Friday, September 6, 2013

Gota’s statement worrying to the Muslims

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The Muslim community in the country have expressed concern over the comments made by Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa where he had said the government was on alert over attempts to spread Muslim extremism in Sri Lanka.

The Muslim Council of Sri Lanka (MCSL) has said that the Muslim community has without any hesitation stood by the Sri Lankan State throughout the 30 year conflict and has never resorted to any form of armed resistance.

MCSL has noted that the extremist elements that have been propagating hatred against the minority communities have taken Rajapaksa’s statement as an endorsement of the State’s approval of their stand on extremism amongst the Muslim community.

“We wish to bring to your kind attention that there exists no form of armed or other forms of extremism amongst the Muslim community. Your concerns about extremists using Sri Lanka as a transit point may be valid, but we would like to assure you that the Muslim community would never allow extremists from other countries to operate under cover of the Muslim community in Sri Lanka,” the MCSL has stated.

It has also said that intelligence units under the Defence Secretary’s command have performed remarkably well during and after the war to ensure that Sri Lanka continues to maintain the hard earned peace.

“We welcome any investigation by the law enforcement agencies and take appropriate action against any persons who may violate the laws of the land or support any form of armed extremism irrespective of their religious beliefs. We would like to assure you of the Muslim community’s unstinted commitment to the peace and prosperity of our beloved motherland and would greatly appreciate your kind clarification of your statement,” the MCSL has observed.

Sri Lanka Muslim leader warns against extremism claims

Friday, 06 September 2013

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's main Muslim political leader, who is also the justice minister, criticised his own government Friday for blaming religious tensions in the mainly Buddhist nation on Islamic fundamentalism.

Rauf Hakeem said he had been "disturbed" by recent comments from the country's defence minister, Gotabhaya Rajapakse which warned of efforts to "promote Muslim extremism" in Sri Lanka.

"We are extremely disturbed by the specific reference to the Muslim community of Sri Lanka as possible breeding grounds of extremism within the country," Hakeem said in a statement.

"I would like to publicly contradict the assertion of the Secretary of Defence," Hakeem said in an unusual public outburst against Gotabhaya Rajapakse, who is the younger brother of President Mahinda Rajapakse.

Seventy percent of Sri Lanka's 20-million-strong population are Buddhists, while Muslims are the second-largest religious group, making up just under 10 percent.

There had been an increase in attacks against mosques and Muslim-owned business and their lifestyle since last year, heightening religious tensions on the island.

Much of the violence had been blamed on new Buddhist hardline groups allegedly drawing support from the authorities.

Gotabhaya Rajapakse, one of the country's most powerful figures who is credited with crushing Tamil Tiger separatists in a military offensive in 2009, has denied supporting hardline Sinhalese-Buddhist groups.

However, at a seminar hosted by the military on Tuesday he said: "One of the consequences of the increasing insularity amongst minority ethnic groups is the emergence of hardline groups within the majority Sinhala-Buddhist community."

"It is a known fact that Muslim fundamentalism is spreading all over the world and in this region," Rajapakse said.

"The possibility that such extremist elements may try to promote Muslim extremism in Sri Lanka is a cause for concern."

Hakeem, whose Sri Lanka Muslim Congress is a partner in Rajapakse's ruling coalition, warned that Sri Lanka may be antagonising Islamic nations by making generalised statements about Muslim fundamentalism.

He said Iran, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan had been strong allies of the Colombo government when it faced allegations of war crimes at the UN Human Rights Council.

Hakeem warned Rajapakse not to interfere with religion and culture and leave it in the hands of the respective people "as in the case of all enlightened democracies". (AFP)

Indian Author Killed In By Taliban

September 6, 2013

Indian author Sushmita Banerjee was killed by the Taliban late on Wednesday. While the reason for the barbaric act was not given, Banerjee had possibly attracted the ire of the fundamentalist outfit for her ceaseless social work, especially for women’s healthcare and upliftment. Read more

Chile judges apologise for Pinochet inaction

Judiciary makes unprecedented apology for actions of its members under military rule in 1970s and 1980s.

Magistrates' body acknowledged that its members had failed in its duty to protect victims of state abuse [AFP]

05 Sep 2013

The body representing judges in Chile has issued a long-awaited apology for the actions of its members under military rule in the 1970s and 1980s.

In a statement on Wednesday, it said that the judiciary at the time had abandoned its role as protector of basic rights."To those who were victims of state abuse ...the time has come to ask for the forgiveness of victims ... and of Chilean society," said the Chilean Judges' Association.

More than 3,000 people were killed under the rule of General Augusto Pinochet between 1973 and 1990.

