Shenali D Waduge The Sri Lankan military has announced that they have received information that certain politicians are attempting to divulge names of intelligence units and pin blame on them for the Aluthgama debacle in an obvious effort to create distrust and bring further chaos. It smacks memory of Aturugiriya and reminds us of how […]

Chamikara Weerasinghe Courtesy The Daily News Following the failed attempts to fan the flames of communal violence to create mayhem elsewhere in the country by exploiting the recent incidents in Aluthgama and Beruwala, a certain Opposition politician who is angered by the efficiency of the state and military intelligence that thwarted the bid, is currently […]

Sri Lanka clinched their first ever Test series victory in England by winning the second and final Investec Test match by 100 runs at Headingly yesterday. Sri Lanka, which captured five English wickets for 57 runs on Day Four, dismissed England for 249 in the penultimate delivery of the last over of the day in […]

By Udeshi Amarasinghe. Courtesy Ministry of Defence and Urban Development – Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. This is something that everyone knows, Sri Lanka was engaged in a conflict with the Liberation of Tamil Tiger Eelam (LTTE)-considered as the most ruthless terrorist organisation in the world-for 30 long years. Yes, Sri Lanka achieved peace and freedom […]

Shenali D Waduge  In July of 2013, European Parliament identified the Wahhabi movement as the source of global terrorism and a threat to traditional and diverse Muslim cultures of the whole world. Wahhabi cult was a creation of the British. That should make Muslims happy that the EU Parliament has identified not all Muslims as terrorists but Wahhabis. The […]

Part of campaign is to drive a wedge between SL and Muslim countries Evidence of funding from foreign sources Addressing a group of Colombo based Ambassadors on the recent disturbances, External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris said that the events in its internal dimension was a direct attempt to alienate the Muslim community from the […]

Shenali D Waduge The Chairman Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka Re. Buddhism Bashing in Newspapers in Sri Lanka   I am writing to draw the attention of the Press Complaints Commission in the light of its own declared Code of Professional Practice for Sri Lankan media. A content analysis will reveal the derogatory nature of […]

චන්ද්‍රසිරි විජයවික්‍රම මීට කලින් සටහන ලියන්නට පෙර, බොස්ටන් ලංකා ටී වී එකට රජිතා සේනාරත්න ඇමති සිංහල භාෂාවෙන් දුන් සාකච්චාව මම දුටුවෙමි. ඔහු ඉංග්‍රීසි භාෂාවෙන්  කතා කල තවත් සාකච්චාවක් ජූනි 21ද් ආ මම දුටුවෙමි. සිංහලෙන් කල කතාවට වඩා වෙනසක් ඉංග්‍රීසි කතාවේ ඇත. එයට බළලා මල්ලෙන් එලියට පැන්නා වැනි කාරණා ඇතුලත් ය. 2009 දී ඔහුට බේරුවල සංවිධායක […]

Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka in Geneva  Sri Lanka has strongly rejected the inference that the presence of the military contributes to the insecurity of women and girls in the former conflict-affected areas. Exercising a ‘Right of Reply’ with regard to the statement made during the General Debate under Agenda Item 4 by Canada, claiming […]

Courtesy dailymail.co.uk The judge who sentenced former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to death has been captured and executed by ISIS militants, it is claimed. Raouf Abdul Rahman, who sentenced the dictator to death by hanging in 2006, was reportedly killed by rebels in retaliation for the execution of the 69-year-old. Jordanian MP Khalil Attieh wrote […]