*The US Googly And A Government Canar
Britain’s controversial Channel 4 video allegingexecution of Tiger detainees and The Tigers were known to use child soldiers
*The US Googly And A Government Canar
Britain’s controversial
Channel 4 video alleging
execution of Tiger detainees
and The Tigers were known
to use child soldiers
Sunday, April 10, 2011
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011
SRI LANKA: The sixth anniversary of the assassination of Gerald Perera
Assassination of a torture victim and the death of criminal justice in Sri Lanka
On the 22nd November 2004 at 11:30 am, Gerald Perera, a torture victim who was to give evidence in the High Court of Negombo against six police officers from the Wattala Police Station who brutally tortured him, was shot while traveling to work. He died two days later due to his injuries. Tuesday, May 3, 2011
*War Long Over, Media Still Muzzled
COLOMBO, May 2, 2011 (IPS) - It has been two years since the end of Sri Lanka’s decades long war, and life in general has begun to slowly edge back towards normalcy here. Not so for the country’s besieged media community, according to observers and journalists alike - reporting still feels hemmed in and muzzled, they say. Full Story>>>
Wikileaks on shell attacks
Sunday, May 3, 2011
*Assassination of Lasantha goes to the account of the General SF: Witnesses ready
(Lanka-e-News -03.May.2011, 1.30PM) The govt has laid out a plan to blame former armycommander Gen. Sarath Fonseka of master minding the assassination of Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickramatunge. For this purpose they have decided to use eight soldiers serving at the moment in Kilinochchi, Wakarai, Mulaitivu and Trincomalee and they are already staying in respective camps with many privileges and their families are also to get massive economic benefits.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
*US Urges Sri Lanka to “Use” in a “Process of Accountability” the UN Panel Report - Which Ban Ki-moon Still Withholds
Srilanka;One Island Two Nations-Hot News
The United Nations and Divided Sri Lanka
The Wall Street Journal
SL Police threaten Tamils in Colombo to sign petition against UN
[Tue, 26 Apr 2011, 10:18 GMT]
Sri Lanka’s State Intelligence Unit personnel are threatening Tamils walking along roads in Colombo, forcing them to sign petitions prepared by the Rajapakse led government in an attempt to collect one million signatures against the UN Experts panel report. Tamils who refuse to sign are threatened and subjected to bodily harm, Tamil civil sources allege. Full story >>
*The ‘white flag’ incident and other matters Extracts from the Ban Ki Moon panel report(Part 6) April 22, 2011, 6:46 pm
*Extracts from the Ban Ki Moon panel report (Part 5)Detention, Executions, Rape and Disappearances
April 21, 2011, 8:27 pm*Extracts from the Ban Ki Moon panel report (Part 4) Understating the number of Tamil civilians
April 20, 2011, 8:39 pm Full Story>>>Extracts from the Ban Ki Moon panel
report(part 3) - Shelling hospitals
April 19, 2011, 9:05 pm*Shelling civilian targets
(Part 2)
April 18, 2011, 6:36 pm Full Story>>>*Ban Ki Moon’s Expert Panel Report
April 16, 2011, 7:44 pm(Part 1) Full Story>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
April 15, 2011
*Report of the UNSG’s panel of experts on accountability in SL
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
*US Urges Sri Lanka to “Use” in a “Process of Accountability” the UN Panel Report - Which Ban Ki-moon Still Withholds
*Sri Lankan Journalist Speaks Of Attacks On Media
By Kaleb Warnock
Poddala Jayantha
Toronto Sun
*Ethnic controversies dog Grits and Tories
As the federal political leaders headed back out on the hustings Thursday following the debate intermission, both Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff and Conservative Leader Stephen Harper were tripped up by ethnic controversies.
Govt. 'covered up' Lasantha murder
The government did everything to cover up the murder of Lasantha Wickramatunge says the widow of the slain editor of Sunday Leader.
"I am satisfied that the government did everything possible to cover up his murder and prevent even a rudimentary police inquiry from proceeding," Sonali Samarasinghe Wickrematunge told BBC Sandeshaya Full Story>>>.
