Anti – Muslim protests, Colombo, Sri Lanka, October 4, 2012. The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress has, in a resolution unanimously adopted on Saturday, noted ‘with grave concern the intensity and widespread religious intolerance’ and ‘attempts to stall progress in devolution by weakening or abolishing the provincial council system’. The following is the full text of the […]

Lessons: Photographs obtained by Al Jazeera appear to show massacre of Tamils during final stages  war. Sri Lankan Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa has offered Sri Lanka’s help to train Indian army personnel in counter-insurgency warfare. The offer was made during the visit of the Indian army chief Gen Bikram Singh to Sri Lanka in the third […]

Photo credit: Igor Tishin: Barbarian Art Gallery  J.C. WeliamunaThere was much publicity given in state media, run by a group of well-known hate campaigners, that the impeachment of the Chief Justice is the right thing in the anti-corruption discourse and that that Sri Lanka can be proud of such an impeachment. We are not at […]

Suranjith Bandara Former chairperson of student union of University of Kalania, Mr. Suranjith Bandara has been brutally attacked by politicl thugs in earlier today now on critical condition at Ragama Hospital, Inter University Sdudant Federation [IUSF] stated.Accoding to IUSF covener Mr. Sanjeewa Bandara the former chairperson was attacked at about 2 a.m. today while returning […]

(TamilNet) Citing the posters that appeared in Colombo and in southern parts of the island last week, a notice in Sinhala addressing ‘intelligent students’ of the Jaffna University, invariably accused all shades of Tamil polity in the island and in the diaspora that are not collaborating with the genocidal regime, as working for the division […]

The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC), while urging the government to implement in full the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) recommendations immediately, has mentioned categorically the party will oppose any attempt to weaken or sabotage the existing Provincial Council system.The above decision was one of the eight resolutions adopted by the SLMC at its […]

Thiyagaraja Thuwarakeswaran after acid attack Former Hindu Cultural Minister Thiyagaraja Maheswaran’s brother and leading businessman Thiyagaraja Thuwarakeswaran aged 41, faced an acid attack on Saturday at Nallur.He was severely wounded in the back and neck area was admitted to Jaffna Teaching hospital. However he had informed, due to dearth of safety at the Jaffna hospital, […]

Following a decision of the Inter-Ministerial Committee on Human Rights, the implementing arm of the Permanent Standing Committee on Human Rights, a Committee chaired by Dr. Jayampathy Wickramaratne was appointed by the then Minister of Disaster Management and Human Rights to make proposals for a new Bill of Rights to replace the present chapter on […]

Kumar DavidLet there be no doubt about it; the military entering Jaffna University, framing allegations and incarcerating Tamil students is intended to send a chilling and brutal message to all Tamil dissent. “We have crushed you once, don’t dare raise your heads again; we will do it again. Learn your place as second class citizens […]

Sunday Times Cartoon Acting contrary to the greater good of Sri Lanka  – Kishaly Pinto Jayawardena This week, newspaper reports quoted Sri Lanka’s Defence Secretary and President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s brother accusing foreign elements of ‘using the judiciary to destabilise Sri Lanka’ (Daily Mirror, December 29th 2012). This is a classic instance of doublespeak. It is […]

Can TNA live uo to the expectations? Prof S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole Eating Commander Hathurusinghe’s Palahaaram (Viands) while parents broke-down and worshipped the CommanderTamils wonder aloud this Christmas when our earthly salvation from this criminal government would come. State arrogance showed through at the Governor’s Cup Championships set for 19.12.2012 in Nallur. Promptly at 2pm leading […]

Military rules Jaffna life M. A. Sumanthiran MPNovember 27th this year marked an important milestone in the different phases of ethnic relations in this country. For those of us who still retain the memory of the events of 40 years ago, it was like Déjà vu. Students of the Jaffna University observed Heroes’ Day within […]

 A top Sri Lankan minister on Saturday claimed the dispute over the impeachment of the nation’s first woman chief justice is likely to be used to move an adverse resolution against the country at the next UN rights session. “There will be a resolution at the UN Human Rights Council in March against Sri Lanka. […]

A businessman living on Malaba street in Gampola was allegedly abducted by a group of people who arrived in a white van according to a complaint made to the Civil Monitoring Commission.The victim was 56 year old Govinda Sami Arunachalam Prabhakaran, a father of three children. The abduction allegedly took place last night (December 28) […]

The Sri Lanka Medical Council says the government should ensure that citizens are entitled to be judged in accordance with the principles of natural justice. President of the SLMC, Prof Carlo Fonseka, in a letter addressed to President Mahinda Rajapaksa says: “At its monthly statutory meeting held on 21st December 2012, the Sri Lanka Medical […]

