Neutrality Studies The hypocrisy of the West and the utterly fake outrage over the death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny is breathtaking. While torturing to death Julian Assange in a UK prison—an Australian citizen who had been working in the UK and whose only “crime” it is to have revealed truths about US war crimes—and […]

Dr Sudath Gunasekara Ex Secretary to Prime Minister Mrs Bndaarnayaka This blind Government, which blindly elected him should immediately tame the President or ask him to resign forthwith, before completely ruining this country following the footsteps of his uncle going by Western advice with no regard or concern about this country or the Sinhala nation. […]

Dilrook Kannangara Sri Lanka Air Force is taxpayer-funded. Therefore, it must equitably distribute any charitable donations to all. That means all provinces are equal. However, unfortunately, the recent charitable activities only benefit one ethnic group and one province in the North which is discriminatory and tribal-minded. This includes distributing school books and equipment to the […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS The main strategy used to suppress Buddhism in the north and east, was to place Hindu kovils within Buddhist ruins. Kovils were set up on Buddhist structures. Hindu kovils have been built over many of the Buddhist shrines, said Medhananda.There was a historical precedent for this. Ama Wanniarachchi reported in 2022 that recent […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS In 1983, Cyril Mathew prepared a 167 page document, titled An appeal to UNESCO to safeguard and preserve the cultural property in Sri Lanka endangered by racial prejudice, unlawful occupation or willful destruction.” The book also contains information on 24 selected sites, with supporting documents, showing the destruction of these Buddhist monuments.  Among […]

KAMALIKA PIERIS When destroying Buddhist ruins,rock inscriptions were specifically targeted. They were sought out and deliberately destroyed. They were usulaly  broken into peices,  failing which,  words were tarred or obliterated.Mundikulammale in  Ampara had rows of caves with inscriptions. these had been shot and destroyed. The damage done is extensive. Buddhist ruins at Niyankullukama were shot […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් ශ්‍රී ලංකාව ඉන්දියාවේ කොටසක් බවට සංචාරක ඇමැති හරින් ප්‍රනාන්දු මහතා කර ඇති ප්‍රකාශය සම්බන්ධයෙන් නඩු පැවරීම සඳහා නීති උපදෙස් ලබා ගනිමින් සිටින බව දේශහිතෛශී ජාතික ව්‍යාපාරයේ මහ ලේකම් වෛද්‍ය වසන්ත බණ්ඩාර මහතා පවසයි. ඇමැතිවරයා පවසා ඇති එම ප්‍රකාශය නිසා ආණ්ඩුක්‍රම ව්‍යවස්ථාව උල්ලංඝනය වන බවත් මන්ත්‍රීවරයකු වශයෙන් ලබා දී ඇති දිවුරුම කඩවන […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් හරීන් ප්‍රනාන්දු සංචාරක අමාත්‍යවරයා ඉන්දියාවේ රාජ්‍යතාන්ත්‍රික කටයුත්තකදී සිදුකරන ලද “ලංකාව ඉන්දියාවේ කොටසක්!” යන බරපතළ ප්‍රකාශය හමුවේ ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ, “රටේ ස්වෛරීත්වය රැක්කේ අපි” කියා පවසන රාජපක්ෂවරුන්, විපක්‍ෂ නායකවරයා ඇතුළු බලයට ඉව අල්ලන විපක්ෂයේ අනෙකුත් කල්ලි කණ්ඩායම් කසාය බිව් ගොළුවන් සේ දත කට පූට්ටු කරගෙන ඉන්නා බවත් ඉන් පෙනී යන්නේ, “ශ්‍රී ලංකාව […]

උපුටා ගැන්ම  ලංකා ලීඩර් රාජ්‍ය සම්පත් පෞද්ගලීකරණ කිරීම හේතුවෙන් සමාජ අනාරක්ෂිතතාවක් නිර්මාණය වීමේ අවදානමක් මතුව ඇති බව පෙන්වා දෙමින් ත්‍රෛනිකායික මහානායක හිමිවරුන් විසින්  ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා වෙත අවවාදාත්මක ලිපියක් යොමුකර තිබේ. එමගින් උන්වහන්සේලා පෙන්වා දී ඇත්තේ  ඇත්තේ මහජන සුබ සිද්ධිය, ජාතික ආරක්ෂාව, මෙන්ම රටේ ආර්ථික ස්ථායීත්වය පදනම් කොටගෙන ආරම්භ කරන ලද රාජ්‍ය ව්‍යාපාර මහජනයා […]

Ministry of Defence  – Media Centre Remembering the 117th death anniversary of Buddhist revivalist, Colonel Henry Steel Olcott, Defence Secretary General Kamal Gunaratne paid floral tributes to the statue of the late Colonel Olcott opposite the Fort Railway Station, Colombo today (Feb 17). A pioneer of the Sri Lankan Buddhist revivalist movement, Colonel Olcott spearheaded […]

Dialogue works Larry C. Johnson is a veteran of the CIA and the State Department’s Office of Counter Terrorism. He is the founder and managing partner of BERG Associates, which was established in 1998. Larry provided training to the US Military’s Special Operations community for 24 years. He has been vilified by the right and […]

Courtesy The Island Elections will be held in time, opposition circulating rumours” President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Thursday said that people of this country well know that there are no shortcuts to abolish the executive presidency.Responding to a query by a group of MPs at a meeting at the President’s Office in Colombo, the President said […]

Courtesy The Daily Mirror Colombo, Feb. 18 (Daily Mirror)- The Supreme Court delivered a judgment in favour of the plaintiff party over a land dispute relating to a 90-perch plot of land in Kurunegala, which had traversed the halls of the courts for 52 years. This case was first instituted in 1972 by the original […]

Courtesy Sputnik © Sputnik / Stringer On January 24, the Ukrainian Armed Forces shot down a Russian Air Force Il-76 military transport plane over the Belgorod region that was carrying 65 Ukrainian prisoners set for exchange. Kiev’s British advisers are responsible for the deaths of the POWs and the crew of the Il-76 transport plane, which […]

Courtesy Adaderana Another 418 suspects have been arrested by Sri Lanka’s police and security forces personnel within 24 hours which ended at 12.30 a.m. today (18 Feb.), as part of the ongoing countrywide anti-drug operation ‘Yukthiya’. According to the Ministry of Public Security, detention orders have been secured against 8 of the suspects, while 2 […]

Courtesy Adaderana A total of 793 traffic offenders have been identified within the first 15 days of February through the 24-hour surveillance system implemented to monitor traffic violations. According to Police Spokesman DIG Nihal Thalduwa, 300 police stations across the country have been notified to take necessary action against the said offenders. He further noted […]