Month: December 2017

COLOMBO GAZETTE Key briefing on Sri Lanka at UNHRC by rights chief set for March 21 < http://colombogazette.com/2017/12/28/key-briefing-on-sri-lanka-at-unhrc-by-rights-chief-set-for-march-21/  >  TAMIL GUARDIAN Dhinakaran pledges solidarity with merged North-East, says Sumanthiran < http://www.tamilguardian.com/content/dhinakaran-pledges-solidarity-merged-north-east-says-sumanthiran  >  CEYLON TODAY Army releases 133 acres in Keppapilavu < http://www.ceylontoday.lk/article20171001CT20180331.php?id=7145  >  THE ISLAND Army compensated for vacating Mullaitivu land < http://www.island.lk/index.php?page_cat=article-details&page=article-details&code_title=177249  >  SRI LANKA GUARDIAN Corruption in The Judiciary In Sri Lanka – Can The United Nations Intervene? < https://www.slguardian.org/2017/12/corruption-judiciary-sri-lanka-can-united-nations-intervene/  >  SUNDAY TIMES Reflections on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and our collective future < http://www.sundaytimes.lk/171210/columns/reflections-on-the-universal-declaration-of-human-rights-and-our-collective-future-272318.html  >  COLOMBO TELEGRAPH DA Rajapaksa foundation owes SLRDC Rs 47 million for Rajapaksa…

The North and East Students have performed poorly as per the A/L results. The Jaffna Hindu College students who have released good results in the passed has shown poor results this year. The diaspora Hindu College Old boys Associations must spend their time and funds to help the current students achieve better results. Jaffna schools have produced good results in the past years which made the then PM Srimavo Bandaranajake government to introduce the injustice standardization to reduce the University entrance by the Tamil students in Sri Lanka and create better chances…

Lanka News Web yesterday reported that ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa and MP Wimal Weerawansa had a heated exchange of words. We have the details. Normally, Wimal does not argue with Mahinda. But, two days ago, he claimed that he was the creator of the wave of supporters around Mahinda. “I made this wave. No one dared to get out after losing the January 2015 election. I myself made the Mahinda wave in February. It was after the Nugegoda meeting I held that those who were scattered got out without any fear.”…

http://lankanewsweb.net/news/item/7699-governor-s-wife-threatens-to-do-it-for-hindus Sampur villagers are angered by the wife of the eastern province governor who scolded and threatened a group of Hindus in the presence of state officials and tarnished Tamil cultural symbols at a religious site in Trincomalee.  Deepthi Bogollagama accompanied her husband to the Skandakumara Kovil at Maddalamalai mountain at Sudaikudah, Kunithivu in Muttur. Regional correspondents voided how she trampled on the traditional ‘Kolam’ decoration there with her footwear. As the women cried out, ‘Muruga, Kali Amma’, the governor’s wife pointed her finger at the women and threatened to…

A 300 day protest staged by  a group of Tamil villagers from Mullaitivu demanding that the army vacate their 133 acres home land at Keppapilavu in the former LTTE stronghold Mullaitivu had been brought to an end by relocating troops stationed there, Rehabilitation Ministry spokesperson told The Island. The group of villagers had launched the protest early this year demanding their land back. Rehabilitation Minister D. M. Swaminathan following consultations with relevant authorities, paid Rs. 148 mn for the relocation of troops. The land would be officially handed over today (Dec 28)…

On the eve of his R.K. Nagar byelection victory, T.T.V. Dhinakaran had a chance meeting with Sri Lankan Tamil leader M.A. Sumanthiran, when he enquired about the current situation of Sri Lankan Tamils in the island’s war-battered north and east. The Tamil politicians from either side of the Palk Bay met in Kanyakumari on Friday, ahead of the ‘Arumanai Christmas Vizha’, an annual celebration held in the southern district that has a near-50 per cent Christian population. The organising committee had invited Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader R. Sampanthan, Leader…

