Six suspected LTTE operatives arrested in Kolkata As reported in Ada Derana, August 15, 2015 The arrest of 6 men allegedly belonging to the LTTE has left security officials in West Bengal in a spot of bother. They are verifying why these six men had come to Kolkata from Chennai. The police say that they […]
As published in Asian Tribune, August 12, 2015 Minister of Industry and Commerce, ACMC’s leader and Vanni ACMC Group Leader Rishad Bathiudeen has moved his ACMC behind the call for a new Coastal Administrative Unit in East on 09 August. “If voters of Ampara District elect two new ACMC MPs from us and send the […]
As published in defense.lk By S L Gunasekera “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour” [Exodus 20:16], the ninth Commandment of God, is evidently one that Bishop Rayappu Joseph does not take seriously. This is made evident by the several intemperate and manifestly false allegations he has seen fit to make against the […]
As published in Asian Tribune, August 12, 2015 By K T Rajasingham Suddenly Tamil National Alliance has become a red herring in the midst of the Mannar-Vavuniya diocese and they have avoided mentioning the name in their much publicized latest statements issued to their devotees in all 216 catholic churches in the region. On Sunday, […]
As published in Ceylon Today, June 20, 2015 By Skandha Gunasekera On 8 January, the night of the Presidential Election results, it was alleged that there was an attempt by the former President Mahinda Rajapaksa to retain power through a military coup. Former Commander of the Army, Daya Ratnayake, in a recent interview with the […]
As published on LankaWeb, June 01, 2015 By Shenali D Weduge It is sad and unfortunate that within just 6 years we hear of people publicly praising an internationally banned terrorist organization. The fault lies in the failure to denazify the LTTE but it also establishes that though LTTE leader is no more the desire […]
As published on The Island, August 08, 2011 By the time this newspaper reaches the hands of readers on Sunday morning, either way, history would have been made. If the UNP wins Colombo, that would be a display of unexpected resilience in the face of tremendous adversity. If on the other hand the UPFA has […]
As published in The Island, August 03, 2015 By Somapala Gunadheera Party nominations are out for the General Election fixed for the 17th August, 2015. Much has been said on how to choose contestants for the GE but most of it appears to have fallen on deaf years. The mixture is almost as before, with […]
As published in Asian Tribune, July 30, 2015 By Daya Gamage Sri Lanka’s premier Tamil political party Tamil National Alliance (TNA)knows what it is saying in its 2015 August parliamentary election manifesto reiterating its commitment to a federal system envisaging ‘self-rule’ in a ‘merged’ provinces of north and east citing UN covenants’ endorsement of ‘self-determination’ […] ...
Milgram, Standford Prison Experiment, Hammond Hill & the K (Killing) Point As published in the boondionline.blogspot.com, September 24, 2012 Sometimes this whole world is just one big prison yard. Some of us are prisoners, the rest of us are guards. — Bob Dylan Psychologist Albert Bandura once said “Our ability to selectively engage and disengage […]
As published in UCAnews.com, December 19, 2014 Interview: The prelate spoke to Églises d’Asie in late November ahead of an Apostolic visit by Pope Francis Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, 67, the archbishop of Colombo since 2009, made a cardinal the following year and president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Sri Lanka, is a central figure […]
As published in transcurrents.com, September 24, 2011 By Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka Though my political approval of and personal liking for Mahinda Rajapaksa, (certainly in relation to his competitors and immediate predecessors) are shared by nine out of ten Sri Lankan citizens (according to the Gallup poll), it is not nice to be alone in one’s […]
Sri Lanka and Israel have been both accused of violating international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL) at UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, but in dealing with these two nations the United States has taken two contradictory positions.....
As published in Nivaard Cabraal’s FaceBook Attrocities of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) or Peoples’ Liberation Front During the period 1987-1992 the JVP murdered hundreds of members of the working class in the South of the island in order to force people to join anti-government strikes. Just 15 year ago JVP attacked the holiest of Buddhist […]
As published in ratarakimu.wordpress.com By Shenali Waduge Winning hearts and minds of terrorists, mentality of surrender, advocating theory of “unwinnable war” and policy of appeasing, reducing the country to a pariah state, knowingly giving a terrorist organization status on par with a sovereign state and a democratic government were the characteristics of those led by […]
As published in the Ceylon Today, August 04, 2015 A road and rail link between India’s Rameswaram and Sri Lanka’s Thalaimannar could be a reality soon as the government of India has asked Asian Development Bank to carry out pre-feasibility study for financing the project across Palk Strait between India and Sri Lanka. A short […]
An alleged draft of the Committee on Public Enterprises (COPE) Report on the Bond Scam of February 27, 2015 as well as the comments made by one or two members of that COPE Investigation Sub-committee have supposedly attempted to draw a nexus of the former Governor of the Central Bank, Ajith Nivard Cabraal to the Bond scam.....