Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada.
February 8, 2010 Your Excellency Mahinda Rajapaksa President of Sri Lanka Temple Trees Colombo, Sri Lanka Your Excellency: I wrote to you two days ago complaining about the episode at the Kanneliya Forest Reserve and asked you to rein in the two-bit politician from the Southern Province and read him the Riot Act. I read about this stunning incident again in the Sunday Times, ‘Freedom of the wild ass by ministerial group’ bylined by Damith Wickremeasekera. Good God, Your Excellency, the Forest Ranger Sunil Ranaweera to be... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/10)
By K T Rajasingham
The scene: office of an important person located opposite the Royal College, Colombo. The time: 10 p m on Monday. The Provo Martial of the Military Police Brigadier Wijesri enters the Office with authority. He is accompanied by Maj Gen S R Manawaduge, Commandant of Western Province and Puttalam, and the Colonel of the Commando Regiment. The police top echelons are also present. The Provo Martial of the Military Police Brigadier has an important assignment on hand, that was already talk of the town. Only the timing was not known and how was not known.... -Full Story- (asiantribune.com - 09/02/10)
Sri Lanka’s defeated opposition presidential candidate former army chief General Sarath Fonseka was arrested on Monday night by the army and will be court-martialled for offences committed while he was in service, a fortnight after he suffered defeat at the hands of incumbent Mahinda Rajapaksa.The 59-year-old Fonseka, credited with the annihilation of the LTTE, was arrested along with his media secretary Senaka de Silva while on work at their office in the capital. Defence spokesperson Major General Prasad Samarasinghe, who assumed charge on Monday, said Fonseka was taken into custody by the army and will “face court martial proceedings for... -Full Story- (Deccan Herald - 09/02/10)
John Kerry is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (US) This is A part analysis of John Kerry Report on Sri Lanka
Stunned by the unexpected annihilation of the terrorists in Sri Lanka and fearing consequently a grave threat to US security interests in the region, the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (SCFR) hastily scrambled two of its staff members to visit the island nation in the first week of November 2009 with a mandate to evaluate the fall out of the terrorist debacle on US policy in the island and geopolitical, in the region;... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/10)
By Janaka Alahapperuma
President Mahinda Rajapaksa and Madam Shiranthi Rajapaksa participated at the Golden Jubilee Anniversary celebrations and a cultural show of the Peoples’ Friendship University, which was held at the university auditorium in Moscow yesterday evening, 7th February. President Rajapaksa is seen here being welcomed at the ceremony by the students of the university and the Vice Chancellor Professor Vladimir M. Philipov. The Sri Lankan President was honoured once again at the cultural show by Prof. Philipov, by presenting a memento, a Russian style gold plated crown, decorated in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/10)
By A. Abdul Aziz,ress Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Sri Lanka.
The World-wide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community (Jama’at) wishes to express its condemnation and regret at the recommendations of a French Parliamentary Report published on 26 January 2010 which called for a partial ban on Muslim women wearing veils. The recommendations, if adopted, would deny Muslim women the right to cover their faces in public arenas such as hospitals, schools, government buildings and whilst using public transport. According to the recommendations, any Muslim woman who attempted to flout the ban would be denied the relevant public service. Therefore if the recommendations... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/10)
Anura Seneviratna (for expat Hela team).
National motherland of the Hela Nation is the whole Hela Island of Heladiva. Helabasa - Hela culture – National Hela Sovereignty is the inviolable fundamental human right of the nation of Hela people ONLY in our national motherland. The pre-historic Heladiva is masked by pseudonym of Lanka has caused the wrong name in our national land deed, making it vulnerable to our national heritage. The nation is degraded to a race against Hela nation. Although, root of a nation is race distinguished by genes, evolved into a nation is inclusive of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/10)
ALI SUKHANVER
A close neighbor can be more helpful than a relative living far away. Pakistan is fortunate enough to have a friend like China as a neighbour but unfortunate to have a neighbour like India who never desires for stability and prosperity of Pakistan. The Pakistanis must be thankful to God for making China its neighbour because the situation could have been much painful for them if there were no China in the region. Pak-China friendship is time -tested and progressing by leaps and bounds every moment. Unluckily this friendship is proving itself much agonizing for those countries... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/10)
Sarath Wijesinghe Senior Solicitor and Attorney-At-Law- former Chairman Consumer Affairs Authority
GSP+- the background
GSP+ is a system introduced by USA and EU to conditional help and encourages trade industries and production in selected and identified countries by adjusting tariff and other facilities for a given period. European Union and the member countries intensified the scheme during and aftermath of Tsunami Disaster for Sri Lanka. Before the introduction of this facility managed our affairs without this concession and we should have known that this is not a permanent facility and should have been ready to be without at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/10)
Embassy of Sri Lanka, Seoul, South Korea.
