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Tribute to Lasantha Wickrematunge on Second Death Anniversary By Sunalie Ratnayake A recollection of facts Two elongated years have come into conclusion, precisely as of today (January 8, 2011), since the incongruously horrendous cold-blooded murder of one of the most...
- A Government Cover-Up (Category: Breaking News)
- Lasantha Wickrematunge and the role of journalism in a rotten political culture (Category: Breaking News)
- Who Is Sarath Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
- Media rights groups concerned over threat to Frederica (Category: Breaking News)
By Kalana Senaratne Dr. Gunadasa Amarasekera, President of the Patriotic National Movement (PNM), recently leveled a serious accusation against the LLRC. In an unexpected manner, this has caused some embarrassment, I believe, to both Dr. Amarasekera and Prof. GL Peiris, Sri Lanka’s Minister of External Affairs. The reason for this embarrassment is a peculiar one; for it is not only the n...
- Sri Lanka war panel 'pro-LTTE' (Category: Breaking News)
- Amnesty International can't dictate terms to us (Category: Breaking News)
- SL to recommence direct flights to Moscow (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka presents a 'serious and comprehensive approach' on implementation of LLRC recommendati... (Category: Breaking News)
Legal limbo Tamils beg for mercy or trial By Swaminathan Natarajan BBC Tamil Hundreds of Tamils detained for years on charges of helping the Tamil Tigers have asked Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to show mercy or grant them a...
- Sri Lanka: TID torture Tamil detainees held under PTA (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s shameful record on detention without trial (Category: Breaking News)
- Assault on JVP's Sunil Handunhetti: What really happened in Jaffna? (Category: Breaking News)
- Tamil Parties Forum submits eight point memorandum to President Rajapaksa (Category: Breaking News)
COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lanka denied on Monday plans to outlaw the singing of the national anthem in Tamil after the main minority party raised strong objections to the mooted ban. The status quo will remain, said public administration minister...
- No Ban (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka anthem row resurfaces (Category: Breaking News)
- Karunanidhi slams Sri Lanka for scrapping national anthem in Tamil (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka Tamil anthem 'not banned' (Category: Breaking News)
By Dushy Ranetunge Wimal Weerawansa, who survived a fast on to death outside the UN compound in Buller’s Road, amidst voodoo style devil dancing, has accused the Sri Lankan High Commission in London of failing in their duty to warn...
- Genetic link found between Sri Lankan tribe and Indians (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka’s Vedda tribe linked to ethnic Indians: Study (Category: Breaking News)
- Overall Gold for DIMO tribe (Category: Business)
- President to sign land deal for Quileute Tribe (Category: USA, Washington)
The International Media have said that with the budget the Sri Lankan Government has launched a programme to utilize the benefits of peace for economic development. The International Media has made this observation while reporting on the budget presented by the President in Parliament yesterday. The Wall Street Journal in the US says that with ...
- Under $10: 50 great gifts that fit into any budget (Category: USA, South Dakota)
- Under $10: 50 great gifts that fit into any budget (Category: USA, South Dakota)
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- 24 cheap Valentine's Day gifts that are still incredibly thoughtful (Category: USA, Maine)
would be one of this century's defining partnerships, the BBC reported. The other permanent ...
By Dr. S. Narapalasingam The current moves of the powerful government in post-war Sri Lanka are mainly for sustaining the wartime military strength, preventing the resurrection of the smashed LTTE and developing the infrastructures, notably the roads and rail network,...
- Pro-poor growth and Economic growth in Sri Lanka - A critical analysis (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Lions’ and the ‘Tigers’ of Sovereign Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- “Connecting People to Prosperity” in Sri Lanka. A reality check with “Mahinda Chinthanaya” (Category: Breaking News)
- Why Are The Structural Changes Necessary? (Category: Breaking News)
By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya The External Affairs ministry has just issued a statement (Fri. Nov 5) indicating that President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s visit to London, in response to an invitation to address the Oxford Union, has been postponed “to a more suitable...
- War crimes universal jurisdiction and immunity (Category: Breaking News)
- Can Tamil diaspora efforts to get President Rajapaksa arrested as a war crminal succeed? (Category: Breaking News)
- UK Foreign secretary William Hague is "annoyed" about Defence secretary Liam Fox's trip to Sri L... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Rajapaksa fears arrest in UK: Times of India (Category: Breaking News)
Labor Minister Gamini Lokuge has denied allegations leveled against Sri Lanka by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). He has said the government has honored all it’s commitments on labor conventions ratified by the government of Sri Lanka. Responding to allegations made by the ITUC, Minister Lokuge has been quoted in the media that when ...
- Nuttall 'lacks evidence' (Category: Australia, Queensland)
- 'Slush fund' claims to face audit (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Quigley takes allegations against former policeman to DPP (Category: Western Australia)
- Family angry over polling booth lift offer (Category: Australia, Victoria)
By Lee Yu Kyung It seems no one bothers about “them” in Sri Lanka. No lawyer or rights groups in the country dare to talk of “their” basic rights. Do they deserve to be abandoned or “disappeared”? Alleged former members...
