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Refuting unsubstantiated allegations in "Sri Lanka's Killing Fields", Acting High Commissioner P M Amza questioned the motive behind Channel 4's vindictive campaign against Sri Lanka.
Callum Mcrae, the producer of the notorious documentary, “Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields” took part in a discussion aired by the Asian Network of the BBC on Wednesday.
An effort made to harm the reputation of Sri Lanka using the Channel 4 documentary has failed. Sri Lanka was cleared of the allegations at a meeting held to raise awareness amongst all member countries of the UN regarding the Channel 4 documentary. The conspirators were made speechless by the answers offered by Sri Lanka. ...
- UN implies Ban's visit distorted by Channel 4 (Category: Breaking News)
- New video emerges (Category: Breaking News)
- Channel 4 commissions second SL documentary (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka says Channel 4 documentary is a vicious campaign against the country (Category: Breaking News)
History proves the efforts made by Channel Four to get popularized by crafting controversial as well as programmes provoking the people. The report telecast by Channel Four villifying the Sri Lankan Government and the Security Forces is the talk of the day among various communities. Media institutions as well as many critics point out that ...
- Sri Lanka High Commission in UK responds: Channel 4 (Category: Breaking News)
- Channel 4 commissions second Sri Lanka doc (Category: Breaking News)
- Letter sent by Fonseka to Channel 4 (Category: Breaking News)
- Channel 4 to air 'horrific' Lanka footage (Category: Breaking News)
About 20 Tamil asylum seekers facing the prospect of being deported from Britain to Sri Lanka tell the BBC that their lives are in danger.
Several trade unions have complained to the United Nations seeking an intervention against the restrictions imposed by the government on trade union activities. Trade unions from the apparel and health sectors have in a complaint to the International Labour Organization (ILO) said the fundamental rights of the workers have been violated by the government by ...
- Trade unions in Sri Lanka to complain to ILO (Category: Breaking News)
- Trade unions to complain to ILO (Category: Business)
- ICEU Asks For Pvt. Sector Pension Scheme (Category: Breaking News)
- TUs To Complain To ILO (Category: Breaking News)
Most of the Sri Lanka women's cricket team join the armed forces after sponsorship fails to appear, the BBC Sinhala service says.
The majority of the Sri Lanka womens cricket squad have signed up for jobs in the armed services. It comes after attempts by Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) to find a sponsor for the womens team have failed so far to create much interest, BBC reports. .
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has sought financial help from the government and state banks. SLC treasurer Sujeewa Rajapakse told the BBC that the board has sought a grant from the two bodies. .
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) has sought financial help from the government and state banks, the BBC Sinhala service has learned.
Sri Lanka's Upul Tharanga has failed a random drugs test, the BBC reliably understands.
Increasing the profile of Ealam Tamils who have received international recognition, BBC has listed recently appointed as Deputy Prime Minister holding Finance, Manpower and Monetary Authority portfolios, in the Government of Singapore, Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, as one of the top nine leading
A secretly filmed adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children has finished shooting in Sri Lanka. Earlier attempt of filming the book by the BBC was abandoned
By Tisaranee Gunasekara Nazism offered….a society that had been scarred by deep divisions…a sense of lofty purpose, almost a national mission….” — Michael Burleigh (The Third Reich – A New History) Barring a last-minute judicial-intervention, the Rajapaksa plan to make ‘leadership training’ by army officers mandatory for all university-entrants will become a reality, this month. ...
- On A Material And Moral Slippery-Slope (Category: Breaking News)
- Fall of Fonseka indicates that Rajapaksas cannot be beaten at their own game (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksa siblings planning to nullify 13th Amendment and debase parliamentary sovereignty (Category: Breaking News)
- Rajapaksas are adept at using an amalgam of sticks and carrots (Category: Breaking News)
The Ports and Highways Ministry has reportedly said that the ferry service from Tuticorin harbour in India to Sri Lanka has been postponed following a low demand for the service in India. A ministry official has been reported in the local media as saying that the delay was due to the lack of publicity given ...
- Bow Wave (Category: Business)
- Ferry service between Sri Lanka and India to commence from February (Category: Breaking News)
- Ferry service between Sri Lanka and India to commence next month (Category: Breaking News)
- Indo-Lanka ferry service to boost refugee returns: UNHCR (Category: Breaking News)
The Gay Movement In Sri Lanka By Sherman Anthony De Rose I am from a family of seven from the countryside of Kotahena. When I was young, it was a very crowded area where low class people, who earned only for their daily needs, lived. The area had very strong Catholic families, Colombo Chetties and ...
- Press Conference by Under Secretary Maria Otero and Assistant Secretary Robert O. Blake, Jr. in ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Tactful Diplomacy Will Bring Durable Solution (Category: Breaking News)
- Building the ‘Harpo’ empire (Category: Business)
- Danushka’s Sex Scandal: Time For “Me Too Aragalaya” In Sri Lanka (Category: Breaking News)
The Indian government which wanted to "see the Tamil Tigers destroyed" was "fully aware" of the real situation in the battle zone, including the civilian casualties, said, Mr. Gorden Weiss speaking to BBC Sinhala Service Sunday. "I believe that Indians were aware of the civilian casualties
By Tisaranee Gunasekara “The illusion of destiny extracts a remarkably heavy price”. — Amartya Sen (Identity and Violence) The mysterious leaking in Colombo of the Darusman (UN) Report was accompanied by a carefully choreographed outbreak of patriotic-hysteria. The President, in...
