Bandula Jayasekara Courtesy The Island September 14, 2016, 8:18 pm Major General , Kamal Gunaratne who commandeered the elite 53 division of the Sri Lankan Army retired from on the 5th of September and launched his book ‘Road to Nandikadal – True story of defeating the Tamil Tigers’ both in Sinhala and English, on his birthday, […]

By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today Did the United Nations’ Secretary General Ban Ki-moon commit a serious error when he lumped the Rwanda and Srebrenica genocides with our war against terrorism? The Joint Opposition (JO) charged that he deliberately tarnished our image, ahead of the proposed war crimes probe. Skills Development and Vocational Training Minister Mahinda […]

 LNW SPY September 11, 2016  උතුරු පළාතේ පදිංචි සියලුම සිංහලයන් පලවා හරින්නටත් බුද්ධ මන්දිර ඇතුළු සියලුම විහාරස්ථානත් ඉවත්කිරීමට බල කරමින් ජාත්‍යන්තර ප්‍රජාවගේ අවධානය ඒ සඳහා ලබා ගැනීමට දැවැන්ත විරෝධතාවය යාපනය නගරයේදී 2016.09.24 වන දින පවත්වන බවත් එදිනට නිජබිමේ අයිතිය වෙනුවෙන් සහභාගි විම අනිවාර්ය කරමින් දෙමළ ඩයස්පොරාව අද මුළු උතුරු, නැගෙනහිර පළාත් වල අත් පත්‍රීකාවක් බෙදාහැර […]

By the Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement We read the ICRC report of mid April-12th May, 2009 which was available on the internet at the time and it stated that, during four weeks upto 12th May, 2009, the ferry from Puthamathalan to Pulmuddai in Trincomalee which had a hospital manned by not only Sri Lankan doctors […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando September 4, 2016, 11:10 pm Wartime Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama yesterday alleged that the outgoing UNSG Ban Ki-moon had caused considerable damage to Sri Lanka ahead of forthcoming judicial inquiry into war crimes allegations by comparing the offensive against the LTTE with genocide in Ruwanda and Srebenica in the 90s. The UNSG’s […]

PRESS RELEASE The Muslim Council of Sri Lanka vehemently condemns the attack on Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to Malaysia, Ambassador Ibrahim Ansar, and the chief monk of a Sri Lankan Buddhist temple in Sentul,  Ven. Sri Saranan. This dastardly act has no parallel in the diplomatic history of Malaysia and Sri Lanka. Ambassador Ansar is […]

By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island September 6, 2016, 7:13 pm In the wake of UNSG Ban Ki-moon reiterating his commitment to Geneva-led accountability process, we should re-examine Sri Lanka’s response to war crime allegations. Let me first, mention specific allegations directed at the previous government after the war ended in May 2009. Sri Lanka paid […]

by Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island September 6, 2016, 10:23 pm Former General Officer Commanding elite 53 Division Maj. General (retd) Kamal Gunaratne, whose troops killed LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran and some of the latter’s top lieutenants during the final confrontation on the morning of May 19, 2009 has strongly disputed UNSG Ban Ki-moon’s comparison of […]

BY HARIZ MOHD  Courtesy NEW STRAITS TIMES PETALING JAYA: Selangor police have set up a special investigation team to probe Sunday’s assault on Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to Malaysia Ibrahim Sahib Ansar at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). Selangor police chief Datuk Abdul Samah Mat said they have also acquired a three-day remand order against five […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින කතුවැකිය ඩයස්‌පෝරාව මේ රටේදී “කානිවල්” දමන්නට සූදානම් වූයේ දැනට වසර එකහමාරකට පමණ උඩදීය. දැන් එම ඩයස්‌පෝරාව මේ රටේදී නටන්නට සූදානම් කරගෙන සිsටි කානිවල් සහ කොටි නාඩගම් මැලේසියාවේදී නටන්නට පටන්ගෙන ඇති බව පෙනේ. ඉතා නුදුරේදීම මේ පෙරහුරුව මේ රටේදී නටන වෙස්‌ නැටුමක්‌ බවට පරිවර්තනය වීමේ ඉඩකඩ බොහොමත්ම වැඩිය. මැලේසියානු මහ කොමසාරිස්‌ අයි. අන්සාර්ට සහ […]

