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News Archive for Mar 2017
THE PRESENT WORLD ECONOMY IS ANTI HUMAN - TIME TO RE-THINK - A Sri Lankan Buddhist perspectiveAyn Rand called her philosophy "Objectivism", describing its essence as "the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute. When Vasgo De Gama Invaded the spice market of Calicut and killed the Arabic Merchants, Sinhalese merchants, the Tamil merchants etc. the harmonious free market was destroyed and a policy of Might is Right was introduced to Asia. It persists even today led by the IMF and World Bank and the imperialistic wars in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/17)
මෛත්‍රිපාලගේ කාර්යභාරය
මෛත්‍රිපාල නිල වශයෙන් මෙරට ජනාධිපති වෙලා අවුරුදු දෙකකට වැඩියි. දහනවවැනි ව්‍යවස්ථා සංශෝධනයෙන් විධායක ජනාධිපතිගේ බලතල බිඳක් අගමැති ලබා ගත්තා. සුපුරුදු පරිදි රනිල් එය විස්තර කෙළේ පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට බලය ලබා දී ඒ ශක්තිමත් කිරීමක් ලෙස. එහෙත් අද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ අගමැති, සභානායක, කතානායක ඔක්කොම රනිල්. ඒ තනතුරු නිල වශයෙන් දරන්නේ කවුරුන් ද යන ප්‍රශ්නය වැඩකට ඇති එකක් නො වෙයි. රනිල් පාර්ලිමේන්තුව කියන්නෙ තමන්ට. මෛත්‍රිපාල පසුගිය දා සීතල රුසියාවේ සංචාරයක යෙදුණා. සීතල හරියට ඉවර වෙන්නත් කලින් රුසියාවට යන්න මෛත්‍රිපාලට හොඳ හේතුවක් තියෙන්න ඇති. රනිල් එක්ක සීතල යුද්ධයක් ගැනත් කියැවෙනවා. මෛත්‍රිපාල කුරුණෑගල රණවිරු උත්සවයක දි හොඳ කතා තුනක් කියලා තිබුණා. ඔහු කිවුවා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/17)
සම්බන්ධන් හා යුද්ධාපරාධ
මෛත්‍රිපාල කුමක් කීවත් ජෙනීවා හි මානව අයිතිවාසිකම් අයිතිකරු හුසේන් හා පිරිස රණවිරුවන් යුද්ධාපරාධිකරුවන් ලෙස තීන්දු කර අවසන්. ඔවුන්ට අවශ්ය විදේශීය විනිශ්චයකරුවන් සහිත අධිකරණයකින් රණවිරුවන්ට දඬුවම් පැමිණවීම පමණයි. ඔවුන් ලංකාවට අවුරුදු දෙකක් කල් දුන්නේ 2015 ඔක්තෝම්බර් යෝජනාව ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමට. ඒ යෝජනාව මෙන් ම යෝජනාව ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමට කල් දීමට මෙවර සම්මත කර ගත් යෝජනාවත් ඉදිරිපත් කෙරුණේ ලංකාව එක් යෝජකයකු වෙමින්. මංගල සමරවීර, රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ හා මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන ලංකාවේ දී කුමක් කිවුවත් ඔවුන් බටහිරයන්ට කියන්නේ වෙනත් දෙයක්. ලංකාවේ දී ඔවුන්ට බහුතර සිංහලයන් සතුටු කිරීමට වෙනවා. සිංහලයන් රැවටීම ඉතා පහසුයි. පසුගිය ජනාධිපතිවරණයේ දී සිංහලයන් රැවටූ අන්දම අප දන්නවා. නායකයන් ද... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/17)
අසාත් සාලිගේ ගිඟුරුමෙන් සිරිසේනගේ කන් කඩා වැටේ
විල්පත්තු රක්‍ෂිත වනාන්තරයට උතුරින් පිහිටා ඇති ප‍්‍රදේශද වන රක්‍ෂිත ලෙස ප‍්‍රකාශයට පත් කරමින් ජනාධිපති මෛත‍්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා විසින් නිකුත් කරනු ලැබූ ගැසට් නිවේදනය අවලංගු නොකලහොත් රට පුරා මුස්ලිම් පල්ලි මුල් කරමින් දැවැන්ත විරෝධතා ආරම්භ කරන බව ජාතික සමඟි පෙරමුණු නායක අසාද් සාලි පැවසූ අතර මේවන විට ජනාධිපති ලේකම්වරයා එම ගැසට් නිවේදනය අවලංගු කිරීමට කටයුතු කරමින් සිටින බව වාර්තා වේ. මේ අනුව ජනපති සිරිසේනගේ පරිසර වික්‍රමයත් මුස්ළිම් දේශපාලකයන්ගේ විරෝධය හමුවේ හැකිලී යනු ඇත. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/17)
MR claims Obama admin pressured Ban Ki-moon
Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa blamed the Obama administration for pressuring UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to take decisions on Sri Lanka against UN protocols. In a press communiqué released yesterday, he noted that the UN Secretary General can appoint a panel of experts to advise him on a country only on the instructions of the UN Security Council. He went on to note that under pressure from the Obama administration, Ban Ki-moon appointed a panel of experts to advice him about Sri Lanka without the sanction of the Security Council,......thus going against the practices in the UN... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/17)
ECONOMY PLUNGES LANKA IN POLITICAL TRAP
In quite a paradoxical change in policy that at first imbued confidence in India, the US and other countries concerned with what is broadly termed Chinese expansionism, has now done away with the sense of relief in the context of their perceived national security and other fears. Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa's dalliance with China and the visits by Chinese subs to Colombo triggered a whole swath of reactions from India, the US and UK while the EU as a whole, including its non-NATO European nations, saw the sudden Chinese foothold in Colombo, far from the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/17)
Assaulting pickpockets
March 31, 2017, 9:45 pm An alleged pickpocket was mercilessly assaulted at the EXPO railway counter 17 at Fort Railway Station on Wednesday (29th March) morning at 6 a.m. A queue had formed in front of the counter, and no sooner had it opened at 6am, there was a commotion at the back of the queue. A tall man who was in the EXPO train queue was repeatedly assaulting a much smaller poorly dressed man, who was pleading for mercy. He was being accused of attempting to pickpocket the taller man. Railway officers from behind... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/17)
‘Nihanda Hangum’ for a Good Cause
Old Anandians’ Group of 99 is organizing Nihanda Hangum program to support children with hearing problems. There are many babies who are born to this world with hearing difficulties and some of them don’t have both ears functioning. These children have to be supported with various hearing aid equipment and they also may need special attention for their studies. Lady Ridgeway Hospital (LRH) has advanced facilities to treat such children, and 99 Group of Ananda College will have an event on 8th April (Saturday) at 8am at LRH to hand over essential hearing aid... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/17)
Trincomalee Consultations final report including the study of Bay of Bengal and further enhancement of cooperation
The Centre for Indo-Lanka Initiatives of the Pathfinder Foundation, in partnership with Carnegie India, convened two-day track 1.5 conferences called "Trincomalee Consultations" successfully concluded. Final report including the study, discuss and explore of enhancing regional cooperation for improving political and economic relations, maritime security, blue economic concepts and increasing connectivity among the countries in the Bay of Bengal handed over to Kenichi Suganuma the Japanese Ambassador to Sri Lanka. Admiral Dr. Jayanath Colombage, Director, Centre for Indo-Lanka Initiatives, Pathfinder Foundation presenting copy of the document to Ambassador Kenichi Suganuma stated that their focuses is the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 31/03/17)
Wimal obliges to Maha Sangha and ends his fast
I was about to write an article to expose spineless eunuch Sirisena’s blatant lies being uttered assuming that all Sri Lankans are damn idiots and fools and they would unquestionably believe in what he says. The illustrious patriot Wimal Weerawansa’s end of fast against refusal to grant bail for him compelled me to pen this article instead as it is more opportune. Lankaweb published an article this morning (30th) March by Mr. Sudath Gunasekera who has nicely presented his expertise arguments against the repugnant imprisonment of this contemporary patriot while those who have committed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/17)
ඉංග්‍රීසි ජාතිවාදය පාලනය කරමින් සංහිදියාව ඇති කිරීමට නීතීඥ සංගම් සභාපතිට හැකි වෙයිද?
ශ්රී ලංකා නීතිඥ සංගමයේ සභාපති ධූරයට අභිනවයෙන් පත්වූ යූ.ආර්. ද සිල්වා මහතාව හඳුන්වාදෙමින් පසුගිය 25 වෙනිදා කොළඹ, කිංග්ස්බරී හෝටලයේ දී අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ මහතාගේ ප්‍රධානත්වයෙන් උත්වයක් පැවැත්විණ. ඒ සඳහා ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණ විනිසුරුවරු, නීතිපතිවරයා, අභියාචනාධිකරණයේ විනිසුරුවරු ඇතුළු නීතීඥවරු විශාල සංඛ්‍යාවක් සහභාගී වී සිටියහ. යූ.ආර්. ද සිල්වා මහතා සිය ධූරයට පත්වී කාලයක් ගත නො වී ඇති හෙයින් ඔහුගේ වැඩපිළිවෙල කවර දිශානතියක් ගනීවිද යන්න කීමට ඉක්මන් නො විය යුතු වුවත්, මේ දක්වා ශ්රී ලංකා නීතිඥ සංගමයේ සභාපති ධූරයට පත් වූ අයගේ භූමිකා සහ ක්‍රියාන්විත දෙස බැලීමේදී නව සභාපතිවරයාට ජනතාව සහ නීතීඥ ප්‍රජාව වෙත සාධනීය මෙහෙවරක් කිරීමට මහත් වෙහෙසක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/17)
Toxin-free Agriculture
March 29, 2017, 8:23 pm I have been following with much interest the articles in THE ISLAND on the use of the herbicide, glyphosate, and on the question of the practice of organic agriculture or that in which chemical fertilizers and/or synthetic pesticides are not used. I have discussed the topic with a friend/scientist, who has had several decades of experience in agriculture and whom I respect greatly for his knowledge in the field (pun intended) and balanced approach to life in general. One of his observations to me was that if one... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/17)
වස විසෙන් තොර කෘෂිකර්මය හා ගොවියා 'ගොනාට ඇන්දීම'
රජයේ 'වස විසෙන් තොර ගොවිතැන’ නම් ව්‍යාපෘතියේ අරමුණ නම් “අවුරුදු තුනක කාලයකින් ලංකාව සම්පුර්ණයෙන්ම වස-විස නැති රටක් බවට පරිවර්තනය කිරීමයි. මේ කෘත්‍ය තුලින් අප රටේ සුපිරි ගුණාත්මක, අතිශයිම පලදායි, සුව ප්‍රාර්ථනාවෙන් සපිරි පාරම්පරික ගොවිකම සහ නවීන ක්‍රමවේද හරහා රට තිරසාර කෘෂිකර්ම ක්‍රමවේදයකට රැගෙන යාම” බව නිල වශයෙන් ප්‍රකාශිතය. වසර තුනකින් කෘෂි රසායනික භාවිතයෙන් ඉවත්වීම, ඒ වෙනුවට කාබනික පොහොර හා ජෛව පොහොර භාවිතය හා වී වගා වපසරියෙන් 30% තුල මෙම කාලයේ දී ආවේනික වී වගාව ව්‍යාප්ත කිරීම එහි ක්‍රියාකාරකම් අතර වේ. 2015 වසරේ මාස් කන්නයේ ආරම්භ කරන ලද මේ ව්‍යාපෘතිය නියෝජනය කරන්නේ වත්මන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/17)
Alleged collusion between Monsanto and the Environmental Protection Agency.
We should let the courts case against Monsanto and EPA officials take its course before jumping to conclusions. It is Monsanto and EPA officials, and not glyphosate, that is on trial. Litigation is quite common in the US, to sue companies for various grievances. Here is is a different case, where due process has been avoided. It is a bit like getting your driving permit or license without a driving test because you are a friend of the Registrar of Motor vehicles. In Sri lanka, a so-called Bio-film fertilizer has been approved without due process and it... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/17)
යුධ අපරාධ කුමන්ත්‍රණය කිනම් සැලසුමක්ද
ලංකා රාජ්‍යයේ දේශපාලනය අද ඉතාමත් බැරෑරුම් තත්ත්වකට පත්ව ඇත. සිංහල දේශපාලකයන් සියල්ල දෙමළ ජනතාවගේ අත පල්ලනේ වැටීමත් ඔවුන්ගේ දෙමළ නිජ භූමිය පිළිගැනීමත් නිසා ඉන්දීය පදයට නැටවෙන රූකඩ බවට පත් වී තිබේ. මාරුවෙන් මාරුවට බලය ලබා ගනිමින් දෙමළ අභිලාෂයන් සංතර්පණය කරදීම ලංකා දේශපාලනයේ පිළිවෙත වට පත්ව ඇත. 1951 වර්ෂයේ දී අපගේ රාජකීය කොඩියට පටි දෙකක් ගසා බෙදුම්වාදය ආරම්භ කළ බව කවුරුත් අමතක කර තිබේ. දිගින් දිගටම සිදු වූ මේ බෙදීම් හමුවේ සිංහලයන්ට ඇති අධිකාරි බලය අහිමි කිරීමේ කුමන්ත්‍රණය යථාර්තයක් බවට පත් කරමින් ඇත. ඊට එක් හේතුවක් වන්නේ නව යටත් විජිත වාදය විසින් ලංකාව සිය අභිමතාර්ථ සාධනයයෙහි යොදා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/17)
Wigneswaran: the judge who forgot ‘the whole truth’
A highly successful lawyer was once asked why he was not interested in becoming a judge. He had laughed, ‘I would rather talk a load of rubbish all day than listen to a load of rubbish.’ Judges have to listen. That’s their job. And one of the things they have to listen to day in and day out throughout their careers is the oath taken by witnesses to speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Whatever else they may have forgotten, this they must remember. It is hard to believe that a Supreme Court... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/17)
The Clarion-call for Unity while doing the damnedest to promote disunity
An extraordinary feature of the system of governance of the current 'yahpalanaya' leadership is the stark contradiction between word and deed. The word 'Yaha' signifies bondage or concordence - a declaration that the system of governance envisaged will be based on consensus. If this is truly the case, one would expect the Rulers to do their best to allay the fears and suspicions of the opposition and promote schemes that bring peoples with diverse views together. The exact opposite has happened - indeed, it happened from day one. The morning after the Presidential Election the Foreign Minister... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/17)
TISSERA PERERA MUST BE TOSSED OUT OF THE ODI TEAM-NEED A POOL OF ALL ROUNDERS TO ENSURE PLACE IN TOP 8
Sri Lanka is in danger of not meeting a spot in the top 8 Test Teams, to be able to automatically qualify for the 2019 ODI World Cup. Judging by the current standings and the upcoming matches between now and September this year ( cut-off date ) the following Test Teams are vying for the 7 and 8 spots. They are: Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, West Indies and Zimbabwe. Angelow Mathews role as Sri Lanka skipper has not improved Sri Lanka rankings for the past few years. Physically he has not been fully fit... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/17)
සිංහල හා හින්දු උත්සව අත්තිකාරම් මුදල් ගෙවීම් නොකර සමෘද්ධිලාභීන් ගෙන්වීම වෙනුවෙන් සමෘද්ධි සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ මුදල් යෙදවීම අප සංගමය තරයේ හෙලා දකිතන්නෙමු,
සිංහල හා හින්දු උත්සව අත්තිකාරම් සිංහල හා හින්දු උත්සව අත්තිකාරම් මුදල් නොගෙවා අපේ‍්‍රල් 01 දා පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත, තිරසර යුගයක්, ජාතික මංගල්‍ය - 2017 සදහා සමෘද්ධි සං, දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ මුදල් යෙදවීම තරයේ හෙලා දකිමු, ජනාධිපති මෛත‍්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මැතිතුමාගේ සංකල්පයකට අනුව එළඹෙන අප්‍රෙල් 01 දින කොළඹ බණ්ඩාරණායක ජාත්‍යන්තර සම්න්ත‍්‍රණ ශාලාවේදී පැවැත්වීමට නියමිත තිරසර යුගයක් - ජාතික මංගල්‍ය - 2017 යන උත්සවයෙහි සමාරම්භක අවස්ථාවට සමෘද්ධි සේවකයින් හට ගමන් වියදම් දීමන හා උත්සව අත්තිකාරමි මුදල් ගෙවීම් නොකර සමෘද්ධිලාභීන් ගෙන්වීම වෙනුවෙන් සමෘද්ධි සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ මුදල් යෙදවීම අප සංගමය තරයේ හෙලා දකිතන්නෙමු, උක්ත වැඩසටහන වෙනුවෙන් 4000 පිරිසක් සමෘද්ධි සංවර්ධන දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/17)
2003 වසරේ සිට ත්‍රිකුණාමලය චීන වල් රයා තෙටැංකි සංකීරණයේ නීති විරෝධී ලෙස රැදී සිටින ලංකා ඉන්දීය තෙල් සමාගම (LIOC) ඉන් ඉවත් නොකිරීම නිසා ලංකා ඛනිජතෙල් නීතිගත සංස්ථාවට (CPC) එරෙහිව ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ ගොනුකරනලද FR 66/2017 දරණ නඩුව
මාධ්‍ය නිවේදනය 2003 වසරේ සිට ත්‍රිකුණාමලය චීන වල් රයා තෙටැංකි සංකීරණයේ නීති විරෝධී ලෙස රැදී සිටින ලංකා ඉන්දීය තෙල් සමාගම (LIOC) ඉන් ඉවත් නොකිරීම නිසා ලංකාවටත්, ජනතාවටත් සිදුවන මූල්‍ය පාඩුව නිසා ලාංකීය ජනතාවගේ මූලික අයිතීන් කඩවීමට විරුද්ධව ලංකා ඛනිජතෙල් පොදුසේවක සංගමය, එහි ලේඛම් ඩී.ජේ. රාජකරුණා සහ එහි සභාපති අසෝක රංවල යන පෙත්සම් කරුවන් විසින් කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලයට, LIOC, සමාගමට, හා ලංකා ඛනිජතෙල් නීතිගත සංස්ථාවට (CPC) එරෙහිව ශ්‍රේෂ්ඨාධිකරණයේ ගොනුකරනලද FR 66/2017 දරණ නඩුව 2017/03/31 දින විභාගයට ගැනීමට නියමිතය. ඉල්ලා ඇති සහන LIOC සමාගමට චීන වරයා තෙල් ටැංකි සංකීරණයේ රැදී සිටීමට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/17)
BOND ISSUE INQUIRY TAKES SEVERAL TURNS
Former Governor to the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL), Arjuna Mahendran arrived at the premises of the special Presidential Commission of Inquiry to Investigate and Inquire into the issuance of Treasury Bonds last week after he was summoned by officials of the Criminal Investigation Department. He arrived at the Commission this week and participated as an observer with the permission of the tribunal appointed by President Maithripala Sirisena. The Commission met four days during this week too and two CBSL officials testified. During Monday’s sitting, most noteworthy fact that came to light... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/17)
Speaker extracted his revenge from Dinesh - Rajapaksa
https://youtu.be/WXbFVL4e6JA... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/17)
The Enduring Impact of Tamil Separatism
In May 2009, the Sri Lankan military defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a “most lethal and well-organized terrorist group in the world,” which had fought for nearly thirty years to establish a separate Tamil state in Sri Lanka.1 Since that decisive victory in what was considered the “longest-running conflict in Asia,” significant steps have been taken towards the reconciliation and integration of the Tamil minority into the country’s political system.2 Local government elections held in July 2011 brought the Tamil National Alliance into power in the Northern Province, which signified a return to democracy... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/17)
යහපාලකයින් ජිනීවා යෝජනාවට හිස නමා ඇත්තේ ජාතිද්‍රෝහි නිසයි
March 30, 2017 12:24 pm 2015 ඔක්තෝම්බර් මස සම්මත කරගනු ලැබූ ජිනීවා යෝජනාව සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමට ශ්රී ලංකා රජය යළි වරක් ප්‍රතිඥා දී ඇති බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසයි. තමන් තුළ නෛසර්ගිකව ඇති ජාති ද්‍රෝහී ආකල්පය හේතුවෙන් මිස එවන් වාර්තාවක් පිළිගැනීමට යහපාලකයන්ට වෙනත් කිසිදු හේතුවක් නොවන බව හිටපු ජනාධිපතිවරයා නිවේදනයක් නිකුත් කරමින් කියා සිටියි. එකී සම්පූර්ණ නිවේදනය මෙසේය. පසුගිය සතියේ අවසන් වූ එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිල සැසි වාරයේදී 2015 ඔක්තෝබර් මස ශ්රී ලංකාවේද සම අනුග්‍රාහකත්වය සහිතව සම්මත කර ගන්නා ලද යෝජනාව සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමට යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුව නැවතත් ප්‍රතිඥා දුන්නේය. මේ අනුව විදේශීය විනිසුරුවන්,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/17)
Rajapaksa accuses govt of ‘treachery’ against armed forces
March 30, 2017 12:22 pm Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that though the President and Prime Minister have repeatedly stated that no foreign judges will be brought to try Sri Lanka’s armed forces, the pledge given in Geneva last week is exactly the opposite. “The most dangerous aspect of the UNHRC resolutions of 2015 and 2017 is that the Sri Lankan government has accepted without any reservations the report of the Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights (OHCHR) of September 2015 which had accused the Sri Lankan government of a whole range... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/17)
Weerawansa concludes hunger strike
March 30, 2017 10:47 am National Freedom Front (NFF) leader MP Wimal Weerawansa has decided to end his hunger strike, according to MP Jayantha Samaraweera. He ended his protest fast after 9 days by drinking a glass of milk due to the requests made by several Buddhist monks, Samaraweera told Ada Derana. Weerawansa, who launched a hunger strike on March while in prison over the rejection of his bail applications, had been refusing food and was reportedly only drinking liquids. He was admitted to the prisons hospital on March 26 due to his deteriorating health... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/17)
Repercussion of short memories
Answering a question by The Irida Divaina Journalist, Manoj Abeydeera, Former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has said that the mislead people of the country is responsible for the current pathetic situation prevailing in the country. He was blaming the country's majority community, for believing the lies propagated by the opponents of their administration and forgetting the menace of terrorism within five years, especially those who live in and around Colombo. (http://www.divaina.com/2017/03/26/feature18.html) It is a well known fact that our majority community is often a community having short memories. They have forgotten, when casting their votes to defeat... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/17)
ජිනීවාහිදී ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ප්‍රශ්න ජාත්‍යන්තරකරණය කළ ඩොලර් කාක්‌කෝ
රියර් අද්මිරාල් සරත් වීරසේකර ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් සමුළුව අමතමින් ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ප්‍රශ්නය ජාත්‍යන්තරකරණය කළ බවට රාජ්‍ය නොවන සංවිධාන ක්‍රියාකාරිනියක්‌ සහ රජයේ ඇමැතිවරයෙක්‌ චෝදනා කර ඇත. එහෙත් ශ්රී ලංකාව තුළ නැති අර්බුදයක්‌ මවාපාමින් එම ජාත්‍යන්තරකරණය මෙහෙයුම දියත් කළ පිරිස අපි ජනතාවගේ දැනගැනීමට අනාවරණය කරන්නෙමු මේ එම පිරිසයි. 1. පාක්‍යසෝති සරවනමුත්තු 2. නිමල්කා ප්‍රනාන්දු 3. මන්නාරමේ සබමාලෙයි පියනම 4. ගජෙන්ද්‍රකුමාර් පොන්නම්බලම් 5. ආනන්දි සසිතරන් 6. එස්. කේ. සිවාජිලිංගම් 7. මැයි 17 සංවිධානයේ තිරුමාවලන් ගාන්ධි 8. හිටපු කැරළිකරුවකුවූ රංජිත් හෙන්නායක හෙවත් බඩල්ගම බර්ටිගේ බිරිය බාබරා ලොග්බිලර් 9.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/17)
තෑගී ලැබුන කඩුවේ වගතුග
පර සතුරන් දෙපලු කරන්නට '''මට සිංහල කඩුවක් දෙව '''ය් පොළොන්නරුවේ මහා පරාක්‍රම බාහු රජතුමා එදා කී හැටි ඉතිහාසය දන්නෝ දනිති. රුසියාවේ පුටින්ද එය දන සිට ඇත . කොය් කඩු වෙනුත් සතුරන් දෙපලු කල හැකි නමුත්සතුරු ප්‍රශ්නය ඉවරටම ඉවර කල හැක්කේ රටට ගැලපෙන, අපේ අතට හුරු ආයුධයෙන් බව පරාක්‍රම බාහු රජ තුමා දැන සිටියේය . සිංහල කඩුවක්ම ඉල්ලුවේ සිංහල ක්‍රමයටම සිංහල රටේ ප්‍රශ්නය විසදන්නටය . නොකියා කිව්වේ අපේදේ අපේ ක්‍රමයටම විසදිය යුතු බවය් . යහපාලන රජයේ ජනාධිපති පොලොන්නරුවේ සිරිසේන විදේශීය ක්‍රමයට සිංහල රටේ ප්‍රශ්න විසඳීමට කරන ක්‍රියාව වැරදිබව රාජ තාන්ත්‍රික ලෙස සිරිසේනට කියාදීමට රුසියන් පුටින්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 30/03/17)
Will Wimal Weerawansa be the first political murder of Yahapalanaya regime?
I am neither a lawyer nor a politician. I don’t belong to any political party either. Wimal is also neither a political enemy or a friend of mine. I have never met him or spoken to him on any day. I am only a concerned citizen who deeply worried about the life of this human being. I do not know whether he is a political prisoner or a convict to be put behind bars. As I see he is only a suspect of misappropriation of government vehicles. If someone decides to remand him for that, and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/17)
ILLEGAL REGISTRATION OF TAMILS IN SINHLA DOMINATED ELECTORATES-FRAUDULENT VOTING BY TAMILS IN SINHALA ELECTORATES-WARNING TO JOINT OPPOSITION
Mr Ranil Wickremasinghe is a wicked politician. As far as I can remember, the first person who branded him as such was non other than Chandrika. On 13 July 2002, during her address to SLFP parlimentarians in Anuradhapura the President Chandrika said: "it was possible that an attempt would be made on her life even at cabinet meetings but that she would take at least one minister with her if such an attempt was made. The president said if any such attempt to kill her at the cabinet is made, she would jump on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/17)
ජී.අයි.ඞී. ධර්මසේකර ; හෞතිකවාදයේ සිට අධ්‍යාත්මික වාදය දක්වා ගිය දීර්ඝ ගමන
ජී.අයි.ඞී. ධර්මසේකර එදා කස්ත්‍රෝ අනුගමනය කළේය. අද ඔහු අනුගමනය කරන්නේ අනගාරික ධර්මපාල තුමාගේ මාවතයි. හෞතිකවාදයේ සිට අධ්‍යාත්මික වාදය දක්වා ගිය දීර්ඝ ගමන ගැන අසා දැන ගැනීමට මම අනගාරික ධර්මසේකර හමු වීමට ඔහුගේ කළුතර අසපුවට ගියෙමි. මේ අනගාරික ධර්මසේකර කියන කතාවයි. ‘මම විශ්වවිද්‍යාලයෙන් පිට වූයේ 1966 අවුරුද්දේ. මම හදාරලා තිබ්බේ ආර්ථික විද්‍යාව, ඉතිහාසය, හා සිංහල යන විෂයන්. කුඩා කාලයේ සිටම අපිට දුෂ්කරතාවයන් තිබුනා තාත්තා මුදල් නාස්ති කලා. අම්මා තමයි පවුලේ බර කර ගැහුවෙ. මම කුඩා කාලයේ සිටම එළවළු වගා කලා. ඒ කරලා පවුලේ බර අඩු කරන්න උදව්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/17)
Ahmadiyya Founder’s Day Celebration in Colombo – A sign of Religious Harmony
The Ahmadiyya Founder’s Day celebration was held in Colombo recently (26 March, 2017) at Baithul Hamd premises with the participation of members of other faiths. Members from non-ahmadi Muslims, Buddhism and Christianity attended the event which was organized by Colombo Chapter of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Islam. The event started with the Holy Qur’an recitation followed by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/17)
සරත් වීරසේකරගේ ජිනීවා තනි සටනට ජනපති මෛත‍්‍රීගේ විරෝධය.. ප‍්‍රසිද්ධියේ විරෝධය දක්වයි..[Video]
සිවිල් ආරක්ෂක බලකායේ හිටපු ප්රධානී අද්මිරාල් සරත් වීරසේකර මහතා ජිනීවා වෙත ගොස් පල කරන ලද අදහස් එතරම් හොද දෙයක් නොවන බව ජනාධිපති මෛත‍්‍රීපාල සිරිසේන මහතා සදහන් කරයි. කුරුනෑගල ආරක්ෂක සේවා විදුහලේදී පැවති උත්සවයක් අමතමින් ජනාධිපතිවරයා මේ අදහස් පල කලේය. විත්තිකරුවෙකු නොවී විත්තියේ වාචිකයක් ලබා දීම ගැලපෙන දෙයක් නොවන බවද ජනාධිපතිවරයා එහිදී කියා සිටියේය. https://youtu.be/YR8kPNjU-jY... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/17)
ගොළු මුහුදට තල්ලුවෙන සිංහලයින්
ලංකාව නමැති ඉඩම් කෑල්ලේ දෙමළ ජනයා ව්‍යාප්තවී ඇති ආකාරය පෙන්වන පහත දැක්වෙන සිතියම් වැදගත් වන්නේ රටේ ඉතිහාසය හා භූගෝල විද්‍යාව ගැන නොදන්නා දේශපාලකයින්, භාෂාව අනුව රට බෙදීමට යාම කෙතරම් අඥාන ක්‍රියාවක්ද යන්න වටහා ගැනීම සඳහාය. ලංකාවේ සුළු ජන වර්‌ග මහජාතිය සමඟ මිශ්‍රව ඇත්තේ හරියට බිත්‌තර කීපයක් ඔම්ලට් සඳහා කළවම් කරා වගේය. විග්නේශ්වරන් උතුරේ මහ ඇමති ලඟදී කිව් පරිදි 1948 සිට සිංහල ආණ්ඩු දෙමළ ජන සංහාරයක් කරගෙන යනවා නම් මේ සිතියම්වලින් පේන අන්‌දමට දෙමළ ජනයා සිංහල ප්‍රදේශවල සීසීකඩවී විසිරී ජීවත්‌වන්නේ කෙසේද? ලංකාව ටැමිල්නාඩ් කොටසක් නොවී බේරුණේ මුහුදින් ලැබුණ ආරක්‍ෂාව නිසාය. එය එංගලන්තය නැපෝලියන්ගෙන් හා හිට්ලර්ගෙන්‌ බේරුණා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 29/03/17)
Govt. wasted $4.3 billion - Bandula
MP Bandula Guawardana stated that the current government had wasted over $4.3 billion to prevent the Lankan rupee from depreciating, during a press conference held earlier today (28). He further added that although the current finance minister promised to bring the buying price of the dollar down to Rs.130 within a week, it is still at Rs.154. Bandula elaborated by saying that the money used to bring the buying price of the dollar down come from the selling foreign currency reserves to the money market. He concluded by stating that if the government hadn’t wasted $4.3 billion... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/17)
A little book summarizing “How the IMF sabotaged third world development”.
