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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)
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)
from BBC News A Sri Lankan minister says he has begun a hunger strike outside the UN's Colombo offices demanding that it stop its probe into alleged war crimes. Housing Minister Wimal Weerawansa's announcement follows two days of demonstrations outside...
- Water Woes (Category: Business)
- Reaction (Category: Business)
- Panel Pressure (Category: Business)
- Protest (Category: Business)
By Charles HavilandBBC News, Colombo On a leafy Colombo corner, surrounded by hundreds of his nationalist supporters and Buddhist monks, Sri Lankan cabinet minister Wimal Weerawansa burns an effigy of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. Mr Ban is a figure of...
- We have the responsibility to safeguard our leaders, soldiers who brought peace to this country-... (Category: Breaking News)
- UN On Alert (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka says UN panel 'will not be allowed' to enter (Category: Breaking News)
- Lankan government urges UN General Secretary not to pressurize SriLanka at UN (Category: Breaking News)
Pradeep Amirthanayagam was installed as the Golden Jubilee President of the Rotary Club of Colombo West yesterday (3). The glittering event was held at the Cinnamon Grand, amidst a large and distinguished gathering comprising of parliamentarians, members of the diplomatic corps and the business community. Performances by Soul Sounds and the Police Band added to ...
- Pradeep Named Rotarian Of The Year (Category: Business)
- Free cataract surgeries for 50 people of the low income group (Category: Breaking News)
- Migrant kids set sail (Category: Australia, Tasmania )
- Hammond Rotary marks 100 years of supporting community efforts (Category: USA, Indiana)
Current moves undermine further Democracy in Sri Lanka By Dr. S. Narapalasingam The Government of Sri Lanka has been successful in brushing off the alleged accusations of war crimes during the final stage of the war and violations of the...
- Confusion over national reconciliation, unity and lasting peace in post-war Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Devolution will strengthen and uphold democracy and national unity (Category: Breaking News)
- Deadly Symbols, Vibrant Electoral Politics and War Crimes in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- Sinhala symbols, war, peace and ethnic reconciliation in Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
BBC Sandeshaya The detained former military commander in Sri Lanka says he is prepared to meet the special panel appointed to advice the UN chief on alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka. Gen Sarath Fonseka told BBC Sandeshaya that...
- Fonseka 'ready to talk' with UN panel (Category: Breaking News)
- UN report in White flag case (Category: Breaking News)
- Will Govt. allow UN panel to meet SF? (Category: Breaking News)
- Ready to face UN charges says Fonseka - Report (Category: Breaking News)
The Sri Lankan Government has shown deep concern over what are called Buddha Bars in international restaurants, states the BBCs Thamil Osai. ....
By S.V.Kirubaharan, France The recent BBC series of hard talk programmes on Sri Lanka presented by Stephen Sackur was well-received globally. This telecasting has shown the good, bad and ugly sides of Sri Lanka...
- What’s Good For The Goose Is Good For The Gander (Category: Breaking News)
- 'BBC meets its match in Sri Lankan Defence Secretary'- The Manila Times (Category: Breaking News)
- The Most powerful man in Sri Lanka is brother Gotabhaya not President Mahinda (Category: Breaking News)
- Hardtalk 4: Is Sri Lanka really entering a new era? (Category: Breaking News)
from the BBC: The Sri Lankan foreign minister has said that a UN panel on human rights will not be allowed into the country. GL Peiris said that there was "no need" for the panel to come to the country...
- Sri Lanka says UN panel 'will not be allowed' to enter (Category: Breaking News)
- Head of UN panel of experts expresses regret over Sri Lankan government's decision (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka’s UN allies express solidarity (Category: Breaking News)
- Reaction (Category: Business)
The recent BBC series of hard talk programmes on Sri Lanka presented by Stephen Sackur was well-received globally. This telecasting has shown the good, bad and ugly sides of Sri Lanka. The true stories about the return of the internally displaced people – IDPs, the present feelings of the Tamils
- Stephen Sackur checkmated Defence Secretary on several occasions during “Hard Talk” BBC interview (Category: Breaking News)
- The Most powerful man in Sri Lanka is brother Gotabhaya not President Mahinda (Category: Breaking News)
- 'BBC meets its match in Sri Lankan Defence Secretary'- The Manila Times (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka threatens to execute General Sarath Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
BBC HARDtalk III In the third of a special HARDtalk series in Sri Lanka, Stephen Sackur reports on what is happening to the thousands of child soldiers who took part in the war. HARDtalk is the hard-hitting flagship news programme...
- Hardtalk 4: Is Sri Lanka really entering a new era? (Category: Breaking News)
- HARDtalk - Sri Lanka Part 1 - The Tamils and the North (Category: Breaking News)
- 'BBC meets its match in Sri Lankan Defence Secretary'- The Manila Times (Category: Breaking News)
- Hard Talk Part 2 -Democracy Sri Lankan style (Category: Breaking News)
June 16, 2010: 11.00 am Siobhain McDonagh: (Mitcham and Morden) (Lab): I am grateful for the chance to highlight again the appalling treatment of Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Government....
- Answer given by British Prime Minister to question on Sri Lanka War Crimes Tribunal (Category: Breaking News)
- British Parliament spotlight on Sri Lanka again (Category: Breaking News)
- Tamil American Peace Initiative Responds to SL Foreign Minister’s US Visit (Category: Breaking News)
- 41 British MPs urge Prime Minister Cameron to support an independent, international war crimes i... (Category: Breaking News)
With its foreboding lighting effects that appear to have been plucked straight out of Dante's dark epic Inferno-and cleverly devised one suspects to reduce its willing, and oftentimes unsuspecting, "victims" to submission-the BBC's HARDtalk program has attained a universal reputation...