- Why did the the Rajapaksas lie to the people of Sri Lanka? (Category: Breaking News)
- Darusman panel report criticizes Sri Lankan administration for the way in which the war against ... (Category: Breaking News)
- Warm welcome for war crimes agenda architect (Category: Breaking News)
- World amazed over Darusman’s Most Disciplined Certificate handed in to the LTTE (Category: Breaking News)
Extracts from report on Sri Lanka by advisory panel appointed by Ban Ki moon 2. Violations in the IDP Camps (a) Arbitrary detention of IDPs in closed camps 154. Civilians emerging from the conflicts zone were initially housed in a...
- Unlawful attacks on civilians and civilian objects in the Wanni during the Govt-LTTE war (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka: Thousands of Tamils still detained, torture alleged (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka’s infamous Menik farm IDP camp to shut down later this month (Category: Breaking News)
- SRI LANKA: Menik Farm IDP camp to close by 30 September (Category: Breaking News)
The UK vs. Wijesinha By Vimukthi Yapa The British High Commission in Colombo last week told The Sunday Leader they had no idea what ‘note’ UPFA MP Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha was talking about when he told the BBC Sinhala Sandeshaya Service that the former defence attaché at the BHC had handed
- Army Slams Fonseka (Category: Breaking News)
- 'Fonseka blamed Gotabhaya for killings' - Editor (Category: Breaking News)
- Court orders editor to submit notebook with Fonsekas interview (Category: Breaking News)
- No evidence to support the White Flag claims (Category: Breaking News)
The BBC Sinhala Service, in asking for comments on the 2010 US Report on Human Rights in Sri Lanka, gave me little notice, and suggested I could just glance through the synopsis with which the report began. As it happened, I was able to look through some of the rest, which was good, because I ...
- Make preparations count (Category: Business)
- Wanting in credibility (Category: Breaking News)
- Improprieties in the Sri Lanka section of US State Dept report (Category: Breaking News)
- Govt. readies for next UN session with national plan for human rights (Category: Business)
BBC News A court in Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka has granted bail to the editor of a news website critical of the government who was arrested last month. Police said that Bennett Rupasinghe, editor of LankaeNews.com, was arrested for...
- e-News Editor arrested (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka e-news editor released (Category: Breaking News)
- News Editor of Lanka e News arrested (Category: Breaking News)
- SRI LANKA: Stop the persecution of Lanka-E-news (Category: Breaking News)
BBC Sandeshaya Police in Sri Lanka say that they have arrested four people suspected on an attack following a the protest threat by a cabinet minister. Superintendent of Police Prishantha Jayakody told BBC Sandeshaya that the suspects were remanded until...
Cricket may be, as the sociologist Ashis Nandy wrote in 1983, “an Indian game accidentally discovered by the English,” but India took a long time to take control of it. by Huw Richards For Sachin Tendulkar, it was “the proudest...
- West Indies Confident Of Springing A Surprise Or Two (Category: Breaking News)
- Curtain raiser today between defending champs England and New Zealand (Category: Sports)
- DREAM SHATTERED! (Category: Breaking News)
- Lanka star in ICCs team of World Cup, Sanga to lead (Category: Breaking News)
BBC correspondents in India and Sri Lanka describe scenes of rejoicing and dejection after India beat Sri Lanka in the cricket World Cup.
April 2, 2011 The mounting pressure begins to affect Sangakkara, whose second-string bowlers cannot provide adequate support for Lasith Malinga and Muttiah Muralitharan against the fourth-wicket duo...
- Dutch To Rebuild Jaffna Fort (Photos) (Category: Breaking News)
- Kirulapone Perahera Procession (Category: Breaking News)
- Nails Removed From Tortured Housemaid (Photos) (Category: Breaking News)
- Keerimalai~A Land of Sacred Springs & Spirituality (Category: Breaking News)
Sri Lanka's Ministry of Defense has refused permission to BBC Colombo correspondant Charles Haviland from attending cultural festival in Jaffna, sources in Colombo said. The "Jaffna Music Festival organized to celebrate the diverse traditional folk arts for three days from 25th 27th March 2011
By BBC News Hundreds of people have protested against Western-led air strikes in Libya outside the United Nations headquarters in Sri Lanka. Protesters chanted slogans against the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon - pic DailyMirror.lk...
- Libyan Fallout (Category: Business)
- One Voice (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka's ties with Libya (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lankan nationalists protests against Libya attack (Category: Breaking News)
by Prof.Michael Roberts Sri Lanka’s comprehensive victory over New Zealand in the last match for Group A at Mumbai was marred by a controversial third umpire decision that reprieved Mahela Jayawardene when he was in his twenties. This verdict certainly...
- New Zealand beats Sri Lanka by 2 wickets (Category: Breaking News)
- New Zealand beats Sri Lanka by 2 wickets (Category: Breaking News)
- New Zealand beats Sri Lanka by 2 wickets (Category: Breaking News)
- New Zealand beats Sri Lanka by 2 wickets (Category: Breaking News)
By Izeth Hussain After quite some time allegations have once again surfaced that some Muslims have supported the Pakistan side against all others, including the Sri Lankan one at the recent World Cup match. I have been sent newspaper material...
- Victory on our minds in Sri Lanka: Pak coach Whatmore (Category: Breaking News)
- Team Spirit (Category: Business)
- Sri Lanka Cricket mulls touring Pakistan two years after attack on the team (Category: Breaking News)
- Sri Lanka could host Pakistan vs. England (Category: Breaking News)
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