Dr. Gavin Karunaratne, a seasoned administrator and Economist trained at the University of Michigan. He has presented to the reading public a little book of 60 pages, where he takes up cudgels against the International Monetary Fund. The story is told using his newspaper articles and editorial comments going back to almost two decades and racing up to modern times. The story begins in the era of the Ranil-Chandrika cohabitation era when Prof. Sachs, Director of the UN Millennium Project and a stalwart of the IMF visited Sri Lanka in 2003. Other... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/17)
Eliminating dengue menace – the DDT approach
March 27, 2017, 8:46 pm Dr. K. Rajendra, writing to the Sunday Island, 26th March, makes some very important points on how to detect and deal with Dengue fever. I wish to engage on one of his comments and state how Dengue can in fact be completely eliminated rapidly, and in an environmentally safe and inexpensive manner. Dr. Rajendra mentions that "In the old days there were major epidemics of smallpox, malaria and polio. Despite not having all the facilities that the present generation has – like transport, communication and modern technology these illnesses were totally... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/17)
එම්. ජී. නන්දිසිරි ගමගේ සහ 71 කැරැල්ල අත්දැකීම්
අතීත කැරලිකරුවන් සොයා ගිය ගමනේදි මට තවත් සුවිශේෂ පුද්ගලයෙකු මුණ ගැසුනි. ඔහු නමින් එම්. ජී. නන්දිසිරි ගමගේ හෙවත් පේරාදේණිය නන්දේයි. නන්දසිරි ගමගේ 1969 දී එම්.අයි.එෆ්. 5 භූමි භාගයේ විශේෂ ඒකකයට අයත් මෝටර් රථවල අංක ලියා ගනිමින් සිටියදී එම්.අයි.එෆ්. 5 විසින් ඔහු අත් අඩංගුවට ගන්න ලදි. දැනට ශි‍්‍ර ලංකාවේ කාන්තාවන්ගේ සංවර්ධන සේවා සමූපකාර සමිතියේ සාමාන්‍යධිකාරි වන නන්දසිරි ගමගේ මහතා අතීත මතකයන් ගැන කලේ මෙලෙසයි. ‘මම විජේවීරගේ දේශපාලන ව්‍යාපරයට ඇදී ආවේ 1967 අග භාගයේදි. එතකොට මම පේරාදෙණිය විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයේ පළමු වසරේ අධ්‍යන සිසුවෙක්. මම හැදෑරුවේ සිංහල, ඉතිහාසය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/17)
Are tourism authorities wearing blinkers
A British citizen (born to Sri Lankan parents) living in Switzerland spent three weeks in his paternal roots recently. His experience has been a mixture of attentiveness, excitement, and fascination and at times hilarious with a few repulsive, disturbing and irritating experiences. At Zurich airport, Emirates Airlines did not permit him to board the plane, despite having a valid entry visa (obtained on line). The airline's refusal was based on the fact that his British passport's validity was five days short of six months! The problem compounded when the visitor arguing on the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/17)
Disappointed Jaffna citizens protest
“A mass protest was held in Jaffna at 3 p.m. yesterday against Tamil Nadu politicians Thol. Thiruvmavalavan, T. Velmurugan and Y. Gopalaswamy, who prevented the superstar of Tamil cinema, Rajinikanth, visiting Jaffna to hand-over the keys of 150 houses, built by Lyca, (a private firm based in London) to homeless people who had been affected by the separatist war.” Head lines in the newspapers these days is about the South Indian Actor who has been invited to hand over houses built by a telecom company owned by a Sri Lanka Tamil. It is good that diaspora... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/17)
Another Indian threat: India’s Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj threatens Sri Lanka
Every time a Chinese high-powered delegation arrives in Sri Lanka, India throws a salvo - “Our aim is to protect the interests of Tamils in Sri Lanka. You can achieve this through two means, by either doing it forcefully or through persuasion”. Sushma Swaraj goes on to say that Sri Lanka war crimes is a cause of pain and anguish for India. Firstly, it is good for India to remember that if Tamils are citizens of Sri Lanka it is the Sri Lankan Government that must protect the interests of those Tamil citizens and not India.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/17)
The history of UNP’s deceptions, betrayals and oppressions Part V
The evil trio the United States, Britain and the hegemonic India pumped in millions of Dollars, Euros and Indian rupees to finance their malicious plan to depose Mr. Mahinda Rajapaksa’s populist regime. The Tamil diaspora which was eagerly waiting for an opportunity to take vengeance from President Mahinda Rajapaksa for dhattering their Eelam dream by vanquishing the LTTE terrorists also cheerfully volunteered with funds and other resources joined the evil trio to promote the plan. Accordingly, clandestine negotiations were held between the UNP, the TNA and the Tamil diaspora on the role to be... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/17)
I want all Sinhala Patriots to read the following Vituperative and malicious bogus accusation
I want all Sinhala Patriots to read the following Vituperative and malicious bogus accusation made against the President and Muradevata band of revere Buddhist monks and the patriotic environmentalists organizations by a Muslim fanatic by the name Hilmy Ahamed Dr Sudath Gunasekara President Mahanuwara Sinhala Bauddha Puravesiyange Sanvidhanaya 28.3.2017 The Political Hypocrisy Of President Maithripala Sirisena - Muslim IDPs Tossed Out Kamal Rajapakse ----- Original Message ----- From: Kamal Rajapakse Subject: The Political Hypocrisy Of President Maithripala Sirisena - Muslim IDPs Tossed Out The Political Hypocrisy Of President Maithripala... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/17)
Look at this idiotic statement by a man called a Chief Minister in the Tamilandu State of India
Home States Tamil Nadu reports Tamil Nadu CM Palaniswami urges Modi for measures on ‘war-footing’ as 12 more fishermen detained in Sri Lanka By Express News Service | Published: 27th March 2017 02:42 AM | Last Updated: 27th March 2017 02:42 AM | A+A A- | CHENNAI: Urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take up the issue of detention of fishermen and impounding of their boats at the ‘highest diplomatic level’ with Sri Lanka, Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami on Sunday sought early action for a permanent solution to the problem and long-term diversification measures... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/17)
Will we ever learn?
I am reproducing a paper written and published one and a half decades ago which shows that we have never learned from our. mistakes. I highlight the fact that even at this late hour when our economy is in tatters, our leaders will concentrate on building up our economy, learning from our past mistakes.
September 11, 2001 has made a large difference in the American people. Many are the vehicles that carry... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 28/03/17)
Ranil’s reckless radicalism Is green the new red?
Mao Zedong once famously chided a group of young loyalists, saying, "You say you want to make a revolution, but you don’t know where the bourgeoisie is! The bourgeoisie is in the party!" Similarly, I have long wanted to see an "anti-systemic" movement and struggle (to use my old professor, the iconic Immanuel Wallerstein’s concept) but have not known where the most "anti-systemic" element is, in this country. That is until now. But I have change I have had an epiphany. It has dawned on me that the most radical political leader in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/17)
The TULF demands the Leader of the Opposition to take immediate action on the following crucial matters.
I am in full agreement with Hon.R.Sampanthan Leader of the Opposition, that the Tamils have reached their limits of tolerance, but not now. It happened long ago. They are now forced to come to a decision to demand your resignation from the office of the Leader of the opposition, which office you had been using to defend the Government, much against the wish of the people, not only the Tamils but people of all ethnic groups. Most of the problems that you have enumerated in your statement, such as release of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/17)
Sri Lanka’s First Ever Public Open Mosque Day Held
The Visit My Mosque Program, a unique interfaith initiative involving opening up mosques for visitors of other faiths was held at Akbar Mosque in Colombo on 26th of March, 2017. The public ‘Open Mosque Day’ was the first of its kind and was an immense success with nearly 100 visitors participating to learn about Islam and the role of mosques. Visitors were also offered free calligraphy of their names in beautiful Arabic script and traditional Muslim foods among other things. Asiff Hussein, Vice President, Outreach, Centre for Islamic Studies, which organized the program in association... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/17)
THE REPUBLIC OF CHINA AND CONTEMPORARY SRI LANKA Part 1
REVISED 27.3.17, 17.3.19 Sri Lanka has had cordial links with China from ancient times. The Sinhala kings had continuous diplomatic links with the Chinese emperors, from Anuradhapura times to the medieval period. In the post independence period too, there were good relations between the two countries. The Peoples Republic of China was established in October 1, 1949 and Sri Lanka recognised it soon after on January 6, 1950. Then came the Ceylon-China trade agreement of 1952, known as the ‘Rubber - Rice pact’. J.B.Kelegama said that this Pact was undoubtedly the most useful... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/17)
සරත් ෆොන්සේකා මහින්දට ස්තුතිවන්ත විය යුතුයි
බුද්ධි අංශ නිලධාරීන් අත් අඩංගුවට ගැනීම රාජ්‍යාරක්‍ෂාවට ප්‍රශ්නයක් වෙනවා. චන්ද්‍රකාට නම් අත් අඩංගුවට ගැනීම වරදක් නො වෙයි. ඇය ඔවුන් වරදකරුවන් ලෙස සලකනවා විය හැකියි. අප මතක තබා ගත යුත්තක් නම් මෙතෙක් මේ කිසිවකු ලංකාවේ උසාවියක දී වරදකරුවන් වී නොමැති බවයි. බුද්ධි අංශ නිලධාරීන් අත් අඩංගුවට ගැනීම පිළිබඳ සතුටු වන්නේ කවුරුන් ද යන්න සොයා බැලුවහොත් පැහැදිලි වනු ඇත්තේ ඒ පිරිස කිසියම් ආකාරයකින් නමුත් සිංහල විරෝධීන් වන බවයි. බුද්ධි අංශ නිලධාරීන් අත් අඩංගුවට ගැනීමට අවශ්ය වන්නේ ද සිංහල විරෝධීන්ටයි. ආණ්ඩුව මොනවා කිව්වත් මේ නිලධාරීන් අත් අඩංගුවට ගන්නේ අවසාන වශයෙන් ගෝඨාභය හා මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ අත් අඩංගුවට ගැනීමටයි. ලොවේ දරුණුම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/17)
නීතිය නැවීම හා කැඩීම
නව ව්‍යවස්ථාවක් සම්පාදනය කර දෙමළ ජාතිවාදයට කප්පන් දීම සඳහා බටහිරයන් හා ඉන්දියාව, විශේෂයෙන් ම ඔවුන්ගේ ඔත්තු සේවා විසින් පිහිටුවනු ලැබූ ආණ්ඩුව රට විකිණීම හා රට බෙදීම තම ප්රධාන කාර්යය බවට පත් කරගෙන තිබෙනවා. ආණ්ඩුව විකිණීමට යන්නේ, දැනටමත් විකිණීමට ගිවිසුම් අත්සන් කර ඇත්තේ, උතුරු හා නැගෙනහිර පළාත්වලින් පිට ඇති ඉඩම් හා දේපොළ. උතුරු හා නැගෙනහිර පළාත්වල ඉඩම් හා දේපොළ දෙමළ ජාතිවාදී ඊළමකට ලබා දීමට ආණ්ඩුව අදහස් කරනවා ද? ඒසේ වන්නේ දෙමළ ජාතිවාදයේ අවශ්‍යතාවට ද? හම්බන්තොට ඉඩම් විකිණීම පිළිබඳ දෙමළ ජාතික සංධානයේ ස්ථාවරය කුමක් ද? සුපුරුදු පරිදි ඔවුන්ට ඒ පිළිබඳ ස්ථාවරයක් නැද්ද? සම්බන්ධන්ගේ විරුද්ධ පක්ෂ නායකකම උතුරු හා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/17)
වාම ජාතිකවාදය
යුතුකම සංවාද කවයමේ දිනවල ඇහෙන එක් ප්රධාන මාතෘකාවක් වන්නේ ඇමති මණ්ඩලයේ සංශෝධනයක් නුදුරුරේම සිදුවන බවය. මේ සදහා එකගතාවක් ජනපති සහ අගමැති අතර ඇතැයි ඇතැම්හූ පවසන අතර මේ ගැන ඒ දෙදනා අතර කිසිම එකගතාවක් නැතැයි තවත් සමහරු පවසති. අනෙක් හැම ප‍්‍රශ්නයකදිම මෙන්ම මෙතැනදිත් එවැනි දෙපැත්තට ඇදිමක් තිබිය හැකි වුවත් රටට මෙහිදි වැදගත් වන්නේ ඒ දෙදනාගේ අදහස් එකිනෙකට නොගැලපෙන්නේ ඇයිදැයි විමසීම පමණක් නොවේ. මේ කියන ආකාරයේ ඇමති මාරුවක් මගින් මේ මොහොතේ විසදන්නට බලාපොරොත්තු වන්නේ කුමන ගැටලූවදැයි දැනගැනීමත් රට පැත්තෙන් වැදගත්ය. කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලය යලි ‘අනන්නේ’ (reshuffle) කුමකටදැයි හරියටම දන්නේ ජනපති-අගමැති දෙදනා පමණක් වන... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/17)
යුගයක ඇරඹුම් සටහන
2015 වසර ශ්රී ලංකාවට එහි ජාතිකත්වය පැත්තෙන් බොහෝ අවාසනාවන්ත සිදුවීම් වලට මුහුන දීමට සිදුවූ වසරක් විය. ඒ 2015 ජනවාරි 8 ජාතිකත්ව කඳවුරේ සිට විජාතික නරි රැල වෙත රැවටිලිකාර පොදු අපේක්ෂකයෙකු හරහා ආණ්ඩු බලය මාරු වීමේ ප්රධාන හැරවුම් ලක්ෂ්‍යය සටහන් වීමත් සමගයි. ඉන් පසුවට දිගින් දිගටම ජාතිකත්වය පසුබසිද්දී විජාතික හතුරු බලවේග ශක්තිමත් විය. ලංකාවේ මේ විජාතික සතුරු කඳවුරට සහය දෙමින් ඊට පිටුබලය සපයනු ලැබුවේ බටහිර යුදෙවු නිරාගමික නූතනවාදී බලවේගයේ අන්තර්ජාතික එකමුතුවයි. මේ එකමුතුවේද නායකත්වය දරනු ලැබුවේ එවකට ඇමරිකානු ජනපති වූ බැරැක් ඔබාමාය. ඔහුට ඇමරිකානු ජාතිකත්වයට වඩා තිබුණේ යුදෙවු නිරාගමික නූතනත්වය පදනමට ගත් ජාත්‍යන්තරවාදයකි. ඇමරිකානු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/17)
UNHRC and its resolutions on Sri Lanka
March 26, 2017, 7:39 pm Although the separatist armed conflict ended in May 2009, the first UNHRC Resolution on "Promoting reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka" was in April 2012. This was followed by Resolutions in March 2013; March 2014 and September 2015. However, the Resolution of September 2015 is markedly different to all previous Resolutions as explained below. The Resolution of 2012 contains only three paragraphs. It essentially calls on the Government of Sri Lanka to develop an action plan to "implement the constructive recommendations made in the report of the Lessons Learnt... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/17)
Ajit Doval’s unfolding debacle in Sri Lanka
March 26, 2017, 6:50 pm The Indian press carried anxious commentaries about the recent visit of Chinese Defence Minister General Chang Wanquan to Sri Lanka. India Today observed that this visit took place amidst warnings issued by the Chinese media to the effect that Beijing will fight back if New Delhi tries to interfere in China’s relations with other South Asian countries. The New Indian Express speculated that the purpose of the Chinese Defence Minister’s visit could be to re-establish military ties with Colombo. What we are now seeing is the unravelling of all the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/17)
Monetary Board probe reveals heavy EPF loss 9.5 Bn loss Central Bank bond scams
March 26, 2017, 12:00 pm A special investigation, commissioned by the Monetary Board of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, has revealed that bond scams under the current government have caused a staggering loss of about Rs. 10 billion to the Employees’ Provident Fund (EPF). A report prepared by the investigation committee is scheduled to be submitted, within next few days, to the Committee on Public Accounts and the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the controversial bond transactions. The report was submitted to the Monetary Board meeting on March 23, according to highly... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 27/03/17)
The history of UNP’s deceptions, betrayals and oppressions Part IV of Part V
By the year 2000, the pig headed old hag Chandrika’s government became unpopular due to stagnation of development activities in the country and the economic growth of the country recording a negative growth for the first time. Under these circumstances, Minister S.B.Dissanayake and several other Ministers left the People’s Alliance government and joined the UNP. Ranil Wickremasinghe came forwarded to contest the 2000 General Election as the leader of the UNP giving a plethora of promises which included a peaceful end to the war, to give gold bracelets, gold chains and denim trousers to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/17)
A FAIRER VIEW OF THE GENERAL’S BOOK
Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera’s critical observation that retired Major General Kamal Gunaratne’s book containing his personal war memoirs “Road to Nandikadal” (Vijitha Yapa Bookshop, Colombo, 2016) “becomes a war crime dossier” was reported in an article published in the Sunday Island of March 19, 2017 (a reproduction of a news report from the prestigious ECONOMYNEXT website penned by its Political Correspondent appearing there on the same day). The FM unequivocally condemns it as “a catalogue of atrocities committed by government forces since early 1980s”. It is difficult for a fair-minded non-political Sri Lankan to let... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/17)
21 වන සියවසට මෝහන ප්‍රසංග කලාව
වේදිකාව ඉදිරියේ හුන් ප්‍රෙක්ෂකයින් කිහිප දෙනෙකුම වේදිකාව මතට ඇදි ගොස් සංදර්ශකයින් බවට පත්ව ඇත. කළු උපැස් යුවලක් පැළැඳ කළු ටයි පටියක් දමා ගත් පුද්ගලයාගේ බසට ඔවුන් අවනත වී ඇති සෙයකි. දෑස් ගෙන එක් අත් ගෙන එක් අතක් ඉහලට ඔසවා ගත් වේදිකාව මත සිටියවුන් සියුම් සංගීතයට අනුව දෙපා තබයි. මෙලෙස සංගීතයට අනුව දෙපා තබන තරුණයකු අසලට පැමිණි කළු ටයි පටියක් පැලඳ ගත් තැනැත්තා ඔහුගෙන් යමක් විමසයි..... “ඔබ දැන් මෝහනයට පත් වෙලා නේද” ? “නැහැ..... නැහැ..... ඔබට මාව මෝහනය කරන්න බැහැ” “හොඳයි මම දැන් තුනට ගනිනවා මා “තුන” යැයි පවසන විට, ඔබ හතර ගාතෙන්,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/17)
Sexuality Discussed by the Jātaka Storyteller
The first evidence of attitudes towards sex comes from the ancient texts of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism (Chakraborty & Thakurata, 2013). Many centuries before Sigmund Freud, Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing, Albert Moll or D.H. Laurence the Tantric Buddhist monks discussed the wider aspects of human sexuality. Tantric is often viewed as the third major school of Buddhism, Tantric philosophy has a complex, and multifaceted system of Buddhist thought and practice which evolved over several centuries and encompasses much inconsistency and a variety of opinions (Macmillan Encyclopedia of Buddhism, 2004). Based on the general definition human... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/17)
මහ ඇමති විග්නේශ්වරන් සහ ආචාර්ය සුර්ය ගුනසේකරයන් අතර “සිලෝන් ටුඩේ” පුවත්පතේ පලවන සංවාදය
Nothern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran said, " We need to have the North and East merged to avoid Sinhalisation of the North and East. Today Sinhalisation is taking place at a rapid rate". Excerpts: ?: The second of the "Eluga Thamil" series was held in Batticaloa recently. People say it's the name that is different from "Pongu Thamil" that was hosted by the Tigers. Isn't it the same concept; awakening the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/17)
SRI LANKA & LONDON TERROR
While the Britain sponsored (America did not sponsor the resolution this year) UNHRC Resolution against Sri Lanka war crimes (mind you for having conclusively defeating the most brutal terrorist organisation in the world called LTTE by the forces of President Rajapaksa) Theresa May new British PM had to taste the brutality of terrorism this week at their own house of sanctity the British Parliament. Though it’s a lone wolf or group sponsored, British media described as a terror attack by a terrorist. Since Theresa May would have been in British politics over many years observing LTTE terrorism... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/17)
New High Commission and improving access to South Asia from Down Under
The Editor, Dompost. Dear Editor, The announcements on Friday by the NZ government of plans to open a High Commission in Sri Lanka is welcome news to all. Not only trade but other mutually beneficial activities like tourism and travel would also benefit from this . However, we wish to point out that difficulty of air access between the two countries is the major impediment to growth in these areas now. Though direct flying time between Auckland and Colombo should only be about 10 hours, the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/17)
ප්රෝඩා ජන මත විචාරණය පරාද කිරීමට මහින්ද ඇතුළු එකාබධ්ධයට නොහැකිවුනොත්
සියලු සුළු වාර්ගික චන්ද සහ දේශද්‍රෝහී සිංහලයන්ගේ ත් බෞද්ධ විරෝධීන්ගේත් චන්ද ලබා ගෙන අලුත් ව්‍යවස්ථාවක් අනුමත කිරීම සඳහා පවත්වන ජන මත විචාරණයක් ජය ගැනීමට යහපාලන රජය ට කිසියම් හැකියාවක් අතය් දේශප්‍රේමී ජනතාව අතර දැන් දැඩි බියක් ඇත ..සිංහලේ ඉතිහාසයේ මෙතෙක් කිසිකලෙක නොවූ විරු අන්දමින් සිංහල බෞද්ධ උරුමය මරාදමා මිනී පෙට්ටියේද බහා අන්තිම ඇ නයත් ගැසීමටබටහිරයන් හා ඉන්දියානුවන් මේ වනවිට රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ නම් අන්ග්ලිකානුවා යොදවා ඇත . 1796 සිටම ඉංග්‍රීසින්ගේ පරම අභිලාශය වුනේ මෙයය් ...මේ පාර නම් එය නොවරදවාම ඉටුකිරීමට ඔවුහු දන්නා සියලු උප්පරවැට්ටි යොදනු ඇත .මෙතෙක් ජාතියේ මුරදෙවතාවන්ව සිටි භික්ෂුන් වහන්සේලාගෙන් සමහරෙක්ද මේ සඳහා රනිල්ට උදව්වට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/17)
වරාය ගිවිසුමේ අනුකමිටුවෙන් ඇමැති චම්පික ඉවත් වෙයි
When I read above news I am compelled to quote….. “I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other…………. Napoleon Bonaparte” If the change his cloak from lion to fox for no reason I cannot see how this government can run .It is a clear indication that Generals in the war are divided, and the Emperor is losing the grip.Governent is fighting a war at all fronts and the generals should be united . It is high time that the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/17)
Sri Lankan Lawyer pleads for Animal Rights
Colombo: The election for the 24th President of the Bar Association takes place on February 21, 2017 . Three candidates have presented nominations for the post of the President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL), namely Anura B. Maddegoda, U.R. de Silva and R. Thangaraja. They have distributed their election manifesto to the members of the BASL. While the manifestos address issues of much relevance to the members in respect to their day to day requirements and professional duties, and Human Rights, there is a corresponding deafening silence on Animal Rights. Animals have no votes... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/17)
Yogi Adityanath's Uttar Pradesh: Meat traders, butchers feel the heat, shut slaughterhouses in panic
Meanwhile, the fate of a large workforce employed by these abattoirs remains a tricky issue for the new government. In Saharanpur district, only five slaughterhouses operate legally. But there are countless others that run clandestinely from homes. Israr, a butcher, told India Today that he hoped the Adityanath government would not attack his livelihood. "First of all, I congratulate this government. Yogi Adityanath is our CM. He's the CM of the entire state. He's good human being," said Israr. "I hope he will work for everyone's welfare. No slaughterhouse should be closed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/17)
Unofficial websites in Lanka visa scam
Thousands of foreign visitors arriving in the country are being ripped-off by several unofficial off-shore based websites who are handling Lankan landing visas in exchange for staggering fees, while the authorities in Colombo remain helpless, it was revealed yesterday. An unknown number of websites or even more are currently in operation and are known to be handling thousands of Sri Lankan visit visas to unsuspecting foreign clients, Immigration and Emigration Chief Nihal Ranasinghe said yesterday. He added that these websites collect the necessary data from the client and later formalize the visa procedure through... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/17)
No foreign judges or hybrid court
The effects of the pressure on the government from the international community to investigate alleged war crimes and to bring about reconciliation were evident in Parliament this week with the government making statements on the matter while the JVP slamming the government for attempting to renew a military deal with the US. Minister of Justice, Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe, in Parliament this week criticized the international community for making unrealistic demands from the government. While taking part in the scheduled debate he charged that investigating war crimes while simultaneously trying to bring about reconciliation was impractical... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/17)
Some insights into the attempt to impeach President Premadasa
March 25, 2017, 5:12 pm It was as usual a sunny morning in Sri Jayawardenepura - Kotte in Aug. 1991 when Anil Moonesinghe, MP, walked into my room and sat down. He opened his conversation by saying "Nihal, you will be at the centre of a big controversy very soon". I was quite puzzled by this remarks and asked him "why me of all people?" Anil smiled and said "you will know soon" and walked out of my room. I continued to be puzzled by his remark. Anil happened to be a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 26/03/17)
The history of UNP’s deceptions, betrayals and oppressions Part III of Part V
When the despotic J.R.Jayawardene completed his 12 year term in 1989, and became unable to contest for a third term, he sponsored R.Premadasa who was the Prime Minister at that time to contest as UNP’s presidential candidate in the 1989 election. The JVP which was carrying out a terror campaign during this time except in the Northern and Eastern provinces urged the people not to vote in the election and threatened to shoot those who proceeded to vote. The UNP welcomed this dreadful JVP decree as it has been found by UNP intelligent sources... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/17)
Mirage – the great Tamil novel of our time
When two distinguished authorities on the history of Jaffna -- Bishop S. Jebanesan of the Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India, and Richard Fox Young who holds a Chair in the Princeton Theological Seminary, USA., – collaborated to translate the novel Mirage (Kanal in Tamil), depicting the plight of the despised Tamil outcasts (Dalits) of the North, it automatically raised the significance and the value of the novel to a level way above the rest of modern Tamil literature. In addition to recognising its literary merits, their selective act to translate this particular... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/17)
Has Sri Lanka already ceased to be a unitary and sovereign State?
24. 3 2017 I am Copying here few extremist News Headlines a trend that has to be arrested immediately 1 Wigneswaran tells Malik to withdraw Army from North 2 Canadian Toronto mayor has discussions with NPC Chief Minister Wigneswaran 3 Wrong to give Sri Lanka more time on accountability: Wigneswaran 4 NPC resolution sent to UN human rights chief Has Sri Lanka already ceased to be a unitary and sovereign State? Were the two Provinces, North and East have already been handed over on a platter by a traitorous... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/17)
Romanticizing the Past as a form of Political Deceit
It is a weakness of the system of memory-recall in humans that the good things that happened to us remain vivid in our memory while the misfortunes and travail that dogged our life tend to be pushed into oblivion. Nobody gets any joy in recalling an unpleasant past. Historians show the same weakness – their record of the past is more a eulogy than a substantial statement of the facts. That politicians ‘manufacture history’ is well known but there are ‘manufactures’ that are so outrageously wrong that a rebuttal is necessary. The Prime Minister (RW) while lambasting... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/17)
RUSSIA I KNEW ….PART 2
JVP and Tamil failed insurrection …….. When I keep remembering the experiences I had in Moscow, it may give some light to all of us about this country .We were taught political economy based on Socialist Doctrine and History of Soviet Union ( after 1917 only –nothing much about Tzar’s regime except the Exploitation by land owners etc) and the last was Scientific Communism based on Materialism .We skipped many classes but at the end of the year we had to sit a simple test.Some Sri Lankans took the subjects quite serious but some just followed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/17)
COMPOUNDED MISERY
A Burger boy arrived, about 25 years ago, at David Jansze's doorstep looking out for any type of work, showing signs of malnutrition and prominent burn scars on his face and body. Tyrone Bottoni hailed from a middle class family. His father was an engine driver at the CGR, married before and had some children, but the two families had no amity with each other. They lived in their own apartment opposite Kanatta cemetery at Borella. The family consisted of a boy and two girls. Father was an embittered alcoholic, disgruntled and disagreeable person... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/17)
Gladiators of glyphosate thriving in a mire of email scandals!
March 24, 2017, 8:07 pm Kamal Wickremasinghe (KW), writing to The Island Newspaper, March 22nd begins by the claim that "Glyphosate of course is the active ingredient of the world’s most widely used herbicide Roundup, known to cause cancer and kidney disease in humans". This presumptuous statement about cancer and kidney disease is not accepted by even the Dept. of the Environment and Energy, Australia, which is the authority in the adopted home of KG. Nowhere in his long article does KW mention any international organization or reputed scientific body, which has claimed that Glyphosate... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/17)
ඔලුව හදනකම් නොසිට ඔලුව පාවිච්චි කරමු !
