Archive for November, 2013
Saturday, November 30th, 2013
Dilrook Kannangara Too much has been said about human rights of a mere 2 million Sri Lankan Tamils in the past few years. Most of these are absurd allegations as Tamils in Sri Lanka enjoy the same level of human rights as Tamils in Canada, UK or India. However, nothing has been said about the […]
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Saturday, November 30th, 2013
By Charles.S.Perera David Camaron said of Muttiah Murulitharan: “First, I did not hit Muralitharan for six. Secondly, I think he was being quite gentle with me. I certainly could not read which way the ball was going to go and I was fairly lucky to hit it at all. He made a good point that […]
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Saturday, November 30th, 2013
Insight By Sunil Kumar November 28th, 2013 It seems a bit odd that British Prime Minister David Cameron in demanding a “transparent, credible and independent” probe into the alleged massacre of Sri Lankan Tamils, days after he pressed President Mahinda Rajapaska for an enquiry into rights violations during the final days of the civil […]
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Saturday, November 30th, 2013
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada 29 November 2013 Deepak Obhrai, MP Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, House of Commons, Ottawa Dear Deepak: At 11:25 this morning I watched on CPAC you getting up from your seat in the House and briefing your parliamentary colleagues with a […]
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Saturday, November 30th, 2013
Dr.Ruwan M Jayatunge A significant number of Sri Lankan soldiers sustained head injuries during the Eelam War that lasted from 1983 to 2009. These head injuries mainly occurred due to gunshot wounds, mortar blast injuries, grenade explosions and artillery blasts. Traumatic Brain Injuries increased High morbidity and mortality rates among the Sri Lankan combatants. Traumatic […]
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Saturday, November 30th, 2013
Mahinda Weerasinghe Indian State as an Enemy is not an enemy per se; it is subtler than that. If they dig a little deeper they will find that Jaffna Tamil Catholics are behind the whole gambit. They are using that sack of rice “Jayalalitha” and other Indian jokers in order to get their dirty work […]
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Friday, November 29th, 2013
BBC World News – Global – interview with H.E. Dr. Chris Nonis , Sri Lankan High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, on 28th November 2013 *Significant Tamil diaspora in Britain *Census is one of LLRC recommendations British Prime Minister David Cameron may have highlighted alleged human rights issues in Sri Lanka because he had domestic […]
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Friday, November 29th, 2013
Courtesy Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) ‘The Last Phase’, a documentary film depicting the life story of a former female LTTE cadre during the final stages of the humanitarian operation in Sri Lanka was screened on Thursday at the European Union (EU) Parliament in Brussels for the first time. Watch full video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngNeF5WY64s The event […]
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Friday, November 29th, 2013
by Shenali D. Waduge Lawyer Mr. Dharshan Weerasekera’s highly analytical and insightful article titled “Illegality of UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s approach to Sri Lanka’ appearing in ‘Foreign Policy Journal’ of 19 March 2013 and published in several Lankan internet websites and mainstream newspapers i.e. Daily News (November 28 and 29, 2013) in the […]
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Friday, November 29th, 2013
චන්ද්”රසේන පණ්ඩිà¶à¶œà·š විසිනි වර්ෂ 1972 à·ƒà·à¶´à·Šà¶à·à¶¸à·Šà¶¶à¶»à·Š මස 17 වෙනිදà·à¶º. මේ දිනයේද෠යà·à¶´à¶±à¶ºà·š දොරෙඅප්ප෠ක්රà·à¶©à· පිටියේද෠පà·à·€à¶à·’ à·ƒà·à¶±à¶šà·™à·…ියකද෠බà·à¶¸à¶¶à¶ºà¶šà·Š පිපිරුව෠හà·à¶», අà·à¶»à¶¸à·Šà¶· කල දෙමළ à¶à·Šà¶»à·ƒà·Šà¶à·€à·à¶¯à¶º, වර්ෂ 2009 මà·à¶ºà·’ මස 18 වෙනිද෠නන්දිකඩà·à¶½à·Š කලපුවේද෠නිම විය. ඒ නිම වූයේ දෘෂ්යමà·à¶± à¶à·Šà¶»à·ƒà·Šà¶à·€à·à¶¯à¶ºà¶ºà·’. දà·à¶±à·Š අප සූදà·à¶±à¶¸à·Š වන්නේ ඒ à¶à·Šà¶»à·ƒà·Šà¶à·€à·à¶¯à¶º මේ රට à¶à·”ල සිදුකල කà·à¶»à·Šà¶ºà¶º සම්බන්ධව විදිමà¶à·Š පරà·à¶šà·Šà·‚ණයක් සිදුකල යුà¶à·” ආකà·à¶»à¶º […]