State Minister for Child Affairs Vijayakala Maheswaran (Jaffna District MP) has claimed that the Tamil community wouldn’t have lost their leader Velupillai Prabhakaran if they had voted for UNP candidate Ranil Wickremesinghe at 2005 presidential election. Maheswaran said so outside Jaffna District Secretariat last Friday (Dec 22) after handing over UNP nomination lists. Mahinda won the Election due to the Tamils being stopped from voting for UNP, It was claimed that Mahinda paid millions of US Dollars if Tamils were to be stoped from voting as the Tamils were going to…

MP Namal Rajapaksa says he is a supporter of the SLFP, not the SLPP, and that he well knows what the SLPP is. He has told his closest friends recently, “Father says he is not a political baby to accept advice from me. But, father does not understand the game being planned by Uncle Basil together with India. We should identify the foreign forces within the flower bud (SLPP).” He also said India got Basil to launch the SLPP in order to divide the SLFP because it does not like…

Outspoken and an Honest Ex Chief Justice of Sri Lanka and the current Northern Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran is known to be the most popular Tamil living in Sri Lanka today and is the most unpopular among the Sinhala political leaders who have continuously cheated the Minority Tamils since independence from British on 4th February 1948.  Since independence Successive Sinhala governments have promised to implement a political package to give equal rights to all but always failed to do it once the election was over, this led the Tamil youths to…

by C.A.Chandraprema The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna’s woes with the nomination lists continued in the second round as well though at a lesser level than during the first round. The biggest blow to the fledgling political party during the second round was the rejection of the SLPP list for the Tirappane Pradesheeya Sabha in the Anuradhapura district which many in that party consider a sure win. In addition to Tirappane, the SLPP nomination lists for the Jaffna Municipal Council, the Valikamam North, Valikamam East, and Delft Pradeshiya Sabhas were rejected…

BY GAGANI WEERAKOON Unblemished diplomatic relations maintained between Russia and Sri Lanka have reached a threatening juncture, allegedly, due to a beetle which was said to be found in one carton carrying famous Ceylon Tea. President Maithripala Sirisena is said to have contacted Russian President Vladimir Putin requesting to end the temporary ban on Sri Lanka’s tea imports. President Maithripala Sirisena addressing a public rally in Haputale announced his decision to write to President Putin, requesting him to end the temporary ban that resulted following the discovery of a beetle…

No sex please, we’re Sri Lankan There is no gainsaying my assertion that Sri Lankans are prudes when it comes to sex, especially sex outside of marriage. Whether on Galle Face Green or in Peradeniya Gardens, the local constabulary make it their business to go around harassing youngsters making out beneath the minimum of privacy an umbrella offers. Private refuges for those wanting to get some action are few: the back row of a cinema, a room by the hour in a decrepit ‘hotel’, a deserted classroom after school. While…

Why Is Sri Lanka Defying the United Nations? Sri Lanka’s strategy of defiance, denial, and delay might be designed to evade the charge of genocide. Lately, Colombo has intensified its defiance of UN resolutions calling for investigations into war crimes committed during the latter stages of the civil war. In late November, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena declared that “There won’t be electric chairs, international tribunals or foreign judges. That book is closed.” Earlier, in October, Colombo sought and obtained the help of British parliamentarian Lord Naseby to downplay a report by the…

Sri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena once again reiterated his opposition to foreign judges being involved in an accountability mechanism for violations of international law, blaming “NGOs affiliated to the LTTE” for calling for international involvement. The Daily FT reported the president as stating he was “of the strict view that foreign judges should not be brought to the country at any time”. The Sri Lankan President went on to blame “some LTTE members living abroad and members of some organisations as well as NGOs affiliated to the LTTE”. He went on…

We have not sold anything but only leased out. If you take Hambantota after seventy years we will become the major share holder The inflows of foreign investments are increasing. The export sector is also now on the correct path. The export of goods and services has increased. Next year it will improve much more The situation regarding rice would improve, but Coconut scarcity would last some more time We did not sell the country. It was Rajapaksas who sold the land in Galle Face outright, we took over the…