Author Archive for Terrorism
Wednesday, February 24th, 2021
Chula Rajapakse MNZM, Spokesperson, United Sri Lanka Assn,Wellington NZ The SL government is to be congratulated on their latest video above, exposing another, less well-known yet no less Horrific dimension to Tamil Tiger Carnage. This has been widely circulated among the expatriate SL communities. However where this should be circulated most for maximum effect would […]
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana හිටපු ජනපති , රිෂාඩ් බදියුදින් ඇතුළු පිරිසකට අපරාධ නඩු පවරන්නැයි නිර්දේශ..
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Monday, February 22nd, 2021
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Monday, February 22nd, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The six-member committee appointed by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa to study the Report of the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) into the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks has been entrusted with a wide ranging mandate, the President’s Media Division stated today (22). Identifying the overall process including the measures that need to be taken by […]
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Sunday, February 21st, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana It has been revealed that Zahran Hashim, the ring leader behind the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks, had trained 15 women to become suicide bombers. Police Media Spokesman DIG Ajith Rohana stated that the information was revealed during the interrogation of the girl who was arrested by the Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) recently. […]
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Saturday, February 20th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana A young woman, who attended classes conducted by the ringleader of Easter Sunday terror attacks in 2019 Zahran Hashim, has been taken into custody yesterday (February 19). The 24-year-old was identified as a resident of Hingula in Mawanella, Police Spokesperson DIG Ajith Rohana said. She was arrested in a joint raid carried out […]
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana Mohamed Shakeel, the principal of a Madrasa school, has been arrested for conspiring and abetting Hejaaz Hizbullah, the Coordinating Officer of the Attorney General stated. The Attorney General, today (17), directed the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to report facts and produce Mohamed Shakeel before a relevant magistrate’s court for abetting on charges […]
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Wednesday, February 17th, 2021
Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has directed the Inspector General of Police (IGP) to report facts and produce Attorney at Law Hejaaz Hizbullah before the court under several charges. The Attorney at Law is to be produced before a relevant Magistrate’s Court on charges under Section 2(1)(h) of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) and […]
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Tuesday, February 9th, 2021
Daily Excelsior, Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant – Khorasan’s (ISIL-K) new leader Shihab al-Muhajir heads its operations in India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, the Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and is said to have had an earlier affiliation with the dreaded Haqqani Network. The 12th report of the Secretary-General on the threat posed by ISIL […]
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Saturday, February 6th, 2021
By Camellia Nathaniel/Daily News Colombo, February 6: The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) accuses Sri Lanka of being in a ‘state of denial about the past’, details how the failure of domestic mechanisms has further entrenched impunity, exacerbating victims’ distrust in the system. Among a litany of failures, the report addresses the rollback of […]
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Saturday, January 16th, 2021
Courtesy The Daily Mirror The US State Department has amended its Foreign Terrorist Organisations (FTO) list and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) remains to be a banned organisation in it, the State Department said. Under the Designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations list, the LTTE can be seen listed as an organisation designated since 10/8/1997. […]
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Saturday, January 9th, 2021
කිර්ති වර්ණකුලසුරිය උපුටා ගැන්ම දිවයින බිහිසුණු අපරාධ සිදුකළ හිටපු කොටි ත්රස්තයන් 82 ක් මුදාහැරිය යුතු යැයි ද්රවිඩ දේශපාලකයන් නැවත වරක් රජයෙන් ඉල්ලා ඇත. මෙම ත්රස්තයන්ව හඳුන්වා ඇත්තේ දේශපාලන සිරකරුවන් ලෙසිනි. එහෙත් මොවුන් දේශපාලන සිකරුවන් නොවේ, මෙලෙස හිටපු කොටි මිනීමරුවන් මුදා හරින ලෙස ඉල්ලන දේශපාලකයන් ශ්රී ලංකා හමුදාවට එල්ල කරන යුද අපරාධ චෝදනා ගැන ජාත්යන්තර අධිකරණය […]
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2021
SOUTH ASIAN DEFENSE REVIEW Terrorism affected 161 Police Districts across the country, especially Maoist-hit states of Jharkhand, Bihar, Maharashtra, terror-hit Jammu and Kashmir, Assam and other Northeastern states in 2019, according to inputs submitted to Union Ministry of Home Affairs (UMHA) by Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPR&D) organisation in its Data on Police […]
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Monday, December 28th, 2020
Courtesy The Island Russian Ambassador in Colombo Yury Materiy has warned that extremist Islamic terrorist organizations may channel funds to their Lankan counterparts on the pretext of extending COVID-19 aid. The warning was issued by Ambassador Materiy when he met Minister of Public Security Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara at his ministry last week, the ministry […]
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Sunday, December 20th, 2020
Courtesy The Straits Times JOHOR BARU (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – Johor police will be working closely with its Selangor counterpart after death threats were made against state police chief Commissioner Ayob Khan Mydin Pitchay. Datuk Ayob, who was previously head of the Special Branch’s Counter-Terrorism Division (E8) at police headquarters before being promoted to […]
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Tuesday, December 15th, 2020
Daily Mirror, SRI LANKA The Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) probing Easter Sunday attacks on December 10 observed that there were certain instances where Sri Lankan Muslims who go to Saudi Arabia were brainwashed by some Islamic preachers. During the testimony of All Ceylon Jamiyyathul Ulama (ACJU) Chairman Rizwe Mufti, the Commission drew the witness’s […]
