By D. B. S. Jeyaraj Courtesy The Daily Mirror What was your first military operation”? was a question posed to Veluppillai Prabhakaran in a media interview many years ago. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader replied Alfred Durayappah”. Prabhakaran was of course referring to the popular former Mayor and ex-MP Alfred Thangarajah Durayappah who […]

Arun Ram| TNN Courtesy The Times of India CHENNAI: An influential businessman who had secret links with Sri Lanka-based Tamil radicals was helping forest brigand Veerappan with information and, probably, arms. What’s more, the same man, when threatened with exposure over his Lankan links, helped the Special Task Force trap and gun down the bandit 12 […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island The Norwegian embassy refrained from responding to serious accusations that a Norwegian or Norwegians of Sri Lankan origin had been involved in an alleged assassination attempt on Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Parliamentarian M. A. Sumanthiran in January, this year. Megapolis and Western Development Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka has alleged that […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island February 1, 2017, 9:58 pm Alleging that five former LTTE cadres arrested in connection with an alleged attempt to assassinate TNA lawmaker M.A. Sumanthiran had been produced before the Kilinochchi Magistrate and District judge and remanded till Feb 13 on a charge of possessing explosives and narcotics instead of under […]

Courtesy The Hindu Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa has accused the Sri Lankan government of dropping its guard on the LTTE by scaling down intelligence operations in the island’s Tamil-majority north and east. Commenting on the recent arrest of four ex-LTTE members, for allegedly plotting to assassinate Tamil legislator M.A. Sumanthiran, the two-time President said: They […]

By D. B. S. Jeyaraj Courtesy The Daily Mirror Nallavan” (not his real name) is a Tamil youth living in a Northern village. He was a former member of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) organization who had surrendered to the armed forces in May 2009. He was incarcerated for a period of time and […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island January 26, 2017, 9:47 pm During the course of an e-mail exchange, the question as to which Laws should guide issues relating to Sri Lanka’s Armed Conflict became a contentious topic. The opinion of some was that International Human Rights Laws (IHRL) and International Humanitarian Laws (IHL) should operate concurrently […]

Stewart Bell | January 16, 2017 5:22 PM ET  Courtesy National Post TORONTO — An alleged fundraiser for Tamil rebels who has been fighting deportation from Canada for more than two decades has lost a key court battle after a federal judge dismissed his appeal. The Federal Court upheld the deportation of Manickavasagam Suresh on the […]

කීර්ති වර්ණකුලසූරිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් සමුළුවේ 34 වැනි සැසිවාරය මේ වසරේ මාර්තු මස ආරම්භ වේ. මෙහිදී ශ්‍රී ලංකාවට එරෙහිව 2015 ඔක්‌තෝබර් 1 දා සම්මත වූ ජිනීවා යෝජනාව පිළිබඳ ව රජය කටයුතු කර තිබේද යන්න ගැන විමර්ශනය කෙරෙනු ඇත. ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් සමුළුව ආරම්භ වීමට මාස 2 ක්‌ තිබියදී රජයේ සංහිඳියා කාර්ය සාධක බළකාය […]

Kanthar Balanathan Please read the contents of this essay, which gives a sequential list of how SL wasted public funds in the name of peace talks. All of them failed. Government of SL should have taken appropriate steps to either get through an appropriate constitution or shut up and tell the Tamils to put up […]

By Shanika Sriyananada Courtesy FT.com The UN, which has estimated that over 40,000 civilians have disappeared during the war in the north, has overlooked the over 65,00 disappearances which occurred in the South during the JVP insurrections from 1986 to 1990, according to former Chairman of the University Grants Commission and Sri Lanka’s former Ambassador […]

Bodu Bala Sena  වර්තමාන රජයේ රාජ්‍ය අමාතය වරයෙකු වන එම්.එල්.ඒ.එම්.හිස්බුල්ලා මහතා විසින් පසුගිය 14 වන දින මෙරට සාමකාමී ජන සමාජයට එරෙහිව කරන ලද වර්ගවාදී තර්ජනය මෙරට බුද්ධි අංශ මෙන්ම සැබෑ සාමය අගයන ජනයා විසින්ද ඉතා බැරෑරුම් ලෙස තේරුම්ගත යුතුව ඇත.  එය නිකම්ම තර්ජනයක් නොව මෙරට ජාතික ආරක්ෂාවට ( National Security ) එරෙහිව කරන ලද වර්ගවාදී […]

