By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island Chairman of the Sectoral Oversight Committee on National Security, Rear Admiral (retd.) Sarath Weerasekera, MP, yesterday (15) asked whether a comprehensive international investigation into accountability issues here could be conducted unless India, too, was subjected to the same. The former Public Security Minister was responding to the Global Tamil […]

By Ranga Jayasuriya/Daily Mirror Colombo, September 13: Channel 4’s latest documentary on the Easter Sunday attack is way too depressing for any Sri Lankan, more so for the survivors and relatives who live with the memories of the slaughter of innocents. But, after a 47-minute-long documentary, all that emerges is a ghastly piece of clickbait […]

by a special correspondent Courtesy Ceylon Today In recent years, if there’s been an event that has sent shockwaves through our nation, akin to the Covid-19 pandemic, it is undeniably the Easter attack. Regrettably, many individuals have exploited this tragedy for political gain, seemingly oblivious to the harrowing truth that lies beneath. Sri Lanka finds […]

By A Special Correspondent Courtesy Ceylon Today Last year, a Sri Lankan individual stood resolutely before the special Bench of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, enduring five days of intense scrutiny from the organisation’s officials. During this period, he revealed a trove of State secrets, all while his life hung perilously in […]

By Special Correspondent Courtesy Ceylon Today A few days ago, this writer posed a critical question to an Islamic scholar of Sri Lankan heritage, now residing in Australia, regarding the Easter attacks: Was it a sinister political conspiracy? The response was unequivocal—there was no political conspiracy lurking behind the gruesome event. However, what unfolded was […]

By Divya Chandrababu Courtesy The Hindustan Times The Sri Lankan convicts have been lodged in the foreigners’ detention camp in Tamil Nadu’s Trichy until their deportation Chennai: The Union government has informed the Madras high court that it has taken steps to deport all the four Sri Lankans, convicted in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case, […]

Ethalaya News – ඊතලය පුවත්

Courtesy Adaderana The Central Crime Branch (CCB) of the Bangalore police in India has arrested three Sri Lankan nationals staying at an apartment in the Bangalore city. It is suspected that the trio has potential links with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) – a banned insurgent outfit from Sri Lanka. According Indian media […]

MEDIA RELEASE GLOBAL SRI LANKAN FORUM – LONDON INITIATIVE. The Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka (SPUR), Victoria Australia, along with like-minded organizations in Australia, England and the Middle East, write to register our protest with regards to the decision of President Ranil Wickramasinghe of Sri Lanka, to offer pardon to the former LTTE cadres […]

MOD  Media Centre State Minster of Defence Hon. Premitha Bandara Tennakoon said that Sri Lanka practices a zero tolerance for terrorism and acts of any nature that supports terrorist activities will be strictly dealt with. Minister Tennakoon made these remarks when he met the Turkish Defence Minister Yaser Guler during his visit to Turkey. The […]

Courtesy Adaderana Prof. Rohan Gunaratne, a threat specialist of the global security environment, has called for a rehabilitation programme for those arrested in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks. Speaking at a conference in Colombo, Prof. Gunaratne urged that suspects connected to the bombings be subjected to a rehabilitation programme prior to their […]

By P.K.Balachandran Courtesy NewsIn.Asia Colombo, July 23: In his book on the 2019 Easter Sunday bombings in Sri Lanka, internationally known terrorism expert Dr.Rohan Gunaratna says that de-radicalization of Islamic ideology is the best way to tackle Islamic terrorism.  In Sri Lanka’s Easter Sunday Massacre: Lessons for the International community (Penguin 2023), Gunaratna says that Islamic terrorism […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Ambassador of Türkiye to Sri Lanka says the elements of FETÖ (Fethullahist Terrorist Organization) – the group behind the foiled 2016 coup bid – have been eliminated from Sri Lanka after successful joint efforts by the two nations against terrorism. Addressing the Democracy and National Unity Day Commemoration Ceremony in Colombo on […]