Lasantha Would Have Turned 53
Lasantha
Wickrematunge the assassinated editor of The Sunday Leader would have turned 53 this year on Tuesday, April 5.Apr 3 2011 Read More »
Saturday, April 9, 2011
The Govt. is not only going to ban Lanka e News but even ‘Lanka’ newspaper –Mangala
(Lanka-e-News -09.April.2011, 1.00AM) UNP M P Mangala Samaraweera addressing a media briefing yesterday (7) said, according to information reaching them, the Govt. is focusing on prohibiting not only the Lanka e news website but also the ‘Lanka’ newspaper .
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Cricket and Politics In LankaThe Sri Lankan team lost the 2011 Cricket World Cup to India but were welcomed home like winners. Was this politics or the true Sri Lankan spirit of embracing losers as equally as they would victors?. ...Read more
Runner-up answer to prayer
| The picture herein shows the statue of Ganadeviya (the deity) Runner-up answer to prayer |
 (Lanka-e-News 03.April.2011, 11.30PM) Mahinda Rajapaksa tossed up a request but Lord Balaji shouldered arms. Sri Lanka’s Buddhist President tried to... |
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| Protests and step motherly treatment greet President who visited India to witness world cup cricket match |
 (Lanka-e-News 04.April.2011, 1.30PM) The Indian media had reported that protests were staged in a number of States in India against SL President Mahinda Rajapakse who toured India to witness the finals... |
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JVP undergrads call on UN to help restore democracy in SL
ByShamindra Ferdinando
In the run-up to the imminent release of a controversial UN report on alleged ‘war crimes’ committed during Eelam War IV, particularly in the final phase of ground battles on the Vanni front, a section of Sri Lanka’s undergraduates belonging to the JVP is seeking UN intervention to restore democracy in the country. They say that the conclusion of the war in May 2009 hadn’t brought about the anticipated change in the country. FullStory>>>
Courts must have notes - CJ
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Amarnath Amarasingam
Doctoral candidate, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada
Poor Sri Lanka In A Billion Dollar Extravaganza
Mar 27 2011 Sri Lanka is plunging headlong to stage a super colossal sporting event which is considered to be the second biggest sporting carnival in the world after the Olympic Games. Last week the Chief executive of the Commonwealth Games (CWG) was in Sri Lanka to discuss…
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| Protests and step motherly treatment greet President who visited India to witness world cup cricket match |
| (Lanka-e-News 04.April.2011, 1.30PM) The Indian media had reported that protests were staged in a number of States in India against SL President Mahinda Rajapakse who toured India to witness the finals... |
| Full story |
JVP undergrads call on UN to help restore democracy in SL
ByShamindra Ferdinando
In the run-up to the imminent release of a controversial UN report on alleged ‘war crimes’ committed during Eelam War IV, particularly in the final phase of ground battles on the Vanni front, a section of Sri Lanka’s undergraduates belonging to the JVP is seeking UN intervention to restore democracy in the country. They say that the conclusion of the war in May 2009 hadn’t brought about the anticipated change in the country. FullStory>>>
Courts must have notes - CJ
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Amarnath Amarasingam
Doctoral candidate, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario, Canada
Poor Sri Lanka In A Billion Dollar Extravaganza
Mar 27 2011 Sri Lanka is plunging headlong to stage a super colossal sporting event which is considered to be the second biggest sporting carnival in the world after the Olympic Games. Last week the Chief executive of the Commonwealth Games (CWG) was in Sri Lanka to discuss…
Read More »
*At Oxford: A high degree of conspiracy
*Who’s lying? Peiris or Nepal?
National Anthem only in Sinhala; Tamil version out
TamilNet*JDS: State sponsored brutality against opposition- "State sponsored violence against dissenting voices in Sri Lanka"
BBC*Legal limbo Tamils beg for mercy or trial-BBC
One Island Two Nations -Your War Our Lives*Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
*UNROW Calls for Establishment of War Crimes Tribunal for Sri Lanka
*Lanka-UK ties plunge to sub-zero level.
*Jaffna academics’ confab hauled out.
*hindustantimes-Situation in Lanka beyond bleak - Indian official told US.