By Manekshaw Courtesy Ceylon Today Adele Anne, widow of the late LTTE theoretician Anton Balasingham, has lambasted a pro-LTTE expatriate Tamil organization for claiming that it has the urn containing the ashes of the late theoretician and making arrangements to build a monument with it in memory of him in London. Anton Balasingham, following the death […]

By Simon Lewis | YANGON Courtesy: Reuters A group of Rohingya Muslims that attacked Myanmar border guards in October is headed by people with links to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, the International Crisis Group (ICG) said on Thursday, citing members of the group. The coordinated attacks on Oct. 9 killed nine policemen and sparked a crackdown […]

By PK Balachandran Courtesy The New Indian Express COLOMBO: Leaders of Tamil Nadu, across the political divide, privately but effectively supported the Indian government’s policy of opposing efforts by the US and Norway to rescue Velupillai Prabhakaran so that his Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) lived to fight another day, says Shivshankar Menon, India’s […]

by Ravi Ladduwahetty Courtesy Ceylon Today I will not agree with what you say. But, I will defend to death, your right to say it. I will not agree with what you write, but, I will make every room for you to write – Voltaire Voltaire was the nom de plume of Frenchman François-Marie Arouet (21 […]

lanka C news | ලංකා සී නිවුස් හම්බන්තොට වරයේ සේවක විරෝධතාවය විසරුවා හැරීමට නාවුක හමුදාව විසින් එල්ල කල ප‍්‍රහාරය අතරතුරදී නාවික හමුදාපති අද්මිරාල් රවින්ද්‍ර විජේගුණරත්න විසින් මාධ්‍යවේදියෙකුට අසභ්‍ය වචනයෙන් බැන වදිමින් පහර දීමක් සිදු කර තිබේ. තමන්ට නාවික හමුදාපතිවරයා විසින් පහර දුන් බව එම මාධ්‍යවේදියා විසින් කියා සිටි අතර එසේ පහර දුන් අවස්ථාව රූපවාහිනී නාලිකා […]

තෙෂාර ජයසිංහ Sr Lankan Solidarity Movement Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna’s Message (Mr. Basil Rajapakshe’s new political party). Important, timely and very true. https://www.facebook.com/srilankapjp/ නග්න බෙදුම්වාදී අගපසග ඒකීය සළුපිලි වලින් සගවා , මුළුමහත් ලංකේය ජාතියම රවටා, දෙමල ජාතිවාදී බෙදුම්වාදී නියායපත්රයට අනුව සකසන ලද බෙදුම්වාදී ෆෙඩරල් ව්යවස්ථාව කඩිමුඩියේ සමමත කර ගැනීම 2017 වසරේ පළමු කරිතුවේදී සිදුකිරීමට නියමිතව ඇත […]

Colombo, 22 November, (Asiantribune.com): An investigative-research-analyses which discloses Washington’s playbook and machinations that revived Sri Lanka’s domestically-annihilated Tamil Tigers in the global arena as an influential diplomatic-political force is well documented in a book – Tamil Tigers’ Debt To America: US Foreign-policy Adventurism & Sri Lanka’s Dilemma – written by a professional who worked within […]

by Arun Ambalavanar The memoir penned by Niromi de Soyza calls herself a Tamil Tigress published by Allen & Unwin in Australia seems to be a fake. A critical reading of the book establishes that the author is a foreigner to the subject the Tamil Tigers and the landscape (Jaffna peninsula and the adjacent the […]