- BBC HARDtalk III - Sri Lanka's child soldiers (Category: Breaking News)
- BBC meets its match in Gotabhaya, says news column (Category: Breaking News)
- Hardtalk 4: Is Sri Lanka really entering a new era? (Category: Breaking News)
- HARDtalk - Sri Lanka Part 1 - The Tamils and the North (Category: Breaking News)
HARDtalk - Sri Lanka Part 1 - The Tamils and the North: Hardtalk on the road in Sri Lanka: In May 2009, after almost 30 years of civil war, Sri Lanka's government announced its defeat of the separatist Liberation Tigers...
- Louise Arbour on the responses thus far to ICG report on Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- “Our military was a highly disciplined military.” - Gotabaya Rajapaksa (Category: Breaking News)
- යුද හමුදාව – කැන්ඩි කස්ටම්ස් ජය වාර්තා කරති (Category: Sports)
- Interviews with Mr. Robert Templer of ICG and Dr. A.R.M. Imtiyaz, Temple University (Category: Breaking News)
Fonseka responds to Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s BBC interview By Mandana Ismail Abeywickrema Responding to statements made against him by Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa to the BBC’s HardTalk programme on Sri Lanka last week, former Army Commander and DNA Parliamentarian Retired General Sarath
- Case filed against suspects tried to kill President and Defence Secretary (Category: Breaking News)
- HC summons Defence Secretary as witness (Category: Breaking News)
- Army Allows Fonseka To Attend Parliament (Category: Breaking News)
- Police empowered (Category: Breaking News)
By C. A. Chandraprema It was the other day that the BBC aired the full version of the Hard Talk interview with Gotabhaya Rajapakse, and there are certain issues that need to be raised, not about what Gota said in...
- Sarath Fonseka again betrays the motherland (Category: Breaking News)
- Berlin Bluster (Category: Breaking News)
- 'BBC meets its match in Sri Lankan Defence Secretary'- The Manila Times (Category: Breaking News)
- Business interviewing skills: Getting it right (Category: Business)
by Dr.Daya Somasundaram University of Jaffna Abstract The phenomena of suicide bombers in Sri Lanka share some similarities with but also have some marked differences with what is seen in other parts of world today. Increasing discrimination, state humiliation and...
- “I do not think the LTTE can revive” - Thirunavukkarasu Sridharan (Category: Breaking News)
- Fragile State Policy & The Rise Of Muslim Extremism In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
- "The 13th Amendment to the Constitution must be properly implemented": Dharmalingam Siddharthan (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan child soldiers the focus of NY based Catholic group (Category: Breaking News)
By Stephen Sackur Presenter, BBC HARDtalk The Sri Lankan government has threatened to execute Sarath Fonseka, the army commander who delivered victory over the Tamil Tigers, if he continues to suggest top officials may have ordered war crimes during the...
- Ex-Army Chief found guilty of ‘White Flag’case statement (Category: Business)
- Sarath Fonseka Confined To A 12ft x 8ft Cell (Category: Breaking News)
- Wars are not gentlemanly affairs: Sri Lanka shouldn’t fear int’l probe (Category: Breaking News)
- “The Rajapaksas Have Found Their Own Hangman!” – Gen. Sarath Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
To say that the new Sport Minister’s thoughts, Monday, on the Sri Lanka Cricket Board was a breath of fresh air would be an understatement. Rather, Minister C. B. Ratnayake’s remark that cricket is “the third most corrupt institution behind education and the police” was more a tornado, which, while devastating surely the game’s administrators, ...
- New selection committee announced (Category: Breaking News)
- FLASH: Cricket selectors sacked, new panel named (Category: Breaking News)
- Namal approves new cricket selection committee headed by Asantha De Mel (Category: Breaking News)
- Namal approves new cricket selection committee headed by Asantha De Mel (Category: Breaking News)
by M.C.M. Iqbal Louise Arbour of the International Crisis Group is reported to have said during an interview in the BBC that the government violated the laws of war by blurring the line between combatants and civilians, and that its...
- Acquittal of Rishad: AG owes explanation – MP (Category: Breaking News)
- SL attends UNHRC sessions with impressive post-conflict records: Former AG (Category: Business)
- Catholic Church denies backing extension for AG Rajaratnam (Category: Breaking News)
- Friday Forum writes to AG on LLRC (Category: Business)
In an official visit to the USA, Minister of External Affairs Prof. G. L. Peiris has called on the Tamil community all over the world to get involved in the rehabilitation process in Sri Lanka. Peiris, who is scheduled to meet Secretary of State Hilary Clinton on Friday made this comment to the BBC at [...]
Seven LTTE suspects were arrested by the authorities in the Netherlands, the Sri Lankan Ambassador in Netherlands, Grace Asirvathan, confirmed to BBC Sandeshaya. The arrest was made after an intensive study of the LTTE banned activities in the Netherlands, the National Criminal office
- Dutch Shock (Category: Business)
- Cricket Cup (Category: Business)
- VIDEO: Holland's flower power on show (Category: Technology)
- Netherlands arrest Â?LTTE suspectsÂ? (Category: Breaking News)
China is to lend Sri Lanka just under $200m to build a second international airport in the south of the island.
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