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I condemn in the strongest possible terms your desperate attempt to drag the Venerable Mahanayake Theras of the Three Nikayas into your fearmongering election campaign. On Wednesday, you publicly appealed to these Venerable Prelates to inject themselves into a political debate on your behalf by manipulating and misrepresenting the letter and spirit of my election […]

by Rajan Philips- “We have failed in the essential task of nation building,” said President Chandrika Kumaratunga in her speech to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of Sri Lanka’s independence. That was in 1998. Seventeen years later, on Independence Day last week, President Maithripala Sirisena soul searchingly spoke of our “great responsibility and duty … today […]

(Ex-LTTE members touring south] Image- MoD) [TamilNet ] The occupying military of genocidal Sri Lanka has forced around 4,000 former members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who are under the captivity of the so-called Civil Security Division (CSD) in Vanni, to vote for the incumbent SL president Mahinda Rajapaksa through postal voting, […]

Professor Vasanthi Arasaratnam, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Jaffna has sent a greeting letter to Mahinda Rajapaksa wishing him for the victory in the forthcoming presidential election. The Vice Chancellor has sent this letter to all faculties and departments seeking the support to Mahinda Rajapaksa in the forthcoming presidential election. She has written this […]

Tamils should freely exercise their franchise at the upcoming Sri Lanka Presidential Election. Global Tamil Forum (GTF) strongly urges the Tamil people in Sri Lanka to use every vote carefully during the January 8 Presidential Election. Tamil people have a long history of voting based on principled considerations. The upcoming Presidential election is no different. […]