Dilrook Kannangara 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 […]

Shenali D Waduge 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 […]

By : A.A.M.NIZAM – MATARA 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 […]

By Magamputhra Courtesy ceylon Today “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 […]

 By Ananda Ariyarathne Courtesy Ceylon Today “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 […]

By Yusuf Ariff  Courtesy Adaderana 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 […]

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.

Shenali D Waduge 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 […]

වෛද්‍ය රුවන් එම් ජයතුංග 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. […]

නලින් ද සිල්වා 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 […]

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 […]

Dr. Chula Rajapakse MNZM, Spokepserson, United Sri Lanka Assn, Wellington NZ 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 […]

BY  M D P DISSANAYAKE 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 […]

Dr Dasarath Jayasuriya PRESIDENT The Society for Peace Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka (SPUR), 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 […]

By Kelum Bandara Courtesy The Daily Mirror 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 […]

By Ananda-USA 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 […]

Somapala Gunadheera 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 […]

By Yusuf Ariff Courtesy Adaderana 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 […]

By P.K.Balachandran  Courtesy newsin.asia 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, […]

sinhalanet.net 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 […]

Adaderana.lk 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 […]