රූපවාහිනී නාලිකාවලින් දිනපතා ප්‍රවෘත්ති නරඹන අපේ ඇස ගැටෙන දේ අතර මැති ඇමතිලා සහභාගි වන උත්සවවලින් නම් අඩුවක් නැත. 2017 මාර්තු 17 වනදා හම්බන්තොට පැවති එවැනි උත්සවයක් නැරඹූවිට එහි ප්රධාන අමුත්තා වූ ධීවර හා ජලජ සම්පත් අමාත්‍ය මහින්ද අමරවීර කල කතාව නිසා යම් විශේෂත්වයක් දක්නට ලැබිනි. ඒ කැබිනට් මණ්ඩල වෙනසක් ගැනද ඒ කතාව තුල ඉඟි පලවූ බැවිනි. ඒ උත්සවය පැවතියේ මහින්ද අමරවීරගේ දේශපාලන ජීවිතයට වසර 25ක් පිරීම නිමිති කරගෙනය. මෙහිදී හම්බන්තොට දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ ඉඩම් ඔප්පු අහිමි 3000ක ට නීත්‍යානුකූල ඔප්පු පිරිනැමීමද සිදුවූයේය. හම්බන්තොට දිස්ත්‍රික්කයේ 40% ක් පමන සිටිනුයේ ගොවි ජනතාවය. ඔවුන්ට අඩු තරමින් තම වගා කටයුතු කරදරයක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/17)
UNHRC Resolution: Govt. in trap of its own making
March 25, 2017, 8:02 pm The UNHRC resolution which was co-sponsored by Sri Lanka and passed without a vote last Thursday has given the government two years to deliver on the commitments made in UNHRC Resolution No: 30/1 of October 2015. Unlike in previous years, this year’s UNHRC resolution did not generate much heat in Sri Lanka because the expectation was that the government would be given a further period of time. However, this extention of time to deliver may be more to the detriment of the government than if the things had come to a head... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/17)
WICKED WICKREMASINGHE
There are two wicked politicians still prevailing in Sri Lanka. One is Badrakali Chandrika and the other The Wicked Ranil. Their long term objective will be to eliminate all Sinhala National Leaders. If any danger takes place for the life of Mr Weerawangsa as a result of ongoing Fasting, the Chandrika and Ranil will be gloated with happiness. As Sinhalese we need you. If you are abruptly silenced or demised, it will ignite the beginning of the end of Sinhalese. You are a great leader of rare breed. In your absence, the Sinhala Nationalist... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/17)
Denial of Visa application of Maj.Gen. C. Gallage by Australian High Commission
It is incredible that the Australian High Commission has either denied or claims a visa for Maj. General C. Gallage is "under assessment" - diplomatic jargon to cover the denial of a visa. Australia considers the Major General as a "Potential Controversial Visitor" citing war crimes and crimes against humanity as reason for denying Gallege a visa. Australia found fault with the Maj. Gen. for commanding the 59 Division on the Vanni east front. The Maj.Gen. is considered a "controversial visitor" by Australia because he commanded a division in the military which defeated the Tamil... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/17)
බුද්ධි අංශ අවුලේ...... සියලු රහස් මෙන්න
නව රජය බලයට ආ දිනයේ සිට රටට යළි "මිලේනියම් සිටි" පාවා දීම සිහිගන්වමින් බුද්ධි අංශ රණවිරුවන්ට එරෙහි විමර්ශන ආරම්භ කළ රහස් පොලිසිය ඉකුත් සතියේ ඇමැති සරත් ෆොන්සේකා පැවසූ බව කියමින් ආන්දොaලනාත්මක කතාවක්‌ ගල්කිස්‌ස අධිකරණයට වාර්තා කළේය. සරත් ෆොන්සේකා මෙසේ සීඅයිඩීයට කී කතාව වන්නේ කුමක්‌ද? ඉකුත් 2008 - 2009 වර්ෂයන්හිදී සිදුවූ මාධ්‍යවේදී ලසන්ත වික්‍රමතුංග ඝාතනය, මාධ්‍යවේදී කීත් නොයාර්ට සහ රිවිර කර්තෘව සිටි උපාලි තෙන්නකෝන්ට එල්ල වූ ප්‍රහාරයන් සහ ප්‍රගීත් එක්‌නැලිගොඩ සිද්ධිය ආදී වශයෙන් පසුගිය කාලයේ සිදුවූ සියලු අපරාධවලට වගකිව යුත්තේ හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ හා හිටපු බුද්ධි අංශ ප්රධානී මේජර් ජෙනරාල් කපිල හෙන්දාවිතාරණ යන්නය.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/17)
ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ කලකට පසු යළිත් ඇත්ත හෙළිකරයි -හමුදාවේ එහෙම කණඩායම් සිටියානම් අත්අඩංගුවට ගත යුත්තේ ෆොන්සේකාව- හෙන්දාවිතාරණ කළේ ඩෙස්‌ක්‌ ජොබ් එකක්
දිනෙන් දින ඉහළ යන ආරක්ෂක බුද්ධි අංශ සාමාජිකයන් අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීම සම්බන්ධව සමාජයේ ඇතිවී තිබෙන කතාබහ පිළිබඳ සංවාදය සඳහා හිටපු ආරක්ෂක ලේකම් ගෝඨාභය රාජපක්ෂ මහතා සමග 'දිවයින ඉරිදා සංග්‍රහය' කරන සාකච්ඡාවයි මේ. ප්‍රශ්නය - ත්රස්තවාදය ජයගැනීම සදහා ත්‍රිවිධ හමුදාවට නායකත්වය දුන් ප්‍රධානියා ඔබ. ඔබ යටතේ සේවය කළ නිලධාරීන් බොහෝ දෙනකුට අද චෝදනා ඉදිරිපත්වී තිබෙනවා. ඔබට පවා චෝදනා ඉදිරිපත් වී අධිකරණයට, කොමිෂන් හමුවට, සී.අයි.ඩී. සහ එµa. සී.අයි.ඩී. වැනි ආයතන වෙත යැමට සිදුවී තිබෙනවා. ඔබ යටතේ සේවය කරන ලද හමුදා නිලධාරීන්ට විවිධ චෝදනා ඉදිරිපත් වීම හේතුවෙන්, අද අත්අඩංගුවට පත්වීමට පවා සිදුවී තිබෙනවා. යුධ ජයග්‍රහණය සදහා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/17)
Peraliyaka Peramaga: Joint Opposition holds anti-govt rally in Galle ආණ්ඩුවට එරෙහිව පෙරළියක පෙරමග ගාල්ලෙන්
https://youtu.be/NuHVj9oYQJM... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/17)
The law is helpless today – Mahinda Rajapaksa
March 25, 2017 07:54 pm Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that the reason for soaring rice prices and cost of living is due to the ‘stupid’ decisions and carelessness of the government. “Do you get rice for Rs 45 - 60 now? How much is it now? It is Rs 110 - 130. Why has this situation risen? Why did the cost of living increase in the country?” he asked. It is due to the carelessness of the government and the stupid decisions taken with regard to agriculture, he said, while addressing the Joint... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/17)
අමරවීරට ඉංග්‍රීසි නොතේරී සරත් වීරසේකරට මඩ ගසයි
රට වෙනුවෙන් යුධ බිමේ මෙන්ම පිටරටදීද සටන් වැදීමට සූදානම් රියර් අද්මිරාල් සරත් වීරසේකර කොටි ඩයස් පෝරාවට සහ පාට කණ්නාඩි දමාගත් එක්සත් ජාතීන්ට නිවරදිව ප්‍රතිඋත්තර ලබාදුන් නමුත් ඒ පිළිබඳව නිවරදිව අවබෝධයක් නොමැතිව එතුමන්ව විවේචනය කිරීමට සිරිසේන ජනපතිවරයාගේ හම්බන්තොට ගෝලයා වන මහින්ද අමරවීර කටයුතු කළේය. රට වෙනුවෙන් යුධ බිමේ මෙන්ම පිටරටදීද සටන් වැදීමට සූදානම් රියර් අද්මිරාල් සරත් වීරසේකර කොටි ඩයස් පෝරාවට සහ පාට කණ්නාඩි දමාගත් එක්සත් ජාතීන්ට නිවරදිව ප්‍රතිඋත්තර ලබාදුන් නමුත් ඒ පිළිබඳව නිවරදිව අවබෝධයක් නොමැතිව එතුමන්ව විවේචනය කිරීමට සිරිසේන ජනපතිවරයාගේ හම්බන්තොට ගෝලයා වන මහින්ද අමරවීර කටයුතු කළේය. මුහුණු පොතෙන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/17)
GMOA’s DOUBLE GAME ruins Sri Lanka’s reserves
The saga over the South Asian Institute of Technology and Medicine (SAITM) continues. It has already seen the good and the bad. Now it is seeing the ugly. This week police alleged that the reported shooting of the Chief Executive Officer of SAITM was apparently stage managed. A Pradeshiya Sabha member, police claim, was involved in the incident. SAITM has already announced that the CEO has been stood down, pending further inquiries. While the CEO is entitled to his presumption of innocence until proven guilty, the findings of the Police investigation does not augur well... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/17)
‘I went to Geneva to fulfill my responsibility’ Retired Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara says
Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara is a high level naval officer who played a major role during the civil war. The former Deputy Minister and former MP recently became a much talked about figure because he went to the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland to counter war crimes allegations levelled against the Sri Lankan military by the UNHRC. He spoke to Rivira from Geneva. Below are excerpts from the discussion. Q: Why did you go to Geneva? The UNHRC alleged that the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/17)
The govt. requested for international intervention - G.L. Peiris
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Amaraweera misunderstood my sentiments – Sarath Weerasekara
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Govt. seeks Rs.288mn to buy vehicles for ministers
The government today sought Parliament’s approval for spending a total sum of Rs.288.2 million in order to purchase vehicles for several ministers, deputy ministers and state ministers. Accordingly, the approval was sought for the spending of Rs.42 million to purchase a vehicle for deputy chairman of committees, Rs.82 million on a new vehicle for deputy minister of health, Rs.40 million on a vehicle for minister of plantation industries, Rs.38 million on a vehicle for deputy minister of sports and Rs.86 million on vehicles for the minister and deputy minister of industry and commerce. Approval was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/17)
How new visa changes can influence Sri Lanka’s Real Estate Market
Five years ago, Sri Lanka’s government imposed stricter rules on visa requirements. This happened as part of an on-going process to improve administrative procedures following the end of the war in 2009. Since the new visa laws were proposed, a new government has come into power. What impact do the new visa requirements and this new government’s enforcement of the rules have on real estate investment on the island? Leading property portal Lamudi finds out, Visa Programmes in Sri Lanka’s New System Since the end of the war, Sri Lanka’s immigration services have evolved... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 25/03/17)
The history of UNP’s deceptions, betrayals and oppressions Part II of Part V
The 1970 UF government carried out a tremendous volume of work to make Sri Lanka a sovereign State, towards making the country self sufficient in food items and establishment of industries and State institutions covering major fields of activities. When many countries in the East African region called the Sahel rehion and other parts of the world faced a severe food crisis and people in those countries were suffering from malnutrition and scores of people died due to lack of food, people in Sri Lanka were saved from this calamity due to the extensive... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/17)
විමල් වීරවංස වෙනුවෙන් මහජනහඩක් නැංවීමට රට පෙළගැස්විය යුතුයි.
ලංකාවෙ යුක්තියක් හා සාධාරණයක් තියෙනවද? යහපාලනය කරනවුන්ට මනුස්සකමක් තියෙනවද ? නීතිය ආරක්ෂා කිරීමට බැඳීසිටින නඩු කාරයෝ උන්ගේ හිතට එකඟවද නැත්නම් යහපාලකයන්ට බයේද නීතිය පනවන්නේ ? පුංචි දරුවෙකුත් දන්නවා මහදවල් හොරකමක් කරපු මහබැංකුවේ ලොක්කවසිටි අර්ජුන මහේන්ද්‍රන් හොරෙක් කියලා. ඔහු ලංකාවට රුපියල් බිලියන ගානක වංචාවක් කරලත් ඔහු නිදහස් මහන්තත්ත ජීවිතයක් රනිල් වික්රමසිංහගේ විශ්වාසකයකු ලෙස ගෙනියනවා, මේ හොරාට උගේම හොරකමගැන හොයාබලන කොමිෂන් සභාවේ පරීක්ෂණය ට සම්බන්දවී එහි රැඳීසිටීමට පවා කොමිෂන් සභාවේ සාමාජික නඩුකාරවරයා අවසර දී තිබෙනවා. මේ හොරුන්ටත් ගෞරවකරන කොඳු නාරටි නැති උන්ද වාහන අවිභාවිතය කියල කිසිම හොරකමකට සම්බන්ධ නැති විමල් වීරවංස මාස දෙකකටත් වැඩි කාලයක් හිරබාරයෙ තියන්නේ.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/17)
දුෂ්ඨ චික‍්‍රමසින්හ නරුමයා
සිරිලක් දේශපාලන භූමිකාවේ සැරිසරන දුෂ්ඨයන් දෙදෙනෙක් වෙති. එකියක් බද‍්‍රකාලී චන්ද‍රිකාය අනිකා මේආත්මයේදි දරුසැපක් නැති රනිල් ය . සිංහල නායකයින් එක එකා නැතිකරදැමීම මුන්ගේ අරමුණය. කිසියම් හේතුවකින් උපවාසය නිසා වීරවංශ මහතා ගේ ජීවිතයට හානියක් සිදුවුවහොත් රනිල් චන්ද‍රිකාවන් කොක්භඬළා සතුටු වෙනු ඇත . ඔබ තුමා අවශ්ය අපටය. ඔබතුමා නිභඬ වීම සිංහලයාගේ මළගමේ ආරම්භයය. ඔබතුමා දුර්ලභ ගනයේ උතුම් මිනිසෙකි. ඔබතුමා නැතිව සිංහළ ජාතික සටන අඩපන වනුඇත. සියලූම වීරයන් මළවුන් අතරය. වීරවංශ සිටියයුත්තේ අප අතරය. ඔබතුමා මළබෙර නළා පිටුපස සුදුවැලි හලා පාවඩ මත නොයායුතුය . ඔබතුමා යා යුත්තේ අභීත සිංහළ යෝධයින් සමග රතු පළස මතය. ඔබතුමා ගේ උපවාසය අපට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/17)
Change we all are waiting for ………….
Media keeps our mind boggling about an impending change of the ministers ,who have failed miserably . Tell me about any ,minister except the one in charge of health who has done something and yet the Saitm issue has suppressed his popularity .Minister of finance during night raids in customs has been nominated an award for handling “ bond matter “ .Transport and Rail minister is sleeping all the time .Road minister in going nowhere .Trade minister accused of land grab in a national park .Sports minister being accused of ruining sports,Port minister who should have... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/17)
අනිත් කොනේ වෛද්‍යවරිය ; බෝධිනී සමරතුංග
බෝධිනී සමරතුංග ගේ අනිත් කොන කෘතිය වෛද්‍ය වෘත්තිය පිලිබඳ සාක්‍ෂාත්කරයකි. එය කතුවරියගේ ආත්මකථනයකි. වෛද්‍ය උපාධිය ලබා ඇය මුලින්ම සේවය සඳහා යන්නේ යුද ගැටුම් වලින් පීඩා ලැබූ උතුරුකරයේ රෝහලකටය. සිංහල වෛද්‍යවරියක ලෙස ඇයට මෙම ප්‍රදේශය නුහුරුය. ඇය දෙමල බස නොදන්නීය. දමිල රෝගීන් බහුතරය වන රෝහලක කෙලෙස තම රැකියාව කිරීමට හැකි වෙත්ද යන දෙගිඩියාවෙන් ඇය රෝහලට පැමිනෙන්නීය. එහෙත් ඇය සතුව අපූරු මෙවලමක් තිබේ. එනම් මානව දයාවයි. මෙම මෙවළම බොහෝ උගත් සහ කුසලතාවයන් ගෙන් යුක්ත වූ වෛද්‍යවරු අමතක කර දැමූවද කතා නායිකාව එය නැති කර ගන්නේ නැත. එය උපයෝගී කර ගෙන ඇය තම රෝගීන් අමතන්නීය. එම නිසා භාෂා සහ සංස්කෘතික... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/17)
New Zealand High Commission in Sri Lanka
To. Rt. Hon. Bill English MP, Prime Minister of New Zealand. Dear Mr.English, We write to convey the congratulations and delight of the Sri Lankan community in NZ, at your announcing your decision to establish a High Commission in Sri Lanka. We have no doubt this will be mutually beneficial in improving trade and good will between our two countries that share a similar outlook on many matters including trade, sport, travel and tourism, and our democratic and secular way of life. We are also confident, the establishment... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/17)
DIRTY FOOD FOR THOUGHT
‘Mr. Modi cannot wash his hands off. This is a Fascist ideology, supported by the BJP and Narendra Modi. He is carrying forward the agenda of RSS. The political agenda of the RSS is to divide the nation and to remain in power and to seek power and I think he is badly exposed,’ these are the words of Rita Bahuguna Joshi in response to a question asked by someone from the ANI. The question was; how would you clarify the difference between Mr. Modi and the RSS’. Rita Bahuguna Joshi belongs to the Congress party and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/17)
U.S. CONGRESS MEMBERS SIGNAL GREATER ENGAGEMENT AND SUPPORT FOR SRI LANKA
March 24, 2017 In the month of February, two congressional delegations of U.S. House of Representatives visited Sri Lanka. The first was a bipartisan four-member delegation of the House Democracy Partnership (HDP) Committee led by Chairman Peter Roskam and Ranking Member David Price. An eight-member bipartisan delegation led by the House Judiciary Committee Chairman Robert Goodlatte immediately followed. Following up on the manifest greater engagement by the members of the U.S. Congress with Sri Lanka, Ambassador Prasad Kariyawasam met with several leading members of the U.S. Congress in the past week. The... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/17)
Many inventions have been made by accident or by chance, including my scientific energy saving cooking
I was living in a room only boarding house near Punchi Borella, not too from The All Saints Church when I had to study for Science Advanced Level. Then I had to depend on hotel takeaways than cooking. At the start I had to cycle or walk all the way to hotels to bring in or eat in hotels. Even when it rains, I had to get something to eat from hotels because I didn’t cook anything at the start, not because I didn’t know basic cooking but I didn’t start until a little later. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/17)
Ahmadiyya Founder’s Day
Saturday 23rd March 1889 was the momentous day when Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised Messiah, peace be on him, accepted the hands of forty faithful servants in allegiance to the 10 conditions of Bai’at (initiation) and founded the community which he called ‘The Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at’. The Promised Messiah, peace be on him, took this oath of allegiance at the house of a spiritual preceptor Hazrat Sufi Ahmad Jan in the city of Ludhiana (Punjab, India). Hazrat Moulavi Hakim Nooruddin was the first person to have the honor of taking the first Bai’at. This was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/17)
JFA lauds higher court ruling over Janasadharan
Guwahati: Journalists’ Forum Assam (JFA) expresses happiness and gratefulness over the recent Gauhati High Court directive to the management of Janasadharan, an Assamese daily newspaper to clear all the unpaid wages of the employees till January and also make an endeavour to pay the current wages accordingly. The court also asked the management of Janasadharan Printing and Publication Ltd to restart publishing the newspaper, which has already been honoured by the proprietor with full cooperation of the employees. Janasadharan, owned by Congress leader Rockybul Hussain and then edited by Left intellectual Dr Shivnath Barman, was suddenly... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/17)
Algeria intensifies crackdown on Ahmadiyya Muslims
According to media reports, Algerian Government has continued to crackdown on members of the Ahmadi Muslims in the country. The Ahmadiyya Community in the country has expressed concern over the religiously motivated arrests. From June 2016, onwards, the authorities in Algeria targeted members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, arresting at least 70 in Blida and Skikda provinces and other parts of the country on account of their faith. Mass arrests of Ahmadis seem to have commenced in early 2016, but took a more intense turn in July 2016 when Algerian authorities commenced a “dismantling... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/17)
No point telling Parliament, must go to Geneva - Rajapaksa පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ කියලා වැඩක් නෑ... ජිනීවා ගිල්ලා කියන්න ඕනේ... හිටපු ජනපති පවසයි.
https://youtu.be/Qnija-4EQ9s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/17)
Jayawewa! A land like no other
Sri Lanka is the best country in the world. It is a land like no other. Incredible! That is why there is a song and people always say ‘Loken Uthum Rata Sri Lankawai’ (Sri Lanka is the best country in the world). We have the best Finance Minister in the world and he wins awards no one really knows about and it happens all the time. Some publish advertisements and felicitate him. But, the US dollar continues to rise against the poor Sri Lankan rupee. Still, the United States is our... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/17)
THE CRISIS IN PARLIAMENT:TWILIGHT OF A FUNCTIONING DEMOCRACY
March 23, 2017, 9:31 pm What is evident for all to see is that Yahapalanaya has deteriorated today into the expression of a totally autocratic culture, in Parliament as well as in the country at large. Across the country vital elections at grassroots level are postponed indefinitely on the flimsiest of pretexts, while the situation in the nation’s highest legislature represents a caricature of the basic norms of a robust democracy. Parliamentary proceedings in the first week of March were marred by several developments, all of them significant and some unique. The Leader of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/17)
RUSSIA I KNEW …………………
When I see the TV and the photos in the paper where President Putin who is in an immaculate Physical and mental state witting with President Maithriplala Sirisena ,I felt nostalgic about the time I spent in Soviet Union which was then a socialists country .It was a country with moral values ,with a nation of multinational society with social values ,respect to each other .Whole country was proud of their achievements through years from Lenin,Stalin and Breshnew . The transformation which took place under Garbachov,who I think was a planted agent by the western capitalist... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/17)
Russia Offers to Set Up Helicopter Maintenance Center in Sri Lanka – Official
A deputy chief of Russia’s Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation said that Russia has proposed to set up a service center for Russian-made helicopters in Sri Lanka. © SPUTNIK/ MAKSIM BOGOVID Russia, Sri Lanka Discuss Delivery Contract of Gepard 3.9 Frigates LANGKAWI (Sputnik) – Russia has proposed to set up a service center for Russian-made helicopters in Sri Lanka, a deputy chief of Russia’s Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation told Sputnik on Friday. "We’ve submitted our proposals to equip a helicopter maintenance center and provide spare parts for armored hardware to the Sri Lankan side," the agency’s Mikhail Petukhov said at the LIMA 2017 military... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/17)
Sri Lankan rupee weaker despite cenbank rate hike
COLOMBO, March 24 (Reuters) - The Sri Lankan rupee traded weaker on Friday on importer dollar demand despite the central bank's decision to raise key rates by 25 basis points in a move to ease the pressure on the currency. The central bank raised its benchmark interest rates by 25 basis points before the markets open on Friday for the first time in eight months to contain high inflationary expectations and a possible acceleration of demand side inflationary pressures. [nL3N1H11OX] Rupee forwards <SLKR> were active, with two-week forwards trading at 152.50/60 per dollar 0531 GMT, compared with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/17)
The police (CID) report that alleges Gotabhaya maintained ‘death squads’ is only quoting Sarath Fonseka. It is not a conclusion drawn from a police investigation. It is hearsay! It is common practice hearsay is not evidence.
The police (CID) report that alleges Gotabhaya maintained ‘death squads’ is only quoting Sarath Fonseka. It is not a conclusion drawn from a police investigation. It is hearsay! It is common practice hearsay is not evidence. Sarath Fonseka has been saying this for the past seven years for political reasons. Since he is now a minister of the government and Gotabhaya is out of power, Fonseka’s statements carry weight in extremely politicized police and investigation panels in Sri Lanka. Fonseka was imprisoned by former president Rajapaksa in 2010. Now Gotabhaya is at the receiving end. A former... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/17)
UN General Assembly & UN Security Council Members – UNHRC head is violating the UN Charter and abusing his office against Sri Lanka
A grave miscarriage of justice is taking place in front of the UN General Assembly members and UN Security Council. The UNHRC and the OHCHR head is violating the UN Charter and abusing the office in an unsubstantiated and malicious witch hunt against Sri Lanka. We give below examples of these violations and injustices. The UNHRC head is in violation Article 2.7 of the UN Charter demanding Sri Lanka to change its constitution and denigrating our judges and judicial system. Article 2(7): Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/17)
The history of UNP’s deceptions, betrayals and oppressions Part I of Part V
The United National Party, the party of the Anglophile and Western slavish elites have come to power in many elections only through blatant lies, misleading the people and giving false promises. As far as I remember this type of deceiving the people started in July 1960 election when we were school kids at that time. Infuriated by the defeat of the March 1960 government in its Throne Speech by the negative vote cast by the Federal Party the UNP launched an aggressive election campaign for the July 1960 election led by Mr. Dudley Senanayake... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 24/03/17)
Government’s five unpatriotic documents
"Although the government tried to cover up things, now everything is being revealed gradually." The doings of the government are coming to light, so much so that the above can be said. Although certain media are trying to hide this information, Mahinda did not allow them to be concealed and released that information to some media during the immediate past in a criticizing manner which put the government in a spot. Mahinda mentioned five unpatriotic documents of the government and slashed them, not without a reason. Accordingly the two main promises given to the people... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/17)
A Blueprint for Disintegration
"Normally a Constitution has the answers to any kind of complications; as it would either directly specify or indirectly facilitate the conditions that would provide the solutions. If a Constitution is made to provide the answers to complications that have been created for the objectives, pretending to be truly representative of the realities, the very purpose of a Constitution shall be lost and instead shall become the bases for new complications which would keep the beneficiaries burdened with, at the end." It is only now the true indications... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/17)
Gotabaya responds to AFP’s “death squad” article
Former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa has issued a letter via his attorney to the Agence France-Presse (AFP) an international news agency headquartered in Paris, complaining over the “false and distorted” publication carried out under the heading ‘Ex-leader’s Brother Led Death Squad in Sri Lanka’. He states that the news item authored by AFP’s local correspondent Amal Jayasinghe had stated that a police report had implicated that Rajapaksa had led a unit that was accused of assassinating the former editor of Sunday Leader newspaper, Lasantha Wickramatunga, during his tenure as Defence Secretary. Attorney-at-Law Sanath... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/17)
Syria's Assad & US Reporter battle over Human Rights Violations/War Crimes (English Subs)
In a recent interview held in Damascus, a US news reporter grilled Syria's President Bashar al-Assad with a barrage of questions surrounding allegations of human rights abuses and war crimes against the Syrian government, in a tense interview that at times saw Assad seemingly catch the Yahoo News reporter off guard with his sharp responses. https://youtu.be/BODuOLs0YkA... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/17)
Is UNHRC another LTTE terrorist-front?
When organizations and individuals banned as LTTE fronts in particular those that openly provided material support to the LTTE over the years and have unabashedly commenced websites seeking donations and support to create the very Eelam that the LTTE was fighting for, are regular visitors to the UNHRC and are instrumental in pushing for war crimes tribunals against the Sri Lankan Armed Forces, the UNHRC needs to seriously re-assess itself. What UNHRC cannot ignore Questioning silence of UN/UNHRC and international community for 30 years in dealing with LTTE terrorism since 1980s inspite of LTTE being banned... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/17)
ෆීල්ඩ් මාෂල් සරත් ෆොන්සේකා සහ සංග්‍රාමික විඩාව
යුද හමුදාපතිවරයා වශයෙන් ජෙනරාල් සරත් ෆොන්සේකාගේ (වර්තමානයේ ෆීල්ඩ් මාෂල්) යුදමය නායකත්වයද ප්‍රභාකරන් යුදමය වශයෙන් පරාජය කිරීම සඳහා අනවතරයෙන් බලපාන ලදී. ඊලාම් යුද්දය ජය ගැනීමට ඔහු දුන් දායකත්වය අති විශාලය. ජෙනරාල් සරත් ෆොන්සේකා සම කළ හැක්කේ ජෙනරාල් ජෝජ් පැටන් වැනි කඪෝර නමුත් යුද්දයේ දක්ෂ සේනා හසුරුවීමෙහි සමර්ථ සෙන්පතියෙකුට ය. ඔහු උතුරේ යුද මෙහෙයුම් මනාව දැන සිටියේය. කනිෂ්ට නිලධාරින්ට මෙහෙයුම් වලදී ඔහුට බොරු කිරීමට නොහැකි විය. ඔහු ප්‍රභාකරන්ගේ මර්මස්ථාන බිඳ දමන ක්‍රමය දැන සිටියේය. ඔහුගේ යුද උපක්‍රම ප්‍රභාකරන්ට විනාශය ගෙන ආවේය. සරත් ෆොන්සේකා දක්ෂ සොල්දාදුවෙකි. යුද බිමේ අත්දැකීම් නිසා ඔහු තුල සංග්‍රාමික විඩාව ඇතැම් විට නිරීක්ෂණය කල හැකිය. සමහර... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/17)
විදෙස් විනිසුරුවන්ට කල් දීම
ලංකාව සම්බන්ධ 2016 ජෙනීවා යෝජනාව ගෙන එනු ලැබුයේ ලංකාව ද විසිනි. ඒ් යෝජනාවට ලංකාව අනුග්‍රහය දැක්වූයේ යැයි කීම ලංකාවේ වගකීම අඩු තක්සේරු කිරීමක්. ලංකාව ඒ යෝජනාව අනෙක් රටවල් පහළොවක් සමග එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ මානව අයිතිවාසිකම් මණ්ඩලයට ඉදිරිපත් කළා. යෝජනාව පිළිබඳ වගකීම ලංකාවට ද පැවරෙනවා. ඒ යෝජනාව ලංකාවට විරුද්ධව ගෙන එන ලද්දක්. මෙරට ඊනියා මානව අයිතිවාසිකම් ගැන එහි සඳහන් වෙනවා. තමන්ට විරුද්ධව යෝජනාවක් ඉදිරිපත් කළ රටක් හැටියට ලංකාව ඉතිහාසගත වේවි. හොඳම මුදල් ඇමති බිහි කළ රටකට ඕවත් වැඩ ද? හෙට ජෙනීවාහි දී සම්මත කිරීමට යන්නේ 2016 යෝජනාවේ සඳහන් කරුණු ඉටු කිරීමට ලංකාණ්ඩුවට අවුරුදු දෙකක් කල් දීමට කෙරෙන යෝජනාවක්.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/17)
ETCA සහ ආර්තික ඝාතක භූමිකාව පිළිබඳව මාධ්‍ය සාකච්ඡාව
අද (23) දින කොළඹ ජාතික පුස්තකාල ශ්‍රවණාගරයේදී තොරතුරු තාක්ෂණ වෘත්තීයවේදීන්ගේ සංසදය (SITP) විසින් මාධ්‍ය හමුවක් කැදවා තිබිනි. එහිදී එට්කා ගිවිසුම පිටුපස ඇති ආර්ථික ඝාතක භූමිකාව, ලෝකයේ වෙළද ගිවිසුම් පිළිබදව ඇති අත්දැකීම් සහ මහජන අදහස් ලබා ගනිමින් වෙළදාම පිළිබද ජාතික ප්‍රතිපත්තියක් සකස් කරන්නට පිහිටවූ මහජන කොමිසම පිළිබඳව අදහස් දැක්වුනි. ලේකම්, ලසන්ත වික්රමසිංහ මහතා.. අපි දැක්කා ඊයේ ජාතික සම්පතක් වන හම්බන්තොට වරාය විකුණා දමන්න කැබිනට් මණ්ඩලය තුළ සාකච්ඡා වෙලා තියෙනවා. අපි දැක්කා මීට කළින් මහබැංකු අධිපති ආචාර්ය ඉන්ද්‍රජිත් කුමාරස්වාමි මහතා ප්‍රකාශ කරලා තිබ්බා විශේෂයෙන්ම පසුගිය වසර දෙක තුළ ලංකාවේ විදෙස් සංචිත අඩුවීම නිසා මේ ජාතික සම්පත් විකුණන්න වෙන බව.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/17)
Terror in London
Our hearts go out to the victims of the terrorist attack at Parliament Square in London today. However, I cannot but recall how on this same Square in June 2009, I witnessed a vociferous group of supporters of Prabakaran, the leader of the brutal Tamil Tigers who had terrorized Sri Lanka for three decades, who had been deposed a few weeks earlier, chanting loudly " Who is our leader … Prabakaran, , What do we want …Tamil Elam". When I questioned a nearby Policeman why this was being... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/17)
BLACK LION OF AMPARE SARATH WEERASEKERA - BORALUGODA MAHA KALU SINAHAYA REBORN!