The celebration of the Independence Day and National Day commenced at the Residence of Sri Lanka on 04th February with the flag hoisting ceremony attended by a cross section of Korean and Sri Lankan distinguished personalities, representatives of Sri Lankan migrant workers and Sri Lankan students. A multi religious rituals with the participation of the clergy of Buddhist, Hindu, Christian and Islamic were observed and the National Day Messages of H.E. the President, Hon. Prime Minister and the Hon. Foreign Minister were read. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/10)
Dr. Raju Selva
I was a very disappointed Tamil moderate who have been voicing my opinion against LTTE Diaspora who were actively supporting LTTE . In a similar manner I raised my voice against Tamil Diaspora asking them not to mislead the ordinary Tamils mainly in the North and East at the Presidential election. I was flabbergasted to observe that LTTE’s Eelam is still alive when one analyses the voting pattern in the North & East. Sarath Fonseka , who claimed that he alone crushed LTTE got majority Tamil votes in the North & East and in Nuwera-Eliya. Not... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/02/10)
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA—Sri Lanka's defeated presidential candidate was hauled from his office by military police Monday and will be court-martialled for allegedly planning to overthrow the government while serving as the head of the army. Sarath Fonseka, who as the top general helped defeat the Tamil Tiger rebels, was forcibly detained after objecting to his arrest, opposition politician Rauff Hakeem told The Associated Press.... -Full Story- (thestar.com - 09/02/10)
Sri Lanka Customs Whistleblowers
We, the Sri Lanka Customs Whistleblowers are an independent body formulated to fight corruption and abuse of power by any person holding any public office. Today, we bring with full confidence to the notice of the people about the background and the decision of a very important and infamous supreme court decision from the, government revenue view point, that set up a precedence with very damaging and far-reaching effects. The modus-operandi in this case, that was designed to protect the organised fraudsters has been a minutely planned and well supported by the DGC, by his deliberate... -Full Story- (presidentialelections2010.blogspot.com - 08/02/10)
Ranjini Deraniyagala Ambassador General United Cultrual Convention, USA
This is alarming indeed. Chilling story! We do hope the president is keeping a watchful eye on this decision. India has ulterior motives. LTTE who have been defeated in the North may have other scheming ideas. If this is done to counter TNA emergence, it may backfire when India settles down to lay her "Aid" demands. They may try to play an innocent role to creeping in again as various incidents in the past. People have not forgotten the Indian Troops entry in the past. Then we are opening the welcome door... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/02/10)
Dr.Levins T.C.Rajaratnam
“There go my people, I must follow them, for I am their Leader” were the words of Mahatma Gandhi practiced to the very syllable by President Mahinda Rajapaksa. That is the secret of his success. Amidst the turbulent waves of politics and the intricacies of conspiracies by vested interests- President Mahinda Rajapaksa was be re-elected as the President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka for a second term. Victor, Victory & The Victorious The Victor is President Mahinda Rajapaksa, The Victory was inevitable due to the patriotic deeds of the President and the Victorious are... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/02/10)
Defeated Sri Lankan presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka could be hauled before a court martial to answer charges of plotting a coup to topple the government, a press report said on Sunday. The government has sought legal advice on using a military court to fast-track proceedings against Fonseka, who challenged President Mahinda Rajapakse in the January 26 vote, the Sunday Times said. "A military court will try retired general Sarath Fonseka on several charges of conspiracy," it said. There was no immediate comment from Fonseka, who has already accused the government of planning to arrest or assassinate him after he fell... -Full Story- (Hindustan Times - 07/02/10)