-කීර්ති වර්ණකුලසූරිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින මේ අතර ඊයේ (03දා) මැදපෙරදිගින් ප්‍රකාශයට ඇරෑබ් නිවුස්‌ පුවත්පත පැවසුවේ යාපනයේ සිදුවූ ක්‍රියාදාමයන් නිසා හමුදා බුද්ධි ප්‍රධානියාව ධුරයෙන් ඉවත් කර ඇති බවයි. උතුරේ අස්‌ථාවර තත්ත්වයක්‌ ඇති කිරීමට මොහු ක්‍රියාකරන බවට සිවිල් සංවිධාන විසින් පැමිණිලිකර තිබූ බවද එම පුවත්පත වැඩිදුරටත් හෙළි කළේය. ශ්‍රී ලංකාවේ යුද හමුදාවේ බුද්ධි සේවා ප්‍රධානියා ලෙස කටයුතු කළ […]

Gamini Gunawardane  I refer to the letter by a group of University dons under the title Killing of Undergrads Must be Condemned” that appeared in ‘The Island” of 29th October. Death is undoubtedly sad occurrence. But it does happen. When it occurs due to police shooting, it is really serious. When the victims happen to […]

The United States created a stronger-influential Tamil Diaspora to affect changes in Sri Lanka. About The Book About The Author Our Interpretation Our Reach Author’s Platform The United States created a stronger-influential Tamil Diaspora to affect changes in Sri Lanka.  The United States’ disappointment in its failure to salvage Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger (LTTE) secessionist […]

Courtesy Ceylon Today “Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool […]

නෙත් නිවුස් උතුරු පළාතේ සේවය කරන සියලු ද්‍රවිඩ පොලිස් නිලධාරීන් ඉලක්ක කර ගනිමින් තර්ජනාත්මක ලිපියක් යොමුකර තිබෙනවා. ඒ, යාපනය, කිලිනොච්චි, මුලතිව්, වව්නියාව හා මන්නාරමේ ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ පොලිස් නිලධාරීන් වෙතයි. මෙම ලිපිය යොමු කරනු ලැබ ඇත්තේ ‘‘ ප‍්‍රභාකරන් බලකාය’’ නමින් නම් කර ගන්නා කණ්ඩායමක් විසින්. එහි දැක්වෙන්නේ යාපනය සිසුන්ගේ මරණ සම්බන්ධයෙන් නීතිය ක‍්‍රියාත්මක වන තෙක් දෙමළ පොලිස් […]

Editorial Courtesy Ceylon Today Could the genesis of the killings of the two Jaffna University students last week have been the July 26 clash between Tamil and Sinhalese students at the Jaffna University ostensibly because the University heads had agreed to demands that a late entry application, be dismissed, for a Kandyan dance to be included […]

Sugath Samarasighe  Prof. Ratnajeevan Hoole. in his illuminating essay()pinion Page- 14th Oct.) on the trivilasing and emasculation of the Independent Elections Commission by the government, says inter-alia as follows: The President said, military commanders who led a successful campaign to crush separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in May 2009 should not be humiliated by bringing them […]

ලංකා සී නිවුස් පසුගියදා යාපනය චුන්නාකම්හිදී පොලිස් බුද්ධි අංශ නිලධාරීන් දෙදෙනෙකු කපා කොටා තුවාල කලේ තම සංවිධානය විසින් යයි උතුරේ ක‍්‍රියාත්මක වන ‘ආවා ගෲප්’ කණ්ඩායම විසින් යාපනය සහ ආසන්න නගරවල අත්පත‍්‍රිකා බෙදා ඇත. පොළිසිය විසින් යාපනය සරසවි සිසුන් දෙදෙනෙකු ඝාතනය කිරීම නිසා මෙය සිදු කල බවද අදාල අත් පත‍්‍රිකාවන්හි දැක්වෙයි. මෙම අත් පති‍්‍රිකා උතුරේ යාපනය, […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island October 20, 2016, 9:14 pm Decades prior to May 2009, when the ‘armed conflict’ in Sri Lanka ended, the conflict had been branded as an ‘ethnic’ one. Subsequently, the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission in their report categorized it as a conflict between a state and a non-state actor. The […]

By PK Balachandran / ENS  |  Express News Service  |   Published: 24th October 2016 04:05 PM  |   COLOMBO: The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority Northern Province, C.V.Wigneswaran, refused to hoist the LTTE’s flag at a function organized by the pro-LTTE organization Tamil Coordination Committee (TCC) at Harrow in London on Sunday. When the Chief Minister came to […]