I was in the process of writing about Mr Sarath Weerasekera. I thank Dr Sudath Gunasekera for doing it. I have previously written about SW in my article of " POLITICAL STRATEGY OF JOINT OPPOSITION IN DISARRAY- MR WITH SLPP, GR WITH “WIYATH MAGA”, SARATH WEERASEKERA IN “ATHARA-MAGA”.Posted on November 21st, 2016" in Lankaweb. In responding to Dr Gunasekera's article, there are few suggesting to bring about a split between Prez. Mahinda Rajapakse and Sarath Weerasekera. They are none other than agents of Ranil, Maithree, Chandrika and they should find a large dust bin... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/17)
Desist from Co-Sponsoring the UN Resolution Drafted by the Human Rights Council in March 2017
Recalling the Human Rights Council Resolution 30/1 adopted on 1 October 2015 promoting reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka; Noting with concern: The recently revealed agreement entered into by the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL), USA, and the TNA on foreign judges, defence lawyers and authorised prosecutors and investigators in the 2015 March-September period; and The co-sponsoring of the sighted resolution by Sri Lanka in 2015. Recognising the confusing and conflicting statements recently made by Hon Mangala Samaraweera, the Foreign Minister... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/17)
UNHRC Resolution: Confusion over who committed to foreign judges
Ahead of the vote on yet another resolution on Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) tomorrow, an intense debate has taken place on the move for the inclusion of foreign judges in a judicial mechanism to hear accountability and human rights issues during the war time. The new resolution, to be put to vote tomorrow , is just a rollover seeking to extend the timeline given for the government of Sri Lanka to deliver on its commitments in the previous resolution adopted on October 1, 2015 with Sri... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/17)
In Memory of the Fallen Ranaviruos at Mullaitivu, July 16-26, 1996
As we watch the war-heroes of the Sri Lankan Nation being crucified at the UNHRC in Geneva, not only by the Tamil Eelamists who waged a brutal take-no-prisoners war in Sri Lanka and now posing as wailing victims, but also by our own government officials aiding and abetting those racist separatists, let us take a moment to reflect on the price our war-heroes paid in flesh and blood to preserve our Motherland in the Battle of Mullaitivu in 1996. In 1996, the Government of Sri Lanka led by the then President Chandrika Bandaranayake Kumaratunga, and the Armed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/17)
Selection criteria for prospective MPs
March 22, 2017, 9:39 pm I wish to draw the attention of all public-spirited citizens to the following extract in The Island editorial of March 13, under the topic, Speaker’s plight, "The most effective way of addressing the problem of the deterioration of political institutions is to end the deplorable practice of nominating unsavoury elements to contest elections, which they win by spending a fraction of their black money to bribe voters. The blame for this sorry state of affairs should be apportioned to all political leaders. "Let the political party leaders be urged to clean up... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/17)
Govt stalling war crimes issue to use as trump card against MR යුධ අපරාධ චෝදනා කල්දමනවා - Gammanpila
https://youtu.be/BpYOQjTBN7s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/17)
Zeid highlights need for international participation in judicial mechanism
March 22, 2017 08:46 pm While welcoming Sri Lanka’s ‘promising progress’ in constitutional reforms, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein today urged the government to set up mechanisms to implement the resolution adopted at the UNHRC in 2015. “I note promising progress regarding constitutional reform, with the Parliament establishing itself as a constitutional assembly,” he said, speaking at the Interactive Dialogue on the High Commissioner’s report on Sri Lanka at the 34th session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Wednesday (22). Hussein said that although progress to establish... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/17)
Prince Zeid calls for “foreign judges” in war crimes cases, but Sri Lanka opts for “foreign expertise”
Colombo, March 22: Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, told the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva on Wednesday, that Sri Lanka must appoint foreign judges to the judicial mechanism it is to set up to try war crimes cases. But the Sri Lankan Representative, Deputy Foreign Minister Dr.Harsha de Silva, avoided using the term “foreign judges” in his reply, and instead said that Sri Lanka will take “foreign expertise and assistance.” Calling for foreign judges as per the resolution co-sponsored by Sri Lanka in September-October 2015, Prince Zeid... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/17)
A Report Against OISL Handed Over to UNHRC in Geneva by GSLF
A report compiled by eminent legal professionals under the theme of ‘A factual appraisal of the OISL report: A rebuttal to the allegations against the armed forces’ had been handed over to UNHRC head office in Geneva by Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekera on behalf of Global Sri Lankans Forum, GSLF. The project has been initiated and sponsored by GSLF and managed by the Federation of National Organizations in Sri Lanka. The project has been initiated and sponsored by Global Sri Lankans Forum, GSLF and managed by the Federation of National Organizations in Sri Lanka. The two volumes report has been Authored by Dharshan Weerasekera and Edited by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/17)
New constitutional and legal reforms to destroy the nation - Mahinda
March 13, 2017 01:42 pm The reason why the government is pursuing some of the agenda with great enthusiasm while completely ignoring the constitutional pledges they gave to the people is obviously because they have other, more important masters to please than the people of this country, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said. “I invite all SLFP members in the government, and parliamentarians of the UNP as well, to read the five documents mentioned here and to decide for themselves whether they want to betray the country and the nation by supporting this traitorous agenda,” he said in a statement... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 23/03/17)
Let us all get together and organize an unprecedented welcome to Sarath Weerasekara at Katunayaka on his arrival and form a National Save Lanka Movement to be named the “Lakmava Berageniime Jatika Meheyuma Sanvidhanaya.” under his Leadership
Former Secretary to Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike President Sri Lanka Administrative Service Association, PresidenetMahanuwara Sinhala Bauddha Jesta Puravesiyange Sanvidhanaya. 22.3.20017. The way he planned and executed demolishing LTTE remnants and Tamil Diaspora at Geneva single handed has undoubtedly made him the” Geneeva Veeraya” of the 21st century Sri Lanka. Really this should have been done by the Government of this country. It isthe duty of the Elected Government But instead the whole world knows what the Foreign Minister pf this unpatriotic Government Ava-Mangala Samaraweera did. Though My3 and Ranil talk bullshit to the contrary I have... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/17)
රනිල් ඉවත් කිරීමට ව්‍යවස්ථා මගඩිය යොදා ගනිමු
අද රටේ ප්‍රශ්න බොහොමයකට විසඳුම රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ අගමැති කමෙන් ඉවත් කිරීමයි. මොන ක්‍රමයකින් හරි සිංහල විරෝධී දෙමළ ජාතිවාදී නව ව්‍යවස්ථාවක් සම්මත කර ගැනීමට ඔහු බැඳී සිටිනවා. ජනමත විචාරණයක් පවත්වා නව ව්‍යවස්ථාව සම්මත කර ගැනීමට ඔහු පමණක් නොව සුමන්තිරන් හා සම්බන්ධන් ද ක්‍රියා කරනවා. ජනමත විචාරණය තවත් ලාම්පු කළගෙඩි සෙල්ලමක් කර ගන්න ආණ්ඩුවට බලාපොරොත්තුවක් ඇති. ඒ සඳහා ඔවුන් දැනටමත් සූදානම් වෙනවා. අද අපට තිබෙන ප්රධාන කාර්ය්‍ය මේ ජනමත විචාරණය පැරදවීමට සූදානම් වීම මිස මීළඟ පළාත් පාලන මැතිවරණය මහා මැතිවරණය හා ජනාධිපතිවරණය ගැන ඇඟිලි ගණන් කිරීම නො වෙයි. මා මෙයින් අදහස් කරන්නේ ඒ මැතිවරණ හා ජනාධිපතිවරණය නොවැදගත් බව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/17)
HORAGE AMMAGEN PENA AHEEMA
Sri Lankans would have been more than surprised and devastated to see the Vice Chancellor of Kotelawela Defence University (KDU) and his team having the audacity of inviting Pakiasothy Saravanamuttu Chief of Centre for Policy Alternative(CPA) who was overtly and covertly appeasing , mollycoddling and supporting the LTTE when the terrorist outfit was at its peak against the Sri Lankan Defence forces. Presumably PS would have thought that LTTE was going to win . English reading public (may be in Tamil papers as well) would remember how he supported the LTTE in his writing in his capacity... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/17)
Confusion reigns over Faafy Atoll “sale” Saudi King postponing Maldives Visit …………….News item
WE NEED TO LEARN LESSONS …………… Saudi Faafu Atoll Project: A City For 1 Million Dreamers Few days back we reported that Saudi King Salman was set to visit Maldives within weeks and he wants to buy a Maldives atoll. The news seems to have sparked concern among the locals, especially the people living in Faafu Atoll. So, we decided to share some insight into the project. The president of Maldives himself shed some light on the project in various occasions but many of the things we are revealing were never confirmed by Maldives government or Saudi authorities.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/17)
PPFA welcomes Tibetan spiritual leader to Northeast
Guwahati: Patriotic People’s Front Assam (PPFA) welcomes Tibetan spiritual leader His Holiness The Dalai Lama to the city and expresses hope that his visit would strengthen the pre-historical bond between the people of Tibet and northeast India. The Nobel peace laureate, who is scheduled to attend the concluding function of The Assam Tribune’s platinum jubilee and Dainik Asom’s golden jubilee celebration on 1 April before proceeding to Tawang of Arunachal Pradesh. The Dalai Lama will also grace a number of religious functions in the Tibet bordering State during the visit. It may be noted that the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/17)
GR shifts blame for killings
The brother of Sri Lanka’s former president Mahinda Rajapakse denied Tuesday involvement in war-era death squads, blaming the then army chief for an alleged secretive campaign of extrajudicial murders. Gotabhaya Rajapakse has been accused of giving orders to a shadowy military outfit allegedly involved in murdering journalists and political dissidents during Sri Lanka’s long-running civil war. In testimony filed to court on Monday, former army chief Sarath Fonseka said the death squad was run by military intelligence but took orders from Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, a powerful defence secretary during his brother’s tenure. Gotabhaya Rajapakse said Fonseka... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/17)
Tracking the killers of scribes
March 21, 2017, 8:10 pm The CID has earned notoriety for its selective efficiency. It has suddenly woken up like Rip Van Winkle after eight long years and made some ‘revelations’ about the 2009 assassination of The Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunge. It has been going hell for leather during the last several months to bring to justice those responsible for some murders under the previous regime. A special team under the command of the then military intelligence chief killed Lasantha and attacked other journalists, the CID has claimed on the basis of a statement... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/17)
‘ProNats’ class adores Gotabaya
The problem with political nationalists is that they are qualitatively and temperamentally inferior to other nationalists. I neither subscribe to nor do I oppose elevating a nationalist campaign through Parliament, but I am wary of career politicos who seem to use rhetoric to get power and then belittle those who helped them. That is why, as a citizen of Sri Lanka and an observer of its political shifts, I am also wary of those touted as the salvation for the problems afflicting this country. This of course brings me back to my first point. Political nationalists... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 22/03/17)
PRESIDENT PUTIN OF RUSSIA SINGS "BLUEBERRY HILL"
I thought it was most appropriate to publish this link of President Putin singing "Blueberry Hill '' to coincide with our President Sirisena's visit to Russia, anytime now. President Putin sings it effortlessly. Very beautiful. https://youtu.be/IV4IjHz2yIo Full video of Vladimir Putin playing the piano and singing "Blueberry Hill". The Russian prime minister is used to taking to the stage, but this time it was not for one of his speeches. Vladimir Putin made his audience sit up and take note, as he sang at a charity fundraiser.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/17)
Mangala & MR cross swords over latter’s statement
Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera crossed swords with former President Mahinda Rajapaksa over his recent statement. The latter called for politicians in Sri Lanka Freedom Party and United National Party in government to protect our country from dangerous amendments to the Constitution. Samaraweera disagrees. Ex-President's statement titled, 'Constitutional and Legal Reforms to Destroy the Nation' cautions these proposed amendments as, "firstly, punishing the armed forces for winning the war, secondly devolving more and more power to the provinces until the Central Government ceases to be relevant, thirdly, destroying the ability of the Sri Lankan State... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/17)
Western encouragement of terrorism
Another mark of increasing age, though I suppose I should be pleased at this one, was a request to deliver a memorial lecture. The topic given to me was "The March of Folly", which led me to look up the origin of the phrase. I knew it was the title of a book by the popular American historian Barbara Tuchman, but I had thought this was the one she wrote about the beginnings of the First World War, chronicling the headlong rush into a war that could have been avoided, and which destroyed the world... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/17)
Huge tax relief may hurt palm arrack manufacturers: SLFP YF
If the distillery owned by Arjun Aloysius is given a huge tax concession it would have serious repercussions on palm arrack manufactured in the Northern Province, the Sri Lanka Freedom Party Youth Front (SLFPYF) said today. SLFP Youth Front President Shantha Bandara said the Excise Department and the Finance Ministry had permitted the construction of the distillery. He said the Government had already increased excise duty on locally manufactured palm arrack and coconut toddy while the Finance Ministry had also given tax concessions to local distilleries. Mr. Bandara said on the one side... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/17)
OISL report: Mangala accepted it sans Govt. consent: JO
Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera has accepted the report on the OHCHR investigation on Sri Lanka and had co-sponsored the resolution on Sri Lanka without the consent of the President and the Cabinet, the joint opposition told the UN Human Right Council (UNHRC). JO member Sarath Weerasekara who spoke to Daily Mirror from Geneva said he told the UNHCR that Sri Lanka was involved in a non international armed conflict between the government and the LTTE and as such the armed forces could not be accused of violating the International Human Rights Law... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/17)
GL wants President to strike off sixth clause of resolution
Professor G.L.Peiris stated that President Maithripala should be able to cross off the sixth operative clause in the Geneva resolution, without acting like a spineless individual. He further added that the commissioner of the Human rights council in Sri Lanka will be presenting a report on the current situation to the council tomorrow (22), and a final decision will be made by the council on Friday ( 24), during a press conference held at the Joint Opposition Party’s economic research center. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesighe has stated that no measures have been taken for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/17)
ජිනීවා යෝජනාවේ විදෙස් විනිසුරුවන් ගැන ඡේදය ඉවත් කර ගැනීමට තාමත් කල් ඇති - ජී. එල්. පීරිස්‌
ශ්රී ලංකා රජයට පිටකොන්දක්‌ සහ අවංකභාවයක්‌ තිබේ නම් ජිනීවා යෝජනාවේ විදේශ විනිසුරුවන් පිළිබඳව සඳහන් වන 6 වැනි ඡේදය ඉවත් කරගැනීමට තවමත් අවස්ථාව ඇතැයි හිටපු විදේශ ඇමැති ශ්රී ලංකා පොදු ජන පෙරමුණේ සභාපති මහාචාර්ය ජී. එල්. පීරිස්‌ මහතා සඳහන් කළේය. දෙවන වරටත් ඉදිරිපත් කෙරෙන අලුත් යෝජනාවට කිසිසේත් සම අනුග්‍රයක්‌ නොදක්‌වන ලෙසත්, එම යෝජනාව සංශෝධනය කරගැනීමට මෙම දින දෙක තුළ කඩිනම් වැඩ පිළිවෙළක්‌ දියත් කරන ලෙසත් හෙතෙම ජනාධිපතිවරයාගෙන් ඉල්ලා සිටියේය. මානව හිමිකම් කොමසාරිස්‌වරයා ශ්රී ලංකාව පිළිබඳ දෙවැනි යෝජනාව මේ සතියේ ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමට නියමිතව ඇති බවත් එම යෝජනාව ලබන සිකුරාදාට පෙර සංශෝධනය කර ගැනීමට තවමත් ප්‍රමාද නැති බවත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/17)
Ahmadiyya delegation meets Governor of Sabaragamuwa Province.
A four member delegation from the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Sri Lanka (AMJSL) met the Governor of of Sabaragamuwa Province recently, The delegation visited Governor's Office at Ratnapura and met Honorable Marshal Perera, Governor of the Sabaragamuwa Province. He warmly welcomed the delegation. While accepting the copy of Holy Qur'an Sinhala Translation, he remarked: I appreciate this noble task. We will extend our full support if you are all put a book stall with copies of Holy Qur’an and the books of the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) A religious harmony indeed! The Governor expressed his... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/17)
සරත් වීරසේකරට ජේනීවා පන්සලෙන් කැපිල්ලක්
ජෙනීවාවල ඇති බෞද්ධ පන්සල සිංහලයන්ටත් බෞධ්ධයන්ටත් ද්‍රෝහිවී ඇත .එජාපයටත් යහපාලනයටත් කත අදින දායකයන්ගේ මුදලට බයවුණා. එහි චීවර ධාරීන් භික්ෂුවගේ කාර්ය භාරය හා උරුමය අමතක කර දේවදත්ත නිකායට එක්වී ඇති බව දන ගන්නට ඇත .සරත් ජෙනීවා වල කතා කිරීමට නම් එහි පිළිගත් ආයතනයකක් මගින් ලියා පදිංචි විය යුතුව ඇත . මේ පන්සලේ බලවත්තු සරත්ට ඒ සඳහා ඉඩ දී නැත . යහපාලනය කල්තියා ඔවුන් බිලී බාගෙන ඇත. එකාබධ්ධයෝ මේ ගැන කලින් සංවිධානය වුයේ නැද්ද .අවශ්ය කටයුතු කලේ නැද්ද .නොකළේ සරත් ගැන ඉරිසියාවෙන්ද?. 19 ව්‍යවස්ථාවට එරෙහිවූ එකම දේශප්‍රේමියා සරත් වුකොට අනික් එකාබධ්ධයෝ 19 ට පක්ෂවූ කොට දෙගොල්ලගෙ තරම තේරුම්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/17)
Sri Lanka shipping industry mystified over unopened Hambantota port proposals News
My colleague Rohan Abeywickrama made above statement during his address in the Shippers Forum I wrote about attitude of SLPA which always ran by people who had vested interest have failed to mobilze local companies to resurrect the Hambantota Port and make it a profitable venture Quote හම්බන්තොට වරාය චීනයට පැවරීමේදී වරාය අධිකාරිය නොසලකා හැරලා News Item …….Opinion not to be ignored SLPA has been ignored when Hambantota was entrusted (to Chinese)…………. No wonder………. Sri Lanka Ports Authority have always been of Non Progressive thinking .In the past Serendib Flower Mill, Mahaweli Cement... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/17)
Infections of the Mind – Lies that work
It is commonly assumed that a factual statement or a proposition of some importance is deemed true or authentic only if there is proof of its validity. In other words, a proposition – if acceptable – must rest on sound evidence. In the world of politics this wisdom is rarely seen. To be more focused, let us see how a ‘political truth’ spreads. It is ‘propagated’ as a ‘meme’ – term first used by Richard Dawkins. A meme is an unconscious conditioning of the mind through the infective spread of a captivating idea. The truth is eclipsed... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/17)
Our Patriotic Leader -කොන්දක් නැති මිනිසුන් අතර දෙවියෙක්
"Honour and Duty Bound With compassion and Righteousness" We the Sinhalese are the honoured and privileged custodians of our sacred Buddhist cultural Heritage and traditional homeland Sinhale(Sri Lanka-Eelam-The land of the Sinhalese). We are therefore truly blessed. Enshrined in our hearts and minds is the glorious and sacred legacy bestowed upon us by the greatest ruler of mankind, Emperor Asoka(304BC-232BC), a royal follower of Gautama Buddha, mankind's greatest. Buddhism addresses all the just needs of human beings. Buddhism encompasses compassion, inner peace, righteousness, fearlessness and wisdom. BUDDHIST SINHALE WILL NEVER BE A SECULAR STATE... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 21/03/17)
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and the Buddhist Philosophy
Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) is a modified form of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) that was developed in late 1970s by Marsha M. Linehan a psychology researcher at the University of Washington (Linehan, 1993). DBT is an empirically supported treatment for suicidal individuals (Linehan et al., 2015). It can be adapted to treat borderline personality disorder patients with comorbid substance-abuse disorder (Koerner & Linehan, 2000) and depressed elderly clients with personality disorders (Lynch et al., 2003). DBT addresses deficits in emotion regulation, distress tolerance and interpersonal relationship. The patients with borderline personality disorder have faulty schemas and splitting in the patient’s relations to others. They have... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/03/17)
මංගලගේ අවමංගල යුද්ධාපරාධ කතා
මංගල යුද්ධාපරාධ ගැන කතා කරලා. ඔහු කරුණු දෙකක් කියනවා. පළමුවෙන් ඔහු පිළිගන්නචා මෙරට ව්‍යවස්ථාවට අනුව දෙමුහුන් අධිකරණ පිහිටුවන්න බැහැ කියලා. ඒත් ඔහු ව්‍යවස්ථාව සංශෝධනය කිරීම කියන එක අත්හැරලා නැහැ. සුමන්තිරන් කියන්නෙ දෙමුහුන් අධිකරණ පිහිටුවන්න ඕන ම කියලා. ආණ්ඩුව ජෙනීවාහි කල් ඉල්ලගත්තෙ කලින් යෝජනාව අනුව දෙමුහුන් අධිකරණ පිහිටුවන්නයි. ආණ්ඩුව නව ව්‍යවස්ථාවක් ගෙනැල්ල අවශ්ය විධියට ජනතාවගේ පරමාධිපත්‍යය නැතිකරලා දෙමුහුන් අධිකරණ පිහිටුවන්න වෑයමක් කරාවි. බටහිරයන් මේ ආණ්ඩුව පිහිටෙවුවෙ ම ඊනියා යුද්ධාපරාධ සම්බන්ධයෙන් රාජපක්‍ෂලාට හා රණවිරුවන්ට දඬුවම් කරලා දෙමළ ජාතිවාදයට තව තවත් බලය බෙදලා සහසන්ධීය රාජ්‍යයක් ඇති කරන්න. නැතුව තරුණ තරුණියන්ට රස්සා දෙන්න නො වෙයි. දෙන්න රස්සාවල් නැහැ. ආණ්ඩුව නව... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/03/17)
TAKING SIDES: THE REAL CHOICES BEFORE SRI LANKA
Hafeel Farisz confuses what I have said about Gotabaya and Gunaratnam, both of whom are the most interesting figures I find in the Sri Lankan public arena today, because they come from two different streams of struggle of our conflicted contemporary history—two different civil wars. Farisz tries to impose on me a choice between Gotabaya and Gunaratnam. The choice is between the Ranil-driven status quo and President Sirisena heading a recomposed coalition Putin has blood on his hands because he saved his country from Chechen terrorism This country... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/03/17)
The Gotabhaya Project: a strong, modern nation
March 19, 2017, 12:00 pm US-based Hafeel Farisz has written a double-barreled critique of Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and me, though as he says, I am the primary target because of the intellectual dimension or pretensions that I bring to bear. It is quite tempting for me to respond at the level of theory, but that would be a diversion. That is not what this entire matter is about. Farisz’ critique takes place in a certain context. One aspect of that context is my formula that Gotabhaya Rajapaksa should be the Presidential candidate and Mahinda... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/03/17)
Geneva bungling
March 20, 2017, 8:01 pm A determined effort is being made in some quarters to dupe the public into believing that the 2015 UNHRC Resolution on Sri Lanka, co-sponsored by the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe regime, does not call for a hybrid war crimes tribunal. This claim, based on some perverted logic, does not stand up to scrutiny. The aforesaid UNHRC resolution welcomes the GoSL ‘proposal to establish a judicial mechanism with a special counsel to investigate allegations of violations and abuses of human rights and violations of international humanitarian law ….’ It hastens to add that it ‘affirms... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/03/17)
Learning from Western Australia – a response
March 20, 2017, 8:03 pm Perhaps symptomatic of the extent to which the Yahapalanaya regime has failed to fulfil its promises is that its supporters among the intelligentsia are now distancing themselves from it. The latest of them appears to be Prof. Laksiri Fernando ("Western Australian Elections and Possible Lessons for Sri Lanka", 17 March 2017). One of the principal reasons why intellectuals such as Fernando, who were associated with the international non-governmental organisation (INGO) sector, threw themselves so heartily into the Yahapalana camp was that they had imbibed so much in the INGO discourse that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/03/17)
Will Free Trade (FTAs) Lead to a ‘Powerful’ Sri Lanka? THE IMF IN SRI LANKA – Part IV
March 19, 2017, 12:00 pm Continued from Will Free Trade (FTAs) Lead to a ‘Powerful’ Sri Lanka? THE IMF IN SRI LANKA – Part III http://www.lankaweb.com/news/items/2017/03/17/will-free-trade-ftas-lead-to-a-powerful-sri-lanka-the-imf-in-sri-lanka-part-iii/ Caution by an Industrial Association. The Ceylon National Chamber of Industries has commented adversely on a recent government disclosure in relation to the proposed China-Sri Lanka FTA about the reduction of the Sri Lankan negative list to 10%, from an original 40% of total tariff lines, and later reduced to 30%; and the phasing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/03/17)
රනිල් කියන බටහිරයා ළඟ මෛත්‍රි අද නිවටයකු වෙලා..
මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ යනු ජාතික නායකයෙක්. එතුමා කිසිම පක්ෂයකට අයිති නැහැ. මේ රටේ බෞද්ධ, ඉස්ලාම්, ක්‍රිස්තියානි, හින්දු යනාදී සියලුම ආගම් අදහන මිනිසුන්ගේ ජාතික නායකයා එතුමායි. එතුමා තරම් සියලු ආගමිකයන්ගේ පිළිගැනීමට එක සේ ලක්වූ වෙනත් කිසිදු නායකයකු මේ දිවයිනේ නැහැ. දේශප්‍රේමී භික්ෂු පෙරමුණේ ලේකම් සහ ජාතික හිමිකම් සංවිධානයේ සභාපති බෙංගමුවේ නාලක හිමියන් මේ අදහස් ප්‍රකාශ කෙළේ පසුගියදා බෙලිඅත්ත සමුපකාර උත්සව ශාලාවේ පැවැති සම්මන්ත්‍රණයකදීය. නව ව්‍යවස්ථාව, ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ආර්ථිකය, එක්ටා ගිවිසුම හා රටේ අනාගතය යන මාතෘකාව යටතේ ජාතික හිමිකම් සංවිධානය හා යුරෝපීය ශ්රී ලාංකික සංසදය එක්ව මේ සම්මන්ත්‍රණය සංවිධානය කර තිබිණි. තවදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ උන්වහන්සේ, වසර 30ක් තිස්සේ අපේ රටේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/03/17)
ASSET SALES AND CROWD FUNDING
During my regular walk a bird flying over Diyawanna lake whispered to me that ,cabinet intends to decide the fate of Hambantota Project. Instead of giving a whopping 80 % of the ownership of the port to Chinese ,government ( under Yahaplana Pressure) has decided to increase our stake to 40% ,where as 20 % will be owned by SLPA and balance 20% to treasury .This 20% will be divested to local investors in time to come with or without investment ,but at a premium . All the critics of selling family jewels can now propose... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/03/17)
71 කැරැල්ල හා වසන්තා ද සිල්වා කනකරත්න
අප්‍රේල් මහ නඩුවේ 10 වන සැකකරු වූ වසන්ත කනකරත්න අද ජීවතුන් අතර නැත. අපට ලැබුණු තොරතුරු අනුව 1971 කැරැල්ලෙන් දින කිහිපයකට පසුව ඔහුව අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන ඇත. අත්අඩංගුවට පත්වීමෙන් පසුව වසන්ත කනකරත්න රහස් පොලිස් නිලධාරින් සමඟ යාපනය බන්ධනාගාරයටද, හැමන්හිල් බන්ධනාගාරයටද ගොස් තිබේ. (රහස් පොලිසියේ විශේෂ විමර්‍ෂණ ඒකකයේ නිලධාරියෙකු වූ ජෙගනාදන් මහතා මෙසේ කරුණු දක්වයි : වසන්ත කනකරත්න අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීමෙන් පසු අප ඔහුගෙන් ප්‍රශ්න කළා. ඔහු අපට යාපනයේ ප්‍රහාරයට ගිය පිරිස ගැන කිව්වා. මේ වන විට යාපනේ පොලිසියට හා බන්ධනාගාරයට පහර දුන් පිරිස රඳවලා හිටියේ හැමන්හිල් බන්ධනාගාරයේ. ඔවුන් පොලිසියට දී තිබුනේ ව්‍යාජ නම් ගම්. මේ නිසා අපිට ඉදිරි පරීක්ෂණ කටයුතු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 20/03/17)
Visiting the Mollipotana Monk the second time.
When I visited the Mollipotana monk the first time in January 2014 the temple was desolate. It was in the morning at around ten. The Bo Tree, the small place of worship was all bare of human beings. The Awasa, the residence of the monks was also desolate and I dared to move in looking at every room; the doors were open. I passed four doors and as I approached the fifth, I heard someone admonishing someone. I stopped in my tracks and listened and someone was telling someone how to take care of one’s parents. It... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
Unmarked police cars to watch traffic violations …….News item
Action proposed by police as per above news item appeared on Sunday Paper is a good move by the police . It is better to place few cars with dummy camera and one or two with real cameras along the busy routes like the ones shown above ( in UK) so that drivers feel creepy when they drive . Three wheeler drivers .motor cyclists and private bus drivers will learn to drive correctly when they know that they are being watched. All the policemen standing along the roads can discharge their routine duties of catching... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
Listen to the Girls Crying for Justice
Mr. Narendra Modi, the honourable Prime Minister of India , made a speech during an election meeting in Jaunpur on the 3rd of this March. The speech was all about a minister of Uttar Pradesh, Gayatri Prajapati who is allegedly involved in a rape case. According to the media details, a look-out notice has been issued against this culprit, his passport has been confiscated and the Police are searching for him but the Samajwadi Party and the Congress are doing all their best to save him from the grip of law. Mr. Modi very bluntly, openly and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
අද හැමතැනම ආණ්ඩුවට කුණුහරුපෙන් බනින එක වස්දොස් යන්න හොදයි…- අගමැති
ගාල්ල නෙළුව ප‍්‍රදේශයේ පැවති රැස්වීමක් අමතමින් ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියේය. කුණුහරුපයෙන් බනින එක වස් දොස් යන්න හොද දෙයක් බවද ඔහු එහිදී පැවසීය. https://youtu.be/qCJ6mxLkrRg... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
අලූත් විගණන පනතින් විගණකාධිපතිගේ බලතල විශාල ලෙස කපලා..කෝප් කමිටුවට වාර්තා දෙන්නත් බෑ..
