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By Ranee Mohamed Another Friday passed as Sri Lankans, the international community and Rizana’s parents eagerly await the decision of Saudi Arabian authorities regarding the fate of Rizana Nafeek after two appeals for clemency have been sent to the highest authorities in Saudi Arabia
By Rick Westhead South Asia Bureau, Toronto Star COLOMBO— When Sarath Fonseka resigned as Sri Lanka’s top army general to run for president, supporters of President Mahinda Rajapaksa viewed the move as pure betrayal. The president had helped Fonseka rise...
Winning the Peace by Ross Tuttle After 30 years of war, Sri Lanka's Tamil community is finally connected again with the outside world. But life under occupation has its own tensions -- and renewed conflict is always a possibility. JAFFNA,...
There are times when one simply cannot believe the attitude of the government. It acts with an impunity never quite before seen and unlikely to be seen elsewhere either. They send out signals to the international community with no apparent care in the world for what our overseas trading partners
By DBS Jeyaraj Lakshman Kadirgamar was assassinated five years ago today (12 August 2005). This is a reprint of two articles about his life written by DBS Jeyaraj and published in the Sunday Leader on 21 August 2005 and 28 August 2005. This tribute is especially fitting as the current War Commission is being conducted ...
By Dr.A.R.M.Imtiyaz [Abstract: Symbols are emotional and they play significant role in all aspect of human communities, including electoral politics. Symbols are deadly in nature because they can provoke deadly violence and war crimes. In Sri Lanka, Sinhala politician and...
By Dr. Harinda Vidanage The UN panel of experts, the EU condition GSP plus concessions drew a plethora of responses in Sri Lanka from politicians, policy makers, media personalities, eminent public figures. These international developments have been revisited in many newspaper articles
BBC Sandeshaya The detained former military commander in Sri Lanka says he is prepared to meet the special panel appointed to advice the UN chief on alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka. Gen Sarath Fonseka told BBC Sandeshaya that...
President Rajapaksa has emphasized that Sri Lanka had the right to take independent decisions with regard to her future. Joining in an interview with “Times of India” newspaper, the President said there is no need for the country to betray all its things on behalf of the GSP Plus facility
by M.S.S. Pandian The World Classical Tamil Conference, which is being held in Coimbatore by the DMK government at the cost of Rs. 400 crore, is born in anti-intellectualism and draws sustenance from the self-serving politics of M. Karunanidhi, the...
By S.V.Kirubaharan, France The recent BBC series of hard talk programmes on Sri Lanka presented by Stephen Sackur was well-received globally. This telecasting has shown the good, bad and ugly sides of Sri Lanka...
The recent BBC series of hard talk programmes on Sri Lanka presented by Stephen Sackur was well-received globally. This telecasting has shown the good, bad and ugly sides of Sri Lanka. The true stories about the return of the internally displaced people – IDPs, the present feelings of the Tamils, the reporting on demining, views ...
June 16, 2010: 11.00 am Siobhain McDonagh: (Mitcham and Morden) (Lab): I am grateful for the chance to highlight again the appalling treatment of Tamil civilians by the Sri Lankan Government....
Interview with Ms. Tamara Kunanayakam, Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Cuba Amb. Tamara Kunanayakam 1. You are Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Cuba. What brought you to Caracas? Our attention was drawn to the active presence in Caracas of a delegation...
By Sergei DeSilva-Ranasinghe. A year ago in May, the Sri Lankan government officially declared victory over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in one of the most extraordinary counter-insurgency campaigns in recent times....
An Incisive Interview with Ranil Wickremasinghe By C.A.Chandrprema Question: Who, or what, was responsible for the numerous defeats that the UNP had to suffer for the past fifteen years or more? We are, of course, aware that this losing trend...
By Dr. Rajasingham Narendran "Innaa Seytharai Oruthal Awar Naana- Nan Nayam Seythu Widdal" (Thirukkural –Tamil) (Perform a good deed in return, to those who have harmed you, in order to shame them-my translation) It is one year since the LTTE...