Month: March 2016

(Lanka-e-News -30.March.2016, 11.30PM) Sergeant major Ran Banda the prime witness in the murder of Prageeth Ekneligoda has receieved death threats from the Girithale army camp, according to reports. It was this sergeant major who received death threats yesterday , who interrogated Prageeth for two days while the latter was detained in the Girithale army camp after he was abducted by a group of army officers including Shammi Kumararatne of the Girithale army camp. Ran Banda had stated to the CID that he questioned Prageeth on the book the latter…

Detection of bombs , suicide kit in Chavakacheri : Truth uncovered – Did MR’s brother in law and wife conspire with LTTE Oothaselva ?

(Lanka-e-News -30.March.2016, 11.30PM) Following the discovery of highly explosive materials and a suicide kit today at Maravanpulaw, Chavakachcheri , the intelligence division has been able to unearth a wealth of information in that connection. Three bags containing highly explosive materials , a suicide kit , 4 bombs, 10 packets of cartridges, along with two batteries were found hidden at this venue . The intelligence division is harboring suspicions that these explosives , kits and devices were meant to be used on the 3 rd of April targeting the president and…

Colombo media conceals rape by military in Jaffna village with discovery of explosives

Colombo media conceals rape by military in Jaffna village with discovery of explosives [TamilNet, Wednesday, 30 March 2016, 20:11 GMT] An abusive and criminal Tamil man, recruited into the ranks of genocidal military of Colombo and deployed against Tamils, abducted a 16-year-old Tamil girl two weeks ago from Madduvil village in Thenmaraadchchi in Jaffna. The sexually abused girl managed to escape from the custody of the SLA soldier from the nearby Ma’ravaan-pulavu village on Tuesday. As the incident prompted anger among the public, the SL Police was forced to launch…

US warship ‘Blue Ridge’that helped SL Navy to destroy two far away LTTE vessels during final Eelam war now in SL !

(Lanka-e-News -30.March.2016, 11.30PM) The Sri Lanka Navy destroying two ships which were as far as 1700 meters away, with LTTE cadres carrying arms during the final phase of the Eelam war is indeed an epoch in Sri Lanka ‘s history. Never before such an enemy ship at that long distance away had been destroyed by our Navy. The Amercan warship that provided communication ,intelligence messages , guided and provided information to the Navy to accomplish that feat is these days anchored at the Colombo harbour. This warship bearing the…

Recovery Of Arms Cache May Impair De-Militarization Of North Lanka

COLOMBO: The accidental discovery of an arms cache, including three parcels of TNT and a suicide jacket, in a house at Chavakachcheri in Jaffna District on Wednesday, may hinder the demilitarization of the Northern Province which is one of the major post-war demands of Sri Lankan Tamils and which was promised to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) by the Lankan government headed by President Maithripala Sirisena. Opponents of demilitarization like MP Namal Rajapaksa have already tweeted that the cache is a sign of the resurgence of the LTTE and…

Suicide jacket, claymore mines wrapped in Sinhala paper recovered from Jaffna

Suicide jacket, claymore mines recovered from Jaffna A suicide jacket, a stock of explosives and ammunition have been recovered from a house in the Maravanpulo area on the A32 road within the Chawakatchcheri police area in Jaffna District, police said. Police officers discovered a suicide jacket, 4 Claymore mines, 3 parcels containing around 12kg of TNT, 2 packets of 9mm ammo (100 bullets) and 2 battery packs used to detonate the claymore mines. It is suspected that the explosives and other equipment had been hidden in the area during the…

PSC to enable expat Sri Lankans to vote

By Saman Indrajith Leaders of the political parties represented in Parliament had given their nod for appointing a Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) to evolve a mechanism to enable hundreds of thousands of Sri Lankan expatriates to vote at future elections to be held here, parliament sources said yesterday. The party leaders had also agreed to approve a motion seeking the appointment of the PSC without debate on April 06, sources said. The JVP has already submitted a no-date motion on the appointment of a PSC to look into and report…