සංශෝධිත විගණන පනත මගින් විගණකාධිපති ආණ්ඩුවේ වෛරක්කාරයකු ලෙස සලකා කටයුතු කර ඇති බව පෙනෙන්නට තිබෙන නිසා තමා සංශෝධිත විගණන පනතට නිරීක්ෂණ ඉදිරිපත් කිරීමෙන් වැළකී සිටි බව විගණකාධිපති ගාමිණී විජේසිංහ පැවසුවේය. තමාගේ නිරීක්ෂණ සඳහා එවා ඇති සංශෝධිත විගණන පනතේ අවසාන කෙටුම්පත පිළිබඳ තමා කිසිදු මතයක් ඉදිරිපත් නොකරන බව වාචිකව දැනුම් දුන්නේ යැයි ඔහු කීවේය. මුලින් කෙටුම්පත් කළ විගණන පනතට දීර්ඝ කාලයක් තිස්සේ විටින් විට සංශෝධන එක් කිරීම නිසා එය කිසිදු බලයක් නොමැති ලියැවිල්ලක් බවට පත්ව ඇතැයි ඔහු කීය. පනතේ සංශෝධන සිදුකර ඇත්තේ තවත් වෙනසක් කිරීමට ඉඩ නොලැබෙන පරිදි යැයි ඔහු සඳහන් කරයි. විගණකාධිපති දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ ප්‍රධානියා වශයෙන් තමා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
Gota, Navi Pillay clash over clash over
Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi pillay told Ceylon Today, that when she met former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa during her visit to Sri Lanka and urged him to maintain investigations to establish where about of missing persons, he had stated, These people do not want to accept that their families are dead She added that Rajapaksa then called her to a meeting with a Sinhalese father, who had lost his son who was serving as a soldier. "The weeping father told us of his anguish in not knowing... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
Western Remedies for Lanka's Ills: Lessons From History
Sri Lanka commemorated a dark day in its long and proud history earlier this month. We recalled the cession of our sovereignty to King George III of Britain following the signature of the Kandyan Convention on 2/3 March 1815 in the historic Audience Hall. On 1 March 2017, in the same Audience Hall, President Sirisena made the much belated pronouncement to remove from the list of traitors in the government Gazette those who valiantly but vainly struggled against the troops of George... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
Dr P .Saravanamuttu at the Military Academy
Any person with an iota of IQ would have hidden his head in utter shame seeing garlanded Dr Pakiyasothi Saravanmuttu being welcomed to the John Kothalawala Military academy as a guest of honour by the Principal of the institution. To recognize Dr PS is simply a case of Sri Lanka military authorities leaping upon the sacred alter either through compulsion by the higher political movers or an act of putting one’s foot in it perpetrated by the military men seeking short term favours from their masters. In either scenario, it is indeed an ugly act which sticks... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
Root Cause of SriLankan Tribulations
This article is in response to a video prepared and circulated by Dr. Mahipal Sing Rathore. The talk can be viewed on YouTube page ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBeT2OcAiyw Although the narrator attempts to focus on some issues, Mahipal has disregarded to discuss the main issues and problems generated by Tamils attempt at every nodal point. Mahipal has forgotten the stumbles during the State Council period and how the Tamil politicians did muddy up the political atmosphere in SriLanka (SL). GG Ponnambalam (GGP) after returning from the UK with a first class degree in natural sciences and a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
Indian interventions in Sri Lanka
INDIA has tried to interfere in the affairs of every neighbour and create instability to prove its supremacy. Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka; all have suffered due to Indian illusions of grandeur. Pakistan, of course is reserved for special treatment, because India never forgave Pakistan for breaking away from “mother India”. As far as Sri Lanka is concerned, the inhabitants of the Indian State of Tamil Nadu identify with the Sri Lankan Tamils who comprise 18 percent of Sri Lanka and are considered a minority. Sri Lanka was... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
Idiots close down the Indian Consular Offices in Jaffna and Hambantota Immediately, lest they become another set of agency houses of Eelam and centers of Indian expansionism
18.3.2017. It was reported that the recently opened Indian Consular Office in Jaffna is providing forged documents to South India Tamils to migrate to northern Sri Lanka. This is a very serious threat to the security of the country that call for the immediate attention of all Sinhala people. T What hey have reported is only what they know. It could be only the tip of the iceberg.I have no doubt that the conspiracy in invading this country is being done in many different and subtle ways.. This is made easier in the present context... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
මංගල අස් නොකරන්නේ ඇයි?
මංගල සමරවීර විදේශ ඇමති. මෛත්‍රිපාල සිරිසේන ජනාධිපති. රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ අගමැති. මේ තුන් දෙනා විදේශ විනිසුරුවන්, දෙමුහුන් විනිසුරුවන්, ගැන කියන්නේ එකක් ම ද?. ඒ සියල්ල ඇත්ත විය හැකි ද? ඒ සඳහා ඉඩකඩක් තිබේ ද? මෛත්‍රිපාල නම් කියන්නේ විදේශ විනිසුරුවන් පත් නොකරන බවයි. රනිල් කියන එකෙහි තේරුම විදේශ විනිසුරුවන් පත් කිරීමට ඉඩක් නැති බවයි. එනම් ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාවට අනුව විදේශ විනිසුරුවන් පත් කිරීමට නොහැකි බවයි. ඒ දෙදෙනා ම තම ප්‍රකාශ කරන්නේ ලංකාවේ දී. මංගල ජෙනීවා ගොස් කියන්නේ ගිය වසරේ ආණ්ඩුව අනුග්‍රහය දැක් වූ ඊනියා ජාත්‍යන්තර යෝජනාව ක්රියාත්මක කිරීමට අවුරුදු දෙකක් කල් දිය යුතු බවයි. වෙනත් වචනවලින් කිවුවොත් විදෙස් විනිසුරුවන්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
Parliament has 94 MPs without O/Ls
Wednesday, March 15, 2017 Ninety four MPs have not passed their GEC (O/L) examination while there are only 25 graduates among the 225 legislators in the present Sri Lankan Parliament, former Chancellor of the University of Peradeniya, Prof. M O A de Zoysa said yesterday. He observed that MPs who have been elected to make laws on behalf of the people must conduct themselves with dignity. Addressing a media briefing held in Colombo yesterday, he said the conduct of the Joint Opposition MPs since the day the Yahapalana government came to power amounted to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
‘රනිල් සහ සමාගම’ සිවු මසකදී රුපියල් කෝටි 13,000කට වග කියලා..
මාස 4ක් වැනි කෙටි කාලයක් තුළ යහපාලන ආණ්ඩුව රුපියල් කෝටි 13000ක පාඩුවක් රටට සිදුකර ඇති බව TOP10 යටතේ හෙළිදරව් කිරීමට හැකි වූ බව ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය අවධාරණය කරයි. TOP10 අවසාන හෙළිදරව්ව පිළිබඳ පැහැදිලි කිරීම සදහා ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය බොරැල්ල ඇන්. එම්. පෙරේරා කේන්ද්‍රයේ කැඳවා තිබූ මාධ්‍ය හමුවට එක් වෙමින් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්‍රි මහින්දානන්ද අලුත්ගමගේ මහතා මේ බව පැවැසීය. නොරොච්චෝලෙ ගල් අඟුරු විදුලි බලාගාරයට ගල් අඟුරු සැපයීමේදී රජයට රුපියල් මිලියන 5000ක පාඩුවක් අග්‍රාමාත්‍ය රනිල් වික්රමසිංහ, අමාත්‍ය මලික් සමරවික්‍රම, ආර්. පාස්කරලිංගම් සහ චරිත රත්වත්තේ යන අය සිදුකර ඇති බව හෙතෙම සඳහන් කළේය. ඒකාබද්ධ විපක්ෂය ඉදිරිපත් කළ පැමිණිලි 10න් අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයාට, මුදල්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
SL - Indian Interventions..........Pakistan Observer
Please see the annexed article written by a Pakistani observer on the subject of Indian interventions in Sri Lanka. In the penultimate para highlighted in blue, he has stated that the Indian Consulate Office in Jaffna has been providing forged papers for South Indian Tamils from Tamilnadu to travel to Sri Lanka's north and settle in the region with bogus identities. This is a serious charge and must be fully investigated immediately. India has also proposed building a bridge linking Tamilnadu with Sri Lanka's northern region with Sri Lanka bearing part of the cost, and has also... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
යුද්ධාපරාධ, අධිකරණය හා ව්‍යවස්ථාව
රනිල් හා මංගල කරන්න යන්නෙ මොකක් ද කියන එක දැන් හොඳට ම පැහැදිලියි. ඒ වෙන මොකක්වත් නොවෙයි එක්කෝ නව ව්‍යවස්ථාවක් සම්මත කිරීම, නැත්නම් ව්‍යවස්ථාව තමන්ට අවශ්ය විධියට සංශෝධනය කිරීම. ඒක නවත්වන්න තියෙන එක ක්‍රමයක් තමයි රනිල් අගමැති කමෙන් ඉවත් කිරීම හා මංගල විදේශ ඇමති ධුරයෙන් පහ කිරීම. මේ දෙන්නට ම වුවමනා රට බෙදීම ඒ කියන්නෙ දෙමළ ජාතිවාදීන්ට හා ඔවුන් පිටුපස සිටින එංගලන්තයට හා ඉන්දියාවට අවශ්ය විධියට පළාත් සභාවලට බලය බෙදීම. ඒකීය රාජ්‍යයක බලය බෙදීම කියන්නෙ ම ප්‍රෝඩාවක්. දැනටත් මේ රට සරල සංධීය රාජ්‍යයක් ඇති රටක්. රනිල් මංගල දුස්සංයෝගයට අවශ්ය තව තවත් බලය බෙදා සහසන්ධීය රාජ්‍යයක් ඇති... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
Staying in power and staying power
It has become a tradition for Ranil Wickremesinghe to visit various signature tents at the Royal-Thomian and respond to questions put to him. It’s all light-hearted. The questions are often tongue-in-cheek stuff and the responses are calculated to generate some laughter, one feels. It was no different this year. Two questions stood out because they were as serious as they were light. The responses, similarly, drew laughter and also provided food for thought. One question was about prosecuting wrongdoers (of the previous regime). The Prime Minister was essentially asked when they would be brought to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
Recognizing the yahapalanaya party
March 18, 2017, 5:53 pm Arjuna Mahendran, the former Governor of the Central Bank, is reported to have transferred out some 500 members of his staff. The Government is all set to demarcate specific areas for protests. The Government got some egg on its face with the appointment and removal of judges. There’s the bond issue scandal. The big boys in the Government ranted and raved about Port City and the Hambantota Port when in power, and all but showed the middle finger to China while campaigning to oust Mahinda Rajapaksa. Today the very same worthies... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
We will take our complaints to Geneva - Rohitha
- 2017.03.18 https://youtu.be/ip-u8x4px4E... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
Ruffling feathers
March 18, 2017, 8:13 pm Whether public interest activist Nagananda Kodituwakku will succeed or not in his attempt to end the long-running practice of enriching legislators by the issue of duty free permits must await the determination of a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Priyasath Dep. However that be, Kodituwakku’s efforts certainly enjoy the support of public opinion which successive governments have totally ignored in continuing to bestow this benefit on the political class. The sunshine has been lavishly spread around to senior public officials, state-employed professionals, university dons and some... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
APFEJ urges New Delhi to be reverent to BBC
Dhaka: Asia-Pacific Forum Environmental Journalists (APFEJ), in the backdrop of Indian government’s recent decision to ban a British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) scribe on filming in its tiger reserves, has urged New Delhi to be reverent to the global media outlets respecting the democratic spirit of the country. The environment media forum also appealed to the Indian authority not to think of evoking the British scribe’s visa at any cost. It may be noted that the controversy erupted after the BBC’s south Asia correspondent Justin Rowlatt prepared a news feature on Assam’s well-known Kaziranga National Park where... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
JESUS IN KASHMIR
https://youtu.be/yiy5uY3Iw2s https://youtu.be/T340DUSq9SY https://youtu.be/8cy8M4VzU-Y https://youtu.be/D9w-xJfSOyc ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
Keheliya wants President to issue clarification on Mangala’s speech
https://youtu.be/ps9_dDgU42E... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
Avant-Garde is a world-renowned company - Mahinda Rajapaksa
https://youtu.be/CrwA8bZ6HF4... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
Even govt admits there is no money to run country - Tilvin
https://youtu.be/ugoKyJvMbxA... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 19/03/17)
නළාවේ අයිතිය හොඳහිතට!
හැඳින්වීම අපේ රටේ තරම් ප්‍රශ්න තියෙන තවත් රටක් මේ ලෝකයේ තියෙනවා කියලා හිතන්න අමාරුයි. මිනිස්සු කාට කාටත් ප්‍රශ්න තියෙන එක ඇත්ත. ඒත් මිනිස්සු ඒ ප්‍රශ්නවලට විසඳුම් හොයාගන්නවා. එහෙම නැතිව කාකොටාගන්නවා කියන්නේ තියෙන ප්‍රශ්න තව තවත් අලුත් කරගන්න එකයි, නැති ප්‍රශ්න ඇති කරගන්න එකයි. අපේ රටේ තියෙන මේ අවුල ගැන අමුතුවෙන් කියන්න ඕන නෑ. මේ ගැන සඳහන් කරන්න පුළුවන් හොඳම උදාහරණය තමයි සයිටම් ප්‍රශ්නය. මේ සයිටම් කතාව අපේ අයට දැන් අප්‍රසන්න වෙලා තියෙන්නේ, තිත්ත වෙලා තියෙන්නේ. උදේටත් සයිටම්, දවල්ටත් සයිටම්, රෑටත් සයිටම්! මේ මංගල්ලේ ඉවරවෙන පාටකුත් නෑ. ඉතින් කාට හරි හිතෙන්න පුළුවන් මේ සයිටම් ප්‍රශ්නයට තියෙන හොඳ ම... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/03/17)
Yahapalana brain-fade in Geneva
Way back when Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government was getting slammed left, right and centre by the ‘international (sic) community’, especially at the UNHRC, his detractors were thrilled. Little did they care that the accusers were tainted in ways that made Sri Lanka look pretty innocent in terms of (alleged) ‘war crimes’. Rajapaksa was accused of being moronic in his foreign policy. Dark stories were spread about impending sanctions. The removal of the GSP Plus facility was thrown in as evidence and a sign of worse things to come. The previous regime resisted all moves to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/03/17)
පේරාදෙනිය වධකාගාරය නොහොත් Tuol Sleng වධකාගාරයේ කළළ අවස්ථාව
වධකාගාර ශ්‍රි ලාංකික සමාජයට නවතාවක් නොවේ. හමුදාව විසින් පාලනය කල යටාරෝ කැෆටේ‍රියා වධකාගාරයද කොටින් විසින් පවත්වාගෙන ගිය දේවිපුරම් වධකාගාරයද ශ්‍රි ලාංකිකයන්ට අමතක නොවේ. මේ වධකාගාර වලට වඩා පේරාදෙනිය වධකාගාරය වෙනස් වෙයි. එය පවත්වාගෙන යන ලද්දේ අට සමත් කේඩරයන් නොව විශ්ව විද්‍යාලයට තේරුණු සිසුන් පිරිසක් විසිනි. මොවුන් රැඩිකල් දේශපාලන පක්ෂ වල සොල්දාදුවෝ වෙති. යම් ලෙසකින් මෙම රැඩිකල් දේශපාලන පක්ෂ ලංකාවේ බලය අල්ලා ගත්තේ නම් ඔවුන් ලංකාව පාලනය කරන්නේ මෙවැනි වදකාගාර ආකෘතියක් හරහාය. කෙමරූජ්වරු කාම්පුචියාවේ මෙවැනි වදකාගාර පවත්වාගෙන ගියහ. කාම්පුචියාවේ Tuol Sleng වධකාගාරය එක් උදාහරණයකි. පහත ලිපිය උපුටා ගනු ලැබුවේ රාවය පුවත්පතිනි. කාම්පුචියාවේ Tuol Sleng වධකාගාරයේ කළළ අවස්ථාවක්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/03/17)
Will Free Trade (FTAs) Lead to a ‘Powerful’ Sri Lanka? THE IMF IN SRI LANKA – Part III
March 17, 2017, 9:42 pm Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) – Low Export Viability under FTAs. In Sri Lanka, approximately 99.8% of domestic sales are the product of small business concerns, and 83% of these are from medium-sized enterprises, both together accounting for more than 50% of GDP, and also 45% of total employment. Research done by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) has also shown that SMEs are significant in the employment sphere as employers of women and youth, a disadvantaged minority in our country. A large number of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/03/17)
රට බෙදීමට විලිලෑම සහ ඊළම සීසර් කිරීම
සිංහලද්වීපය නොහොත් උඩරට ගිවිසුමේ සඳහන් සිංහලේ ට එල්ලවූ විදේශ ආක්‍රමණ ඉතිහාසය පුරාම නිමක් නැතිය. වරෙක මේ ආක්‍රමණිකයන් රට අල්වා ගත්හ.තමන්ට රිසි පරිදි පාලන පහසුවට බෙදා වෙන්කර ගත්හ. යුරෝපීයන් පෙරදිගට පැමිණීමත් සමගම මේ ආක්‍රමණය නව ස්වරූපයකින් බලවත් විය. මේ නිසා සිංහල රජවරුන්ටද ඇතැම් විට සිදු වූ යේ උඩරට පහතරට වශයෙන් බෙදාගෙන පාලනය කර ගැනීමටයි. නමුත් මේ සෑම අවස්ථාවකදීම බෙදුම්වාදය පරාජයට පත් කරමින් නැවතත් රට එක් සේසත් විය. එහි අදහස නම් එක් රජෙකු යටතේ එක් ධජයක් යටතේ රට පාලනයට පසුබිම් සැකසීමයි.මෙම සිංහලද්වීපය ගිවිසුමකින් බ්රිතාන්ය රජුට පවරා දීමේ ඓතිහාසික වැරැද්ද සිංහල රදළ වරුන් නොකළා නම් අදත් එක සේසත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/03/17)
POW s with PTSD
There are a number of POWs of the Eelam War who still carry the psychological scars. Most of them suffer from DDD Syndrome which was delineated by Farber Harlow in 1956. The DDD Syndrome consists of debility, dependency and dread. POWs often show depression, apathy suspicion and fear. Some have large memory gaps and still feel guilty about their POW days. Lance Corporal U has served 17 years in the Sri Lanka Army. During the Balawegaya operation, he sustained a gun short injury to his leg and became immobile. When the enemy advanced, he could... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/03/17)
Anybody can cook but unless one apply some scientific knowledge, no energy can be saved and cannot stop any cooking aroma depositing while cooking
Most people think that cooking is such a difficult task. There are plenty of reasons to think why cooking is difficult and one of the main reasons is the cooking smell getting on them while cooking. No wonder our Sri Lankan working ladies always employ someone to cook and they are the “kussi ammas” who work tremendously hard to prepare food. My mum was a school headmistress and she got her promotion when I was around five years old. Who would say these kinds of professional ladies would have enough time to spend cooking during... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/03/17)
අපේ තරුණයෝ අමු අමුවේ ඝාතනය කර ළිං වලට වස මුසු කර බොන්න දීපු ,වැව් අමුණු කුඹුරු විනාශ කල සුද්දා අද අපිට , මානව හිමිකම් ගැන උගන්නන්න එනවා … 1818 අපිට මතකයි … එක්සත් ජාතීන්ගේ චෝදනා වලට පිළිතුරු මෙන්න
මානව හිමිකම් කඩ කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් අපට අද උපදෙස් ලබා දෙන්නේ , එදා සිංහල තරුණයන් අමු අමුවේ ඝාතනය කල ,බොන වතුරට පවා ,වස මුසු කල කල පිරිස් බව ,රියර් අද්මිරාල් (විශ්‍රාමික) ආචාර්ය සරත් විරසේකර මහතා පවසනවා . එක්සත් ජාතින් විසින් ශ්‍රි ලංකා යුධ හමුදාවට එල්ල කරන චෝදනා සම්බන්ධයෙන් අදහස් දක්වමින් ඔහු මේ බව කියා සිටියා. එහිදි වැඩිදුරටත් අදහස් දැක්වූ සරත් වීරසේකර මහතා , 1818 කැරැල්ලෙන් පස්සේ, දේශද්‍රෝහින් හැටියට බ්‍රිතාන්‍යන් විසින් ,හංවඩු ගැසූ අපේ වීරයන් 60 ක් පමණ , දේශප්‍රේමින් හැටියට ජනාධිපතිතුමා විසින් නම් කළා.ඔවුන් දේශද්‍රෝහින් හැටියට නම් කලේ ඉංග්‍රිසි ජාතිකයින්.ඔවුන් වීරයන් හැටියට අපේ හදවත් තුළ දිගටම හිටියා. 1818 න්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 18/03/17)
A Factual Appraisal of the OISL Report: A Rebuttal to the Allegations Against the Armed Forces
Commissioned by - The Federation of National Organizations Sponsored by – The Global Sri Lanka Forum Editors : Kalyananda Thiranagama Raja Gunaratne
Federation of National Organizations Colombo, Sri Lanka 27th January 2017 Dear Mr. Weerasekera, Mandate We wish to draw your attention to the following matters which form the background to our present request. On 9th February 2016, UN Human Rights High Commissioner Zeid Al Hussein ended his official visit to Sri Lanka with a statement where he said inter alia: ―Let me be as plain as I can: the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/17)
Governance by Blackmail
The most potent governance tool of Sri Lanka is blackmail. Presidents use it extensively to buy compliance from friend and foe alike. President Sirisena sits on at least nine (9) investigation reports. The president doesn’t seem to care about punishing the corrupt. He is not at all interested in the massive drain of state coffers due to the Central Bank bond fraud of 2015. His only intention is to use these reports to blackmail his friends and foes if they turn against him. His aim is the 2019 and 2020 elections. If UNP leader Ranil contests... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/17)
Hambantota Port-Why it should not be sold or leased to foreign ownership
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Paddy Withana removed?
I am not surprised .Government does not like efficient people ? See my article published some time back THERE ARE ONLY TWO ACTIVITIES PERFORMING WELL IN THIS COUNTRY GENERATING MUCH NEEDE FOREIGN CURRENCY One is tourism Other one is labour migration ?? Both doing well because they are run by more responsible people? All of you may have read news items and heard speeches made by the Prime Minister about tourism which can be developed if we have Marina s right-around the island .Government has given priority to developing Marinas in Colombo Port City and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 17/03/17)
Anarchists ahoy!
March 16, 2017, 9:21 pm The Sirisena-Wickremesinghe administration calls itself ‘National Unity Government’. But, the much-touted unity is conspicuous by its absence. The yahapalana leaders don’t see eye to eye on virtually anything save the postponement of elections, holding the Joint Opposition at bay and feathering their nests. UNP and SLFP members of the Cabinet are always at daggers drawn. Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake has declared that there has been no bond scam. In an interview with CNBC, he has said, "I give 100 percent guarantee there won’t be any area of dispute there. It is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/17)
Will FTAs help build a ‘powerful’ Sri Lanka? THE IMF IN SRI LANKA – Part III
March 13, 2017, 8:21 pm The economic philosophy propagated by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to any and all developing countries which are unfortunate enough to require its financial bail-outs due to governments living on ‘maxing the credit card’, and ending up in Balance of Payments (BOP) crises, or near ‘bankruptcy’ in plain language, is to comply with its wide-ranging neo-liberal ‘conditionality’. These assurances principally include, inter alia, liberalization of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/17)
Mahendran violated all norms of CB transfers – Asst. Governor - Bond Scam Probe
March 16, 2017, 10:46 pm Assistant Governor and Secretary to the Monetary Board of the Central Bank H. A. Karunaratne, yesterday testifying before the Special Presidential Commission of Inquiry probing the alleged Bond Scam, said the transfers of key officers within the institution after Arjuna Mahendran assumed duties as its Governor on February 23, 2015 had shaken the very foundations of the Central Bank. He said during that period 14 heads of department had been transferred along with 20 other key persons and the total number of transfers effected during that period... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/17)
‘Country suffers Rs. 7 bn loss due to MPs’duty free vehicle racket
March 16, 2017, 10:38 pm The Supreme Court was yesterday informed that members of Parliament representing all political parties had caused losses amounting to over Rs 7 bn by selling duty free vehicle permits without proper legal sanction. Among them are members of the yahapalana administration, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) as well as the Joint Opposition loyal to former President Mahinda Rajapaksa. The bench comprised newly appointed Chief Justice Priyasath Dep, Justice Sisira de Abrew and Justice Priyantha Jayawardena. Attorney-at-law and public litigation activist Nagananda Kodituwakku informed the court that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/17)
Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues
Human Rights Council 34th Regular Session Report of the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues on her Mission to Sri Lanka, from 10-20 October 2016 Presented under the Agenda Item 3, Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues Statement by H.E. Mr. Ravinatha P. Aryasinha Ambassador / Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka (Geneva, 15 March 2017) Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues 15 March 2017 Mr. President, Thank you for this opportunity to share the views of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/17)
Geneva, India & fisher poaching
The 'Hindu', on the seeming controversial death of an Indian fisherman by shooting on 6 March, in an article published on its issue of Friday under the heading 'TN fishermen hit SL Navy water scooter, claim officials,' said, 'Officers investigating the gunning down of a Tamil Nadu fisherman allegedly by Sri Lankan Navy have claimed that the incident could have been triggered by the Rameswaram fishermen allegedly ramming against the Island Nation Navy's water scooter or inflatable boat...The circumstances under which the boat dashed the water scooter are unclear. It could have possibly been an accident... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/17)
Making a Constitution Violating sovereignty
"A sensible Constitution of a nation should be the reflection of its sovereignty. All the 'Constitutions of the past' did not destroy the sovereignty of Sri Lankan people, although there had been some weaknesses. Contrary to the argument that the Soulbury Constitution was a copy of the British system, it could be taken now as the most ideal when compared to the two main Constitutions introduced subsequently. At the time it was still being planned, there was no cause for alarm for a gap between the Sinhalese and Sri Lankan Tamils. Even after six... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/17)
Advise Mangala to safeguard country's integrity: JO to President
The Joint Opposition today made a request to President Maithripala Sirisena to advise Foreign Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera to safeguard the country’s freedom, integrity and the Constitution while dealing with the Geneva Proposals. Joint Opposition Leader MP Dinesh Gunawardena told a news briefing that it was the government’s responsibility to work on the proposals which were in favour of our country rather than continuing with the ones which were against it. “Several people mocked at us when we have once said the hybrid courts are not feasible in Sri Lanka. After several months the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/17)
Key shows the way
March 15, 2017, 8:01 pm Nothing is, perhaps, more indicative of a country’s backwardness than its political leaders’ desire to cling on to power like limpets even when they are superannuated. Mature democracies throw up enough and more capable leaders and they don’t wait till they are long in the tooth to be put out to grass; they retire prematurely. In New Zealand, Prime Minister John Key, who retired in December last year, is planning to leave Parliament next week. Key has not made known the exact reason for his sudden exit from politics and the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/17)
SRI LANKA APPOINTS FIRST HONORARY CONSUL IN PENNSYLVANIA
Ambassador Prasad Kariyawasam today handed over the Commission of Appointment to David Bruce Sherman as Sri Lanka’s Honorary Consul in the state of Pennsylvania. He is the first Honorary Consul of Sri Lanka in that state. The Ambassador observed that at a time when Sri Lanka is expanding its bilateral partnership with the United States, the long years of experience, professional calibre and commitment of the newly appointed Honorary Consul will serve to strengthen Sri Lanka’s representation in the United States. Honorary Consul Sherman expressed his desire to foster business and cultural contacts... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/17)
TAMILS OPEN YOUR EYES. What has happened to South Sudan will happen to Eelam
Kosovo was illegally created using lies to enable West to establish a NATO base. Today, people living in Kosovo are struggling to survive. Very few countries will deal with them. They have to beg to the very countries that supported their independence. South Sudan independence was also created with the involvement of the same players- foreign missions, UN officials and western NGOs. South Sudan got its independence in 2011 while Kosovo independence came in 2008. The comparisons between Kosovo, South Sudan & Sri Lanka are interesting and requires the Tamil community to realize how isolated... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/17)
Melbourne demonstration against Prime Minster Ranil Wickremasinghe’s Anti-National Agenda
14th March 2017. Melbourne demonstration against Prime Minster Ranil Wickremasinghe’s Anti-National Agenda The ‘Island’ newspaper article of 10 March 2017 entitled “UNP makes light of UPFA question on Tamil Diaspora using internet to spread racism” has reported that Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe stated in parliament that “a group of Joint Opposition (JO) members had joined hands with LTTE cadres to stage a protest against him while he was in Australia when Deakin University conferred an honorary degree on him”... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/17)
An Ancient Island in Dire Peril
Ayubowan, We cannot allow India, any other country or any other force to dictate to us. The country must develop a strategy to destroy the enemies within first, the corrupt, destructive, selfish and sadistic politicians who have become 'pawn brokers' to remain in power by any means. The nation should consider rejecting demagogues as well. Our ancient rich Buddhist cultural heritage, an ancient superior civilisation cannot be, should not be destroyed by hostile forces from within or without. The Sinhalese have portrayed self destructive traits. JVP launched an insurgency to kill the Sinhalese to combat this... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/17)
Video360 with Sarath Weerasekara
තත්පරයක් නොහැර මෙම කතාවට සවන් දෙන්න. https://youtu.be/UJpp2rLszmo... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/17)
Prez urged to examine Geneva process afresh to avert catastrophe
March 14, 2017, 10:41 pm The Federation of National Organizations (FNO) wants the government to commission an ‘official assessment’ on OISL (OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka) in the wake of both President Maithripala Sirisena and Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe ruling out foreign judges in the proposed judicial mechanism in line with Geneva Resolution 30/1. Attorney-at-law Dharshan Weerasekera on behalf of the FNO has produced a comprehensive report titled ‘A factual appraisal of the OISL report: A rebuttal to the allegations against the armed forces’ in the absence of such an official initiative. Weerasekera presented the report... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/17)
In perspective: Gota factor, Gota project, then and now
March 12, 2017, 9:43 pm The impact and landmark nature of the Viyath Maga annual convention is discernible in the coverage in the country’s top business paper which has a wide corporate readership, the Daily FT, owned, I might add, by the Wijewardene family, hardly backers of the JO or the Rajapaksas. (http://www.ft.lk/article/601558/Mahinda-pricks-Govt.-over-plight-of-public-servantshttp://www.ft.lk/article/602544/ViyathMaga–Professionals-for-a-better-future). As for the politics of Viyath Maga, if the choice is between the Rajapaksas– especially an MR+GR slate– and Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was described on TV a few days ago by his Oxford educated cousin Prof Rajiva Wijesinha as "a slimy crook"... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/17)
Smart patriotism: outlining a doctrine for Sri Lanka in the world
[Summary of speech on "Sri Lanka’s International Relations in a Changing World" delivered by DR. DAYAN JAYATILLEKA at the 2nd annual convention of Voice of Professionals--Viyath Maga-- at Golden Rose, Boralesgamuwa, March 4th 2017] As the Daily FT reported (Monday, March 6th 2017), the annual convention of the Voice of Professionals, better known by its Sinhala brand-name Viyath Maga, was an unprecedentedly successful event:"…a packed audience at the Annual Convention of the Viyath Maga… a network of academics, professionals and entrepreneurs, was held on Saturday with the participation of 2,000 members." These 2,000 delegates, almost... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/17)
Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and Dayan Jayatileka
In the crazy field called Sri Lankan politics in 2017, the latest news item is the open letters written by Dr. Jayan Jayatileka promoting Gotabhaya Rajapaksa as the winning candidate for the 2020 presidential election. We must thank Dayan for the service he is rendering, single-handenly, to expose the game played by RailW, CBK and MangalaS, all members of the federal-this war is not winnable crowd, to break Sri Lanka into pieces of warring segments as in South Sudan, East Timor, Iran, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria. Lebanon, Israel and Palestine are old cases of this... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 16/03/17)
Protest against the proposal to dismiss a person appointed and assumed office as a Judge of the High Court of Sri Lanka
His Excellency Maithiripala Srisena, President of Sri Lanka Colombo Your Excellency, Protest against the proposal to dismiss a person appointed and assumed office as a Judge of the High Court of Sri Lanka I am perturbed over your decision to dismiss a respectable gentleman and a leading lawyer of the Batticaloa bar from the office of a Judge of the High Court of Sri Lanka, to which he was appointed recently and had already assumed office. The word dismissal will mean in this case that the person concerned is sent... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/17)
ගමන් වියදම් කප්පාදුවට එරෙහිව මාර්තු සිට මාසික වාර්ථා ලබාදීමෙන් වැළකීමේ වෘත්තීය කි‍්‍රයාමාර්ගයක.