කීර්ති වර්ණකුලසූරිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින මැලේසියන් ඉන්ඩියන් ප්‍රොaගේසිව් ප්‍රන්ට්‌, මැලේසියන් ටැමිලන් හෙවත් නාම්තමිලර් සහ මැලේසියන් ඉන්ඩියන් එඩියුකේෂන් ට්‍රාන්ස්‌පෝටේෂන් ඇසෝසියේෂන් නැමැති ඊලම්වාදී සංවිධාන මෙම ප්‍රහාරයට සම්බන්ධ බව තවදුරටත් අනාවරණය වී තිබේ. එච්. අයි. ඊ. ටී. ඒ. නමින් හඳුන්වන සංවිධානය මෙහෙයවන්නේ ඒ ඊලන්ගෝවන් නැමැති ඊලම්වාදී ද්‍රවිඩයෙකි.         * සෙන්තුල් විහාරාධිපතිට ප්‍රහාර එල්ල කිරීම මෙහෙයවූයේ ඉලන්ගෝවන් […]

Courtesy Adaderana September 5, 2016  04:00 pm  Five people have been arrested over the alleged assault on Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner to Malaysia Ibrahim Ansar at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport.   Selangor CID chief Deputy Comm Datuk Mohd Adnan Abdullah in Malaysia confirmed the arrests but declined to divulge the details of the five individuals. The […]

LTTE backing Tamils know who really defeated them – Gammanpila හැබැයි මොකුත් නොකරපු මහින්ද මහත්තයව මරාගෙන කන්න හදනවා… පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල පවසයි. https://youtu.be/-hQrnV1fSC4

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by Lakshman I. Keerthisinghe (The writer is an Attorney-at-Law with LLB, LLM, MPhil(Colombo) Ceylon Today Who made thee the ruler and judge over us?-Exodus 7.27 –The Bible Asian Tribune on 20 August reported that the American Ambassador to Sri Lanka Atul Keshap addressing a reception in Jaffna on 16 August had stated, “We know the government […]

 M.S.M Ayub Courtesy The Daily Mirror he defeat in 2009 of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) which had overrun many huge military bases in the north and the east for over two decades would definitely have puzzled many in Sri Lanka as well as in other countries. It was an organisation that had overrun […]

DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA According to the newspapers, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon is scheduled to arrive in Sri Lanka on the 31st August 2016.  It is important for the citizens of this country to take a moment and reflect on the type of man that is about to visit the country. I won’t pretend to be […]

by Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island August 30, 2016, 7:31 pm The mandate of the Geneva based 47 Member Human Rights Council installed in 2006 is to promote, protect and prevent Human Rights violations. Given below are instances where the UN has admitted that it failed to live up to its mandate,together with instances where the […]

Published Mon, 2005-10-17 05:00 Courtesy Asian Tribune Bodipala Wijeyesinghe told Asian Tribune” that he is not in favor of Ranil Wickremasinghe in the forthcoming Presidential Poll. He termed Batalanda as the Killing Field” and said Ranil has to do lot of explanation to exculpicate himself from the accusing finger pointed towards him in the sordid chapter […]

By Chandani Kirinde Courtesy Sunday Times The Presidential Commission to Investigate Complaints Regarding Missing Persons in its final report has recommended the setting up of a two-way domestic mechanism — a Special High court and a Truth Commission — to deal with persons accused of human rights violations during the last phase of the war. Suspects […]

Bodhi Dhanapala, Quebec, Canada. In replying to a column by the veteran journalist Shamindar Ferdinando, Mark Salter has revealed the mind-set of the Western co-chairs who attempted to bring piece to Sri Lanka” during the military offensive of the LTTE against its elected government. The gist of what Ferdinando stated (Island, 16th August) was that […]

