Day: 5 August 2014

SL born university lecturer named Australia and New Zealand’s educator of the year

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SL born university lecturer named Australia and New Zealand’s educator of the year Sri Lankan born university lecturer at Victoria University Australia, Dr Pandula Gamage, has been named “2014 Accounting/finance educator of the year” by the peak body representing Australia and New Zealand’s accounting and finance academics, and educational publisher Pearson Australia. He received this award in New Zealand earlier this month. Dr Gamage earned the award – which was created in 2001 to encourage and recognise innovative university-level accounting and finance teaching – for how he prepares students to…

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UN Probe is only one part of the solution -Paul Newman

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UN Probe is only one part of the solution -Paul Newman 1 – Now UN has already started Investigation about war crimes in last leg  of the war. so, as a Tamil activist and intellectual  what is your opinion of this new situation ? The UN investigation is a long overdue one. It should have started as a process of fixing accountability. It is a well known fact that all International laws were violated. The massacre of thousands of civilians need to be investigated and those who suffered need to…

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WHO IS IN CHARGE? THE YELLOW ROBED MONKS OR MAHINDA RAJAPAKSA AND HIS 100 ODD MINISTERS?

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The Dead and Missing Person’s Parents Front (DMPPF) today charged that certain NGOs and foreign groups had invited relatives of disappeared LTTE cadres to Colombo to give evidence against Sri Lanka via the internet on the promise they would be paid Rs.200,000.DMPFF advisor Ven. Angulugalle Siri Jinananda Thera asked the organisers why the DMPPF was not invited to last evening’s meeting held at the Centre for Society and Religion (CSR) at Deans Road, Maradana and inquired whether the External Affairs Ministry was aware of what was happening.“Can any international organisation…

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France, Germany, UK and Switzerland joins US call for freedom of assembly

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US calls for Sri Lankan Govt to enforce rule of law The embassies of France, Germany, Great Britain and Switzerland today strongly condemn the disruption of a meeting in which families of disappeared Tamils were briefing Colombo-based diplomats and civil society activists. Issuing a joint statement, the embassies stated that “an organized group including monks” had disrupted the civil society meeting, on the theme “Sharing and listening session with families of the disappeared” organized by Families of the Disappeared in the Centre for Society and Religion, on the 4th of…

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Only can happen in Sri Lanka.

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Thugs & Monks invaded the witness giving place illegally and traspassing the property but the police asked the people who gave the witness to attend the police station. This should have been an humiliating experience for any civilised country, but not for the Sinhalese government. Men and women were invited to make representations for their missing loved ones. While they were doing so, thugs who were Buddhist monks dashed into the meeting place and disrupted the gathering. These are regular happenings in Sri Lanka and would have been passed off…

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‘Fascists’ in Saffron Robes? The Rise of Sri Lanka’s …

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  ‘Fascists’ in Saffron Robes? The Rise of Sri Lanka’s … www.amren.com/…/fascists-in-saffron-robes-the-rise-of-sri–lankas-buddh… 18 Jul 2014 – The Rise of Sri Lanka’s Buddhist Ultra-Nationalists … he issues an explicit threat to Muslims, using a derogatory term for the minority. … Dayan Jayatilleke, a political scientist and former Sri Lankan diplomat, referred to the group’s… How is it that Buddhist monks–exponents of a religion associated with  … Buddhist extremists attack moderate monk in Sri Lanka … www.worldbulletin.net/…/buddhist-extremists-attack-moderate-monk-in-… 26 Jun 2014 – Moderate monk Wataraka Vijitha Thero has been slammed by Buddhist … America-Canada …. Sri Lanka’s defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, brother of the President, … UK summons Ethiopian diplomat over opposition official’s arrest …Myanmar Buddhists threaten death to Muslims in Mandalay Connecting the…

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Sri Lankan mob storms meeting of disappeared Tamils’ families

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Pro-Sri Lankan government activists stormed a meeting between families of the disappeared and foreign diplomats in Colombo on Monday evening. The pro-government mob, led by a group of Buddhist monks, forcibly entered the meeting and threatened the Tamil participants. The US embassy Acting Deputy Head of Mission Michael Honigstein and representatives from Britain, Switzerland, France and the European Union missions in Colombo participated in the meeting. “You are anti-Sri Lankans and greedy for US dollars,” the mob shouted at the families. The local organizers of the meeting said the pro-government…

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Rajapakshe supporters threaten American and European diplomats

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 Thugs & Monks invaded the witness giving place illegally and traspassing the property but the police asked the people who gave the witness to attend the police station. This should have been an humiliating experience for any civilised country, but not for the Sinhalese government. Men and women were invited to make representations for their missing loved ones. While they were doing so, thugs who were Buddhist monks dashed into the meeting place and disrupted the gathering. These are regular happenings in Sri Lanka and would have been passed off…

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Nedumaran for strong condemnation of Sri Lanka

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The Tamizhar Desiya Munnani on Monday urged the Union government to condemn Sri Lanka in the strongest terms for publication of a derogatory article on Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa and Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Lankan Defence website. Speaking to reporters, Tamizhar Desiya Munnani president P. Nedumaran said that all political parties in Tamil Nadu had condemned the Sri Lankan Government in the strongest terms forcing Lanka to issue an apology and remove the derogatory post from the website. However, that was not enough as the incident deserved…

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Ven. Maduluwawe Sobhitha Thera in a mysterious accident!

