RANJITH SOYSA  Many news sources in Sri Lanka have reported several incidents of foreigners holding visit visas arriving as tourists running business ventures mainly in tourism and cyber crimes. The latest we heard was that Israeli citizens/visitors owned tourist villas and prayer centers,  With the unstable and threatening world and especially amid the prevailing war between Israel and […]

Ranjith Soysa At a recent discussion hosted by a well-known public TV channel, on the subject of the agreement with the IMF regards the restructuring of foreign debts of Sri Lanka  an office bearer of the Government Audit officers’ association revealed a very important issue discussed in the Government’s financial management bill. He stated that […]

Ranjith Soysa Courtesy The Island The Sri Lankan government is getting ready to sign ETCA (Economic and Technology Cooperation Agreement) with India amidst stiff resistance from the members of the professional groups who consider it as an open invitation to India to exploit the weak Sri Lankan economy as well as the Sri Lankans who are […]

RANJITH SOYSA The Tamil political leaders have yet again approached the Indian political leadership through the Indian High Commissioner requesting to consider their demands on behalf of the Northern and the Eastern Tamils to ensure that their ‘problems’ are dealt with the intervention of India. Unfortunately, the periodic emotional plea to the Indian authorities by […]

RANJITH SOYSA Courtesy The Island Houthis parading a missile truck. (File Photo) We refer to the news report that the government of Sri Lanka is planning to send her naval ships to the Suez Canal area arguably to protect the international ships from the Houthi rebels who have started attacking the ships which are operating […]

RANJITH SOYSA We refer to the news report that the Government of Sri Lanka is planning to send her naval ship or ships to the Red sea area arguably to protect the international ships from the Houthi rebels who have started attacking the ships which are operating to and from Israel. According to the information […]

RANJITH SOYSA උතුරේ සෞඛ්‍ය හා අධ්‍යාපන ක්‍ෂේත්‍රයේ ගැටලු විමසීමට ජනාධිපති රනිල් වික්‍රමසිංහ මහතා සිය යාපනය සංචාරයේදී පෙරේදා (6 දා) පියවර ගත්තේය. ඉන් අනතුරුව යාපනය රියෝ අයිස් ක්‍රීම් වෙළෙඳසලට පැමිණි ජනාධිපතිවරයා අයිස් ක්‍රීම් රස බලන අතර කුඩා දරුවකු සමග සතුටු සාමීචියේ යෙදුන අවස්ථාවකි. උතුරේ කුමන දේශපාලන පක්ෂයක්, කුමන අයුරින් කටයුතු කළද කුල ප්‍රශ්නය නිසා ජනතාව පීඩාවට […]

RANJITH SOYSA Of late, some of the members of Sinhala community are receiving step motherly treatment from the racist Tamil politicians as well as the local administrations and in some instances from the  Police services too. The discriminatory policies impacting Sinhala villagers in Kokkilai bay area and Divulapthana in the East are being discussed regularly […]

RANJITH SOYSA Your Excellency the President Ranil Wickramasinghe.Hon Dinesh Gunawardane- Prime Minister,Hon Mahinda Rajapaksa – the Former President, IMF RECIPE AND SRI LANKA’S FUNDS PARKED ABROAD. All of you are shouldering the unenviable task of attending to the stabilization of the economy and we constantly hear of structural readjustment of the of the debt and the […]

RANJITH SOYSA  Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the  truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers […]

RANJITH SOYSA With reference to the reports published in many news sources  and Sunday Island, The US ambassador had met a senior Army Officer and discussed “the need to build trust with the minorities to ensure lasting peace”. US ambassador’s blatant interference in domestic issues and her audacity to convey her proposal how to ensure lasting […]

RANJITH SOYSA The nation was deprived of its most versatile military leader with a gentle heart on 8th August 1992 at Araly Pont. Jaffna when Lt Gen Denzil Kobbekaduwa was killed by a remote-controlled bomb of the LTTE terrorists. If he survived, the threat paused by the separatists to the unitary Sri Lanka and her […]

MEDIA RELEASE GLOBAL SRI LANKAN FORUM – LONDON INITIATIVE. The Society for Peace, Unity and Human Rights for Sri Lanka (SPUR), Victoria Australia, along with like-minded organizations in Australia, England and the Middle East, write to register our protest with regards to the decision of President Ranil Wickramasinghe of Sri Lanka, to offer pardon to the former LTTE cadres […]

RANJITH SOYSA Mr Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India says the dignity and respect for Tamils should be given priority and to achieve his objective  the 13 amendment of Sri Lanka’s constitution should be implemented as agreed under the infamous Indo-Sri Lankan agreement imposed on Sri Lanka by India. Mr Mody and others who share the views […]