By Dr. T. Somasekaram  (Source: Sooriyan – March 21, 2004) I was shocked, saddened and angered when I read the news item on 17 March 2004 in Sri Lanka Media, that a memorial is to be erected in Colombo for the Indian Peace Keeping Force – IPKF soldiers who died in Sri Lanka between 1987 […]

RANJITH SOYSA If the news emanating from various sources are to be considered seriously. the tracing of the missing persons will only result in providing half baked answers. Tens of thousands of Tamil people made use of the war situation to seek greener pastures by mainly using illegal methods. They traveled by ships and boats […]

 Courtesy The Daily Mirror An internationally wanted Sri Lankan accused of terrorist activities is living just outside the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) as a Canadian citizen, CTV Toronto reported on Thursday. It said the case raises questions about the weight of Interpol notices as well as how the Canadian government deals with people they believe […]

Ranjith Soysa Hon Dy Prime Minister Hon At General Hon Minsters We wish bring to your notice a glaring error in the document below which will be used by the Australians. There is no country called Tamil Eelam whereas the Tamil Tigers , a banned organization under the UN was fighting a war to create […]

කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ ශ්‍රී ලංකා මානව හිමිකම් කේන්ද්‍රය ජනපති, අගමැති, පොලිස්පතිතුමනි ප්‍රේමකීර්ති ගේ මිනීමරුවන් ද තවමත් නිදැල්ලේය. ප්‍රේමකීර්ති ද අල්විස් වෙඩි තබා ඝාතනය කර ජූලි 31 වෙනිදා ට වසර 28 කි. මෛත්‍රී ජනපතිතුමනි, රනිල් අගමැතිතුමනි, ප්‍රේමකීර්තිගේ මිනීමරුවන් තවමත් නිදැල්ලේය. ගුවන්විදුලියේ ‘රජ්ජුරුවෝ‘, අසහාය ගීත රචකයා, අසමසම සන්නිවේදකයා ප්‍රේමකීර්ති ද අල්විස් ඝාතනය කොට වසර 28 කි.  අදටත් ප්‍රේමකීර්ති […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island July 26, 2016, 7:50 pm The United Nations system that operated during the genocide in Rwanda was the Human Rights Commission. The UN system that operated in 2009 when the LTTE took Civilians hostage was the Human Rights Council. In 2009 the Human Rights Council did not realize that the […]

උපුටාගැණීම Ceylon Leader හිටපු අධ්‍යාපන සහ සංස්කෘතික අමාත්‍ය IMR ඊරියගොල්ල මහතාගේ දියණිය වන වෛද්‍ය චන්ද්‍රිකා ඊරියගොල්ල මහත්මිය ශ්‍රී ලංකා අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතාට විරුද්ධව අන්තර්ජාල පෙත්සමක් සදහා අත්සන් ලබාගැනීමේ ව්‍යාපාරයක නියැලෙමින් සිටිනවා. ඒ භීෂණ සමයේදී වදකාගාර පවත්වාගන යාම සහ තරුණයින් වදදී ඝාතනය කිරීමේ චෝදනා එල්ල කරමින්ය. (එම පෙත්සම සදහා මෙතනින් පිවිසිය හැක) දැනට බ්‍රිතාන්‍යයේ පදිංචිව සිටින […]

Editorial Courtesy The Island  July 23, 2016, 9:50 am Many an eyebrow has been raised by a government decision to exempt the proposed Office of Missing Persons (OMP) from the provisions of the Right to Information Act (RIA). It can refuse to provide information even to the apex court, we are told. The UN is in […]

By Dharish Bastians Courtesy Daily FT This month Sri Lanka marks the 33rd anniversary of one of the darkest periods in the island’s history. Sparked by a LTTE ambush of soldiers in the North on 23 July 1983, anti-Tamil riots swept across the country, tacitly sponsored by the state; the legacy of a past steeped in discrimination, […]