Courtesy Dawn An anti-terrorism court on Saturday indicted 89 individuals accused of lynching 49-year-old Sri Lankan factory manager Priyantha Kumara Diyawadanage in Sialkot over blasphemy allegations last year. Kumara was lynched by a mob comprising hundreds of protesters, including the employees of the factory he was the manager of, on December 3. The mob had tortured him […]

A VISHNU VASU film යුද්ධය උත්සන්න කාලයේ, තමන්ගේ ස්වාමිපුරැෂයාව පැහැරගෙන ගොස් දස වද දී මරාදැමූ LTTE සාමාජිකයාට වව්නියාව මහාධිකරණය තුල නඩුව විභාග වෙද්දී, නඩුකාරතුමා අමතා තමන්ට වරද කළ අයට සමාව දී නිදහස් කරන ලෙස ඉල්ලා සිටි ශ්‍රේෂ්ට මාතාවක් වන පුංචිරාලගේ නන්දාවතී අම්මා සහ ඇගේ දරැ තිදෙනා සමග කළ සම්මුඛ සාකච්චාවක් ඇසුරෙන් නිපැයුනු වාර්තා චිත්‍රපටියයි අම්මා.

VISHNU VASU The war is over. Some wounds are yet to heal. It’s time we engage ourselves in the healing process with open arms. I want to showcase stories woven around courage, compassion, and forgiveness. This is the launching of a series of short documentaries.

Courtesy Adaderana All 88 volumes with proceedings, final report and witness records of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) which probed the Easter Sunday terror attacks have been handed over to the Speaker of Parliament. The complete 88-volume report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry was presented to Speaker Mahinda Yapa Abeywardena by the President’s […]

Courtesy Sputnik Last December, hundreds of Islamists lynched and set fire to the body of a Sri Lankan factory manager in Pakistan’s Sialkot district after he removed stickers of an extreme right-wing party featuring Quranic verses from factory machinery. Prime Minister Imran Khan had called the incident a “day of shame for Pakistan.”After Punjab police […]

By Hiruni De Silva Courtesy Ceylon Today-Hiruni De Silva is a Sri Lankan Counter-Terrorism Analyst. The teardrop island of Asia in the Indian Ocean is used as a pawn on the geopolitical chess board. After the misery of its 30-year bloodthirsty war, exhausted since 2009, Sri Lanka now suffers its aftermath.  At present Sri Lanka […]

By Neville Ladduwahetty Courtesy The Island The Island of 31 Jan. 2022 carries a report which states: The Indian National Investigation Agency (NIA) has registered a case and launched a probe in connection with fake passports who are allegedly involved in raising money to revive the LTTE ….” The amended Prevention of Terrorism (Special Provisions) […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Central agencies and the elite ‘Q’ branch of the Tamil Nadu police are on high alert after the National Investigation Agency (NIA) used the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act (UAPA) against three people in a fake passport case which was registered in the state in October 2021 by the ‘Q branch. […]

By Express News Service Courtesy The Indian Express The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has taken over investigation of the case involving the arrest of a Sri Lankan woman with a fake Indian passport, in Chennai. CHENNAI: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has taken over investigation of the case involving the arrest of a Sri Lankan woman […]

Courtesy Adaderana A retired doctor has been arrested in connection with the hand grenade which was recently found planted inside All Saints’ Church in Borella. He was taken into custody in the area of Piliyandala by the crimes investigation unit of the Colombo South Division. According to the police, lengthy interrogations into the 65-year-old suspect […]

Rajiv Malhotra Official Shocking state of affairs in Tamilnadu due to Muslin extremism In the backdrop of the terror attacks by Islamic fundamentalists in Sri Lanka, we take a look at the vulnerabilities in Tamil Nadu. The National Tawheed Jamath with sympathies towards the ISIS has been declared as the perpetrator of the Sri Lankan […]

Courtesy TASS On the whole, the meeting between the Sri Lankan President and Russia’s Security Council Secretary laid down the main tracks for cooperation in the areas of politics, trade and energy, and cooperation prospects in the field of security NEW DELHI, November 23. /TASS/. Sri Lanka and Russia agreed to share intelligence information and […]

Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondent Courtesy The Guardian Government criticised for delay as suspects face charges relating to 269 deaths 30 months after attacks The trial has begun of the 25 men accused of masterminding the 2019 Easter bombings in Sri Lanka, which killed almost 300 people when churches and luxury hotels were targeted by Islamic […]

Courtesy Sputnik MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Sri Lanka and Russia have agreed on the exchange of intelligence information and cooperation fighting against terrorism funding, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa said following a meeting with Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev.”Had a friendly discussion with the Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev today. We agreed on deepening bilateral cooperation […]