- Human rights violations in IDP camps after conflict ended (Category: Breaking News)
- Rehabilitation Minister DEW Gunasekera on complaints of abuse: 'Write letters to me instead of B... (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Two ex-LTTE cadres die in army rehabilitation centres (Category: Breaking News)
- Spiritual relief for rehabilitated LTTE cadres (Category: Breaking News)
The UN panel of experts appointed by the Secretary General on Sri Lanka has called for written submissions. The panel was set up to inquire into the alleged violations of international human rights and humanitarian law during the final stages of the war in Sri Lanka. The BBC has reported
- UN Chief's Panel of Experts on Sri Lanka calls for submissions from interested parties (Category: Breaking News)
- UN panel of experts call for submissions (Category: Breaking News)
- UN panel of experts call for submissions (Category: Breaking News)
- UN War Crimes Panel solicits submissions on Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
By Saroj Pathirana Activists have criticised India's decision to invite Sri Lanka's president to attend the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony in Delhi. Sri Lanka's government said President Mahinda Rajapaksa would be the guest of honour at Thursday's event. The move...
- Rudd says CHOGM in Lanka still on (Category: Breaking News)
- Next CHOGM in Sri Lanka despite concerns (Category: Breaking News)
- Australia mounts pressure on Sri Lanka over war crimes (Category: Breaking News)
- War crime charges filed against Rajapaksa (Category: Breaking News)
“Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people…” — Charlie Chaplin The Dictator By Tisaranee Gunasekara President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s speech to the UN General Assembly consisted of the usual banalities and platitudes, with one outstanding exception. That exception was a perniciously riveting idea symbolic and symbiotic of the Rajapaksa ethos, a transformative concept which, if ...
- More freedom for the Rajapaksa means less freedom for the Sri Lankan people (Category: Breaking News)
- Militarizing post -war SriLanka while Rajapaksaizing the military (Category: Breaking News)
- On A Material And Moral Slippery-Slope (Category: Breaking News)
- Opposition must counter patriotic narrative of Rajapaksas with socio-economic and political narr... (Category: Breaking News)
“Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together in new shapes of your own choosing.” -George Orwell (Nineteen Eighty -Four) The end was never in doubt; President Rajapaksa would confirm Gen. Fonseka’s jail sentence and the bête noire of the Ruling Family would be duly incarcerated. Only the blindly optimistic would have...
- Sarath Fonseka is the victim of act of political persecution and personal vengeance (Category: Breaking News)
- Every grandiose noun and flowery adjective in Sinhala will be used to describe the Rajapaksas an... (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksa project of establishing familial control over the State Army and the SLFP (Category: Breaking News)
- Opposition must counter patriotic narrative of Rajapaksas with socio-economic and political narr... (Category: Breaking News)
by Tisaranee Gunasekara “Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people…” — Charlie Chaplin ~ The Dictator President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s speech to the UN General Assembly consisted of the usual banalities and platitudes, with one outstanding exception. That exception was...
- Promoting Tyranny (Category: Breaking News)
- Militarizing post -war SriLanka while Rajapaksaizing the military (Category: Breaking News)
- Opposition must counter patriotic narrative of Rajapaksas with socio-economic and political narr... (Category: Breaking News)
- Fall of Fonseka indicates that Rajapaksas cannot be beaten at their own game (Category: Breaking News)
By Saroj Pathirana BBC Sinhala in Colombo Nilmini Jayasinghe says she is determined to take part at the London Olympics despite her failure at the most recent world championships. Nilmini Jayasinghe - pic: SundayObserver.lk...
- Sri Lankan boxer eyes 2012 glory (Category: Breaking News)
- The Ring Is A Women’s World (Category: Breaking News)
- Anusha Hits Road To London (Category: Breaking News)
by UNROW Human Rights Impact Litigation Clinic American University Washington College of Law INTRODUCTION Justice and accountability are of utmost importance following mass atrocities such as those committed in Sri Lanka during its 25-year civil war. An estimated 80,000–100,000 people...
- Huge civilian toll in Lanka war: Indian doc (Category: Breaking News)
- US Senate Resolution calling for an Independent International Investigation in Sri Lanka passes ... (Category: Breaking News)
- International community seriously misapprehended the facts when it failed to call for an investi... (Category: Breaking News)
By BBC Sandeshaya Prsidient Mahinda Rajapaksha has engaged in constructive bilateral talks with a number of heads of state now in New York, says Presidential media co-ordinator Vijayananda herath. President Rajapaksa is in New York to attend the United Nations...
- Kokua Line: Hawaii jobless looking for $300 plus-up, other federal aid extensions (Category: USA, Hawaii)
By Charles Haviland BBC News, Colombo People in northern Sri Lanka have told a war inquiry that family members who served with the Tamil Tigers disappeared after surrendering. They said their loved ones went missing at the end of the...