Reyyaz Salley - Islamic Solidarity Front of North America
Mahinda’s Victory is People’s Victory was the title of the article I wrote in the Daily News on 22 December 2005 soon after the Presidential Elections. In the last four years he delivered the most anticipated election promise in 2005 – that he can be relied upon to restore peace in the country, a country which has been scarred by conflict for so long was pausing for breath, and wondering what comes next. Year of war and the worst financial crisis in decades – still not over – few believed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/02/10)
Herold Leelawardena
Is it in the Bible that says; “tell me who your friends are; and I will tell you who you are”. Anyway, Stupid Fonseka (SF) showed the Sinhalese who his friends are: They were the JVP, the Marxists revolutionaries who bloodied this country in two failed revolutions; and the UNP that got its thugs to hammer and slaughter sixty thousand JVP cadres; and the TNA that gave the cover to LTTE suicide bombers to kill and maim tens of thousands of civilians in buses, trains and public places. SF’s alliance or soup is so odd; Sinhalese viewed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/02/10)
චන්ද්රසිරි විජයවික්රම
1776 ජූලි මාසයේ 4 වෙනිදා ඇමෙරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදයේ නිදහස් දිනය ලෙස තෝරා ගත්තේ ජූලි 2 දා වන විටත් නිදහස් ප්රකාශනය ගැන ජනපද 13 එකඟතාවයකට පැමිණ නොතිබීමය. වාද විවාද අවසන්ව එය ප්රසිද්ධ කිරීම සඳහා මුද්රණාලයට යැවුවේ ජූලි 4 වෙනිදාය. මා දන්නා කරුණක් නම් 1826 ජූලි 4 වෙනිදා ජෝන් ඇඩම්ස් හා තෝමස් ජෙෆර්සන් යන ඇමරිකාවේ දෙවැනි හා තුන්වැනි ජනාධිපතිවරු දෙදෙනා පැය ගණනක පරතරයක් තුල (කලින් ජෙෆර්සන්) මිය ගිය බවය. දෙදෙනාම මළේ ඔවුන් ඇමෙරිකාවේ නිදහස් ප්රකාශනය අත්සන් කර හරියටම අවුරුදු පනහකට පසුවය. මෙය මට මතක වුනේ ලංකාවේ නිදහස් දිනය ලෙස පෙබරවාරි 4 වෙනිදා තෝරා ගත්තේ ඒ දිනය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/02/10)
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි.
අප මේ බසයට නැගුණේ, සමාජවාදී රාජ්ය පද්ධතියක් දකින්නටය. අපට දකින්නට අවශ්යවූයේ සෝවියට් දේශය, සමාජවාදී මහජන චීන සමූහ ආණ්ඩුව, උතුරු කොරියාව, වියට්නාම් ජන රජය, හා කියුබාව වැනි වූ රාජ්ය පද්ධතියයි. මේ බසයට නැගීමට පෙර මේ චාරිකාව යාම සදහා අප වෙනත් බසයක නැගී වසර 30ක්ම ගමන යමින් සිටියහ. අපගේ බසය ඇදගෙන යාමේ කාර්යය තවත් බසයකට පැවරූ මොහොතේ; මහත්සේ උරණවූ අප, එදා බසය පදවා ගෙන ගිය නියමුවන්ට, "කෙස් පැහී, දත් වැටී, ලොම් හැලී, වල පල්ලට යනවිටත් අපට ධනවාදී සමාජ ක්රමයක් ඉතිරි කර යන වාමාංශික නායකයිනේ, අපට ඊර්ෂ්යා කරන්න එපා"යි හඩගා මේ බසයට නැගුනෙමු. මේ වන විට මේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/02/10)
By Janaka Alahapperuma
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa was awarded a Honoris Causa Doctorate by the Peoples’ Friendship University (PFU), formally known as Patricia Lumumba University of Moscow in Russia on Saturday 6th February 2010 at 6.00pm. The PFU is celebrating its Golden Jubilee and to mark the anniversary it has been decided to award the Honorary Doctorate to President Rajapaksa for his contribution for world peace and outstanding success against defeating terrorism. The award ceremony was held at the conference hall of the Great Kremlin Concert Hotel in Moscow. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/02/10)
By Shelton A. Gunaratne
2010
My encounter with Germany’s Schwarzwald (Black Forest) began on Tuesday (3 March 1992) morning, when I arrived in Karlsruhe (population 289,000) in the federal state of Baden Württemberg. Karlsruhe is the country’s judicial capital or home of justice because it is the location of the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court) and the Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Court of Justice). I left Dahn soon after breakfast and drove east on the mountainous B427 to see the ruins of Burg Berwartstein at Erlenbach bei Dahn. The old castle had turned into a restaurant. I tarried at a park with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/02/10)
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada
February 6, 2010 Your Excellency Mahinda Rajapaksa President of Sri Lanka Temple Trees, Colombo Sri Lanka. Your Excellency: With your busy daily schedule I doubt you have time to read the local newspapers, but, however your morning briefing notes would have flagged the concerns brought to your attention and all Sri Lankans by journalist Malinda Seneviratne in his article ‘Do you know how Kanneliya celebrated Independence Day, Mr. President?” In brief, a two-bit Minister from the Southern Province had arrived for a meeting to the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/02/10)
Mahinda weerasinghe -Author of. Mission to Oslo
(UD – Norwegian Foreign office)Translated version of the attached Article appeared in NY TID 5. – 11 February 2010. Page 43 -IN Norwegian it was called “Norsk fallitt pa Sri Lanka” Translated this would mean “Norwegian collapse in Sri Lanka” The voter turnout for the Sri Lankan presidential election may have been as high as 80 percent, according to election officials. The Asian international monitors who were in Sri Lanka to oversee the election concluded that the presidential elections on Tuesday were conducted in a free and fair manner. Incumbent President Rajapaksa... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/02/10)
Ananda W. P. Guruge
The death of Sri Lanka's most eminent and renowned and deservingly legendary surgeon, Desamanya Dr. P. R. Anthonis, within days of reaching the hundredth birthday, engulfed thousands of his friends and well-wishers in depths of sorrow. We have all been beneficiaries of his superior talent as a healer and his remarkable generosity and example as a human being. It is but natural, therefore, that praise for and appreciation of his notable services should accompany our heartfelt condolences to his family and relatives. I consider it my duty as a close friend and admirer of Dr.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/02/10)
Ananda De Costa
The following is an extract from some recent news article written by a critic of Singapore. “Dr Chee Soon Juan, Singapore's most prominent opposition leader and human rights defender, is again in prison, along with his colleague Gandhi Ambalam. In December 2009, they were found guilty under the Miscellaneous Offences Act of distributing pamphlets during the 2006 election that were critical of the ruling People's Action Party, an action for which they had no permit. They were sentenced to a fine of S$1000 or one week in jail. The Deputy Public Prosecutor stated that it was not the distribution per se that was illegal,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/02/10)
චන්ද්රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි.
හුම්මානේ හරිම ලස්සන තැනකි. එම ස්ථානයට දේශීය හා විදේශීය සංචාරකයින් පවා යන තරමට එම ස්ථානය ප්රසිද්ධ බවත්, එම පලාතේ ජනතාවට ඒ හේතුවෙන් අමතර ආදායමක් ලබා ගත හැකි තත්වයක් උදාවී ඇති බවත් අපට ඇසේ. එය බලන්න යන සමහර අය අවට පරිසරය පුරා, තමන් කෑමෙන් හා බීමෙන් පසු ඉතිරිවන දෑ විසුරුවා, පලාතම ගද ගස්සන බවත් අපට ඇසේ. ඒ ශ්රී ලංකා වාසීන්ගෙන් තුනෙන් පංගුවක ආත්මීය පුරුද්දයි. දැඩි ආදරයකින් වෙලුන ආදරවන්තයින් එකිනෙකාට තුරුළුව හුම්මානේට පැන මියයන බවක්ද අප අසා ඇත්තෙමු. මේ හුම්මානේ ජාතියට හඩගා කියන පණිවුඩයක්ද ඇත්තේය. ගල් දෙබොක්කාවේ මුහුදු රල වැදෙමින් හඩ තලමින්, තල් කදක් සේ ජල කදක් අහස... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/02/10)
Ben Silva
I am referring to the media report that India is to open a consulate in Jaffna. Indians are treated with respect and affection by most Sri Lankans. The Sinhalese are fully aware that their ancestors, religion, language, dress etc came from India.. However the destruction of the Sinhala civilisation is attributed to invasions from South India. We also must never, and I do mean never forget that India, trained, funded and supported the Tamil racist terrorists that caused massive death and destruction in Sri Lanka, which took over 30 years to neutralise. There is absolutely no threat... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/02/10)
By Dr. Stephen Long, Los Angeles, California
My last article about Sri Lanka was entitled, “Is Sri Lanka Crazy Enough to Elect a Retired General as President?” Yesterday’s election answered that question with a resounding “No!” It actually answered a number of questions with a resounding “No!” Here are a few of those questions: “Is Sri Lanka willing to elect someone as President who was a convicted rapist, serial womanizer, and alleged wife beater?” That’s what I like: a role model for the nation’s youth. “Is Sri Lanka willing to elect someone as President who was a national hero... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/02/10)