By Maya Anthony Courtesy Ceylon Today By Maya Anthony  The remnants of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are regrouping in the UK. Like Osama bin Laden groomed Hamza bin Laden to succeed him, the LTTE leaders and members are grooming their own children.  Prabhakaran too set an example by training and grooming his […]

Courtesy Outlook Seema Guha’s recollections of the violent days in Jaffna in 1987. When a fragile truce between the Lankan army and the LTTE fell apart. As the Sri Lankan Air Force plane from Colombo took a sharp turn over the sea to land in Palaly air­­port, I looked out at the breathtaking view below: […]

Courtesy Adaderana India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested a Sri Lankan national and former member of the LTTE’s intelligence wing for his alleged involvement in arms and drug trafficking from Pakistan to Sri Lanka, and utilising the proceeds for furthering and supporting the revival of the terrorist group in the island nation, an official […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Colombo High Court Trial-at-Bar today served charges on 24 suspects accused over the Easter Sunday terror attacks. Hearings pertaining to the case are set to commence on November 23, 2021, the court decided when the case was taken up today (04). The court issued summons on 25 defendants in the case who […]

By Admiral Ravindra C Wijegunaratne* The month of August 2006, fifteen years ago was a very eventful month for Sri Lanka Navy. I was the Commandant of Naval and Maritime Academy (NMA) and Flag Officer Naval Fleet (FOCNF) based in Trincomalee; both were busy appointments. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a Tamil separatist […]

Courtesy Adaderana New Zealand has granted refugee status to a Sri Lankan who may have unknowingly helped funnel money to terrorists behind the Easter bombings, Radio New Zealand reported. The Immigration and Protection Tribunal in New Zealand found the man was not involved in supporting terrorist goals and did not know who the money went […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM, Spokesperson, United Sri Lanka Assn It is now clear that the Aukland Supermarket terrorist’  heinous acts  had all to do with his being radicalised by ISIS ideology and nothing to do with his Sri Lankan origins. Reference to this only unfairly tarnishes those of Sri Lankan origin and exposes them to […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM As a New Zealander , I join the Prime Minister Jacinda Arden, The NZ Police  and the rest of New Zealand in unreservedly condemning today’s (3/9/21) , terrorist attack in Auckland that injured several. As a New Zealander of Sri Lankan origin, I condemn this even more ,as  our two thousand […]

Courtesy The Straits Times COLOMBO (AFP) – A Sri Lankan man who went on a knife rampage in a New Zealand mall was “brainwashed” by neighbours from the Middle East, his mother said on Saturday (Sept 4). Ismail Fareeda spoke to a local TV channel about her son as the Sri Lankan government promised to work with New […]

By: Sam Hurley and Jared Savage Courtesy NZ Herald THE SUPERMARKET TERRORIST* Aathil Samsudeen came to NZ in 2011, escaping a tortuous regime in Sri Lanka* He was granted refugee status in 2013 but within five years had become angry and isolated* He was the perfect candidate to be radicalised in his own living room, through Isis-inspired social […]

Courtesy inews The Sri Lankan national, 32, was known to police as an Isis-sympathiser and had been under surveillance for five years The terrorist who stabbed seven people in an Auckland supermarket before being shot dead by police has been named as Ahamed Samsudeen. The Sri Lankan man, 32, who launched his frenzied attack on Friday, was known […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) has commenced questioning close contacts of the Sri Lankan who carried out the attack at a supermarket in Auckland, New Zealand, police said. Authorities revealed that the suspect, Ahmed Adil Mohamed Samsudeen, also known as Ahmed Adil Mohamed Samsudeen, a resident of Kaththankudy. It was reported […]

Courtesy AsiaNews.it Police in New Zealand killed a Sri Lanka man after he stabbed six people inspired by jihadi ideology. In the South Pacific nation, Muslims are a fraction of the local Sri Lankan community, compared to over 9 per cent of the population in their country of origin. Extremism is growing as evinced by […]

Courtesy Adaderana The Government of Sri Lanka says that it has been made aware that the UK Home Secretary has decided to maintain the proscription of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a terrorist organization under the UK Terrorism Act No. 7 of 2000. The Home Secretary’s decision, which has been taken following […]

M.R. Narayan Swamy Courtesy The Wire But even after their death, the Tigers seem to have the ability to keep tormenting Sri Lanka’s Tamils. Ever since the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) was militarily crushed in May 2009, it has been asked repeatedly: Can the group be resurrected by Sri Lankan Tamils? I insisted […]

WION The so-called Islamic State may be on the retreat in Iraq and Syria but it would be premature to predict the demise of its ideology in India.