- My sister is my best friend, plase bring her back to me (Category: Breaking News)
- Cricketer Murali Is On A Sticky Wicket – On Tamil Nadu Turf (Category: Breaking News)
- The “See-Saw” battle between the UN SG and the SL Govt (Category: Breaking News)
- 1000 children still missing since war (Category: Breaking News)
“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.” — Voltaire Where do we go from here? The paranoia increases by the day. First came the reported disappearance of Prageeth Eknaligoda (missing since January 24 this year), then the statement made recently by reinstated Deputy Minister Mervyn Silva who reportedly stated at a ...
- Lanka denies holding any Tamil political prisoners (Category: Breaking News)
- Fonseka supporters further detained (Category: Breaking News)
- DNA to protest to C'wealth (Category: Breaking News)
- Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels 'abused in detention' (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka is still denying civilian deaths by Peter Bouckaert Director of Emergencies Division, Human Rights Watch During the Vietnam conflict, the US military developed some creative ways to increase the numbers of Viet Cong insurgents it claimed to have...
- Julia Gillard rewards the plotters (Category: AU, New South Wales)
- Govt. assaults UNP MPs while calling for strong Opp. Karu (Category: Breaking News)
- President says that the Govt did not halt the war or betray the nation (Category: Breaking News)
- Irrigators' interest strong in water buybacks (Category: Australia, Victoria)
Report To Congress on Measures Taken by the Government of Sri Lanka and International Bodies To Investigate Incidents During the Recent Conflict in Sri Lanka, and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Such Efforts Office of War Crimes Issues Report August 11,...
- Why Amnesty International supports setting up UN Panel on Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- HRW: Letter to Secretary Clinton on the Sri Lanka's Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission... (Category: Breaking News)
- International Crisis Group statement on LLRC report (Category: Business)
- LLRC report:The Need for Transparency (Category: Breaking News)
By Dr.A.R.M.Imtiyaz [Abstract: Symbols are emotional and they play significant role in all aspect of human communities, including electoral politics. Symbols are deadly in nature because they can provoke deadly violence and war crimes. In Sri Lanka, Sinhala politician and...
- Sinhala symbols, war, peace and ethnic reconciliation in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sinhala Symbols, War, Peace And Ethnic Reconciliation In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Fragile State Policy & The Rise Of Muslim Extremism In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- ‘Lions’ and the ‘Tigers’ of Sovereign Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
By Athiyan Silva Further evidence has emerged in recent weeks of the continuing political disintegration of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which was militarily crushed in May 2009 by the Sri Lankan military. Several reports indicate that...
- Sri Lankan president at the UN denies war crimes (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan govt reaches agreement with LTTE faction led by Pathmanathan alias "KP" (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt is Using KP's Data base on the LTTE to Crush the international tiger network-Defence Secret... (Category: Breaking News)
- Ex-LTTE Chief "KP" speaks out: An Interview With T.Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias KP (Category: Breaking News)
Former President Chandrika Kumaratunge has slammed the government saying they had an “obsession against” the Bandaranaike family. Kumaratunge has been quoted in a news report in the BBC Sinhala service. The BBC report published today (24) states she has also accused the government of “completely
- Would UK be ready for a new petrol car ban in 2030? (Category: Technology)
- Would UK be ready for a new petrol car ban in 2030? (Category: Technology)
- Would UK be ready for a new petrol car ban in 2030? (Category: Technology)
- Would UK be ready for a new petrol car ban in 2030? (Category: Technology)
World media reporting on the record achieved by Murali has hailed him for re-inventing the sport. International media published various reports on Muralitharan who became the first bowler in the history of test cricket to achieve the milestone of 800 wickets. BBC said that Murali re-invented
- Murali back in Gloucestershire (Category: Breaking News)
- Murali retires from test cricket (Category: Breaking News)
- President hails Murali as son of the soil (Category: Breaking News)
- Lycamobile provides £250,000 to Murali (Category: Breaking News)
It is entirely possible that Muthiah Muralitharan will play the second Test against India, although he has announced his retirement after the first. If he claims just seven wickets in the Galle match he would tally 799. An impressive enough figure, but if the temptation to become the first bowler to claim 800 Test wickets ...
- Murali Officially Announces Retirement (Category: Breaking News)
- Thanks Murali, For Our Triumphs And Your Legacy (Category: Breaking News)
- World praise for Murali (Category: Breaking News)
- Murali the Enigma (Category: Breaking News)
By Oliver Brett It looked like a Test match that would attract only cursory interest in a calendar so bogged down with international fixtures. But now Sri Lanka’s match against India in Galle starting on July 18 will be a very special one, bringing to an end the phenomenal test career of one of the ...
- Muralitharan Takes 5-63 to Close on 800-Wicket Mark in Final Cricket Test (Category: Breaking News)
- Record Haul (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka's spin wizard Murali bids farewell to Test Cricket with record 800 wickets (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka beat India in cricket Test (Category: Breaking News)
By Vangeesa Sumenasekara One of the central weaknesses of the recent debate or discussion in Sri Lanka around the strange term "private" universities apropos its possible consequences to the men and women living within the national boundaries of Sri Lanka...
- Sri Lankan universities and marketing orientation (Category: Business)
- Research on human resources: Reflections and reinforcements (Category: Business)
- Universities in crisis: Key learnings (Category: Business)
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