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Saturday, December 12th, 2020
YOSHITHA PERERA Courtesy The Daily Mirror Police officers of the Nuwara Eliya division had tried to silence an individual who had provided a tip-off about the Jihadist Training Camp which was conducted by the National Thawheed Jamaat (NTJ) in May 2018, it was yesterday informed to the PCOI probing Easter Sunday attacks. Testifying before the […]
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Friday, December 11th, 2020
Yoshitha Perera Courtesy The Daily Mirror The Intelligence reports revealed that Dr. Shafi Shihabdeen, the controversial doctor attached to the Kurunegala Hospital who was accused of performing sterilization operations had received funds from National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ) organisation, former DIG in charge of Kurunegala District Kithsiri Jayalath on Thursday informed the PCoI probing Easter Sunday […]
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2020
Courtesy The Daily Mirror KUALA LUMPUR – The Malaysiyan police are on the hunt for a man who claimed to be the commander-in-chief of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), and threatened to shoot Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Abdul Hamid Bador. Bukit Aman Criminal Investigation Department director Huzir Mohamed said the suspect had also sent […]
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2020
By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Courtesy Ceylon Today By Shivanthi Ranasinghe Recently TNA spokesmen and Parliamentarian MA Sumanthiran stated that while the JVP were allowed to commemorate Rohana Wijeweera’s death, the Tamils are forbidden to remember their dead. Very mischievously, Sumanthiran was not referring to the Tamil civilians who were taken hostage by the LTTE (of which […]
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Thursday, November 26th, 2020
By Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy The Island A powerful foreign country or an agency was behind the Easter Sunday bombings and the National Thowheed Jamaat (NTJ) leader Zaharan Hashim, former President Maithripala Sirisena yesterday told the PCoI investigating the Easter Sunday attacks. I also do not believe that Zaharan was the leader of that organisation. Because […]
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Friday, November 13th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana India has told the United Kingdom that the ban of LTTE or Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam should continue. New Delhi has shared information” as to why the ban should remain on the group that was responsible for the 30-year long insurgency in Sri Lanka but also the assassination of former Indian Prime […]
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Saturday, October 31st, 2020
By A. Abdul Aziz, Press Secretary. In France, the recent attack in Nice and following on from the murder of Samuel Paty on 16 October, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad has condemned all forms of terrorism and extremism and called for mutual understanding and dialogue between all peoples and […]
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Monday, October 26th, 2020
By Rathindra Kuruwita Courtesy The Island Ex-Chairman of National Thowheed Jamaath tells PCoI Muslims from all over the world donated to the National Thowheed Jamaath (NTJ), a former chairman of the terrorist organisation, Mohamed Yusuf Mohamed Tawfiq Moulavi, who is currently in remand custody told the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) investigating the Easter Sunday […]
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Friday, October 23rd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The Attorney General has directed the Acting IGP to record statement of the victim of the LTTE attacks on Buddhist monks in the 1987 Aranthalawa massacre. Attorney General Dappula de Livera has also instructed police to commence criminal investigations and submit a progress report within two weeks, the AG’s coordinating officer said. The […]
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Thursday, October 22nd, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana The Government of Sri Lanka says that it has been made aware of the Open Judgement by the Proscribed Organizations Appeals Commission (POAC) of the United Kingdom on delisting the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) as a proscribed terrorist organization. The government also said that it will appeal against the judgement of […]
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Wednesday, October 21st, 2020
By Rienzie Wijetilleke Courtesy Ceylon Today Sri Lankans around the world remain bemused at disclosures from the on-going 2019 Easter Attack investigations. The Presidential Commission of Inquiry (PCoI) has so far seen a roll call of former leaders and high ranking officials from the previous regime providing any number of vague excuses and abdicating responsibility […]
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Monday, October 19th, 2020
By Sugeeswara Senadhira/Ceylon Today He wanted the Northern Province for the Tamils only, says Sugeeeswara Senadhira Colombo, Octobr 19: The inhuman order given to 90,000 Muslims of Sri Lanka’s Northern Province to leave the province in October 1990, giving them just a few hours to obey the diktat had proved to the international community the ultra-racist, […]
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Monday, October 19th, 2020
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island AG wants report within one month Close on the heels of Attorney General Dappula de Livera, PC, alleging serious lapses on the part of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), in respect of the probe on Riyaj Bathiudeen’s alleged involvement with those responsible for the Easter Sunday attacks, the premier […]
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Monday, October 19th, 2020
Courtesy Adaderana Former Director of the State Intelligence Service (SIS) Nilantha Jayawardena believes that the forewarning given to him by a foreign intelligence agency ahead of the Easter Sunday attacks might not have been so secretive a mere week later. Testifying before the Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks, Jaywardena […]
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