It is well known that the Police Department in Sri Lanka extracts confessions using heavy handed techniques. It is usually the innocent parties that are accused who face the real wrath as they face considerably more harassment and abuse, and physical torture as it is assumed they are guilty before being innocent.So it takes a lot of courage for an ...
It was interesting that I saw the news in the Qatari owned Al Jazeera web site of the two HR activists who had gone missing and now in detention in Qatar.The issue at hand are the harsh conditions in which the construction work force and in this case the Nepalese, who come in search of some means to support their ...
The newly built SLMC office in Kattankudy was set on fire. There is no ongoing investigation into the cause which is unusual. Ask the OIC Kattankudy why not? And he will say he received orders from the top not to investigate.The real reason turns out that Rauf Hakeem through his orders has set fire to his own office. Why would ...
Surprise surprise! The principles of Natural Justice does not apply to the CJ. I hope she got a good taste of what we have been seeing for so long in this country, especially since MR became President of SL in 2005. No one will argue that justice is dispensed in an AD HOC and predictable way only against those who ...
It took a lot of courage for the Leader of the Opposition to join hands with the various dubious forces on the fringe, all mavericks, to hold a joint rally in Jaffna. Many of the UNP party faithful fearful of the inevitable LTTE partiality label thought it was not playing to the gallery. However all who went to Jaffna realized ...
The Independent a UK newspaper’s editorial on Sunday was about the UK hypocrisy with regards SL. See linkhttp://www.independent.co.uk/voices/editorials/editorial-britains-hypocrisy-over-sri-lanka-8498812.htmlToday’s issue shows the issue as a “Headline” in the paper. See linkhttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/revealed-uk-sells-arms-to-sri-lankas-brutal-regime-8498768.htmlUnder the independent voices section of the Sunday paper of 17th February the issue is further discussed. See linkhttp://www.in
We have enough going on in this Paradise Isle to be too worried about our national carrier’s schedules being altered to accommodate a puppy on a flight back from Europe. Why is so much fuss made about a puppy when it is quite normal for puppies to travel in aircraft all around the world as they are more able to ...
Buffoonery at its highest! We are the only country, that has buffoons for ministers who utter absurdities such as above. What an asinine statement to make. Considering it was a Greenfield site badly chosen and the location, costly to operate and costly to the citizenry, and he has the audacity to make a statement like that. One should say that ...
– our highway robbers are Members of Parliament – they are not in jail or under indictment! Why?The infamous outlaw of 19thC Australia, Ned Kelly and his Gang of highway robbers was a champion of the poor and a folklore celebrity, much like Saradial of Utumankande in the hills on the way to Kandy, due to his sharing of the ...
The failure of the UNP working committee meeting on Monday to re-appoint Sajith Premadasa as the party’s deputy leader has created a round of speculation as to the intentions of the Party Leader who now has sole powers in whom he wished to appoint. ONLY if there is a quorum of one third of the WC members who have an ...
Since its inception Ceylon Today, and its Sinhala bed mate, Mawbima has been a Rajapakse memorial, starting on the Presidents birthday in Nov 2011, and had pretended to Sarath Fonseka that it was partial to his cause. At the same time it had vilified the Leader of the Opposition, with lies from the very outset.They appear to employ Journalists of ...
Consider this. A police complaint is made against a habitual batterer about being beaten up by him and his goons, (not for the first time). Then the Police fail to arrest the alleged perpetrator, a well known personality who goes about freely in public and was not arrested despite being in public. Then he gives himself up to the police ...
It is time the leader of the UNP called all the dissidents to order. First please call them up and speak to them in a reasonable tone, as he is perceived as being unapproachable by them to air their grievances. One reason is when Sajith gets up to speak, it is just to attack the leader with little diplomacy, ...
Is anyone now questioning that they have been completely let down the garden path by the constant media rhetoric, that is daily pumped out mercilessly by the Rajapakse Regime of Reckless Recidivist Rajapaksa Rapacious Rapscallion Rascals.It is time to take stock, and realize that we can do something about it, and make our feelings known. The fear that has been ...
IN SRI LANKA – Such is the LAW!!!Only in Sri Lanka, would a Magistrate allow a Doctor who qualified in Sri Lanka, and went to the US where he was banned from PracticingSee link: http://www.sundaytimes.lk/140817/news/strident-call-for-stringent-control-of-medical-clinics-111393.htmlBe allowed to practice freely See link: http://www.dailymirror.lk/news/53302-controversial-plastic-surgeon-allowed-to-practice.htmlwithout conditions, even after a patient clearly died under his negligent care for a minor plastic
Hot on the heels of the execution of the innocent Rizana Nafeek thanks to the ineptness of the Government of Sri Lanka, and its coterie of overmanned ministerial posts, the comedy of errors continues.As if to proclaim their disgust of the action by the authorities in KSA (Saudi Arabia – the only country named after a family) the Government made ...
The 140 page report published today, by the HRW about post conflict sexual torture against Tamils is timed to coincide with the UNHRC sessions this week that will consider the SL implementation of the LLRC report.This is willfully timed to add urgency to the previous ultimatum, that the SL Govt. has no intention of looking into abuses then, pre May ...
The General Public by and large were baying for the blood of the former Governor of the Central Bank, to be implicated by COPE for the Bond Scandal, and they appeared to have got what they asked for, but is that the whole story?The former Governor for his part has said that he will return from Singapore to clear his ...
Geeganagamage Amarasiri alias Julampitiya Amare surrendered to the Tangalle High Courst through his attorney on Tuesday, June 19th 2012. If you saw how nattily dressed he was in a new pair of sneakers, you would wonder how he got there, and what promises had been made for his to come in so casually and nonchalantly. He is one of the ...
Sirasa has finally had their moment in the sun, the current leadership of the UNP appear to be completely deaf to anything they have to show despite the huge damage this action has caused to the rank and file UNPers some of whom were compelled to believe the allegations for want of a retraction. It is now slowly dawning ...