*Schools in Jaffna ordered to ‘sing’ Sinhala Only Sri Lanka anthem.
*Forced prostitution, sex slavery with GoSL complicity – US cable.
'Fear still prevails' in Jaffna (series of killings, abductions and robberies.)
31Dec 2010
30December 2010, 04:17.02 AM ] 
*After UN Backtracks on Sri Lanka Visit, Snow Job Even on
*After UN Backtracks on Sri Lanka Visit, Snow Job Even on Secretary's Trip
*Concern over Jaffna disappearance
Abductions shook Mannaar, relatives of victim confront white van
Assault on Tamil media personnel continues in East
Friday, January 21, 2011
- UN seeks greater humanitarian access for S.Lanka AFP
- ChildFund Responds to Monsoon Floods in Sri Lanka PR Newswire
- UN official launches Sri Lanka aid appeal AP
- Pamuk, other writers 'legitimising S. Lanka suppression' AFP
- Writers pull out of Sri Lanka event
*Flood victims face mine threat
*UN ramping up aid to thousands of flood-affected Sri Lankans
JDS
*Sri Lanka: Stonewalling on Wartime AbusesJan 24, 2011--The Sri Lankan government refuses to investigate alleged war crimes despite growing evidence of widespread atrocities during the civil wa r that ended in 2009.
- Downloadable Resources:
A Government Cover-Up
A Government Cover-Up
- Lasantha’s Killers Still Walk Free
Attidiya Bakery Junction where Lasantha was attacked and Twenty four months after Lasantha’s murder his killers still walk free A Government Cover-UpFull Story>>>
*Another FP blunder: Lanka loses BIMSTEC Secretariat*Hypocrisy At The University Of Colombo
Canadians Rally for Egypt.
Carlos Osorio - Staff Photographer
Today at Queens Park over 600 people took part in a peaceful rally in support of the Egyptians in Tahrir Square. Here, like in Egypt, the message was the same: Hosni Mubarak must step down.
Today at Queens Park over 600 people took part in a peaceful rally in support of the Egyptians in Tahrir Square. Here, like in Egypt, the message was the same: Hosni Mubarak must step down.
‘Archaeology’ unearths skeletons in Jaffna fort
[Thu, 03 Feb 2011, 14:06 GMT]
The trench dug in the esplanade near the entrance of Jaffna Fort
Late medieval and colonial period pottery found in the disturbed layers of the archaeological trench
Wednesday,March 9,2011
*India, Arab democracy, and human rights
*HSBC concerned by Sri Lanka’s lack of progress on Tamil issues
A top international bank said this week that while it was encouraged by Sri Lanka’s growth prospects, it was concerned by the lack of ‘concrete programmes’ to integrate the minority Tamil population back into the broader society.
“Also, we are troubled that the political institutional framework has been weakened by the parliament abolishing presidential term limits, eliminating the supervisory Constitutional Court and gives the president authority to directly appoint officials,” said HSBC Global Research in a report on Asian bond markets released this week.
HSBC concerned by Sri Lanka’s lack of progress on Tamil issues Full Story...
*Sri Lanka using fines to beat dengue amid rising climate risk
*SINKING INTO DEBT WHILE AIMING FOR THE START
*Petition against Rajapaksa in US
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Another Island wide strike
by Wimalananda Sukumar
Why Sri Lankan University Teachers are not deserving any Salary Increment?
US & Canada / 13 Mar 2011 US state department spokesman PJ Crowley has resigned after calling the treatment of the man accused of leaking secret cables to Wikileaks "stupid"
US & Canada / 11 Mar 2011 The US treatment of the man accused of leaking secret cables to Wikileaks is "ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid", US state department…
England’s 1981 Ashes hero Sir Ian Botham says he will consider a walk from Point Pedro to Dondara Point to raise funds to help children in the north rebuild their lives. Botham together with Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan flew to
*Sir Ian considers 260 mile charity walk in Sri Lanka
England’s 1981 Ashes hero Sir Ian Botham says he will consider a walk from Point Pedro to Dondara Point to raise funds to help children in the north rebuild their lives. Botham together with Sri Lankan off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan flew to