RANJITH SOYSA Indian PM Narendra Mody has advised Sri Lankan PM following many other Prime Ministers of India such as Indira Gandhi and her son Raji Gandhi. He said that India expects Sri Lanka to implement the 13th to ensure a life of dignity and respect for Tamil population” It is frivolous to believe that […]

RANJITH SOYSA Bar association’ should be shamed for their one-sided stance with regard to the ongoing debate about the speech done by MP Sarath Weerasekara in the Parliament on 7th July 2023. It is very clear that BA stands for what and aligned with whom. Sure it is not the general opinion of all the […]

RANJITH SOYSA  The President Ranil Wickremasinghe, recently at an interview boldly made a statement which is of historical significance. He said that Thiriyaya, Muhudu Maha Vihraya and one Aloka Viharya in the south were light houses and the Ven monks who lived in these temples were the light house keepers. Many Sri Lankan Buddhists believe […]

RANJITH SOYSA  Recently , resettled Sinhala people in Navakkuliya, Jaffna held a procession to celebrate the opening of a pagoda constructed for them to attend to their religious activities which is a basic human right for any given community. We should not forget the fact that the people of Navakkuliya are not strangers to Jaffna, They were living in […]

RANJITH SOYSA  We have heard from reliable foreign sources and the Minister of Justice, Wijedasa Raajpakse that there is either a  sum of dollars 32 billion or 52 billion dollars which is legally due to Sri Lankaas export earnings held in overseas accounts of Sri Lankan exporters.While the country is heading from bad to worse and the people […]

RANJITH SOYSA Yesterday’s Island reported the Minister Bandula Gunawardana claiming that only way to stop the crippling shortages is by selling state assets. And, he was endorsing the remarks of Ranil Wickramasinghe who also was canvassing to sell Telcom, Insurance Corp etc to enable to build a reserve of $3 billion! But, according to a […]

RANJITH SOYSA We wish to refer to Sri Lanka government’s  decision to de-list some of the banned designated persons, groups and entities which were proscribed  under paragraph 4 (2) of the United Nations Regulations no 1 of 2012. The main reason for the proscription was their direct assistance and funding of  the Liberation Tamil Tiger […]

RANJITH SOYSA The president Gotabaya should pick up his phone and call President Putin and request urgently the long term assistance  from Russia to stabilize the fuel and gas supply. Sending of junior minister will not achieve the desired results as the  dealing with a super power should follow the accepted method of diplomacy  through […]

RANJITH SOYSA Fund collection and maintenance by the expatriate Tamil groups were essentially to promote Anti Sri Lanka propaganda to undermine the sovereign Sri Lankan state. Hardly any funds from this source were spent on developing or repairing the damages caused to the houses or the infra structure by the war initiated by the LTTE. […]

RANJITH SOYSA Yet again, after the comprehensive defeat of the armed struggle in Nandikadal, in 2009    to create a separate racist enclave, seven Tamil leaders and their political parties have written to the Prime Minister of India that the Tamils do not enjoy equal rights , they are discriminated and marginalized and therefore India should […]

RANJITH SOYSA In the month of December 2021. the President Biden invited 112 countries for the first summit on Democracy including the UK. The President in his welcome address said   Well, hello everyone, and welcome to the first Summit for Democracy. This gathering has been on my mind for a long time for a […]

RANJITH SOYSA We were  pleased to read the recent speech delivered at 72nd anniversary of Gajaba Regiment by the President Gotabaya Rajapakasa in which he admitted about the voter disillusionment of his government. We are aware of the fact that the government had to contend with the unprecedented issues on account of the covid epidemic […]

RANJITH SOYSA Indian Foreign Secretary who was visiting Sri Lanka played the role of Devil’s Advocate perfectly, when he told the delegation of Tamil political leaders that they must ALL demand from the Sri Lankan government to restore the Provincial councils. He knows that the PCs were forced on Sri Lanka under the infamous Indo […]

RANJITH SOYSA Dear Mr President I  have been prompted to write this letter to you subsequent to your recent reported statement that you look forward to meeting some members of the expatriate Sri Lankan Tamil groups ( you had mentioned the term ‘diaspora’ which refers to the Jewish ethnic group which was driven away by […]

RANJITH SOYSA Defence Secretary Gen (retd) Kamal Gunaratne recently made a very sensible statement urging the public not to be misled by false claims made on Easter carnage. Many fake information concerning the state of the investigations are published in some of the main media as well as the social media which are apparently attempting […]

RANJITH SOYSA It would be clear by now for the readers that a few countries including India and their agents are involved in a misinformation campaign to bring unwanted fear into the minds of the Sri Lankan public by spreading false news about food shortages. The agencies such as Gravitas, DW Germany and Al Jazeera, […]