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Friday, November 29th, 2013
Ira de Silva Ontario, Canada Roxanne James, M.P. (Conservative) Parliamentary Secretary for Minister of Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness House of Commons Ottawa, Ontario Dear Madam: You have asked for feedback on Mr. Harper not attending the Commonwealth Summit. Regarding human rights – I do not agree. Canada has no right to criticise […]
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Thursday, November 28th, 2013
Janaka Yagirala Lets face it, we are drowning in debt. Its no secret that our economy is in pretty bad shape, nor does it take a genius to figure it out. It is true that most of the world is suffering a similar fate. The Americans are 16 trillion dollars in debt. The British are […]
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Thursday, November 28th, 2013
Dr.Chula NA Rajapakse MNZM, Spokesperson , United Sri Lanka Assn., LowerHutt. Letters to Editor , Dompost. Dear Editor, Gus Campbell’s amazing letter seeing the truth as it is restores some welcome balance to the unfounded diatribe that has dominated the media in the past few weeks, that paid scant attention to the Tiger […]
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Thursday, November 28th, 2013
Dr.Tilak Fernando The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) 2013 ended on November 17 in Colombo. During its post-mortem, many ideas, suggestions, criticism and especially emotional outbursts have spearheaded in the Sri Lankan press, websites as well as in some of the Western press lambasting the British Prime Minister David Cameron’s boorish behaviour for acting […]
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Thursday, November 28th, 2013
‘Old Soldier’ “The end justifies the means to save lives” “Trial by television”(Margaret Thatcher) David Cameron as a guest of Sri Lanka, ostensibly to attend CHOGM, threatened to put his host in the dock at the UNHRC in Geneva. The first lesson even a Corporal of the Brit army is taught is not to threaten. […]
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Thursday, November 28th, 2013
Media Release : Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka in Geneva Minister Dilan Perera says Sri Lanka committed to address the regionalmismatches between supply and demand in foreign employment through Colombo Process Chair Minister of Foreign Employment Promotion & Welfare Dilan Perera has said Sri Lanka which recently assumed the Chairmanship of the Colombo Process – […]
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Wednesday, November 27th, 2013
Asoka Weerasinghe Kings Grove Crescent . Gloucester . Ontario . Canada (Ottawa-Vanier Riding) 26 November 2013 Roxanne James, Conservative MP for Scarborough Centre, Ontario Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Safety & Emergency Preparedness House of Commons, Ottawa Dear Roxanne: Forgive me if I am breaching Electoral Riding protocols by responding to your letter […]
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Wednesday, November 27th, 2013
P.A.Samaraweera, Melbourne TNA MP Siritharan in a speech made in Parliament on the 26th Nov had lionised the Tiger leader Prabhakaran. He had said that, “Prabhakaran was a national hero” and had called upon Tamils to commemorate his death. Govt MP’s have condemned him for making a ‘Mahaveera’ speech glorifying the terrorist leader. For Siritharan, the man […]
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Wednesday, November 27th, 2013
by Dharshan Weerasekera -Courtesy Foreign Policy Journal March 19, 2013 U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon Download this paper (PDF) Since the end of the civil war in Sri Lanka in May 2009, there have been four attempts by the UN, or associated with the UN, to pursue “accountability” with respect to alleged war crimes committed […]
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Tuesday, November 26th, 2013
Shenali D Waduge The importance of culture, values, traditions, customs are all integrated into how a country’s identity is identified. It is this identity that gets passed down from generation to generation continued to preserve and protect what is held precious to the natives whose identity becomes a key part of who they are and […]