කම්කරු හා වෘත්තීය සමිති සබඳතා අමාත්‍යාංශය යටතේ පවතින මිනිස් බල හා රැකිරක්‍ෂා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවේ සේවයේ නියුතු මානව සම්පත් සංවර්ධන සහ සංවර්ධන නිලධාරීන් සඳහා 2016 වර්ෂයේ අදාළ රාජකාරි ගමන් වියදම් දීමනා කප්පාදු කිරීමට එරෙහිව මාසික ප‍්‍රගති වාර්ථා දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව වෙත යැවීමෙන් වැළකී සිටීමේ වෘත්තීය කි‍්‍රයාමාර්ගයකට අවතීරණය වීමට තීරණය කර ඇත. ඔවුන් මෙම තීරණය ගනු ලැබූයේ පසුගිය 10 වන දින සංගමයේ වාර්ෂික සමූළුවේදී බව දන්වා සිටිමු. ඉහත තනතුරු දරන නිලධාරීන්ට රාජකාරි සඳහා වන ගමන් වියදම් දීමනාව ලෙස රු. 2500/- ක මුදලක් නියමිත අතර එම මුදල මාසිකව හිමිවිය යුතු වුවත්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/17)
With respect for the attention of all Tamil leaders, Greed for power is ruining the Tamil community
The greed for power and high positions among a limited few Tamils have brought ruin to the country in general and to the Tamil people in particular. The sufferings and embarrassments the Tamil people are now subjected to, were not that much in the past, as it is today. The disunity of our leaders has now reached its climax and any further delay in bringing our people together under one banner and agreeing on a common policy, survival as a free nation for the Tamils will become impossible. We have... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/17)
Duminda admits to paying Rs.21 Mn a month for building still unoccupied
Agriculture Minister Duminda Dissanayake has admitted that his Ministry has been paying a monthly rental of Rs.21 million since April 2016 for the new building in Rajagiriya though still unoccupied. “Since April last year, we have been paying a monthly rental of Rs.21 million and have informed the Technical Committee to hand it over to anybody who was in a position to complete the construction work as soon as possible, the minister said in an interview with Daily Mirror. However, when... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/17)
Gota the indispensable son of Lanka Maatha
Gotabhaya Rajapakse affectionately and fondly called by his friends and foes alike as Gota during the 9 year tenure of President Mahinda Rajapakse’s government proved his steel will, unhesitant and firm determination to carry out the right things, absolutely fearless nature of facing any form of adversity or threat, and firm dedication to serve for the betterment of this country. As the Defence Secretary of this country he was solely responsible for adopting new strategies for winning the war and vanquishing the ruthless tiger terrorist outfit which plagued this country for nearly thirty years... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/17)
53 සේනාංකාධිපතියා සිවු පැයක් අසමසම දේශණයක.. මහ පිරිස් නොසෙල්වී අසති.. අත්පොලසන් දෙති..[Video]
පුරා පැය ගණනාවක් පැවති එම දේශණය එහි සිටි පිරිස ඉතා උනන්දුවෙන් අසා සිටියේ විටින් විට දේශණයට අත්පොලසක්ද දෙමිනි. සම්පූර්ණ වීඩියෝව මෙතනින් https://youtu.be/RDqHjYPUme0... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/17)
A reply to Asanga Abeyagoonasekara’s Forcast 2017:Sri Lanka.
Asanga Abeyagoonasekara, a young Sri Lankan intellectual writing to Daily FT of the 24th February,2017 , began his article, Forcast 2017:Sri Lanka, as follows: “It was less than half a million votes that restored democratic order in Sri Lanka and set the nation in the correct direction three years ago. 8 January 2015 saw the dawn of good governance locally and a recalibration of the island’s foreign policy. ” The writer being an employee of the government has closed his eyes to reality and wrote an article to mislead the people comparing the previous government undemocratic and worthless... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/17)
" CITIZENS COMPLAINT "
Vice Chancellor Deakin University Professor Jane Hollander Locked Bag 20001 Geelong Victoria 3220 Australia Dear Professor Hollander, No doubt by now you have been inundated with complaints and petition signatures in regards to your University awarding a doctorate to: Ranil Wickremesinghe (Temporary) Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. It is about this ludicrous award that I also am adding my outrage to the many who have suffered over this event. When I discovered that RW was setting foot on Australian soil, I was outraged beyond... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/17)
THE RETURN OF MAHINDA RAJAPAKSE
Mahinda Rajapakse, President of Sri Lanka, conceded defeat and handed over the government to Ranil Wickremasinghe when he found that he was losing the Presidential election of January 9, 2016. He did so before the final results were announced. Then he took off in a helicopter to go to his house in Medamulana, Hambantota district. His supporters also went. They were there to greet him as he arrived. You tube has the video. They went there the next day as well. From then on, supporters started to flock to Medamulana regularly in buses and coaches. This is... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/17)
THE REIGN OF MAHINDA RAJAPAKSE (3)
KAMALIKA PIERIS (Revised 25.4.17) Sri Lanka developed a strong confident armed force due to the Eelam war. This sector made a notable impact in other security sectors too. In 2006, the Defence Ministry, of which Gotabhaya Rajapakse was Permanent Secretary, set up Rakna Arakshaka Lanka Ltd, (RALL) a fully government owned company consisting of ex-armed forces personnel. RALL provided security services to government installations and institutions such as the Mahaweli project and Petroleum Corporation. The army and police personnel, who were guarding these earlier, were released for duties in the war zone. Rakna Lanka provided security services... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 15/03/17)
Cabraal justifies bond sales during his tenure
Former Central Bank Governor Ajith Nivard Cabraal rejected allegations about irregularities in the sale of bonds during his time, and said the bond sales were carried out at that time with the sole objective of minimising the cost of government borrowings. In a statement, he said the Central Bank had already confirmed on March 2, 2017, that all Treasury bond sales had been done in accordance with the applicable rules, regulations and laws via a transparent procedure. “My assertion as well as that of the Central Bank are clearly borne out by the clean... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/03/17)
It’s Govt.’s weakness: Gota
Former defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa yesterday said it was the weakness of the government to keep thrusting itself upon the UNHRC Resolution on Sri Lanka when the US, which co-sponsored the resolution, had detached itself from it. Mr. Rajapaksa said the government should utilize the opportunities in the international arena especially the change of administration in the US. “With the election of President Donald Trump, officials who were interested in Sri Lanka such as Nisha Biswal and Samantha Power were removed. The US has clearly shown that it is not interested in the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/03/17)
Bandula sends letter of demand to Ravi
Legal action will be taken against a state owned newspaper and the Finance Minister for deliberately making false allegations against him, Joint Opposition MP Bandula Gunawardena said. He made the observation while speaking to reporters at a press conference held in Colombo on Tuesday. “A letter of demand has been sent to both parties over making false allegations with respect to my decision to give evidence in connection with the controversial bond sale,” he said. Gunawardena has also sought compensation of Rs.200 million and Rs.300 million from the newspaper and the Finance Minister respectively.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/03/17)
Sri Lanka urged to make concrete progress to regain GSP+
The European Union (EU) has called on Sri Lanka to make ‘prompt and concrete’ progress in fulfilling international commitments on human rights and labour rights ahead of last phase talks on regaining GSP Plus from the EU. The second meeting of the Working Group on Governance, Rule of Law and Human Rights under the European Union-Sri Lanka Joint Commission was held in Colombo 13-14 March 2017. The EU delegation to the Working Group called on Ranil Wickeremesinghe, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka and met with Mangala Samaraweera, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/03/17)
NEW KIND OF BLACKMAILING BY THREE WHEELER DRIVERS
I travel daily in the car to work and keep cursing three wheeler drivers .They keep violating all the traffic rules and the policemen keep mum .because they get free rides They drive dangerously ,cut across your right of way and yet threaten you if you complain .It is time that all vehicle drivers form a union and fight this menace . Following true identical incidents taken place during last few weeks should open eyes of every driver. Wife of a senior cricketer was driving her car near Odel in front of eye hospital .A three... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/03/17)
මුදල් අමාත්‍යාංශය ජාතික විගණන පනත මැල්ලුමට කපන්න හදනවා
දුෂිත දේශපාලනඥයින් හා රාජ්‍ය නිලධාරීන් පිරිසක් ජාතික විගණන පනත ‘මැල්ලුම් ලියන්නා සේ ලියා දමා’ මැල්ලුම් කරන්නට උත්සහ දරන්නේ යැයි කැෆේ සංවිධානයේ විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා පවසයි. ‘හරය, අභිලාෂය සහ සාරය’ විනාශ කරමින් ජාතික විගණන පනත ‘කොස් කොටන්නටවත් බැරි කඩුවක්’ බවට පත් කිරීමට දරණ පැහැදිලි උත්සාහයක් පවතින බව ඒ මහතා අවධාරණය කරයි. වසර හතරකට වැඩි කලක් සාකච්ඡා කිරීමෙන් පසුව මෙයට මාස 18 කට පෙර ජාතික විගණන පනත අවසන් අවසන් කටුම්පත සකස් කරන ලදී. ඉන් පසුව, අවස්ථා 3 ක දී ජාතික විගණන පනතට විවිධ අමාත්‍යාංශය සහ දෙපාර්තමේන්තු මගින් විගණන බලය කප්පාදු කරමින් සංශෝධන ඉදිරිපත් කොට... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/03/17)
‘බක් මහ අකුණු’ නාට්‍ය දර්ශනයක් නාඋල ශ්රී නාග විද්‍යාලයේදී
ශ්රී ලාංකීය නාට්‍ය ඉතිහාසයේ සුවිශේෂ කඩඉමක් ලකුණු කළ දයානන්ද ගුණවර්ධනයන්ගේ ‘බක් මහ අකුණු’ නාට්‍ය දර්ශනයක් නාඋල ශ්රී නාග විද්‍යාලයේදී 2017 මාර්තු මස 16 දා සවස 2.30ට හා 6.30ට කැරකෙන වේදිකාවක් මත බ්‍රමණය වේ. ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/03/17)
ශ‍්‍රිලංගම සේවකයින්ගේ මාසික වේතනයෙන් වැඩිකරන ලද රු 10,000 මුදල සඳහා අර්ථසාධක අරමුදල් ගිණුමට මුදල් අයකර ගැනීමට අවශ්ය පියවර කඩිනමින් ගන්නා ලෙස ඉල්ලා සිටීම.
ගරු කම්කරු කොමසාරිස් ජෙනරාල්තුමිය කම්කරු දෙපාර්තමේන්තුව, නාරාහේන්පිට, කොළඹ 05. ගරු මැතියණියනි, ශ‍්‍රිලංගම සේවකයින්ගේ මාසික වේතනයෙන් වැඩිකරන ලද රු 10,000 මුදල සඳහා අර්ථසාධක අරමුදල් ගිණුමට මුදල් අයකර ගැනීමට අවශ්ය පියවර කඩිනමින් ගන්නා ලෙස ඉල්ලා සිටීම. රජයේ සේවකයින්ට සහ අර්ධ රාජ්‍ය ආයතන සේවකයින්ට රු 10,000 මුදලක් වැටුපට වැඩිකරන ලද අතර එම මුදල සමහර ආයතන වල වැටුපට පවා එකතු කර ඇත. නුමුත් ශ‍්‍රිලංගම සේවකයින්ගේ වැටුපෙන් අර්ථසාධක අරමුදල් ගිණුම සඳහා වැඩිකරන ලද රු 10,000 මුදලින් මුදල් අයකර ගැනීම මේ මෙහෝතේ සිදුවන්නේ නැත. රු 10,000 මුදල වැටුපට වැඩිකිරීමේ ආරම්භක මොහොතේ ශ‍්‍රිලංගම සේවකයින්ගේ වැටුපෙන් අර්ථසාධක අරමුදල් ගිණුමට මුදල් අයකර ලදි.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/03/17)
New constitutional and legal reforms to destroy the nation - Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa
March 13, 2017 01:42 pm The reason why the government is pursuing some of the agenda with great enthusiasm while completely ignoring the constitutional pledges they gave to the people is obviously because they have other, more important masters to please than the people of this country, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa said. “I invite all SLFP members in the government, and parliamentarians of the UNP as well, to read the five documents mentioned here and to decide for themselves whether they want to betray the country and the nation by supporting this traitorous agenda,” he said in... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/03/17)
An Ancient Island in Dire Peril
Ancient Sri Lanka paid heavily for its misfortune in being very close to that politico-geographic behemoth called India. Indeed, the history of our land is - broadly speaking - coterminous with our encounters with our dangerous neighbour. The fact that we are - to some degree - plagiarists in matters of culture and religion does not obviate the fact that the principal threat to our ancient civilization has come from India. Indeed, opportunistic invasions and partial colonization by hordes from India were a sad but indelible feature of our rich and varied history. This threat continues to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/03/17)
අලුත් ව්‍යවස්ථාව භයානකයි- මහින්දගෙන් අනතුරු ඇඟවීමක්
රට ජාතිය නැති කිරීමට ව්‍යවස්ථා හා නීති සංශෝධන කෙටුම්පත් කිරීමේ උත්සාහය පරාජය කළ යුතුව ඇති බව හිටපු ජනාධිපති, පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී මහින්ද රාජපක්ෂ මහතා පවසයි. රාජපක්ෂ මහතාගේ අත්සනින් යුතුව අද (13) නිකුත් කළ නිවේදනයක මේ බව දැක්වෙයි. එකී නිවේදනයේ මෙසේද සඳහන්ය. ශ්රී ලංකාවේ ව්‍යවස්ථාවත්, රාජ්‍යයේ ව්‍යුහයත්, නීති පද්ධතියත් වෙනස් කිරීමට ආණ්ඩුව ගන්නා උත්සාහයන් ඉදිරි කාලයේදී කරළියට එන ලක්ෂණ දැන් පහල වී තිබේ. පසුගිය නොවැම්බර් මාසේ සිට එක්කො නිල වශයෙන් එළි දක්වනු ලැබූ, නැතිනම් වෙනත් මාර්ගයකින් මාධ්‍යට හෙළි වූ ලියවිලි කිහිපයකින් ආණ්ඩුවේ අභිමතාර්ථය පැහැදිලි වේ. ව්‍යවස්ථාදායක සභාවේ අනුකමිටු හයේ නිල වාර්ථා පසුගිය නොමේබර් මාසයේ එළිදක්වනු ලැබීය.අග්‍රාමාත්‍යවරයාගේ සංහිඳියාව හා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/03/17)
Reconciliation is a two way street
The focus of the West, UN, civil rights groups and like-minded politicians, is to engineer reconciliation in Sri Lanka. Their agenda is to reconcile the Sinhalese with the Tamils. Unfortunately, this is not necessarily a move to bring the Sinhalese and the Tamils together, but rather for the Sinhalese to be more accommodative to Tamil demands. It is their expert view that the 30 years of terrorism is the cumulative result of deep divisions between the two communities. These divisions, according to them, were caused by the majority community, the Sinhala Buddhists asserting its... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 14/03/17)
බෝම්බ ලොරියක් ඇල්ලූ රණවිරුවා රිමාන්ඞ්.. ඒ ලොරිය පදවාගෙන ආ කොටියා නිදහස්..
පිවිතුරු හෙල උරුමය පක්ෂ කාර්යාලයේදී පැවති මාධ්‍ය හමුවකදී එම පක්ෂ ප්රධාන ලේකම් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත්රී උදය ගම්මන්පිල මහතා මෙසේ අදහස් පල කලේය. කැලයේ ආධිපත්‍ය පතා අලි දෙන්නෙක් විලක් මැද පොර බැදුවාලු. අලින්ගේ තඩි කකුල වලට පෑගි විලේ සිටි ගෙම්බො මැරෙන්න ගත්තාලු. එතකොට එක ගෙම්බෙක් කිව්වාලු “අලි ගැටෙනවා – අපි මැරෙනවා“ කියලා. අද රටේ වෙන්නෙත්ඒකයි. ජනපති සහ අගමැති අතර කවුද ලොක්කා කියා තීරණය කරන්න සීතල යුද්ධයක් පවතින බව කවුරුත් දන්නා රහසක්. ඒ අලි පොරයට පෑගිලා මැරෙන්නේ රණවිරුවන්. අද ත්‍රිවිධ හමුදාව තිබෙන්නේ ජනපති යටතේ. පොලීසිය තිබෙන්නේ අගමැති යටතේ. ජනපති රිදවන්න විහිළුවක් බවට පත් කරන්න ඕනෑ වුණාම ජනපති රණවිරුවන් රකින... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/17)
අද ලංකාව ලෝකෙට විහිළු සපයන රටක් වෙලා..මේ වසරේදීත් ඡන්දය නෑ..අපට මොකද මේ වුනේ..- බෙල්ලන්විල විමලරතන හිමි
රටේ වත්මන් දේශපාලන ක්‍රමවේදය දැඩි ලෙස විවේචනයට ලක් කරන මහාචාර්ය බෙල්ලන්විල විමලරතන හිමියන් අද වනවිට ශ්රී ලංකාව ලෝකයට විහිළු සපයන රටක් බවට පත්ව ඇති බව පැවසූහ. උන්වහන්සේ ඒ බව කියා සිටියේ ‘මාර්තු 12 ව්‍යාපාරය’ විසින් අද (මාර්තු 13) කොළඹ නිදහස් චතුරශ්‍රයේ සංවිධානය කරන ලද සුපිරිසිදු දේශපාලනයක් සඳහා පුරවැසි මෙහෙයුම වැඩසටහනේ සමාරම්භක උත්සවය අමතමිනි. පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ වත්මන් ක්‍රියාකලාපය ද උන්වහන්සේ ගේ දැඩි දෝෂදර්ශනයට ලක් විය. “හැමදාම මේකේ ගහගන්නවා, බැණ ගන්නවා, කුණුහරප කියා ගන්නවා, අද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේ උත්තරීතරභාවය එහෙම්පිටින්ම නැති වෙලා ගියා. ඇයි මෙහෙම අය තෝරලා පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට යවන්නේ, අපිට මොකද වුනේ” යනුවෙන් උන්වහන්සේ ප්‍රශ්න කළහ. මේ වන විට ශ්රී... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/17)
End of a long road
The election was held on 17 August and four days later I learnt that I had not been put into Parliament. I had been on the UPFA National List, which I gathered had been with the approval of both factions of the SLFP. But it had become clear almost immediately that the polarization that was taking place would leave no room for anyone trying to hold a balance. I had not been able, before it was submitted, to see the President to check about whether I would be on the list. But I did see him on 14... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/17)
President seeks JSC recommendation to dismiss Kannan
The Island exclusively reported last week that the Judicial Services Commission (JSC) had, in a letter to President Maithripala Sirisena dated 23 February 2017, disowned the recommendation it made earlier that Ramanathan Kannan be appointed a High Court Judge. In that letter, the JSC stated that if the BASL had made ‘no proper recommendation’ that Kannan be appointed a High Court judge, the recommendation that the JSC had sent earlier to the President had ‘no force or avail in law’. This retraction by the JSC made Ramanathan Kannan’s appointment as High Court Judge... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/17)
Ex-war criminals try to protect human rights now - Gotabaya
March 13, 2017 09:17 pm Those who committed war crimes have now become the ‘champions’ who attempt to act as guardians of human rights, former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa says. He also pointed out those who endorsed to the LTTE are now with the Tamil National Alliance (TNA). “These are the kind of people who raise their voice to safeguard human rights now,” he said while addressing a gathering held in Colombo on Monday. He also slammed the UK’s PM for turning a blind eye to the alleged war crimes committed by the British soldiers,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/17)
Time is now ripe for the Tamil speaking people to know the real roll of the TNA
It is not a question of digging into the past, for anyone to find fault with me. But I have a sacred duty cast on me to record correctly the past events in the TULF and of the disaster that fell on the TNA, in order of time and also about the great individuals, who toiled hard for the Party to achieve a solution to the ethnic problem. I will limit myself only to matters relating to the Tamil United Liberation Front (TULF) and the TNA. I hope my efforts will be greatly appreciated, since... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/17)
SRI LANKA: Man killed by police officers in the Headquarters of the Gampaha Police Station
Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information about Mr. Sunanda Dias, a resident of No: 31, Niwandama, Ja-Ella, in the Gampaha District. He was extra-judicially killed on 04 November 2016, by officers attached to the Gampaha Police Station. No proper investigation has been carried out as yet. This is justice denied for the victim and his family. In this case we see illustrated the extraordinary collapse of the rule of law in the country. And, the State’s policy of combating... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/17)
උතුරු මැද පළාත් සභාවට අයත් ආයුර්වේද කාර්ය මණ්ඩලය කලක සිට මුහුණ දෙන පහත දැක්වෙන වෘත්තීය ගැටළු වන.
උතුරු මැද පළාත් සභාවට අයත් ආයුර්වේද කාර්ය මණ්ඩලය කලක සිට මුහුණ දෙන පහත දැක්වෙන වෘත්තීය ගැටළු වන. අනියම් කාර්ය මණ්ඩලය ස්ථිර නො කිරීම. 06/2006 චක‍්‍රලේඛය විධිමත්ව ක්රියාත්මක නො කිරීම. 2016 අයවැයෙන් වැඩි කළ මුදල් මෙතෙක් නො ගෙවීම. ආහාර දීමනා හිඟ මුදල් නො ගෙවීම. විශේෂ දීමනා හිඟ මුදල් නො ගෙවීම. නිල ඇඳුම් දීමනා හිඟ මුදල් නො ගෙවීම. යන ගැටළු විසඳා ගැනීම සඳහා පසුගිය කාලය තුළ සමස්ත ලංකා ආයුර්වේද සුවසේවා සංගමය උතුරු මැද සෞඛ්‍ය හා දේශීය වෛද්‍ය අමාත්‍යතුමා, උතුරු මැද සෞඛ්‍ය හා දේශීය වෛද්‍ය අමාත්‍යාංශයේ ලේකම්තුමා, එම පළාත් සභාවේ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/17)
Hue and cry over Hybrid non-starter
Another March Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is coming to an end in few days and the wide expectation is Sri Lanka will get a reprieve for two years; despite the official rejection of the proposal for Hybrid Courts, with participation of foreign Judges, to inquire into the alleged violations of human rights during the final phase of the fight against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2009. President Maithripala Sirisena consistently held the view that Sri Lanka will not need foreign judges. Although, there were indications that... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/17)
US “Stop Arming Terrorists Act” – time for action against TGTE & LTTE Tamil Diaspora
US & Western Governments needs to wake up to the fact that terrorists are not only Islamic & Jihadists. LTTE remains banned by the US, UK, Canada & EU. If the US State Department declares LTTE international network is alive even 5 years after LTTE military defeat the Bill introduced to US Congress by Senator Tulsi Gabbard requires immediate action to be taken against LTTE Tamil Diaspora living in the US and the West. In the minimum a joint investigation by US and Western Governments should be launched against LTTE Tamil Diaspora immediately. That the Bill... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/17)
කතාව දෝලාවෙන් .....!!
මේ දිනවල ජගත් මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සලය රැස්වී ශ්රී ලංකාව සම්බන්ධවද කතා කරති. වත්මන් රජය මානව හිමිකම් සම්බන්ධව පෙන්නුම් කරන ප්රගතිය පිලිබඳව ඔවුන් සෑහීමකට පත්ව නැති බව පැවසේ. ශ්රී ලංකාවට තම ප්රගතිය පෙන්වීම සඳහා තවත් වසර 2 ක් ලබා දියයුතු බව බ්රිතාන්ය කියා සිටී. මේ සියල්ල අතර ශ්රී ලංකාව තුල මානව හිමිකම් ස්ථාපිත කිරීම සම්බන්ධව කාරණයක් කර ගනිමින් ඔස්ට්රේලියාවේ ඩීකින් විශ්ව විද්යාලය මගින් අගමැති රනිල් වික්රමසිංහට ආචාර්ය උපාධියක්ද පිරිනමා වැඩි දවසක් නැත. බ්රිතාන්යයේ පලවන 'ද බෑන්කර්' සඟරාව විසින් ආසියා පැසිෆික් කලාපය තුල හොඳම මුදල් ඇමතිවරයා ලෙස ශ්රී ලංකාවේ මුදල් ඇමති රවි කරුණානායක නම් කර ඇත. ඒ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/17)
Gota’s war heroes off to Geneva
2017-03-12 Rtd. Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara will leave for Geneva tomorrow leading a three-man delegation to meet UN Human Rights Chief Zeid Ra'ad Al-Hussein to mount an offensive against the case, now argued before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), that Sri Lankan forces committed war crimes, especially during the closing stages of the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. This allegation is the centrepiece of the UNHRC resolution that is widely accepted by the international community including the Tamil Diaspora. He takes a 100-page dossier of facts to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/17)
Cry of a River. The trouble with India-s toilets and drinking water.
The proper disposal of human waste is a pressing issue in India with proper toilets a rarity in rural areas. Many millions of villagers never even consider installing a regular toilet, held back either by poverty or blind acceptance of the status quo. Defecating in streets and fields is unsanitary and leads to the faecal contamination of ground water and so, waterborne diseases are commonplace. The government is attempting to address the problem with financial support and education initiatives for villagers.... -Full Story- (https:/rtd.rt.com/ - 13/03/17)
THE REIGN OF MAHINDA RAJAPAKSE (1)
(Revised 25.4.17) When Mahinda Rajapakse became President of Sri Lanka in 2005, Ajit Samaranayake said the event ‘opens a new chapter in post independence history, where a leader unburdened by either dynastic trappings or the stigma of elitism find himself at the head of a popular movement. His tenure of rule is therefore pregnant with profound possibilities. Rajapakse has shown an instinct for the fight without soiling his hands and has emerged as a formidable leader at a crucial juncture in the country history.’ Rajapakse said in 2010 that he would like to be remembered as a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/17)
THE REIGN OF MAHINDA RAJAPAKSE (2)
(Revised 25.4.17) The ‘Mahinda Chinthana’ of 2010, was a comprehensive economic plan prepared by the Department of National Planning of the Ministry of Finance and Planning. Economic development was to be along five hubs, maritime, aviation, commerce, energy, knowledge plus tourism. The policies and strategies were in line with the UN Millennium Development Goals. The plan took into account the current social and economic indicators and future projections. The regional hub for maritime affairs, banking, IT and aviation are achievable, said Palitha Kohona. The idea of establishing Sri Lanka as a “Maritime” hub was excellent and timely,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/17)
World Consumer Day 15/03/2017 Theme Building a Digital World Consumer Can Trust
“World Consumer Day” World Consumer day (WCD) is an annual event on 15th March every year for celebrations, activism, and solidarity, among the consumer and consumer organizations worldwide. Consumerism has a historical significance until WCD was originated in 1983, and subsequently the Consumer rights were elevated to a position of international recognition and legitimacy by adopting the guidelines by the United Nations. John Kennedy said on 15/2/1962 that consumer by definition includes as the largest economic groups effecting and affected by almost every private and public... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/17)
කොටි ත්‍රස්තයෝ, යහපාලකයෝ සහ බෝධීන් වහන්සේලා
කොටියෝ ස්රිමහ බෝධීන් වහන්සේට වෙඩිතබා විනාශ කරන්නට උත්සාහ කළහ දළදා මාලිගාවට බෝම්බ ගැසුහ උතුරේත් නැගෙනහිරත් ඇති සියලු බෞද්ධ පුරාවස්තුන් විනාශ කිරීමේ ව්‍යාපාරයක උන් නියලී ඇත මුස්ලිම් කාරයෝ දීඝ වාපිය බුල්ඩෝසර් කළහ කුරගල පල්ලි හදුහ සිරීපාද භූමියටත් රිංගාගෙන ඇත ..එහෙත් තවමත් රටේ බෞද්ධයන් 70%සිටින්නේලු .එහෙව් රටේ අගමැති අන්ග්ලිකන කිතුණුවෙක් වී ඇතවසර 2600ක් බෞධ්ධරාජ්‍යයක්ව පැවතෙමින් එන මෙරටේ ,බෞධයන් විනාශ කරමින් මුලින් කී අපරාධ සිදුකල කොටියෝ විනාශකර බෞධ්ධයන්ගේ රට බේරාගත් පාලකයා එළවා අබෞධ්ධයෙක් අගමැති කර ගත බෞද්ධයින් එළඹී සිහියෙන් කටයුතු කල අ ය නම් විය නොහැක සදා ජනතාවගෙන් ප්‍රතික්ෂේපවූඅබෞද්ධ මිනිහෙක් අගමැති කරන්නට අවශ්ය වුයේබටහිරයන්ට හා ඉන්දියාවටය .ඒ සඳහාවූ ව්‍යාපාරයේ මුලිකයෙක් ලෙස... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/17)
ජනමාධ්‍යවේදියා සහ දොස්තර මහතා
ජනමාධ්‍යවේදී සිරිමෙවන් කස්තුරිආරච්චි මහතා විසින් තමන් ගේ අසනීපයකට බෙහෙත් ගැනීමට වෛද්‍යවරයෙකු හමු වූ අවස්ථාවේදී ලද අත්දැකීම ඔහුගේ මුහුණු පොතේ පළ කොට තිබේ. "අසනීපයට ප්‍රතිකාර ගන්න 05 වැනිදා නවලෝක පුද්ගලික රෝහලට ගොස් රුපියල් 1150ක් ගෙවා මෙරට සිටින 'ගුණ වඩන' විශේෂඥ වෛද්‍යවරයෙක් ලඟට ගියා.ඔහු වයසක කෙනෙක්.මුහුණේ සිනාවක්.ලේ කඳුලක් නැති අකාරුණික,මරුමුස් කෙනෙක් වුණත් කරගන්න දෙයක් නැතුව ලෙඩේ ගැන කිවුවා."මේ පරීක්ෂණය කරගෙන එන්න.තුණ්ඩුව ලියලා දුන්නා.අනේ ඒක අරගෙන ආවා.දැන් බයයි පරීක්ෂණය කරගන්න මොකද කීයක් යයිද දන්නෙත් නැහැ,අතේ සල්ලිත් නැහැ.ඔන්න මිතුරෙක් උදවු කළ නිසා පරීක්ෂණය ඊයේ (08) කරගත්තා.රිපෝට් එක පෙන්වන්න සල්ලි නොගන්න නිසා අද (09) සවස 05 ට ගිය ඒක පෙන්නන්න.142... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/17)
The Rock Band KISS and the Death Instinct
I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff. Gene Simons The hard rock band Kiss was famous for their thought provoking music and extraordinary flamboyant stage outfits with face paint. The group had a dramatic affect on young people and KISS fans started to grow in tens of thousands since 1973. They have sold over 40 million records and became one of the popular rock bands in North America. Despite the group’s popularity, many religious and civil groups criticized the band for using satanic lyrics and glorification of death and violence.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 13/03/17)
Govt. renders National Audit Bill toothless Revises it a third time
March 12, 2017, 10:14 pm The government had further diluted the proposed National Audit Bill making it ineffective, Auditor General’s Department sources said yesterday. Officials told The Island that the latest amendment had made the proposed piece of legislation wholly useless and it wouldn’t yield the desired results. The Bill was aimed at tackling public sector corruption, sources said. The National Audit Bill was to be introduced on Feb. 19, 2015 at the beginning of the 100-day programme of the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government.Asked whether the government had discussed the matter with the AG’s Department at... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/03/17)
හිටපු අමාත්‍ය විමල් වීරවංශ සිරගතකොට ඇත්තේ FCID ASPගේ වංචා සහගත සහතිකය මතයි!
https://youtu.be/7O3n-yxPV68... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/03/17)
අද මේ මොඩරේට් බෙදුම්වාදීන් හදන්නේ "ඒකීය වී ඇටේ ඇතුළේ ෆෙඩරල් හාල් ඇටේ හදාගන්නයි"
මල් අද(22) පාර්ලිමේන්තුවේදී බෙදුම්වාදීන්ගේ නව න්‍යාය පත්‍රය හෙළිකරයි... අද මේ මොඩරේට් බෙදුම්වාදීන් හදන්නේ "ඒකීය වී ඇටේ ඇතුළේ ෆෙඩරල් හාල් ඇටේ හදාගන්නයි" https://youtu.be/kQ8_0pHv4Ck... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/03/17)
රණවිරු දීමනා කපා දැමුවේ පලිගැනීමට ද?
වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව සහ ඒ ආණ්ඩුවේ නිලධාරීන් සිතාමතාම මේ රටේ විමුක්‌තිය උදෙසා ජීවිත පූජා කළ සහ රට වෙනුවෙන් සටනට ගොස් ආබාධිත වූ සහ අනෙකුත් සමස්ත රණවිරු ප්‍රජාවෙන්ම පලිගනිමින් සිටින්නේයෑයි යන්න දැන් පැහැදිලිවම පෙනෙන්නට තිබේ. අප එසේ කියන්නේ කට කසනවාට නම් නොවේ. වත්මන් යහපාලනය තුළ සිදු වෙමින් තිබෙන දේ හමුවේය. ජනාධිපතිවරයා රණවිරුවන් සුරකින්නේ යෑයි කියද්දී අපේ පොලිසිය නොහොත් සීඅයිඩීය රණවිරුවන් අත්අඩංගුවට ගෙන විවිධ චෝදනා නගමින් සිරගත කිරීමට අපමණ වෙහෙසක් දරන්නේය. එහිදීත් බොහෝ විට දඩයම් කෙරෙන්නේ ප්‍රභාකරන් වැනසූ ඉකුත් සටනේදී බොහෝ කැපවීමෙන් කටයුතු කළ බුද්ධි අංශ නිලධාරීහු වන්නාහ. පසුගිය කාලයේ සීඅයිඩීය අත්අඩංගුවට ගැනීමෙන් පසු සිරගත කෙරුණු බුද්ධි... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/03/17)
Disaster Politics and Political Disasters
March 11, 2017, 7:02 pm Close to one million – that is the number of drought-affected Lankans in immediate need of food assistance, according to an assessment carried out jointly by the government and the UN. Of these, 80,000 men, women and children are in need ‘urgent life-saving support’.ii The numbers of drought-affected Lankans are likely to increase in the coming months, especially if the monsoons fail to become active (as was the case last year), and drought is transformed from a seasonal phenomenon to a fact of daily life. This week, the government moved a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/03/17)
Yahapalana brain-fade in Geneva
March 11, 2017, 7:05 pm Way back when Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government was getting slammed left, right and centre by the ‘international (sic) community’, especially at the UNHRC, his detractors were thrilled. Little did they care that the accusers were tainted in ways that made Sri Lanka look pretty innocent in terms of (alleged) ‘war crimes’. Rajapaksa was accused of being moronic in his foreign policy. Dark stories were spread about impending sanctions. The removal of the GSP Plus facility was thrown in as evidence and a sign of worse things to come. The previous regime resisted... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 12/03/17)
How rich & influential is the LTTE Diaspora kitty after LTTE defeat?
The business of terrorism has caused bloodshed and agony. It lasted 30 long years. While the innocent died, were maimed and continue to dress the wounds, the strategists, planners, fundraisers and propagandists continue to thrive plotting another debacle. Their endeavor is to continue to milk the LTTE cash cow kept alive by the promise of a Tamil Homeland that has been the driving force for decades and the carrot presented to voluntarily or by force keep the kitty filled. The players who silently raised funds for LTTE when Prabakaran was alive have today established themselves as... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/17)
The Voices of threatened Buddhists must be heard at the UN Day of Vesak 2017 Conference
Of all the international Buddhist Conferences held in Sri Lanka the one that stands out clearly above the rest is the Conference held in 1950, particularly because it led to the formation of the World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB). There was a huge need then for unity of all Buddhist schools and Dr. G.P. Malalasekera’s vision ensured that disparate groups were brought together under the banner of fellowship via the WFB. The world of 2017 is significantly different to that of 1950. If the UN Day of Vesak Conference to be held in Colombo in the month... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/17)
Israeli Lawmakers Advance Bill to Curb Loudspeakers in Muslim Call to Prayer
A bill that would regulate the traditional use of loudspeakers for the Muslim call to prayer passed its first legislative hurdle in Israel’s Parliament on Wednesday, provoking frustration and anger among some Arab lawmakers. One version of the bill would prohibit places of worship from using loudspeakers between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m., while another would ban any broadcast over such speakers regardless of the time of day if it is deemed “unreasonably loud,” the BBC reported. The first daily prayer is traditionally performed before sunrise. Both versions passed with slim majorities,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/17)
USLA Wellington Spokesperson’s Report
The year began with me being shown a picture of a car on a Wellington road , brazenly displaying a personalized plate bearing the letters , LTTE. Having come to NZ to escape from LTTE terror, I decided that very evening to seek the withdrawal of this taunting plate and have it’s owner placed under surveillance, on the basis of the plate being a brazen declaration of support for a brutal terrorist group, it being offensive to those of us who were victims or potential victims of their terror,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/17)
APPALLING SITUATION
During a visit to a local renowned supermarket last week I approached the 'pharmacist' to make enquires about an allopathic cardiac drug (RanCV500). A guy who did not appear to have any knowledge of the inquired medicine questioned me as to what the drug was prescribed for? Quite bemused by the answer coming out of the so-called 'pharmacist' I ventured to ask him whether he was a qualified pharmacist, to which his answer was affirmative. I was not satisfied, and summoned the store manager to his presence and enquired whether the employee was a qualified... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/17)
Ex-Attorney General In Hot Water For Favouring Ravi Karunanayake In Money Laundering Case
Former Attorney General Yuvanjana Wijayatilake has been accused of abusing his office and for unethically granting favours to Finance Minister Ravi Karunanayake. In a letter addressed to the Chairman of the Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery and Corruption (CIABOC) yesterday, Nagananda Kodituwakku, an Attorney-at-Law and Public Interest Litigation Activist claimed that Wijayatilake had abused his office by offering favours to Karunanayake, which according to Kodituwakku falls within the offence of corruption as defined in the Section 70 of the Bribery Act. In an affidavit filed along with the letter, Kodituwakku said that he had ‘credible evidence’ against the ex-Attorney... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/17)
Let’s learn from South Korea
March 10, 2017, 9:24 pm Some French voters, fed up with their leaders, especially the candidates in the presidential race, recently chose to give vent to their pent-up anger in an unusual manner. They launched a campaign to invite former US President Barack Obama to run for President in their country! They have thus sent a very clear message to the French politicians who have failed to live up to public expectations. Sri Lankans are doubtlessly as resentful as the French where their failed politicians are concerned though it is doubtful whether they are enamoured of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/17)
Distorting Thirukkural in a bid to justify cruelty to animals
March 10, 2017, 9:20 pm In all the recent sound and fury about Jallikattu, many people from Tamil Nadu quoted the Thirukkural to justify their support to this horrendous cruelty to helpless animals. In fact, after it was forcibly restarted by a very strange notification by the state governor, who overrode two judgments of the Supreme Court, thereby weakening the very fabric of India’s administration, hundreds of people have been wounded and some have died in these so called peaceful games that only demonstrate the "Tamil love for the bull". Many of the maimed and injured bulls... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/17)
Who are the Sinhalese?
An interesting question arose at a recent Royal Asiatic Society’s Monthly Lecture, delivered by H. L. D. Mahindapala now resident Australia, on the topic: "The Last King of Jaffna was a Sinhalese Buddhist". At the end of Mahindapala’s presentation, during the question time, a young member of the audience raised a question on the following lines: ‘Who are the Sinhalese? Was there a land called Sinhale in India from where they came? Did the olden day kings identify themselves as Sinhalese? I think this is a very legitimate question to ask, especially at a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/17)
Bonds of the crooked and privileged
March 10, 2017, 9:25 pm Haven’t you heard enough of these bonds? Depends on what bonds, you are talking about; there could be some bonds one may like. I mean the bonds we hear and read about every day – these big money bonds. You mean the Central Bank and Treasury bond stuff? That is not all, but thinking of those, it looks as if each time a new Treasury Bond is announced, there will also have to be a Presidential Commission of Inquiry. That seems a good idea, without waiting for a COPE Report and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/17)
15,000 ක ත්‍රස්තවාදි බල ඇණියක් පැය 48 ක් තුළ ක්රියාත්මක වීමේ අවදානමක්…දෙමළ ඩයස්පෝරාව යළි ක්‍රියාත්මකයි “කොටියා අළු ගසා දමා නැගිටිනවා “
නැවත වරක් දරුණු ත්‍රස්තවාදයේ සෙවණැලි රට තුළ මතුවී ඇති බවත්,එවැනි ප්‍රපාතයකට රට ඇද දැමුවේ වත්මන් ආණ්ඩුව බව,රියර් අද්මිරාල්(විශ්‍රාමික) ආචාර්ය සරත් විරසේකර පවසනවා.අද (02) ශ්‍රි ලංකා පොදු ජන පෙරමුණේ පක්ෂ කාර්යාලයේ පැවති ප්‍රවෘත්ති සාකච්ඡාවකට එක් වෙමින් ඒ මහතා මේ බව සදහන් කළා.බුද්ධි අංශ සහ හමුදාව දේශද්‍රෝහින් ලෙස දෙමළ ඩයස්පෝරාවේ උවමනාව මත හංවඩු ගසමින් රජය කටයුතු කරන බවටද ඔහු චෝදනා කළා. අද වන විට ත්රස්තවාදය නැවත හිස ඔසවමින් පවතින අතර,ඒ වගකීම රජය භාර ගත යුතු බවයි ඔහු අවධාරණය කලේ , රටේ මේ වන විට පවතින ජාතික අනතුරක් සම්බන්ධයෙන් දීර්ඝ ලෙස කරුණු ඉදිරිපත් කල සරත් වීරසේකර මහතා වැඩිදුරටත් මෙසේ සදහන් කළා.... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 11/03/17)
Sri Lanka: We Challenge the UN to tell us how many LTTE cadres died in the final phase
Ever since May 2009 baseless allegations have been levelled against Sri Lanka’s military. Anyone can make allegations but facts and evidence is what counts. How can anyone accuse a person of murder without a dead body? We know how many Sri Lankan Soldiers died in the final phased but there is a big question mark as to how many LTTE cadres died. Without knowing that, no one can accuse the Sri Lankan Military of killing anyone. Can the UN that is throwing allegations of civilian deaths give proof that x number of civilians were killed after... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/03/17)
Dire Straits - March 9,2017
The Editor The Hindu, Delhi, India Dear Sir: Regarding the killing of a Tamil Nadu fisherman "somewhere between the Indian and Sri Lankan coast" on March 7,2017, it is correct that this is an unfortunate result of the long-standing dispute between Tamil Nadu fisherman and Sri Lankan fisherman. What you fail to indicate is, that it is due to the daily incidents of Indian fisherman backed by Tamil Nadu politicians, poaching in Sri Lankan waters, which they believe they can do with impunity, because the Government of Tamil Nadu refuses to recognize international boundaries and encourages the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/03/17)
රනිල්ගේ පච හැලීම- රටේ සමස්ථ ණය ඇ.ඩොලර් බිලියන 15000 ක් බව කියයි.. මේ රජය පැමිණ ගත් 20% ක් ණයත් සමඟ තවම ඇ.ඩොලර් බිලියන 64 යි..
ඇමරිකා එක්සත් ජනපදය ලෝකයේ අංක 1 ආර්ථික හිමි රටවන අතර එහි සමස්ථ වාර්ෂික දල දේශිය නිෂ්පාදනය ඇ.ඩොලර් ට්‍රිලියන 18.56 කි එනම් ඩොලර් බිලියන 18560කි 2 වෙනි ස්ථානය චීනයට හිමිවේ. එය ඇ.ඩොලර් බිලියන 11391කි තුන්වන ස්ථානය හිමිවන්නේ ජපානයටයි. ඒ ඇ. ඩොලර් බිලියන 4730කි, එමෙන්ම ඉන්දියාවේ වාර්ෂික දල දේශිය නිෂ්පාදනය ඇ. ඩොලර් බිලියන 2250 ක් ලබා ලෝකයේ 7 වෙනි විශාලතම ආර්ථිකයට හිමිකම් කියන අතර ශ්‍රීලංකාව ඇ.ඩොලර් බිලියන 82 කක හිමිකම් කියමින් ලෝකයේ 67 වෙනි විශාලතම වාර්ෂික දල දේශිය නිෂ්පාදනයට හිමිකම් කියයි. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) එමෙන්ම රටක වාර්ෂික දල දේශීය නිෂ්පාදනයෙන් ප්‍රතිශතයක් හැටියට එම රට ගත් ණය ප්‍රමාණය ගණනය කරනු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/03/17)
What brought down the Lions?
After the battle of the victorious Lions against the Tamil Tigers; it was taken carelessly to account that no more will it ever be possible for the northern terrain to fall into the hands of any political separatism. Therefore it was decided by the then government to hold Provincial Council Elections under the Proportional Representation (PR) Electoral System in the Northern Province. This was the first step down for the slippery destruction of the dynamic Lion regime of the nation which was internationally saluted for defeating terrorism. Prior to this slippery move... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 10/03/17)
Batakotte (Vadukoddai) Resolution written by Tamil Pinocchios
Starting from the Dutch period to modern times, the Jaffna Tamil leadership, which consisted exclusively of the Vellalas, relied entirely on two fundamental ideologies to retain their power and privileges in the peninsula. Both ruling ideologies were defined in two separate documents. First was the Tesawalamai codified by Class Isaacksz, Dissawe of Jaffna, on January 30, 1707, for the guidance of Dutch rulers. Second was the Batakotte (Tamilised as Vadukoddai) Resolution (1976) written by the Vellalas for the preservation and glory of the Vellalas. The Tamil translation of the Tesawalamai was vetted and endorsed by... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/03/17)
Will the Sale of a few assets get our economy on the path to growth and sustainability.
It is reported that the IMF is recommending the Sale of a few of our Assets- the Colombo Hilton, Lanka Hospitals, Hyatt Hotel and Waters Edge -all to bag $ 1.5 billion to solve today’s economic crisis. What really happens is that this $ 1.5 billion will be paid to our creditors and the country will limp on to the next Armageddon that will come within another few months. This is fact and not fiction. We need this foreign exchange to pay our creditors at the moment . This money that comes in from the IMF... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/03/17)
Take immediate action to pay compensations to people victimized by terrorists
The dollar voracious NGO vulture Jehan Perera well known as the Sinhala tiger terrorist who similar to Mangala Samaraweera suffers from selective and chronic insomnia under which he does not remember or believe in the hardships and agonies undergone by Sinhala, Muslim and other communities sans Tamils in Sri Lanka, who throughout the brutal aggressions, massacres, mayhem, and economic destructions caused by inhuman tiger terrorists remained totally aloof or attempted to justify some of the attacks as only retaliatory or corrective measures taken by Tamil militants (implying not terrorists) for the iniquitous acts of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/03/17)
Limbless heroes’ forgotten rights
The Cabinet has agreed to compensate the 16 prisoners killed during the 2012 Welikada Prison riots. Their families will get Rs Two Million each. The 11 injured will get Rs 500,000 each. In the attempt to bring the situation to control, some officers, including the Commandant of the Special Task Force DIG RMC Ranawana was injured. Some media reported that one injured officer, whose identity was not revealed, will also be paid the same amount as an injured prisoner. Out of the 27 prisoners killed, 11 will not be compensated, as they attempted to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 09/03/17)
Dinesh suspended from parliament for a week
Joint Opposition leader Dinesh Gunawardena has been suspended from parliamentary sittings for a week following a vote taken due to the MP repeatedly disrupting proceedings today (8). A total of 85 parliamentarians voted in favour of the decision and only 22 voted against while another 114 were absent during the vote, Ada Derana reporter said. Three MPs abstained from voting. With the Speaker announcing that NFF leader Wimal Weerawansa and members of his party cannot sit independently in Parliament, the MPs representing the ‘Joint Opposition’ including Gunawardena had behaved in an unruly manner while... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/17)
කථානායක නියෝගයෙන් උස්සපු ලංකාවේ මන්ත්‍රීවරු පිළිබද ඓතිහාසික දත්ත
1952 හෝ ආසන්න අවස්ථාවක වව්නියාව මන්ත්රී සී.සුන්දරලිංගම් (ස්වාධීන) පාර්ලිමේන්තුවෙන් පිටකලේ පුටුව පිටින් ඔසවාගෙන ගොසිනි. 1956 ට පෙර වරක් ගාල්ලේ ඩබ්ලිව්.දහසානායක පාර්ලිමේන්තුවෙන් ඉවත් කිරීමට කථා නායකට සිදු වූනා යැයි මතකයක් ඇත. පිලිප් ගුණවර්ධන සහ එඩ්මන් සමරක්කොඩි (සහ තවත් අයෙකු නම දන්නවානම් කියන්න) ට කථානායක දුන් නියෝගයට විරෝධය පළ කිරීම නිසා 1960 ජූලී ආණ්ඩුවේ දී රොබට් ගුණවර්ධන ද පාර්ලිමේන්තුවෙන් පිටතට ගියේ පොලීසියේ, වේත්‍රධාරිගේ කර පිටිනි. සත්‍ය වශයෙන්ම පොලීසියෙන් කරපිටින් යන්නට වූ අය අතර සුන්දරම කථාව රෝබට් ය. 1955 අප්‍රේ්ල් 5 මොරටුව මන්ත්රී සෝමවීර චන්ද්‍රසිරි දෙදහස් පන්සීය සම්බුද්ධ ජයන්තිය... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/17)
හැම බිම් අඟලකටම විරුවන් දිවි දුන්නේ ෆෙඩරල් බන්දේසියේ තබා පාවා දෙන්නද- ජෙනරාල් කමල් ගුණරත්න
https://youtu.be/MXAmczPSEAM... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/17)
The Buddhist Philosophy and Critical Thinking
The Buddha's Charter of Free Inquiry and judging truth are found in the Kalama Sutra of the Anguttara Nikaya. In Kalama Sutra Buddha emphasized the importance of critical thinking that involves seeing things in an open-minded way. Critical thinking helps to evaluate and challenge the thoughts and ideas and rethink conclusions in the light of new knowledge. Buddhism was conceived as a rational way of thought, being entirely in accordance with the latest findings of the natural sciences and Buddhism was not based on 'dogmas of blind belief and revelation, but on rational thought and experiential examination. (Martin Baumann -... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/17)
If LTTE & TNA demands are the same – why is Sri Lanka Government agreeing to implement them?
Both LTTE & TNA are demanding a separate Tamil Homeland. LTTE fronts have been echoing the same. Take out their statements, press releases, constitutions, election manifestos, interviews & demands and the comparisons are shocking. LTTE were terrorists and TNA is the political wing created by the LTTE. In 1976 Tamil political leaders came up with Vaddukoddai Resolution the same year Prabakaran formed the LTTE. ITAK is the leader of the TNA alliance set up by LTTE in 2001. ITAK head has been made the Opposition Leader since August 2015. The supporters of LTTE, TNA & LTTE... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/17)
Tales of Soldiers
Jose Naroskey once said “In war, there are no unwounded soldiers” Undeniably war has a profound effect on soldiers. It has a catastrophic effect on their health and wellbeing. I have met a number of soldiers around the globe who belonged to different Armies and various military organizations. Many of them are still affected by the reminiscences of the traumatic combat events. I recall some lines of Nancy L. Meek’s poem ‘The Sacrifice. In this poem she describes the state of mind of a soldier on returning from a war. This is what Nancy... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/17)
Weragama Arachchige LEELASENA- Obituary
Weragama Arachchige LEELASENA (of Hangamuwa, Ratnapura): Former Head of the Faculty of Mathematics at Maharagama Teachers’ Training College, former principal at Anuradhapura Central College, former Senior Mathematics Teacher at Walthamstow Girls School UK, passed away peacefully at home (in the UK) surrounded by his loving family on March 3rd 2017 aged 85 years. A much loved husband of Nalinee, a dearly loved dad of Lakith, Lasitha, Kirula and Subodha, beloved brother of Subaratna Menike, Nirmala,Chitrangani, Yasawathie and Gunaratne Menike, a loving father-in-law of Ganeesha, Chamari, Keshari, and Neha, beloved grandad of Sachi, Charith, Ayana,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 08/03/17)
Depression in Old Age
Depression is a mood disorder -one of the common mental health problems facing people today. Depression can interfere with a person's ability to function effectively and productively. Depression is common among the elderly population. Some view depression as a physiological reaction in the old age. But some researches deny this factor and point out adjustment difficulties in the old age cause depressive symptoms and emphasize depression is not a normal or necessary part of aging. There are many psycho-physiological and social changes faced by the elderly. With aging numerous physical ailments such as diabetes, arthritis digestive... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/03/17)
DUSIT TANI HOTEL PROJECT Vs HILTON, SHERATON, MANDARIN
The virtually bankrupt government of Maithreepala, Ranil and Chandrika trio's new project negotiations include the establishment of a 5 Star Hotel and Luxury Apartments of famous Dusit Tani (famous for what?) in Balapitiya. Dusit Tani Hotel Group is well known for providing Thai Full Body Massages for all ages of men and women. To put it simply its target market may include customers in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, known as LGBT Dusit Tani is not ranked in the same category of Hilton, Mandarin, Sheraton etc. worldwide hotel network. Their market orientation is a money... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/03/17)
Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena declares Sinhala Warriors dubbed Traitors by the British as National Heroes and Patriots
Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena declares Sinhala Warriors dubbed Traitors by the British as National Heroes and Patriots President Maithripala Sirisena took steps in December 2016 to expunge a previous British Colonial Government gazette notification that listed 19 national leaders of the Uva-Wellassa Sinhala Rebellion of 1818 as Traitors and recognised them... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/03/17)
Sri Lanka's Debt Crisis Is So Bad The Government Doesn't Even Know How Much Money It Owes
Trying to develop its infrastructure to increase its economic potential has plunged Sri Lanka deep into a pit of debt, pushing the country to the brink of bankruptcy and prompting an IMF bailout. The official estimate of what Sri Lanka currently owes its financiers is $64.9 billion — $8 billion of which is owned by China. The country’s debt-to-GDP currently stands around 75% and 95.4% of all government revenue is currently going towards debt repayment. This debt situation is clearly not sustainable, but there’s more: In addition to racking up large amounts of government debt... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/03/17)
Sri Lanka Now Has Worst Ever Finance Minister Ever- An Accusation
https://youtu.be/7F-_1byKcas... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/03/17)
IMF tells Sri Lanka to rebuild reserves, be ready to tighten
COLOMBO, March 7 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund urged Sri Lanka's central bank on Tuesday to rebuild foreign reserves while maintaining exchange rate flexibility and to be ready to tighten monetary policy if credit growth or inflation do not abate. Following its second review of a $1.5 billion three-year loan programme, the IMF said it had discussed with Sri Lankan authorities the need to push forward with reforms due to an uncertain external environment. Generally, the IMF delays disbursements if countries drastically deviate from targets, but the IMF did not say whether it... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/03/17)
බැඳුම්කර ණය පියවීමට මහා භාණ්‌ඩාගාරයට විශාල අරමුදල් අවශ්‍යතාවක්‌ තිබෙනවා - මහ බැංකුවේ රාජ්‍ය ණය අධිකාරි බැඳුම්කර කොමිසම හමුවේ කියයි
භාණ්‌ඩාගාර බැඳුම්කර මගින් රජය ලබාගත් පැරණි ණය පියවීම සඳහා මහා භාණ්‌ඩාගාරය වෙත විශාල අරමුදල් අවශ්‍යතාවක්‌ ඇති වී තිබෙන බවත් එම ණය එකවර සපයා දීමේ දුෂ්කර තත්ත්වයකට මහ බැංකුව මෑතදී මුහුණ දී සිටින බවත් ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ රාජ්‍ය ණය අධිකාරි ටී. එච්. බී. සරත්චන්ද්‍ර මහතා ඊයේ (07 දා) හෙළි කළේය. මේ දුෂ්කර තත්ත්වය හමුවේ මහ බැංකු අධිපතිතුමන් සමඟ සාකච්ඡා කර මහා භාණ්‌ඩාගාර ලේකම්වරයාට කරුණු පැහැදිලි කිරීමට මහ බැංකුව පියවර ගත් බව ද සරත්චන්ද්‍ර මහතා මහ බැංකුවේ භාණ්‌ඩාගාර බැඳුම්කර නිකුත් කිරීම් පරීක්‍ෂා කිරීම සඳහා පත්කර තිබෙන ජනාධිපති කොමිසම හමුවේ සාක්‍ෂි දෙමින් කීවේය. 2017... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/03/17)
ඇමැති - නි. ඇමැති 11 කට වාහන ගන්න කෝටි 49 ක පරිපූරක ඇස්‌තමේන්තුවක්‌
ඇමැතිවරුන් හත් දෙනකුට, රාජ්‍ය ඇමතිවරුන් තිදෙනකුට සහ නියෝජ්‍ය ඇමැතිවරයකුට වාහන මිලදී ගැනීම සඳහා රුපියල් හතළිස්‌ නව කෝටි හතළිස්‌ නව ලක්‍ෂ හැට දෙදහස් හත්සිය අනූවක මුදලක් (494962790) ඉල්ලා පරිපූරක ඇස්‌තමේන්තුවක්‌ ආණ්ඩු පක්ෂ සංවිධායක, පාර්ලිමේන්තු කටයුතු හා ජනමාධ්‍ය ඇමැති ගයන්ත කරුණාතිලක මහතා විසින් පාර්ලිමේන්තුවට ඊයේ (07දා) ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලදී. ඒ අනුව විශේෂ කාර්යභාර ඇමැතිවරයාට වාහනයක්‌ මිලදී ගැනීම සඳහා රුපියල් 42600000 ක් ද විදුලි සංදේශ හා ඩිජිටල් යටිතල පහසුකම් අමාත්‍යවරයාට වාහනයක්‌ මිලදී ගැනීම සඳහා රුපියල් 42000000 ක්‌ද වාරි මාර්ග හා ජල සම්පත කළමනාකරණ අමාත්‍යවරයාට හා රාජ්‍ය ඇමැතිවරයාට වාහනයක්‌ මිලදී ගැනීම සඳහා රුපියල් 86000000 ක් ද විද්‍යා, තාක්ෂණ හා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/03/17)
It’s President Sirisena’s call now JSC disowns Ramanathan Kannan recommendation:
March 6, 2017, 8:27 pm The standoff between the Bar Association of Sri Lanka and the Judicial Services Association over the appointment of a member of the Batticaloa bar as a High Court Judge has ended. Accordingly, members of the JSA will be officiating at the BASL elections to be held on 15 March. Earlier, in a strongly worded letter to the BASL, the JSA had made it clear that they would not officiate at the BASL elections unless the latter took steps to undo the damage done by some members of the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/03/17)
‘Henahura landing in a beggar’s bowl’
March 7, 2017, 8:09 pm The Treasury bond scams, currently being probed by a presidential commission, have had a devastating impact on the entire country. The private sector workers are the worst affected. Their superannuation fund or the EPF (Employees’ Provident Fund) had suffered a staggering loss of Rs. 15 bn, the JVP said on Monday. The Marxist outfit demanded that the loss be recovered forthwith from the bond racketeers. Economists and financial experts are also agreed on the amount the EPF has lost. Private sector workers are left with only the EPF refunds, upon retirement, to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/03/17)
Tender Board forced to reluctantly approve saleMahendran’s decision was final – Ex-Audit Department Director
The former Director of the Audit Department of the Central Bank (CB) Deepa Seneviratne says that following an order issued by former CB Governor Arjuna Mahendran, the management of the Central Bank was forced to approve a sum of Rs 10 billion, which was put out as collateral for the sale of bonds. She had told the Special Presidential Commission (SPC) probing the CB bond scam, that as there was no other recourse, the then CB management was forced to grant its approval. Seneviratne, giving evidence before the SPC, had told them that, two days before... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/03/17)
President’s dilemma
I returned from Azerbaijan on 23 June and had to go that morning to Parliament for a COPE meeting. The report on the Bond scam was being drafted, and it was clear that it would show that Arjuna Mahendran had interfered egregiously with bond placements to the great detriment of the economy. The Opposition was feeling quite confident, but this made it push its luck and indicate that it would press for a motion of No Confidence on the Prime Minister, who had clearly been responsible for what had happened, as indicated by his spirited defence of his... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/03/17)
Gilgamesh factor in regime change
(A sequel to ‘Jousting with the JO: Let the real opposition do its duty to the country’/March 3, 2017) In two articles written to The Island roughly within a year, namely, ‘A long view of constitution making’ with the subtitle ‘The things people first wrote down’ (The Island/January 24, 2016) and ‘First trounce the Joint Opposition’/Sunday Island/February 19, 2017), Kumar David (KD) argues that it is cogently necessary to seize the opportunity supposedly provided by the January 8 (2015) regime change to crush alleged ‘Sinhala extremist racism’. The following paragraph is from his earlier (January... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 07/03/17)
Ignoring N Q Dias strategy, the UNP Government removal of military camps helped LTTE terrorism arise – same mistake should not be repeated
N Q Dias was referred to as Sri Lanka’s Clausewitz. He was the most powerful public servant serving as Permanent Secretary for Defense plus Sri Lanka’s Foreign Minister in the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Government of 1960-65. Having read Panikkar Doctrine he was apprehensive of India’s designs on Sri Lanka. His anticipation of the rise of a Tamil separatist war was prophetic. His grand strategy to counter this was brilliant. Successive UNP Governments either failed to understand the prophecy or preferred to remove and reverse the decisions taken thereby helping militancy to rise. Removal of the military camps... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/17)
Ernest Hemingway Creativity and Mental Health
The American novelist Ernest Hemingway is considered as the greatest writer of the 20th century. Hemingway explored universal themes such as life, love and death. His name was a synonym for an approach to life characterized by action, courage, physical prowess, stamina, violence, independence, and above all "grace under pressure (Yalom & Yalom, 1971). Hemingway brought a revolution in style and was a keen observer of the contemporary world and human nature (Dieguez, 2010). With his influential work Ernest Hemingway became the the archetypal American writer. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway stated that his stories emerged out of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/17)
අර්ජුන් මහේන්ද්‍රන්ගේ නියෝගය නිසා බිලියන 10 ක ලංසුවට අනුමැතිය දෙන්න වුණා‘යි හිටපු අධිකාරිනිය කියයි
බැදුම්කර නිකුතුවට ඉදිරිපත් වු රුපියල් බිලියන 10 ක ලංසුවට අනුමැතිය දෙන ලෙස ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ හිටපු අධිපති අර්ජුන් මහෙන්ද්‍රන් මහතා කළ නියෝගය හේතුවෙන් එම ලංසුවට අනුමැතිය දීමට සිදුවුණ බව ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ සංඛ්‍යා දත්ත දෙපාර්තමෙන්තුවේ හිටපු අධිකාරී දීපා කාන්ති සෙනෙවිරත්න මහත්මිය හෙළි කළාය. කරන්නට වෙන දෙයක් නොමැති හෙයින් එලෙස කිරීමට සිදුවු බවත් ඒ මහත්මිය බැඳුම්කර කොමිසම හමුවේ සාක්කි දෙමින් කීවාය. මහ බැංකුවේ වෙනත් දෙපාර්තමේන්තුවක රාජකාරී කළ තමා මෙම බැඳුම්කර නිකුතුව සිදු කිරීමට දින දෙකකට පෙර රාජ්‍ය ණය දෙපාර්තමෙන්තුවට ස්ථාන මාරූවීමක් ලබා පැමිණි බවත් මෙම බැදුම්කර වෙන්දේසිය තමාගේ මුල්ම බැදුම්කර වෙන්දේසිය වු... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/17)
Multi-skilled workers soon in state sector -Business Times Sunday
Quote Concerned about public discontent over the delivery of services, the Government is undertaking an immediate review of public sector staff in government offices. Unquote I have a story to tell about this, It is also concerning the attitude and the performance of Private and Public Sector Employees and well as employers .I have bought a house few years back in an area where many residencies have been converted to Business Premises in a quite after area .As the construction of the house may have been done before even Urban Development Act was not in existence... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/17)
Bond sale: seize their passports, PHU urges
The Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) Monday alleged Arjun Aloysius, the son-in-law of former Central Bank Governor Arjuna Mahendran, of attempting to siphon off money that he allegedly earned through illegal means. PHU leader Udaya Gammanpila made the observation at a press conference held in Colombo. We doubt whether he allegedly attempts to siphon off money in the guise of buying machinery by spending billions of rupees for a liquor factory in Pasikuda through over invoicing, Gammanpila said. The PHU also insisted the government to take immediate steps to cancel the primary dealer license of the Perpetual Treasuries Pvt... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/17)
Govt. eyes to privatize five key state institutions - Vasu
March 6, 2017 04:27 pm The Secretary of Socialist People’s Front Monday charged that the government has failed to uphold law and order in the country. Raja Kollure, General Secretary of Socialist People’s Front made the observation while speaking to reporters at a press conference held in Colombo. Citing the recent incidents of shooting happened in Kalutara and fully loaded weapons found from a court in Mt. Lavinia, Kollure went on to say a move is underway to threaten the judicial system of the country as well. “If the relevant minister is unable to handle... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/17)
And they ask why a tender procedure wasn't followed to hire BNS - Gotabaya
https://youtu.be/SyKCHLSaRjI... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/17)
Archaeological site in Madirigiriya in danger? මැදිරිගිරිය වටදාගෙය පිහිටි රක්ෂිතයේ පස් ජාවාරමක්... උකුසු ඇසට හසු වෙයි.
