RANJITH SOYSA Dinesh Guanwardana has the key on his shoulder  when he was appointed  in recognition of his ability, honesty and unquestionable patriotism , to the key position of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. He will have a lot in his plate as he has to undo the damage caused to the independence and sovereignty […]

RANJITH SOYSA We would like to request the President in connection with the highly irregular and  ‘unethical’ manner in which the Prime Minister and the ministers have approved the above bill when the country is facing an election to choose the President to take over the affairs of the country. According to section 42 of […]

RANJITH SOYSA It was indeed a source of hope and encouragement to hear the statement of Presidential candidate , Gotabaya Rajapakse that he intends to reject the UNHRC resolution co-sponsored by the Yahapalanay government in Oct 2015  which created a world record by sponsoring and adverse ruling on its own country. The resolution was based […]

RANJITH SOYSA It was indeed a source of hope and encouragement to hear the statement of Presidential candidate, Gotabaya Rajapakse that he intends to reject the UNHRC resolution co-sponsored by the Yahapalanay government in Oct 2015  which created a world record by sponsoring and adverse ruling on its own country. The resolution was based on […]

RANJITH SOYSA With the statements issued recently by ex solicitor general Dilrukshi Wickramasinghe and another former solicitor gen Suhada Gamlath, it is very clear that there had been a cabal of vicious Ministers , the supportive politicians and government servants working in hand and glove under Yahapalanya Plan who were involved in a political witch […]

RANJITH SOYSA US Ambassador while expressing her concerns regards the appointment of Gen Shavendra de Silva, a valiant soldier and exemplary leader who fought a war against the  so-called invincible Tamil Tigers, the world’s most brutal terrorist group and helped to restore the law and order for 20 million Sri Lankas condescendingly says it should […]

Ranjith Soysa The Director General of Archaeology confirmed in Mullativu Magistrate courts before the Magistrate S L. Kumar that Guru Kanda Viharaya in Nayaru on the basis of historical and archaeological evidence dates back to 2000 years, He further emphasized that the building of a new Hindu kovil inside the historical site was illegal. The […]

RANJITH SOYSA A number of prominent personalities who pounce on the Sinhala Buddhists at the drop of a hat, has denounced vehemently Mahanayke thero of Asgiriya regarding his recent statement alleging that he wanted ‘ the Muslims to be stoned . Among, those who reviled was one prominent NGO activist  who wanted legal action be […]

RANJITH SOYSA I wish to refer to the EditorialS of the Island and recent articles by Neville Laduawahetty and Dr Wasnatha Bandra  in the Island on the subject of international agreements signed in ‘secrecy’ by the  government in handing over  our assets and our people to the foreign governments especially to the USA and India. […]

RANJITH SOYSA In its efforts to complete investigations into the Easter Day carnage and to revamp the national intelligence services the Government is obviously seeking the assistance of the FBI and other similar organizations in the West and India. The government should first draw up suitable guidelines when seeking such  advise to prevent the situation […]

RANJITH SOYSA Julain Assange who revealed sordid aspects of West ‘s diplomacy including on the ‘war on terrorism’ in keeping with the principles of investigative journalism is hounded by the British Police. If not for Assange and his indefatigable production of Wikileaks many political and diplomatic sins committed by the leading Western ‘democracies ‘ would […]

RANJITH SOYSA March 8, 2019, 12:00 pm The UN’s highest court recently ruled that the UK’s claim of sovereignty over the Chagos Islands is illegal. It was stated that the UK’s continued administration of the islands “constitutes a wrongful act entailing the international responsibility of that state”. Mauritius reported to the courts that the UK forced […]

RANJITH SOYSA The UN ‘s highest court recently ruled that the UK’s claim of sovereignty of the Chagos Isands is illegal. It was stated that the UK’s continued administration of the islands ” constitutes a wrongful act entailing the international responsibility of that state”. Mauritius reported to the courts that the UK forced her to […]

ගෝලීය ශ්‍රී ලංකා සංසදය  හිතවත් මිත්‍රවරුනි,  වර්තමාන රජය විසින් ඉතා සූක්ෂම ලෙස රනවිරුවන් දඩයම ජයටම කරගෙන යන බව ඔබ දන්නා කරුණක්.  ජඩපාලන රජය ගන්නට යන නවතම බිල්ල හිටපු නාවික හමුදාපති අද්මිරාල් වසන්ත කරන්නාගොඩ මහතායි. මේ පිළිබඳව අතිගරු ජනාධිපතිතුමා දැනුවත් කිරීම සඳහා මෙහි අමුනා ඇති ලිපිය අප විසින් ඉදිරිපත් කරන ලද අතර ඒ පිළිබඳව මහජනතාව වන […]

ආචාර්ය දසරත් ජයසූරිය සභාපති ‘ස්පර්‘ මාධ්‍යය නිවේදනය – ජනවාරි 2019 ශ්‍රී ලoකා ‘ඔරුමිත්ත නාඩුව’ – යෝජිත ව්‍යවස්ථාව හඳුන්වාදෙන මැඩපැවැත්විය නොහැකි ෆෙඩරල් රාජ්‍යය ශ්‍රී ලoකාවේ සාමය, ඒකීය භාවය සහ මානව අයිතීන් රැකීම උදෙසා, දැනට අවුරුදු  විස්සකට අධික කාලයක් ඕස්ට්‍රේලියාවේ  සිට කටයුතු කරනු ලබන, දේශහිතෛශී ශ්‍රී ලාoකිකයින්ගෙන් සැදුම්ලත්  ‘ස්පර්’ නමින් හදුන්වන අප සoවිධානය, ශ්‍රී ලoකාව තුල හා ඉන් පිටත […]

