Day: 26 December 2014

[TamilNet, Wednesday, 24 December 2014, 21:17 GMT] The occupying military of genocidal Sri Lanka has forced around 4,000 former members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who are under the captivity of the so-called Civil Security Division (CSD) in Vanni, to vote for the incumbent SL president Mahinda Rajapaksa through postal voting, which concluded on Wednesday. In the meantime, a special unit of SL military personnel, led by the officers handpicked by the SL presidential sibling and Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, has been monitoring the rank and file…

Read More

By Dr Vickramabahu <vamabahu@gmail.com> In spite of indications made by the TNA, there is the uncertainty about how the Northern voter will vote. There is a strong opinion that neither party has given a serious answer to the questions raised by the Tamil voters. Obviously they want to know the final solution proposed by the each candidate. Then, some of them are more interested in investigation in to war crimes. There are many Tamils who do not consider this election is relevant to them. In a sense such people have,…

Read More

Deputy Minister of Minor Export Crop Promotion Nishantha Muthuhettigama, against whom an arrest warrant was issued, has left the country for Singapore in the wee hours today. The deputy minister reportedly left the country at around 12.40am today through the VIP terminal at the Bandaranaike International Airport in Katunayake. On Wednesday, the Baddegama Magistrate’s Court issued a warrant for the arrest of Muthuhettigama in connection with the recent torching of an election stage of Common Candidate Maithripala Sirisena in Wanduramba. However, speaking to an Ada Derana reporter after leaving the…

Read More

Serious doubts have been cast on Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith and his political agendas to support Mahinda Rajapaksa at the upcoming elections with the revelation that his niece has been given a political appointment to the Sri Lanka embassy in Paris. Ruwani Cooray, niece of Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has not passed the foreign service examination nor been recruited to the foreign service through any accepted procedure. However she has been appointed as the second secretary to the Sri Lanka Embassy in France. Ruwani does not have any relevant…

Read More