By Sugeeswara Senadhira Courtesy Ceylon Today More than three decades have passed since the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi by Sikh Khalistan terrorists in October 1984 in New Delhi and her son Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi in May 1991 in Tamil Nadu and President Ranasinghe Premadasa in May 1993 in Colombo by Liberation […]

Courtesy Hindustan Times Among the charge-sheeted persons are C Gunashekharaan alias Guna and Pushparajah alias Pookutti Kanna, Sri Lankan nationals who run a drug syndicate in the island nation and work closely with Pakistani drugs and arms supplier Haji Salim, the NIA said. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has filed a charge sheet against 13 […]

Courtesy Adaderana ගජේන්ද්‍රකුමාර් පොන්නම්බලම් මන්‍ත්‍රීවරයා සමග ආන්දෝලනාත්මක සිද්ධිය ඇතිවූ පොලිස් නිලධාරීයා වන්නේ පොලිස් සැරයන් සනත් ගුණවර්ධන මහතාය. ඔහු 1990 වසරේදී ඔඩ්ඩුසුඩාන් පොලිස් ස්ථානයට අනියුක්තව සේවය කරමින් සිටින අතරතුර LTTEයේ පැහැරගැනීමට ලක්වී එම කඳවුරක වධ බන්ධනවලට ලක් වූ අයෙකි. එල්.ටී.ටී.ඊ.යෙන් නිදහස ලබා පැමිණි සනත් ගුණවර්ධන පොලිස් සැරයන් ධුරයට උසස් කෙරුණු අතර යළි උතුරු පළාතට ස්ථාන මාරුවක් […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo High Court today (23) sentenced a former cadre of the now-defunct separatist group, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) to rigorous life imprisonment. The accused, Thangavelu Nimalan, has been found guilty of the possession of explosives and 02 micro-type pistols to carry out a suicide bomb attack in the Colombo […]

Courtesy Tribune (PK) Officials say Iqbal alias Bali Khayara was wanted for 26 cases of terrorism and targeted killings Terrorist Iqbal alias Bali Khayara, who was a member of Al-Qaeda and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Khayara group, was killed in a police encounter near Fateh Moor in Dera Ismail Khan, police officials confirmed. Iqbal was one […]

By:Methmalie Dissanayake Courtesy Ceylon Today The Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) yesterday (25) said the President and the Government should have tabled the complete report of the Easter Sunday Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI), in Parliament first before giving it to the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Sri Lanka (CBCSL). The full report was handed over […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  හිරු පුවත් තමන්ට තීන්දුවක් ගත හැකි, නියෝගයක් නිකුත් කළ හැකි, බලයක් සහිත කාල වකවානුවේ දී කිසිවක් නොපවසා, විශ්‍රාම යන මොහොතේ කුමන්ත්‍රණකාරී සිදුවීමක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් හිටපු නීතිපති දප්පුල ද ලිවේරා සිදු කළ ප්‍රකාශය සම්බන්ධයෙන් අධිකරණ අමාත්‍ය ජනාධිපති නීතිඥ විජේදාස රාජපක්ෂගෙන් විවේචනාත්මක ප්‍රකාශයක් නිකුත් වී තිබෙනවා. අද (22) පෙරවරුවේ මහනුවර අස්ගිරි විහාරස්ථානයට ත්‍රස්ත විරෝධී පනත සම්බන්ධයෙන් […]

Courtesy OneIndia The revival of the LTTE has been on the radar of the investigation agencies for long. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) recently seized a huge cache of cash, gold bars, digital devices, drugs and documents, along with other incriminating material during the raids and searches conducted at Chennai. In a release the NIA […]

Courtesy The New Indian Express In December 2022, the NIA arrested nine people from the Sri Lankan refugee camp in Tiruchy. CHENNAI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday conducted searches in eight locations in the city and arrested a trader for allegedly possessing unaccounted cash, ganja and gold, among other things. The authorities made […]

