KAMALIKA  PIERIS The LTTE delayed its defeat for four months, In Eelam War IV, by hiding behind 200,000 Tamils as hostages. These hostages were taken by the LTTE first to Mulangavil, then Kilinochchi, Dharmapuram, Vishvamadu and finally Puthumathalan, from where they were rescued by the army. The hostages said that they were forced to leave […]

Shenali D Waduge When out of 19 members selected by the Prime Minister only two (Kushan de Alwis & M K Nadeeka Damayanthi opposes the removal of Article 9  it revealed beyond doubt the objective. 70% comprise Buddhists in Sri Lanka and only 2 stood for the sacrosanct status of the country’s historical ethos. The […]

Mahinda Weerasinghe  excerpt from his book Origin of Species According to the Buddha”  Godage Publishers By the time Darwin came to formulate his On the Origin of  Species, somewhat similar ideas were already simmering in the Western world. Yet, to confront the believers of the Good Book with such hearsay just a few years before, would […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS LTTE committed  many serious war crimes during the Eelam wars. Here are some of them.  To start with, there are prohibitions regarding recruitment into an army. The Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict  forbids the enlistment of anyone under the age of 18 into the armed forces. According to […]

Permanent Mission of Sri Lanka to the World Trade Organization Geneva Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the WTO in Geneva Ambassador R.D.S. Kumararatne has presented to Mr. Roberto Azevêdo, Director-General of WTO the Instrument of Acceptance of the Protocol on Trade Facilitation on 31st May 2016. Sri Lanka is the 81st Member to deposit its Instrument […]

By Rohana R. Wasala (This article was recently published in two parts in The Island daily (Sri Lanka) under the title ‘Carlo Fonseka’s ESSAYS OF A LIFETIME” – A personal appreciation’ as a tribute to the distinguished Sri Lankan  it is about. I am happy to share it with Lankaweb readers, under a new title as […]

Dr Hector Perera      London I have experimented my scientific energy saving and smell saving cooking for a number of years before I demonstrated the technique in several TVs in Sri Lanka, including Sirasa TV. I managed to convince the respective authorities in TVs to give me a place to demonstrate the technique so that the […]

Dr. Sudath Gunasekara 31.5.2016 All Tamils have a Subcontinent called India to go, from where they intruded to this country from 2nd C BC either as invaders or illicit immigrants or people imported by Dutch and British to work for them on their tobacco, coffee and tea lands established on our lands conquered by them. […]

Dilrook Kannangara Japan and USA used the G7 summit to bash China and rope in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Vietnam by the lure of funds (loans) to disrupt China. If Sri Lanka changes its stand on South China Sea as a result, there will be dire consequences. Not even powerful nations mess with China. It […]

Shenali D Waduge How many are able to grasp the real problem that prevails. The LTTE was just an ailment that lasted 3 decades because our leaders were not able to take a grip on the larger plan and nip that in the bud. Unless we see the issue from a global perspective we will […]

හිටපු ජනාධිපති මහින්ද රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතාගේ පුත් පාර්ලිමේන්තු මන්ත‍්‍රී නාමල් රාජපක්‍ෂ මහතා හිරු රූපවාහිනියේ සලකුණ වැඩසටහනට සහභාගී විය. මුළු වැඩසටහන පුරාම ඉතා සංයමයෙන් කරුණු ඉදිරිපත් කල මන්ත‍්‍රීවරයා කිසිදු අවස්ථානයක නිවේදකයන්ට නොතකා කටයුතු නොකලේ සිය අනන්‍යතාවයද රැකගනිමිනි. සීඑස්එන්, තජුඞීන්, කාර්රේස්, නීති විභාගය, ගුවන් සේවිකාව, පවුල් පාලනය ඇතළු තමන් ඇතුළු සියල්ලන්ට එල්ල වූ චෝදනා එකින් එකට ඉත පැහැදිදිව […]

චන්ද්‍රසේන පණ්ඩිතගේ විසිනි “යහපාලනය” බිහිවූ 2015 ජනවාරි 8 වෙනඉදා සිට මේ දක්වාම මේ රටේ සිදුකල එකම දෙය වන්නේ 30 වසරක යුද්ධය නිමාකල පාලකයින්, නිලධාරීන් හා වීරෝධාර හමුදාවන්ට එරෙහිව සෘජුවම කිසිදු බයක්, හිරිකිතක් නැතිව කටයුතු කිරීමයි. මෙය ජාතික වශයෙන් හා ජාත්යන්තර වශයෙන් ඉතා සැලසුම සහගතව සිදුකල හා සිදුකරමින් යන කටයුත්තක් බවට පත්ව තිබේ. එදා හමුදාවන්ට එරෙහිවූ […]

ධර්මසිරි සෙනෙවිරත්න කාමලෝකයෙන් අපව මුදවා ගැනීමේ අරමුණ පෙරදැරි කරගත් බුදුදහම අන් සියලු ලෞකික විද්‍යාවන්ගෙන් වෙනස් වන්නේ ඒ සියලු ලෞකික විද්‍යා වන්ගේ අරමුණ ජීවිතය බදා ගැනීමට එය රස විඳීමට  එය රමණය කිරීමට අප යොමුකිරීම නිසාය නැකත් බලන්නේ  හා ගුප්තවිද්යා පසුපස යන්නේ ජීවිතය වඩාත් සුබදායක කරගෙන ආශ්වාදයන් විඳින්නට ඉඩ ලබාගනු සඳහායවිනය ලබාදෙන විද්‍යාව ජීවිතය දේ දුනු වර්ණයෙන් […]

Nava Thakuria Guwahati: The city based Narayana Super-specialty Hospital in association with Guwahati Press Club (GPC) planned to offer Journalist Privilege Cards to its member-journalists. The recognized members of the press club will be handed over the health cards in a function starting at 2 pm on Saturday (4 June 2016) in the press club […]