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Future of Executive Presidency was not discussed – MR    Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake had a narrow escape when the cab he was travelling in collided with a ‘tipper’ truck carrying a sand load at Holipitiya on the Ratnapura- Horana road last week.  Anura who was in the rear seat suffered shock and contusion on the chest though he did not sustain external injuries. A motorist driving past the scene of the accident who had recognized the JVP Leader as a victim of the accident had rushed him…

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Janaka Mallimarachchi’s revelations on political killings Vijaya’s killer killed

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By Anura Bandara Rajaguru  In a dramatic turn of events that connect to tragic political assassinations over the past quarter century, the truth seems to be emerging in a slow but steady manner. Film idol, the late Vijaya Kumaratunga was known as the heart throb of the silver screen. The actor turned politician was shot dead opposite his Polhengoda residence in the manner most gruesome by an unidentified gunman on 16 February 1988. Bullets were sprayed mercilessly at his face, which had attracted millions of film fans across the country. He…

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Sri Lanka’s accountability crisis

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Five years after the end of the armed conflict between Sri Lankan armed forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Sri Lanka is in a deeply precarious position. A recent UN Human Rights Council resolution calls for an international investigation into alleged crimes. Sri Lanka’s 2014 War Victory Day. Demotix/Sanka Vidanagama. All rights reserved. “The worst of their deeds we will never know: that we must be prepared to accept. To know the worst, we will have to extrapolate and use the imagination. The worst is likely to be…

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Sri Lanka Must Respect Indian Sensibilities

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Protests against a derogatory article that appeared in a Sri Lankan website continue in Tamil Nadu. What agitates the people in the state and elsewhere in the country is that the website belonged to the defence ministry of Sri Lanka. The article referred to Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa’s letters to prime minister Modi and was accompanied by an illustration which was in bad taste. The letters had been written to protest against the frequent arrest and harassment of Tamil fishermen. Following protests, the website removed the article and…

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Monks shouted hateful slogans, made unfounded accusations and behaved threateningly towards the families of the disappeared

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CSR meeting triggers tense situation A tense situation was reported at the Centre for Society and Religion (CSR), at Deans Road, Maradana this evening when a group of people forcibly entered a meeting at the CSR where the organizers claimed that families of disappeared persons from the civil conflict were meeting with civil society groups and members of the diplomatic community.Meanwhile, the US embassy in Colombo in a statement expressed concern about the disruption of the meeting.“The meeting that included US Embassy officials was interrupted by angry protesters, including a…

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Lankan HC summoned over article; conveyed ‘anger and concern’ of MPs

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New Delhi: India on Monday summoned the Sri Lankan High Commissioner and lodged a protest against a derogatory article about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa which rocked parliament here.  Sri Lankan High Commissioner Sudharshan Seneviratne was summoned by the External Affairs Ministry and was conveyed the “anger and concerns” among parliamentarians on the issue in the strongest possible words by the Joint Secretary incharge of Sri Lanka division in MEA, officials said here. Earlier, in response to agitation in parliament by AIADMK members who trooped…

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AG wants Khuram murder sentences enhanced

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The Attorney General yesterday filed an appeal in the High Court stating that the sentences imposed on the convicts of British aid worker Khuram Sheikh’s murder were not sufficient.While requesting to amend the punishments given to the convicts the AG also suggested that these convicts should be given death sentence or life imprisonment as they committed the murder using weapons as members of an unlawful assembly.The petition also noted that the Judge had reiterated that fourth accused in the unlawful assembly had used a firearm and that in cases of…

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U.S. Embassy accuses racist Sri Lankan police

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The US Embassy in Colombo has accused the Sri Lanka police of supporting a mob in its efforts to shut down a meeting in Maradana today where families of disappeared persons from the civil conflict were sharing their stories with civil society groups and members of the diplomatic community. A statement by the US Embassy in Colombo said that the meeting that included U.S. Embassy officials was interrupted by angry protesters, including a group of monks. The mob forced its way into the meeting on the grounds of a Colombo Catholic church, where…

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