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Tuesday, November 26th, 2013
by Prof. Sunil J. Wimalawansa Safe drinking water is a fundamental human right, but more than 2.0 billion people in the world still lack access to safe-clean drinking water and to sanitation; Sri Lanka is no exception. Contaminated water and poor sanitation claim more lives than any war or any single disease. Toxic chemicals or […]
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Tuesday, November 26th, 2013
By Charles.S.Perera Sri Lanka is being accused for violation of human rights and its Armed Forces for war crimes But why and who is responsible for this wild accusation by the West ? There had not been any violation of human rights for which Sri Lanka could correctly be singled out as the only country […]
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Tuesday, November 26th, 2013
Shenali D Waduge The best of British we were told would arrive in Colombo to participate in the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting hosted by Sri Lanka. We didn’t have to say ‘Bob’s your uncle’ for Cameron made quite clear all the way from London he was not going to be fagged by Rajapakse’s hospitality […]
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Tuesday, November 26th, 2013
Rudra de Zoysa, New Zealand. Dear Editor, I was amazed at the number of examples given by the contributors to this publication about the instances of Britain’s human rights abuses. If you wish to read about all of Britain’s abuses of human rights since 1944 then please refer to or purchase the following book: – […]
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Tuesday, November 26th, 2013
Mahinda Gunasekera Agincourt, Ontario Canada By E-mail November 24, 2013 The Editor Toronto Star Toronto, Ontario Dear Editor, Re: Three page article by Rosie DiManno carried in the Star of November 2013 Rosie DiManno is once again packing her lengthy article with statements from different persons and repeating some allegations picked up from various sources […]
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Tuesday, November 26th, 2013
P.A.Samaraweera, Melbourne The birthday of Prabhakaran falls on 26 Nov. During the hey days of the LTTE, Prabhakaran commemorated his birthday by his much publicised speech which was made at a ceremony in the North. It was his usual call for a separate state and claim for Eelam. Then the following day, 27 Nov, was commemorated as the heroes day, […]
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Tuesday, November 26th, 2013
චන්ද්”රසේන පණ්ඩිà¶à¶œà·š විසිනි මේ රට à¶à·”ල වසර à¶à·’හක කà·à¶½à¶ºà¶šà·Š පුර෠යුද්ධයක් පà·à·€à¶à·’ණි. වර්ෂ 2009 මà·à¶ºà·’ මස 18 වෙනිද෠මේ යුද්ධය නිමà·à·€à¶§ පà¶à·Š කරන ලදà·. යුද්ධය නිම෠කිරà·à¶¸ වරදක් ලෙස දකිණ ලà·à¶š ප්රජà·à·€à·™à¶±à·Š කොටසක් කුපිà¶à·€, නව යුද්ධයක් අà·à¶»à¶¸à·Šà¶· කර à¶à·’බේ. ඊට මුහණදà·à¶¸à¶§, මුලු රටම ඉà¶à· බුද්ධිමà¶à·Šà·€ සූදà·à¶±à¶¸à·Šà·€à·’ය යුà¶à·”ය. ඒ සදහ෠ජà·à¶à·’ය පෙල ගස්වන්නේ කෙසේද යන්න සම්බන්ධව […]
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Tuesday, November 26th, 2013
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy Island Regional as well as global naval powers are participating in the fourth edition of the Galle Dialogue, scheduled to begin today at the Light House Hotel. Among the participants are those who had been supportive of Sri Lanka’s war against terror paving the way for the conclusion of the conflict […]
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Tuesday, November 26th, 2013
Asoka Seneviratne USA I am a Sri Lankan living in USA. I have been using Kapruka.com for years to send dozens of gifts to Sri Lanka. Recently I had to send $ 2200.00 to family memeber in SL for an urgent matter. I did the transaction through Kapruka.com. They claim to provide the prevailing exchange […]
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Tuesday, November 26th, 2013
PRESS COMMUNIQUE – MINISTRY OF INDUSTRY & COMMERCE, SRI LANKA Sri Lanka’s second largest trade partner in SAARC is bullish, aims at heavy industry sectors here and has even earmarked an investment quantum destined for Sri Lanka. “Pakistani investors have a preference for Sri Lanka due to logistics and developing infrastructure. We now ready with […]
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