RANJITH SOYSA Spokesperson SPUR Victoria According to a recent report published , the Defence Secretary , Hemasiri Fernando has invited expatriate Tamils to contact the Defence Ministry to report about the credible atrocities committed by the security forces. This is indeed a strange attempt to offer sacrifices under the delusion that Mr Hemasiri Fernando is […]

RANJITH SOYSA We are moved and encouraged to hear that a high powered meeting had been held headed by the President with the officials including the Attorney General , CID and the Central Bank – Island report 22nd Dec- to pursue the master minds of the biggest bank robbery. We have already wasted nearly 20 […]

RANJITH SOYSA I, as a SPUR member wish to refer to D. Rajapakese’s concerns on purring SPUR (Island 19th Nov) . While he does not welcome” foreign interference” in Sri Lankan affairs, he obviously does not like when the protesting voice is originated by the overseas Sri Lankans. Be that as it may, among us […]

RANJITH SOYSA Sri Lanka’s Speaker in the Parliament is attempting to create anarchy in the country by design or through extreme incompetency. Restless and clueless in his approach in handling of the Parliament affairs he continues to make a mockery of the rules governing the Parliament sessions . A the very start he boldly said […]

RANJITH SOYSA  The Speaker of Sri Lankan Parliament disclosed that he still consider the former Prime Minister is the legal holder of the office confirming that he is still a UNP member first and his party affiliations are more important than the constitutional provisions governing the office of the speaker. As per current constitutions the […]

RANJITH SOYSA The Island editorial on Learn from History (13 Oct) touched on an important issue concerning the use of children and teachers in the North to canvass the release of LTTE suspects now in custody. As mentioned in the editorial the irony of the effort on the part of the organizers of the movement […]

RANJITH SOYSA Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission has failed the Nation’s armed forces by not screening the applicants to serve on foreign peace missions. SLHC is either not willing to handle this subject effectively may be to support the UNHRC strictures or due to SLHRC’s own local agenda to punish the ‘human rights violators’ of […]

Ranjith Soysa Kumar David was attempting to throw cold water on the massive protest rally organized by the Joint Opposition in his puffed up style (sunday island  16/09/2018).  Irrespective of his stance on the JNB , I wish to draw the attention to his comments on war winning soldiers and the members of the Maha […]

RANJITH SOYSA We are grateful to Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka and the Island-7th Sept- for the discussion on the war crimes probe initiated by the OISL Geneva with regard to the last phase of war against the Tamil Tigers. Field Marshall who commandeered the army in its fight to liberate 20 million Sri Lankans from […]

RANJITH SOYSA The great noble soldier and a gallant leader of defense forces , the Lt Gen Denzil Kobbekaduwa became a victim of a land mine  26 years ago on 8th August 1992 in Araly Point while planning an offensive operation Balavegaya.  “Though one lamp lights a hundred lamps The brightness of the first never […]

RANJITH SOYSA I refer to the article ‘screening of peace keeping people from Sri Lanka’ written by Neville Laduwahetty (Island 24 July) in which the issue with regard to the delay in screening of the members of the defence forces prior to their overseas enlistment and how the delay had been caused by the lack […]

Ranjith Soysa Media Coordinator  For Global Sri Lankan Forum The Attorney General Attorney General’s Department Colombo Sri Lanka REQUEST TO INDICT THE STATE MINISTER FOR CHILD AFFAIRS, Ms Vijayakala Maheswaren Dear Sir, We , the Global Sri Lankan Forum,  GSLF write to request you to take URGENT action to indict Ms. Vijakala Maheswaren, MP  in accordance with […]

මාධ්‍යය නිවේධනය. ජාතී හිතෛෂීන් ගේ සහ ජාතී හිතෛෂී සංවිධාන වෙත. මෑතක සිට ප්‍රමුඛ් දේශපාලකයින්  සහ උතුරු පලාත් සභාවේ සමාජිකයින්, සිංහලයින්ට උතුරු සහ නැගෙනහිර පලාත් තුල ජීවත්වීමේ සහ බෞධ සිද්ධස්ථාන ඉදිකිරීමේ අයිතිය ප්‍රතික්ෂේප කරමින් කරනු ලබන දෙබිඩි කතා අපට අසන්නට ලැබේ. වත්මන් පාලනය මෙම බරපතල, අයුක්තිසගත සහ රටේ ස්තාවරයට හානිකර පිළිබඳව කිසිදු තැකීමක් දක්වන බවක් පෙනෙන්නට […]

Ranjith Soysa Media Coordinator  For Global Sri Lankan Forum To all NATIONALIST MINDED SRI LANKAN INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS STOP THE DOUBLE EDGED ATTEMPTS TO PROMOTE TRADITIOANL TAMIL HOMELAND MYTH Of late, we continue to hear double edged speeches and actions on the part of leading Tamil politicians and Northern Provincial council members denying the right of Sinhalese […]

RANJITH SOYSA The President, Sirisena paid tributes to the members of Sri Lankan defence services personnel for the sacrifices made in the protection of the country and the state at the Government war memorial meeting. He was highly critical of the individuals who would not know  the difference between a soldier and a terrorist, One […]