withdraw or annul the Resolution that it jointly signed and co-sponsored with the United States on Sri Lanka. “We will press the Government to withdraw the Resolution as it is based on the war crime charges where the numbers […]

By Methmalie Dissanayake Courtesy Ceylon Today Minister of Foreign Affairs and Development Assignments Tilak Marapana yesterday (25) said that the Government would use Lord Naseby’s statement, regarding the final phase of Sri Lanka’s war against the LTTE, in an appropriate forum. Marapana made this remark prior to the debate on Heads of Expenditure of Foreign Affairs […]

By SANJA DE SILVA JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island Following Sri Lanka’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR) held at the Human Rights Councils in Geneva on the 15th of November 2017, and the adoption of its Report on the 24th, a draft outcome document called “Draft report of the Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review”, which includes recommendations […]

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Boston Lanka This is the story of Adele Ann Balasingam. A story of a woman, who began her career as a nurse and later became a women military leader of a terrorist organization. A story of a woman’s journey from Hospital to battlefield, from being a healing nurse to a killer Nurse.

සිංහල දීපය චන්ද්‍රිකාගේ කටේ නරිවාදම රෙද්ද පල්ලෙන් බේරීම

By Manushi Silva Courtesy Adaderana The Joint Opposition will initiate legal action, seeking personal compensation, against police officers who pursue unlawful orders, said former parliamentarian Professor G.L. Peiris. Addressing a media briefing held at Colombo today (23), the former foreign minister alleged that there are attempts to arrest former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa. The main reason for […]

By SANJA DE SILVA JAYATILLEKA Courtesy The Island November 19, 2017, 8:45 pm On Tuesday, 14th of November 2017, Dinesh Gunawardena introduced a resolution in Parliament requesting that in view of Lord Naseby’s revelations in the House of Lords on the number of civilian deaths during the last stages of the war, “Sri Lanka should take action […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island November 17, 2017, 10:06 pm Police have reportedly been ordered to take legal action against anyone who will commemorate the dead Tigers including LTTE Leader Velupillai Prabhakaran on Nov. 27. Curiously, if it is against the law to commemorate the slain Tigers how come the same law does not apply to […]

Lt. Colonel (Retd) Athula Lankadeva RWP, RSP, USP, psc, MSc. Courtesy The Island November 11, 2017, 6:35 pm The Sunday Times of 29 Oct carried an article referring to Lord Naseby on demanding to remove the war crime tag from Sri Lanka. Lord Naseby researched classified documents to find that UN has fudged the casualty figure […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island November 10, 2017, 10:15 pm The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is apparently wasting its time and money on its campaign to have a hybrid war crimes tribunal set up in this country. For, UN expert and South African human rights lawyer, Yasmin Sooka, has already found the Sri Lankan troops guilty […]

Courtesy The Island November 9, 2017, 11:17 pm Former Justice Minister Dr. Wijeyadasa Rajapakse, PC, yesterday said the possibility of those who had been seeking political asylum in Europe inflicting injuries on themselves couldn’t be ruled out. MP Rajapakse pointed out that the British media in April this year reported how a Sri Lankan asylum […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island November 7, 2017, 12:00 pm April 5, 2012: Lord Naseby, PC, Baron of Sandy and Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group in UK meets wartime Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Temple Trees Lord Naseby has challenged the UN Panel of Experts (PoE) findings pertaining to Sri Lanka’s […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Former Deputy Minister and retired Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera yesterday said that a recent statement made by Lord Naseby in the House of Lords pertaining to the Vanni war death toll could be the basis for Sri Lanka’s defence at the Geneva based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Addressing […]

by Lakshman I. Keerthisinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today On the basis of the evidence available to this Commission and the prevailing law, the suggestion that the crime of genocide was or may have been committed during the final phase of the war is without foundation.-Paranagama Commission At the ongoing 36th session of the United Nations Human Rights […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island October 24, 2017, 12:00 pm The British parliament was told, on Oct 12, 2017 that Velupillai Prabhakaran killed Jaffna Mayor Alfred Duraiappah in 1973. The statement was made by Michael Morris, Baron Naseby PC, during a debate on Sri Lanka. Having declared that he launched the All-Party Parliamentary Group on […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island October 26, 2017, 12:00 pm War crimes: Cabinet spokesman and Sports Minister Dayasiri Jayasekera yesterday said that the government could act on Lord Naseby’s recent call to Theresa May’s government in the UK to review the much-touted UN allegation that 40,000 Tamil civilians perished on the Vanni front in 2009 […]

If minorities are discriminated in Sri Lanka who can explain the following: Can you think of any country with a sizeable population where industry and property are dominated by the minority communities?  Colombo the commercial hub of Sri Lanka, its population is dominated by Tamils and Muslims leaving Sinhalese in the minority  The […]

By D.B.S. Jeyaraj Courtesy The Daily Mirror President Maithripala Sirisena held successive discussions with two Tamil delegations in Colombo on Thursday (19) on the issue of Tamils detained in various prisons under the Prevention of Terrorism Act(PTA) in general and the hunger strike undertaken by three such detainees at the Anuradhapura Prison in particular. The focus […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror A video footage captured following the joint opposition-led protest held at Hambantota today, showed a senior police officer assaulting an arrested protester. Meanwhile, posting the video on his Twitter page, MP Namal Rajapaksa asked, A.S.P. Daluwaththa, is this Yahapalanaya?” When contacted, Police spokesman Ruwan Gunasekara said he was yet to see […]