By Janaka Alahapperuma
President Mahinda Rajapaksa arrived at Vinukoa International Airport in Moscow today (6th February) for three day official visit to Russian Federation. This afternoon President Rajapaksa will be awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the People’s Friendship University of Russian Federation (PFU), formally known as Patricia Lumumba University for his contribution for world peace and outstanding success against defeating terrorism. The PFU is celebrating its 50th Anniversary and to mark this special occasion it has been decided to award the Honorary Doctorate to the Sri Lankan President. After the award ceremony a special reception will be held at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/02/10)
Ananda Ariyarathne
When Mr.Alagaratnam wakes up in the morning, he does not miss his tea made in the traditional manner it is normally made in Jaffna and his wife who was sharing the burdens in life together bringing up their children has not become changed simply because they have now been living in Colombo for quite some time. Being staunch Hindus, they have their lives strictly controlled by the traditional rites and customs. They have their own relations and friends in the same communities, but live in Colombo just like them. The friends they have among Singhalese and Muslims... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/02/10)
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . K1J 6G1 . Canada
Sri Lanka’s 62nd Independence Anniversary Brad Adams Executive Director Human Rights Watch 350 Fifth Avenue, 34th Floor New York, NY 101183299 US Dear Brad: I just read in Australian News that you guys had come out with another Report on Sri Lanka embarking on Round 17 of the fight with Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapaksa in the squared circle in front of your building with several hundreds of people witnessing this fight. Many of them were dark skinned Tamils I was told cheering you along to get bashed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/02/10)
Vajiragnana Warnakulasuriya Melbourne,
Dear Mr.Murphy Your support for Pro-LTTE Mob in Federal Parliament! You are parroting what the pro LTTE mob is propagating. You say Tamil community were discriminated and brutally oppressed, because the Britts did not pave the way to power share with the independence. What you fail to see I, that during the period of independence, Britts saw the Tamil population was insignificant to make such a provision, besides the country had peace, harmony & unity, unlike here in Australia where initial settlers annihilated the indigenous population eliminating the issue totally. It’s the missionary education in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/02/10)
Ranjit Wickremeratne
Dear readers it's not even one year passed since the brutal war was ended but we can see another Prabakaran in Sinhala dress was emerging on our soil and we need to be more careful than before because he is with the same kind of Sinhala terrorists like Tamil terrorists led by Prabakaran. You saw how we faced the 1971 uprising 40 years ago and how many innocent lives was taken by those terrorists who now talking about democracy like hypocrits. This gang now get together with the Sinhala Prabakaran and trying to take our land... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/02/10)
Moscow: Russia will give Sri Lanka a $300 million loan to buy arms and dual use equipment from it, an agreement regarding which will be inked during the upcoming visit of president Mahinda Rajapaksa, a top official said today.Rajapaksa is arriving in Moscow tomorrow, according to Kremlin. "Such agreement is being prepared for signing," deputy finance minister Dmitry Pankin said. President Dmitry Medvedev is scheduled to hold talks with his Sri Lankan counterpart on Monday. Rajapaksa will be on a three-day visit to attend the Golden Jubilee celebrations of his alma mater - Peoples Friendship University of Russia (PFU), till... -Full Story- (dnaindia.com - 06/02/10)