Abbott’s Sri Lanka comments ‘excuse war crimes’, Tamil refugee advocates say

Abbott describes former Sri Lankan government’s handling of country’s conflict as ‘unavoidable actions taken to end one of the world’s most vicious civil wars’ The former prime minister Tony Abbott has excused war crimes in comments that the Sri Lankan government’s actions in its civil war were “probably unavoidable”, Tamil refugee advocates have said. In an article in Quadrant magazine Abbott defended his national security recordas prime minister: “I’m sure that the Sri Lankan president was pleased that Australia didn’t join the human rights lobby against the tough but probably…

Colombo’s cowardice regarding Tamil political prisoners is deeply troubling.

Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena had promised progress regarding Tamil political prisoners, although we’ve seen little of that. Unfortunately, the president’s dithering project has continued — with no end in sight. More broadly, the Sri Lankan government has made big commitments regarding transitional justice and those changes, if they ever happen, will come incrementally. However, we haven’t seen much in the way of incremental change since Colombo co-sponsored a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution on Sri Lanka in October 2015. In terms of optics and rhetoric, Mangala Samaraweera, the…

Are Tamils Horrified By Or Tolerant Of Sexual Harassment?

By S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole – The Feminist VC? Prof. Vasanthi Arasaratnam, Vice Chancellor of University of Jaffna, claimed in Uthayan Newspaper head-lines (23.03.2016) to have fired professors following sexual harassment accusations by students. “As a woman, I have done all I can,” she continued. Her remarks were made the previous day at a function by “The Voice of Women” to mark “International Women’s Day” which fell really on 8 March. Speaking further, Arasaratnam said that women are to blame for the increase in sexual harassment and that these episodes…

Army intelligence behind killing of Maj. Gen. Lucky Algama and Tamil MP’s!

It has now been established that the Army intelligence is behind the killing of retired Maj. Gen. Lucky Algama at a UNP rally in Ja Ela on 18 December 1999. The confirmation comes in a report submitted to the Security Council by the then CID director Opatha Kankanamage Hemachandra (O.K. Hemachandra), who had investigated the murder. His report says the then Army intelligence chief, retired Maj. Gen. Sunil Tennakoon was fully responsible for the killing. The suicide bomber who detonated a grenade to kill Algama at the rally was controlled…

Australian government knowingly supported the War Crimes in Sri Lanka.

Australian government under Ousted prime minister Tony Abbott supported the Killing of more than 40,000 Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka by the government forces in May 2009 and continued the support to SL at the UN by lying and joining China, Russia and Pakistan saying that no War Crimes took place in Sri Lanka. “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed”. – Adolf Hitler. Commonwealth prime ministers, notably Britain’s David Cameron and Canada’s Stephen Harper, have fiercely condemned Sri Lanka’s reconciliation efforts and human…

Local judges not familiar with war crimes probe procedures

Local judges are not conversant with the procedures of probes into allegations of war crimes or violations of human rights because they are not matters which come up in the courts on a daily basis, Attorney-at-Law Lal Wijenayake said. President Maithripala Sirisena has reiterated that there will be no foreign judges on the benches of the local judiciary adjudicating on the matter, yet this does not prevent getting technical assistance from legal experts, he added. There is no contradiction between what Sirisena is saying about the matter and what Prime…

Mullaitivu fast over land suspended following intervention

A fast unto death launched by some families in Mullaitivu has been suspended following the intervention of the Northern Province Chief Minister C V Wigneswaran. The families had launched the fast demanding that they be resettled on their own land in Mullaitivu instead of alternate land. Wigneswaran and other members of the Northern Provincial Council had assured the protesters that they will obtain a solution to their concerns soon. As a result the fast unto death was suspended but the protesters warned that they will resume the fast if a solution is…

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