https://youtu.be/qR3xfZTMzqI... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/17)
The National Freedom Front (NFF) accuses govt. of double standards over Mangala’s remarks ජීනීවා මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලය ආණ්ඩුවේ කණ අතගාන ගමන් කම්මුල් පාරකුත් ගහලා
The National Freedom Front (NFF) accused the government of double standards on Sunday after the Foreign Minister sought more time to ‘meet the goals’ at the U.N. human rights session began in Geneva earlier this week. ජීනීවා මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලය ආණ්ඩුවේ කණ අතගාන ගමන් කම්මුල් පාරකුත් ගහලා 13 වැනි සංශෝධනය සම්පූර්ණයෙන්ම බලාත්මක කිරීම සහ නව ව්‍යවස්ථාවක් ගෙන ඒම, සත්‍ය සෙවීමේ කොමිසමක් පිහිටුවීම යන කරුණු 2017 ඔක්තෝබරයට පෙර ඉටු කරන ලෙස ‘ආණ්ඩුවට කම්මුල් පාරක් දී තරවටු’ කර ඇති ජිනීවා මානව හිමිකම් කවුන්සිලය ශ්රී ලංකාව ත්‍රස්තවාදයෙන් බේරාගත් හමුදාව පාවා දීම පිළිබඳව තුති පුදමින් ආණ්ඩුවේ ‘කණ අතගා’ ඇති බව ජාතික නිදහස් පෙරමුණ පෙන්වා... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/17)
Over 2000 officials have been questioned by FCID so far - Mahinda Rajapakse
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Sri Lanka in a catch-22 situation
Officially Sri Lanka today is in a situation best described by the Sinhala idiom ‘Girayata ahuwechcha puwak gediya wage’ –a Catch-22 situation- a paradoxical situation from which there is hardly any chance of escape. The country faces an almost insurmountable foreign exchange and external debt repayment crisis; a problem of finding backers to help extricate itself from this situation. The External Debt in Sri Lanka averaged 42,142.63 USD Million from 2012 until 2016, reached an all time high of 47,302.10 USD Million in the third quarter of 2016. Since independence Sri Lanka has never... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/17)
CANADIAN MAYOR REFUSES TO REMOVE PORK FROM SCHOOL CANTEEN MENU and EXPLAINS WHY
Muslim parents demanded the abolition of pork in all the school canteens of a Montreal suburb. The mayor of the Montreal suburb of Dorval has refused, and the town-clerk sent a note to all parents to explain why. Here’s that note: “Muslims must understand that they have to adapt to Canada and Quebec, its customs, its traditions, its way of life, because that’s where they chose to immigrate. “They must understand that they have to integrate and learn to live in Quebec. “They must understand that it is for them to change their lifestyle, not the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/17)
What Can the Sinhalese do about the Muslim population explosion and land grab?
5 Mar 2017 In the aftermath of the 1976 Non Aligned Nations Conference in Colombo, one of the ‘distinguished’ attendees Col Gadhafi, gave a radio interview to the local Muslims. (See Radio Ceylon Transcripts of 1976) On this occasion he inquired from them about their demographics in Sri Lanka and gave them the following advice and guide lines: To increase their population from what was around 7% at that time To buy land alongside major roads – Economic arteries that emanate from major economic centres To construct mosques so that the call to prayer ( Azan) can... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/17)
A love-bite release is hardly a palliative
What’s the difference between this government and the previous one? Ask some random person on the street and the most likely answer would be ‘nothing’. That’s a perception of felt benefits. In fact some might even say ‘this lot is worse’ and if pushed might explain, ‘they said they would be different and that means they wanted us to hold them to higher standards’. Put the question to a Sinhalese flagging reconciliation and ‘worse’ is what you are likely to get. And that’s not only because the government has been a poor communicator on... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/17)
WORLD KIDNEY DAY 2017 THEME OF THE YEAR AND WAY FORWARD TO PREVENT CKD
Theme of the year Kidney Disease and Obesity World Kidney Day is celebrating worldwide in order to realise awareness of the amazing Kidney, highlight that diabetics, high blood pressure are key factors on CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease) systems of screening all patients, encourages preventive behaviours, Educating medial and professionals, and activism in these directions with the activists public and media. “Obesity is a growing worldwide epidemic. Obesity is one of the strongest risk factors for new-onset chronic kidney disease, and also for nephrolithiasis and for kidney cancer. This year the... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/17)
The Stanford Prison Study
A world renowned social psychologist Philip Zimbardo conducted a prison simulation study in 1971 at the Stanford University with his student volunteers. He randomly divided these volunteers into guards and inmates and then placed in a mock prison environment. This study continued for six days and Zimbardo observed radical behavioural changes in guards and prisoners over time. He noticed sadistic abuse in prison guards and abject submissiveness among the prisoners. Professor Zimbado’s Stanford prison experiment uncovered the manifestation of deindividuation, vandalism and dehumanization when ordinary people were put in to specific authoritative figures with unlimited... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 06/03/17)
Lanka rejects UN call for foreign judges in war probe
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has rejected a fresh appeal from the United Nations to allow international judges to investigate alleged war-era atrocities, vowing to not prosecute soldiers. “I am not going to allow non-governmental organisations to dictate how to run my government. I will not listen to their calls to prosecute my troops,” the president said in remarks distributed by his office yesterday. The UN on Friday criticised Sri Lanka’s “worryingly slow” progress in addressing its wartime past, urging the government to adopt laws allowing for special hybrid courts to try war criminals. In his... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/17)
Sri Lanka has never taken such a ‘humiliating’ stance – Dayan Jayatilleka
March 4, 2017 07:43 pm Former Sri Lankan diplomat Dr Dayan Jayatilleka today charged that Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera that has declared to the entire world that Sri Lanka is a ‘failed state’. The former Sri Lankan Ambassador to the UN in Geneva was referring to the foreign minister’s recent speech at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, during which he had said that the country’s attempts at nation building after gaining self-determination from British rule has failed. “In my lifetime, Sri Lanka has never taken such a humiliating stance anywhere in the world,”... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/17)
The referendum trap
March 5, 2017, 9:28 pm President Maithripala Sirisena’s election manifesto stated: "I will not touch any Constitutional Articles that could be changed only with the approval of a referendum ... Instead of the present autocratic Executive Presidential System I will introduce a Constitutional structure with an Executive that is allied to the Parliament through the Cabinet". Following his election the President’s 100 Day programme stated: "…process will begin of abolishing the authoritative executive presidential system and replace it with an executive of a Cabinet of Ministers responsible to Parliament…" (100 Day Programme, Daily News,... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/17)
Shangrila-La investment a case in point, says GR Doing away with ‘red tape’ for the greater good
March 5, 2017, 10:04 pm Former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa says that the country is suffering for want of what he calls workable formula to achieve post-war development objectives. Comparing the period in the aftermath of successful conclusion of the war in May 2009 with that under the current yahapalana administration, Rajapaksa stressed the pivotal importance of swift and bold decision taking. Rajapaksa was addressing the annual convention 2017 of Viyathmaga, a civil society organisation pushing for larger role for professionals, at Golden Rose Hotel, Boralesgamuwa on Saturday (March 4).In his brief opening remarks, former Chairman of Securities... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/17)
Tamil Extremists After Industrial Colombo Not Infertile Jaffna
All families of TNA MPs live in Colombo! Their demand for Tamil Eelam is a sham to distract people and terrorise them into extorting more economic benefits and privileges in Colombo and surrounds so that a Colombo-centric Tamil Eelam will become more feasible. Quest for Tamil Eelam was genuine until open war began in 1983. The war and violence convinced Tamils that Tamil Eelam is not going to do them any good. The north and east have no modern industries, arid, infertile (relative to the wet zone) and plagued with caste disputes, regular Indian interference and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/17)
YAHAPALANA AND HAMBANTOTA Part I
Hambantota port is located on the Southern tip of Sri Lanka. It is ideally located at the intersection of the major international shipping routes. It is within 10 nautical miles from the world’s busiest maritime lanes. Approximately 200 to 300 ships sail along this route daily. Experts agree that Hambantota port has the potential to be a key port in South Asia, functioning as a logistical hub between Singapore and Dubai. With Mattala airport located just 20 minutes away, Hambantota is an ideal location for a sea/air hub and a Free Trade Zone (FTZ), similar to Jebel... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/17)
YAHAPALANA AND HAMBANTOTA Part 2
Yahapalana government had its own idiosyncratic approach to Hambantota. Instead of continuing with the project, as it should have done, since Phase 3 was in place, Yahapalana suspended the Hambantota project in January 2015. Yahapalana announced that the performance of Hambantota port had not been satisfactory. Port operations started in November 2010 and after six years, in 2016, an operating profit of US$1.81 million is reported which is far too short to proceed with loan repayment, it said. Hambantota port incurred losses of 1917 million in 2014 and 2015. Eran Wickramaratne said Hambantota was a white elephant... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/17)
Is this the Yahapalaya ? Sandya Kumari - හමුදා නිළධාරියෙකුගේ බිරිඳක් කියන කතාව
His Excellency, Maithripala Sirisena,President of Sri Lanka Copy to: Hon. Ranil Wickremasinghe, Prime Minister " " Hon. Wijayadasa Rajapaksa, Minister of Justice " " Hon. Gayantha Karunahilaka, Minister of Information " " Inspector General of Police, Sri Lanka Your Excellency, Fervent Appeal Made by Sandya Kumari, Wife of Former Military Intelligence Officer Held in Remand for Over 14 Months It is indeed shocking to hear the callous, nasty and inhumane treatment extended to Mrs. Sandya Kumari, wife of former military intelligence officer who has been arrested on alleged charges of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 05/03/17)
Govt. up against the wall in October
March 4, 2017, 7:10 pm Not holding the local government elections has become a major part of the survival strategy of this government. While the local government elections have been put off due to complications in the delimitation of wards, elections for the Eastern, North Central and Sabaragamuwa provinces will be due at the end of the third quarter of this year. According to Article 154E of the Constitution, Provincial Councils will unless sooner dissolved, continue for... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/17)
Geneva and after
March 4, 2017, 7:08 pm The advantages of a policy of non-confrontational foreign relations favored by the incumbent rulers against the bang-bang- bang approach of its predecessors was evident at the ongoing UN Human Rights Commission proceedings in Geneva where Sri Lanka did not face canon fire. Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera and his delegation left Geneva having seemingly won more time for the government to get its reconciliation act into proper order even as both President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe went on record on Friday saying that foreign judges will not be appointed to... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/17)
THE STRATEGY FOR AN ANTI-SRI LANKAN CONSTITUTION
Mr. R. Sampanthan’s 90 minute (written) speech during the recent adjournment debate (Feb 22) on the Constitution was ‘historicist’, in the sense that he invoked a great deal of political history. But his argument was a-historical and illogical. The Tamil nationalists, including Mr. Sampanthan himself spurned the many offers made by successive Sri Lankan (OK, Southern or Sinhala) administrations from that of President Premadasa through President Kumaratunga to President Rajapaksa. Why does the TNA think that offers made and rejected in wartime, due to the compulsions of wartime and the sacrifices necessary for a... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/17)
HE DESERVES OUR ETERNAL RESPECT
The late President Ranasinghe Premadasa signed the visitor's book at Jinadasa Vijayatunge's residence, Chapel Road, Nugegoda, when he visited his residence to pay his last respects to the renowned author and journalist, who died in 1989, with this single sentence observation: "This great author who brought world honour to Sri Lanka deserves our eternal respect". The President arranged for Vijayatunge's return on 28 April 1988 by acceding to every single request made by Vijayatunge when they met in London in 1986. Jinadasa Vijayatunge's last wish was to "get back home to die." Jinadasa... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/17)
Sirisena-Wickremesinghe govt is indebted to Tamil diaspora – GL
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I have no regrets regarding Sarath Fonseka's sentence - MR
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Joint Opposition will file several cases against Finance Minister - Bandula
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YAHAPALANA AND CORRUPTION Part 1
Yahapalana government came to power on the promise that it would eliminate corruption. Yahapalana forgot this promise once they got elected and engaged in a whole bouquet of corrupt actions. These are regularly discussed in newspapers, websites and broadcast in TV news. The public are watching avidly. Sunday Times BT-RCB Poll did street interviews in Colombo and Galle in 2016 and found that there was high awareness of the Central Bank bond issue, coal tender, port city project and other such issues. The respondents had much to say. ‘The government accused the previous government of being rogues... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 04/03/17)
The K Point alias the Eliyakanda Torture Chamber
In 1988 the JVP launched its 2nd insurrection against President Premadasa’s regime. The rebels and the security forces were responsible for gross violation of human rights during this period. The JVP insurrection claimed more than 60,000 lives. A large number of youth were arrested in connection with anti-government activities. The suspects were kept in numerous detention centers. Eliyakanda camp (in Matara District) became one of the detention centers and it was well-known for its inhuman handling of the detainees. It was also known as the K (killing) point. Mr. Rohitha Munasinge’s book titled 'Eliyakanda... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/03/17)
Echoing Tamils nationalistic slogans, Mangala Samaraweera's speech at UN on 1 March 2017, clearly implicated that Sri Lanka was a "failed state"!
Mr. President High Commissioner for Human Rights/ Madam Deputy High Commissioner Excellencies Distinguished Delegates Ladies and Gentlemen It is an honour for me to be here today at the 34th Session of the UN Human Rights Council which I believe has the highest number of dignitaries in attendance. I stand here today at a time when the very basis and fundamentals of human rights are being questioned around the world. Many of the universal values that we subscribe to are being challenged in the name of ‘populism’, with... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/03/17)
‘Toxin-free Agriculture’ and Microbial Fertilizer Technology Efficacy
The government’s new agriculture policy as enunciated in its policy document ‘Toxin –Free Nation- Three year Plan, 2016, is sadly full of errors and un-achievable. The policy, among other things, stipulates replacing agrochemicals over a specified time frame( 3 years according to the document), with organic agriculture and microbial fertilizer technologies; and cultivation of 30% of the rice extent in traditional varieties. It is argued that traditional varieties(YVs) are more nutritious and of higher medicinal value than the new improved varieties(NIVs). This is not true and there are NIVs with comparable nutritive value. On the other... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/03/17)
අයි .එම් උදය ඉඳුනිල්ව මරා දැමුවේ කවුද ?
උදය ඉඳුනිල් කොලඹ නාලන්දා මහා විද්‍යාලයේ සිසුවෙකු විය. එසේම ඔහු හිටපු බාලදක්‍ෂයෙකි. ජනාධිපති බාලදක්‍ෂ පදක්කම්ලාභියෙකි. ඉඳුනිල් ඉතා හොඳ හැසිරීමක් සහිත වූ ඉගෙනීමේ දක්‍ෂතාවයක් තිබූ සිසුවෙකු විය. බාලදක්‍ෂයෙකු ලෙස ඔහු කුසළතා පෙන්වූ අතර අප සමග බාලදක්‍ෂ කඳවුරු ගනනාවකට සහභාගී විය. මට වසර දෙක තුනකින් ජ්‍යෙෂ්ඨ වූ ඉඳුනිල් සමග මම ගාල්ල රජෙස් කන්ද පස් දින බාලදක්‍ෂ කඳවුරට සහභාගී වූයෙමි. මට අමතරව රාජකරුණාද මාතර ආරච්චිද මෙම කඳවුරට සහභාගී වූහ. ගාල්ල රජෙස් කන්ද පස් දින බාලදක්‍ෂ කඳවුරෙන් පසු මම 1982 දී ඉඳුනිල් සමග අනුරාධපුරයේ පැවති ලෝක බාලදක්‍ෂ ජම්බෝරියට සහභාගී වූයෙමි. එය මගේ අවසන් බාලදක්‍ෂ කඳවුර විය. ඉන්පසු මම උසස්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/03/17)
Stalin’s Mind
Joseph Stalin was one of the main architects of creating a collective trauma in the Soviet Union. His actions and policies brought immense suffering to the people. The aftermath of Stalin’s repression still impacts the post Soviet Society. However despite all the negative consequences Stalin is still remembered in Russia as a great hero who saved the Soviet Union from Hitler’s Fascist aggression and transformed the country in to a super power. The Stalinist past still shapes the Russian society today (Gouldner 2009). A survey commissioned by the Carnegie Endowment in 2012, suggested that Soviet... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/03/17)
The imbecile British MPs should understand that Sri Lanka is not a colony of theirs
The British Imperialists who grossly plundered the wealth and resources of the Asia Pacific and African nations in competition with several other European tyrant countries, who butchered scores of natives in countries they set their dirty foot in, who created ethnic divisions in their colonized countries and made people to hate each other, who denied even basic and employment rights to the majority people in these colonies, who created a bourgeois class in these countries, to continuously sustain their interests and remain ever slavish to them, left Sri Lanka in 1948 leaving a horde... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/03/17)
Jousting with the JO: Let the real opposition do its duty to the country
Kumar David (‘First trounce the Joint Opposition’/Sunday Island/February 19, 2017), speaking for those whom he calls ‘many experts’, asserts that ‘if amendments to the constitution live up to what is really needed, they have to be substantial and hence need to be approved at a referendum. If an entirely new constitution is to be enacted it will of course require a referendum’. By ‘what is really needed’, doesn’t he mean a camouflaged federal constitution? the federal seed inside unitary seed coat of the constitutional rice grain, as one Joint Opposition MP puts it? Kumar David’s... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/03/17)
The claims and counter-claims of intransigence
Leader of the Opposition and the senior citizen of Tamil Nationalism R Sampanthan in an adjournment motion has made some interesting points. “All people who lived in Sri Lanka, irrespective of their ethnicity, religion, or any other difference, whether Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim or Burgher made their fullest contribution to the achievement of independence. It is almost 70 years since Sri Lanka attained Independence from Colonial Rule. Ethnic strife had plagued the country from shortly after it attained Independence. Pacts entered into between Prime Ministers and the Tamil Political Leadership to help resolve such... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/03/17)
TNA’S TRAP REFERENDUM FOR EXIT
A funny thing happened in-between the reconvening of the Steering Committee of the Constitutional Assembly (Feb 21) and the adjournment motion on the Constitution held the next day in Parliament. TNA MP MA Sumanthiran and target of an assassination attempt by the LTTE, struck a discordant note in his speech at a seminar on “The Constitution, Reconciliation & You”, organized by Sri Lanka Inc. and held at the Buddhist Cultural Center auditorium on February 21st evening. His speech and mine (which came much later) triggered off a heated debate that kept the event... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 03/03/17)
BASL should not interfere in the appointment of judges - Hemantha Warnakulasuriya, PC
March 2, 2017, 9:28 pm The standoff between the Judicial Services Association and the Bar Association of Sri Lanka over the appointment of Ramanathan Kannan as a High Court judge still remains unresolved with the BASL not taking any action to have the appointment reversed as requested by the JSA. The most serious allegation against the new High Court judge is that he had on an earlier occasion, been recommended for appointment to the judiciary by an unnamed political party. In this interview, The Island staffer C. A. Chandraprema speaks to one of the most senior... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/03/17)
Lawyer’s statement recorded on impeachment of Chief Justice Complaint against former CIABOC chiefs et al
March 2, 2017, 10:42 pm The Commission to Investigate Allegations of Bribery or Corruption (CIABOC) has recently recorded a statement from attorney-at-law Nagananda Kodituwakku regarding the circumstances leading to the impeachment of Chief Justice Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake on January 11, 2013. Dr. Bandaranayake was reinstated on January 28, 2015 and she retired the following day following the change of government on January 8, 2015. The CIABOC has called Kodituwakku nearly a year after he sought its intervention to have three former commissioners, the then Director General and the Attorney General investigated in terms of... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/03/17)
Prez inquiry on bond scams: Official confirms Mahendran entered public debt dept. Auction extended following Primary Dealer’s request
March 2, 2017, 10:39 pm Top Central Bank official Dr. M. Z. M. Aazim yesterday told the Presidential Commission of Inquiry that Governor Arjuna Mahendran had entered the Public Debt Department on the tenth floor of the CBSL building at 10.45 am on Feb 27, 2015 while an auction of treasury bonds was taking place. Dr. Aazim was the Additional Superintendent of the Public Debt Department at that time. In answer to a query from Senior Deputy Solicitor General Priyantha Nawana, Dr Aazim said that during the time he served... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/03/17)
BODU BALA SENA – A NEW BUDDHIST MOVEMENT IN SRI LANKA:
New Delhi March 28: Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) – a Buddhist organisation many wish to call as Right or Ultra Right – is a new phenomenon in Sri Lanka. One may prefer to brand them in any manner one would like to. But the fact remains that this new outfit is slowly growing in stature and popular support in the country’s Buddhist-dominated areas. It came into prominence due to its public opposition to the Halal mark on all products marketed in Sri Lanka. This was the demand made and... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/03/17)
We should not prohibit Demonstrations but charge for the national losses
Yesterday I was passing by the road way in front of President’s office and noted some union members of Tamil community holding demonstrations. By 12 noon I was going back and police was trying control another group of people holding placards protesting about something else . Doctors and some medical staff were demonstrating in front Gampaha railway station inconveniencing the public. We see that it is daily occurrence in our life We also heard that under the principles of Yahaplanaya ,government is planning to allocate certain designated areas for Demo’s in order to minimize the inconvenience... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 02/03/17)
Report of the Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment on his Mission to Sri Lanka, from 29 April to 7 May 2016 බැදුම්කරේ බැදුම්කරේ කොයි බද යන්නේ,? අතිරේක විනාඩි 4 කින් මහ බැංකුවේ රුපියල් මිලියන 100 ක මගඩිය සිදු වුනේ මෙහෙමයි. කොමිසම නරඹපු වෙළදපොළේ පෙබරවාරි 27 මොකද වුනේ? - කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් කියයි
Human Rights Council 34th Regular Session Report of the Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment on his Mission to Sri Lanka, from 29 April to 7 May 2016 Presented under the Agenda Item 3, Clustered Interactive Dialogue with the Special Rapporteur on Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment and the Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders
(LankaWeb - 02/03/17)
"අසුචි දුර්ගන්ධය සම්බන්ධව ඌරාට පැමිණිලි කලා වගෙයි." මේ අපේ දේශයට එකතුවූ අලුත්ම ප්‍රස්තා පිරුලයි. මේ ප්‍රස්තා පිරුලේ උපතට හේතුව වශයෙන් කියා සිටින්නේ, බෙල්ලන්විල රජමහ විහාරාධිපති සවාමින්වහන්සේ, සිරිසේන ජනාධිපතිතුමාට මහා බැංකුවේ බැදුම්කර වංචාව සම්බන්ධව ඉතා අප්‍රසන්න ලෙස උන්වහන්සේ තුලවූ පිළිකුල ප්‍රකාශ කිරීමත් සමගය. බෙල්ලන්විල රජමහා විහාරාධිපති ස්වාමින්වහන්සේ යනු මහා ඥාණාන්විත, කිසිදු දේශපාලන පක්ෂයක් වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී නොසිටින ඇසූ පිරු තැන් ඇති මහා සග රුවනකි. බුදු දහමින් පෝෂිතවූ උන්වහව්සේ, බුදු රජාණන්වහන්සේ විසින් දෙසා වදාළ 'මහාචොරංග සුත්‍රය' විසින් පෙන්වා දෙන මහා හොරුන් විසින් සිදු කරන කාර්යයන් සම්භන්ධව මනා දැනුමකින් පෝෂිත සග රුවනකි. තවද මහා හොරාගේ විනාශයේ ලක්ෂණ සම්බන්ධවත් ඒ තුලින්... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/03/17)
බැදුම්කර වංචාව විමර්ශනය සදහා පත් කොට ඇති කොමිසමේ සමාජිකයින් අද ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුවේ වෙන්දේසිය නිරීක්ෂණය කිරීම තුලින් ‘බැදුම්කර මගඩියේ’ එක් අන්තයක් පිළිබදව ඔවුනට මනා අවබෝධයක් ලැබෙන්නට ඇති බව විශ්වාස කළ හැකි යැයි කැෆේ සංවිධානයේ විධායක අධ්‍යක්ෂ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා ගාල්ලේ අද පැවති පුවත්පත් සාකච්ඡාවක දී පැවසීය. එහිදී අදහස් දැක්වූ කීර්ති තෙන්නකෝන් මහතා “මහ බැංකු බැදුම්කර වංචාවේ දී 2015 පෙබරවාරි 27 උදේ සිදු වූ දේ තුල බැදුම්කර වංචාවේ ප්‍රබලම සාක්ෂිය සැගවී තිබෙනවා. මහ බැංකු වෙන්දේසියේ පරිගණක පද්ධතිය තවදුරටත් ලංසු ලබාගත නොහැකිව සාමාන්‍ය තත්වය යටතේ පෙ.ව. 11 ට ස්වයංක්‍රීයව වැසී යනවා. නමුත්, ලංකා ඉතිහාසයේ විශාලතව මහ... -Full Story- (LankaWeb - 01/03/17)
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