The Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the United Nations and other International Organizations in Geneva Mr. President, Anyone unaware of the ground situation in Sri Lanka walking into the Human Rights Council today could not be blamed for thinking that Sri Lanka is the most troubled place on this planet. However, as you are […]

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Press Release –Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the UN, Geneva Exercising the right to reply on statements made regarding the arrest and detention of Ms. Balendran Jeyakumari, and the incidents in Killinochchi last week, Sri Lanka asked the member states at the 25th Session of the Human Rights Council on 26 March 2014 how […]

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Committee for a United Sri Lanka Following a successful side event at the Palais des Nations, where “The Last Phase”, a documentary based on the lives of two former LTTE combatants and told from the point of view of Jeyawadani, a former female combatant, who grew up with the doctrine of the said terrorists group […]

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Warna Hettiarachchi Toronto, Ontario Canada Dear Diplomats, Lawmakers and Distinguished Leaders of World’s Nations,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxVao1HnL1s  May I draw your attention to the above YOUTUBE link of a CBS 60-Minutes report by Christiana Amanpour depicting how the US and Britain secretly planned inhuman relocation of Diego Garcia atoll’s natives and inhabitants through deportation to Mauritius and […]

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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Canadian Sri Lankans of Ottawa held a large Hands Off Sri Lanka protest rally outside USA Embassy on Tuesday March 25 2014 from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm in subzero temperatures.  Various Ottawa organizations, religious figures and members from Toronto and Montreal too joined in protesting against the US resolution. This rally […]

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Dr. Tilak Fernando As mentioned in my ‘Life Abroad Part 71’, another Sri Lankan from down under, Nicky Karunarathna from Australia, has come out forcefully with his personal experiences against the LSSP activities of the by- gone years, having read episode 70 under the caption ‘Vivian gave beans’. It is not my wish to get […]

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