Divyesh Singh Courtesy India Today The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has busted a racket allegedly working for the revival of a militant group in Sri Lanka. The agency has arrested one member and seized illegal proceeds. The National Investigation Agency has seized a huge cache of cash, gold bars, mobile phones, memory cards, drugs and […]

Insight – නැණස කොටි නායකයා සමඟ යුධ හමුදා කපිතාන්වරයා පැවැත්වූ සම්බන්ධය ගැන තිස්පස් වසරකට පසුව කියන අමුතු කතාව පැවැත්වූ සම්බන්ධය ගැන තිස්පස් වසරකට පසුව කියන අමුතු කතාව

Courtesy The Hindustan Times Tamil nationalist leader Pazha Nedumaran’s claim that Velupillai Prabhakaran, the founding chief of the Liberation of Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), is still alive was quashed by Tamil nationalists and the Sri Lankan army Tamil nationalist leader Pazha Nedumaran’s claim that Velupillai Prabhakaran, the founding chief of the Liberation of Tigers […]

Lanka Lead News ජනාධිපතිවරයා පසුගිය දා උතුරේ කළ සංචාරයේදී එක්තරා දෙමළ පිරිසක් විසින් ශ්‍රී ලංකා පොලිසියේ නිලධාරීන් මඩ වතුරෙන් නහවමින් සිදු කළ අමානුෂික විරෝධතාව තමන් දැඩි ලෙස හෙළාදකින බව යාපනයේ සිවිල් සංවිධාන කැදවුම්කරු අරුන් සිද්ධාර්ථන් සදහන් කරයි. මෙම ක්‍රියාව සිදුකළේ සමස්ත උතුරේ ජනතාව නොවන බවත්, විවිධ දේශපාලන කණ්ඩායම්වල නියෝජිතයන් හා අතුරුදන් වූවන්ගේ ඥාතීන් ලෙස පවසන […]

 Lanka Lead News ට්විටර් පණිවිඩයක් නිකුත් කරමින් විදේශ අමාත්‍ය අලි සබ්රි මහතා ඩොලර් මිලියන 11.7ක සහනාධාර ලබාදීම පිළිබදව කටාර් චැරටි සංවිධානයට ස්තුතිය පළ කරයි. ඊට අමතරව කටාර් චැරටි සංවිධානයේ ශ්‍රී ලංකා කාර්යාලය නැවත විවෘත කිරීමේ අවස්ථාවට සහභාගි වූ නිලධාරින් දෙදෙනෙකු සමග අමාත්‍ය අලි සබ්රි මහතා ගනුලැබූ පින්තූරයක් ද මාධ්‍යවල දක්නට ඇත. ඉස්ලාම් අන්තවාදයට සෘජුව සහ […]

Courtesy Hiru News It has been revealed that a Sri Lankan gemstone company that was key to sanctioned terrorist facilitator Ahmed Luqman Talib’s revenue generation in support of Al -Qaida continued doing business after Talib was sanctioned & arrested.

Lanka Lead News කැනඩාවේ හිටපු ශ්‍රී ලංකා නියෝජ්‍ය මහකොමසාරිස් අශෝක වීරසිංහ මහතා හෙළිකරන්නේ 1997 ජනවාරි 31 දා සිදුවූ කොටුවේ මහ බැංකු බෝම්බ පිපිරීම සඳහා ටී. එන්. ටී. පුපුරණ ද්‍රව්‍ය ටොන් 50 ක් සහ ආර් ඩී එක්ස් පුපුරණ ද්‍රව්‍ය ටොන් 10 ක් මිලයට ගෙන ඇත්තේ යුක්රේනයේ රුබේයෝන් රසායන කම්හලෙන් බව ය. කොටුව බෝම්බ පිපිරීමෙන් සියයකට අධික […]

Courtesy Hiru News The National Investigation Agency of India arrested a member of terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS) who was in touch with the mastermind of Easter bombings in Sri Lanka Zahran Hashim, for his links with suspects in October 23 blast in Tamil Nadu.