Lasantha Wickrematunge’s body will be exhumed years after he wrote a column saying the government would kill him. Before they came to kill him, Lasantha Wickrematunge wrote a 2,500-word story about how he was glad […]
The government will present evidence to thwart attempts being made to get the LTTE removed from the European Union’s list of terrorist organisations. “We will tell the EU why it should keep the LTTE on […]
By Vishwamithra1984 – “I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a […]
The CID has now received strong leads to identify the killers of Tamil journalist, ‘Tamilnet’ editor Dharmaratnam Sivaram alias Taraki, who was abducted by four persons in a white van near Bambalapitiya police station on […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQicuaAMNmg [Tue, 27 Sep 2016, 18:36 GMT] The main message coming from the ‘Ezhuka Thamizh’ uprising, especially from the people, who participated in their thousands, was that Tamils on the ground were not prepared to […]
By Usha S Sri-Skanda Rajah – Usha S Sri-Skanda-Rajah Dear Mr. Obama, The continued, unfair and unjust labelling of the Tamil Tigers cannot stand. Please lift the ban on the LTTE. In the light of […]
The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil majority Northern Province, C.V.Wigneswaran, on Saturday gave a clarion call for a people’s movement to raise issues pertaining to the Tamil people and thereby strengthen the hands of […]
Britain is at the forefront of a campaign to have Sri Lanka’s military prosecuted for what it insists were war crimes committed at the end of the war with the terrorist Liberation Tigers of Tamil […]
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights announced that Ms Rita Izsák Ndiaye, UN Special Rapporteur on minority issues on problems faced by minorities in various countries, is to visit Sri Lanka from […]
A woman in Neervely, who was allegedly found torturing a six-year-old child in a video clip which was captured by a provincial journalist, was placed under remand custody after being produced before the Jaffna Magistrate’s Court. […]
The Anti-Corruption Secretariat (ACS) has received 434 complaints related to misappropriations of public funds amounting to billions of rupees during the tenure of the Mahinda Rajapaksha regime. ACS Director, Ananda Wijepala, said 317 complaints had […]
The Government has adopted a national policy on the war-displaced, which acknowledges that one of the major obstacles to providing them with durable solutions for a return to normal life, is occupation of land by […]
President Maithripala Sirisena arrived at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York amidst tight security as the city suffered a major security threat with an explosive device going off on the previous day injuring […]
Old Anandians as authors: From Emergency ’58 to Road to Nandikadal By Manekshaw Chief Justice K. Sripavan graced the annual prize giving of his alma mater, Jaffna Hindu College as the Chief Guest last Monday […]
Mobilisation towards ‘Ezhuka Thamizh’ uprising in Jaffna gains momentum [Thu, 22 Sep 2016, 22:26 GMT] Grassroots organisations, academics and students of University of Jaffna, business community, religious leaders involved in civil activism and various political […]
National Co-existence Dialogue and Official Languages Minister Mano Ganeshan pointed out that need of devolution of political power in war hit Majority Buddhist Island. “It is difficult to talk to Sinhalese people about devolution of […]
ECJ Advocate-General Eleanor Sharpston Citing Procedural Mistakes Wants LTTE and Hamas to be Removed from EU “Terror List” BRUSSELS: A top EU lawyer on Thursday said Islamist movement Hamas and Sri Lankan rebel group LTTE […]
By Surendra Ajit Rupasinghe – Surendra Ajit Rupasinghe It is simply amazing how the very mention of these concepts in an open discourse on constitutional reform would immediately trigger frenzied, robotic responses from learned professors […]
By S. I. Keethaponcalan – Dr. S. I. Keethaponcalan Despite the intensity of the ethnic conflict, reconciliation always remained an attractive scheme or slogan for many civil society actors and political figures in Sri Lanka. With […]
Sinhala racist trend has not ceased to exist and continues unabated, Their hate language is more akin to the Trumpian lobby in the US. By Mohamed Harees – Lukman Harees Listening to the video recording of Galagoda […]