With the impeachment of the chief justice wheeling out of state control, a Business Times (BT)-Research Consultancy Bureau (RCB) poll conducted on the eve of Christmas and the New Year shows that disenchantment against the government is growing. “At the current rate progress is a dream only,” noted one respondent during street interviews by the RCB, […]

Cartoon by Prageeth Eknaligoda, who was abduted and made to  disapper 3 years ago Hana Ibrahim The Department of Police is the country’s chief law enforcement authority. When its spokesperson comes each and every day before the mass media and relates the numerous activities and their surrounding circumstances to the public, he is taken at […]

India By Pratyush EBG6NYSM4VCJ Last month the United Nations published a highly critical internal report in which it admitted it didn’t do enough to protect Tamil civilians in the final months of the Sri Lanka civil war. In late 2008, the UN had withdrawn staff from the northern part of the country in anticipation of […]

Acts of unreserved surrender by our leaders?“Our leaders, by acts of unreserved surrender, have abdicated their accountability to us and totally sacrificed our rights before those in governance” was a pathetic cry heard recently from the wilderness, in a stage play that is in public performance currently.An unknown source is attributed to have narrated the […]

Rememberence of the Dead  – LLRC recomendation discarded ”The government has committed itself to implementing the LLRC recommendations; though its achievements in this regard are not great. This is partly due to divisions within the government. The lobby with obscurantist views that is opposed to the LLRC recommendations (on reconciliation and the rule of law) […]

(Lanka-e-News-) The brutal and Barbaric despots MaRa and his brothers have freed yet another murderer from the prison. On the 16th of December, Dolpin Chandhana alias Watthe Chandana had been sent home after he was released by the Attorney general (AG) following withdrawal of the charges against him on the ground that there are no […]

Come dance at “place where thousands of war heroes, terrorists and others died” HuffingtonPost, Frances Harrison, The Sri Lankan military is advertising a newly constructed hotel in the heart of the killing fields in the north of the island, where tens of thousands of minority Tamils were killed in 2009. The holiday resort, called Lagoon’s […]

Commissioner P W Kodipilly Lanka e news inside information service had been able to identify the three prisoners who were covered with cloths and taken out clandestinely from the Welikade prison and dispatched by the army ‘Buffel’ vehicle on the day of the prison clash . They are: 1. Ratnayake Siriyalage Thushara of 38, Madiwela […]

Sri Lanka’s Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) has sent summons to Tamil National People’s Front (TNPF) President, Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam, asking him to be present at its investigating office in Colombo on Saturday for inquiries. The summon note, entirely in Sinhala language, was served at Gajendrakumar’s residence in Colombo by a TID officer on Thursday afternoon. Mr. […]

Sexual abuse of female LTTE cadres were widespread during the war Not many will doubt that one of the most sought after keyword on Internet is “sex”. And Sri Lankans, it seems, are the most search savvy when it comes to Googling that term.This is according to Google Trends, a public web facility that shows how […]

Critics say the Sunday Leader has lost Lasantha Wickrematunge’s ethos  Charles Haviland BBC News, Colombo  Almost four years after its editor was killed in mysterious circumstances, there are fears that Sri Lanka’s most outspokenly anti-government newspaper is losing its critical edge. On 8 January 2009, the editor of the Sunday Leader, Lasantha Wickrematunge, was assassinated […]

Image courtesy Lanka StandardThe present crisis engulfing the Jaffna University may be a turning point for the Tamil politics and Sri Lankan politics at large. There are three important issues, I would like to deduce from this stalemate, which are necessary to gauge the trajectory of post-war Tamil politics in Sri Lanka. Two of those […]

What is it with South Asia’s strongmen and top judges? Only five years ago General Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan found he had bitten off more than he could chew when he tried to sack Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhary. Now President Mahinda Rajapaksa wants Sri Lanka’s Chief Justice out, but like her Pakistani counterpart, Shirani Bandaranayake […]

Bodu Bala Sena” the Sinhala movement and other Sinhalese racists are carrying out unscrupulous activities against the Muslim and why government is silently watching.Suppression against Muslims and continuous autocracies are unleashed against the Muslims by the government,   and to protect their rights, whether Muslims should carry weapons, is what the government expect was queried by […]

Lawyers of Sri Lanka’s top judge Shirani Bandaranayake today accused the government of running “an organized series of programmes” in state electronic media targeting the Chief Justice, the Judiciary and leading lawyers.They said said government spin doctors are involved in these “baseless propaganda programmes”.“It is abundantly clear that these are not isolated attacks but meticulously […]