During his rule, Pinochet did away with the civil institutions such as Congress, political parties and the trade unions. The only one left intact was the judiciary, which became complicit with the regime.

Javier Zuniga,
Amnesty International

The statement comes a week before the 40th anniversary of the coup that brought General Pinochet to power.

It said the judges had ignored the plight of victims who had demanded their intervention.

"It must be said and recognised clearly and completely: the court system and especially the Supreme Court at that time, failed in their roles as safeguards of basic human rights, and to protest those who were victims of state abuse," the judges said.
Javier Zuniga, a special adviser of rights group Amnesty International, said the apology was important, but should have come from the Supreme Court itself.
"During his rule, Pinochet did away with the civil institutions such as Congress, political parties and the trade unions. The only one left intact was the judiciary, which became complicit with the regime," he said.
"We need the Supreme Court to apologise in the name of the judiciary for its responsibility in the disappearance and other serious abuses committed during the dictatorship in Chile and to support the ongoing legal proceedings in hundreds of cases of victims of human rights violations during the rule of General Augusto Pinochet.”
'Damage so profound'
Chilean courts rejected about 5,000 cases seeking help on locating missing loved ones abducted or killed by the authorities, saying they had no information about their fate.
Authorities believe the Cold War-era Pinochet military rule was responsible for at least 3,200 killings and 38,000 cases of torture.
Gloria Elgueta, whose brother Martin was detained by Pinochet’s political police and held in the notorious torture centre "Londres 38", thought of the apology mostly as a symbolic gesture.
"The damage done is so profound and so present that what we need is to see those who were actually involved offer concrete actions that would advance issues of truth and justice today," she told Al Jazeera.
"To do that, the Chilean judiciary with the support of the state, needs to finance thorough investigations into the thousands of cases left unsolved and to do this they need to release classified archives that have key information about what happened to the disappeared."

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Two Interesting Comments Heard, With A “Punch”

By Kusal Perera -September 5, 2013

Kusal Perara

“Lord Buddha travelled a vast country, preaching his philosophy in villages, to the poor, to the kings and the nobility. Everywhere Lord Buddha visited and preached, he had a great following and some turned into disciples of his philosophy, Buddhism. It is said Lord Buddha visited ancient Lanka three times, but in Lanka, there were no following and no disciples. It was only after Arahath Mahinda dropped Buddhism here, the Lankans picked it up.”

“The ancient Chinese, after hearing there is a great philosophy in North India, travelled extremely hazardous routes, climbed and crossed the Everest mountain range and came to North India. There they learnt Pali and Sanskrit languages to learn and understand Buddhism. They then translated Buddhist teachings into their Chinese language and carried them all back to China. In ancient Lanka, most of our kings from prince Vijeya, brought their queens and concubines in shiploads from India. But not Buddhism. That had to be sent here by king Dharmasoka through his son Arahath Mahinda.”

These two quotes are from Saman Athaudahetty, journalist, radio artiste, writer, lyricist and travelogue narrator, when he made a crisp “thank you” to all who came (and could not come) on his invitation to his book launch “Along River Sarawak”, held at the BMICH on 04 September, 2013.

The second quote, though on the first take is also as interesting as the first quote, is not that logical and as the first. According to Mahavamsa that all Sinhala patriots wish to believe, after prince Vijeya, there were only 04 others, before King Devanampiyatissa, during whose rule, Arahath Mahinda visited Lanka to convert King Devanampiyatissa into Buddhism (this conversion is accepted as holy).

Two things of note, here. One, since Vijeya’s trespassing of this land till King Devanampiyatissa’s conversion after which he had his coronation blessed by the Indian king, there was no such practice or sharing of female nobility with India, recorded in Mahavamsa, although prince Vijeya is said to have brought a princess from India. That obviously was to break off from the local nobility and Kuveni as the story goes, and to establish his own clan as the lords of the land. Thus it was no “King Vijeya” but a runaway prince who married an Indian princess yet again, to establish his ethnicity as rulers of land usurped.

Two, till Pandukhabhaya, the ruler immediately before Devanampiyatissa, there had been no kingdom established by any, including Vijeya, perhaps reason why he is still recognised as “prince” Vijeya. The other two after him, Panduvasudeva and Abhaya have been mere ruling lords of a patch of land in North-West of ancient Lanka and are not called “kings” in Mahavamsa. After them, there is an interregnum of about 17 years, before Pandukhabhaya established the first kingdom in ancient Lanka.

Therefore it is not very correct to say, ancient kings brought their queens and concubines from India, but not Buddhism. By the time the ancient kings after Devanampiyatissa, started the habit (call it tradition if you wish) of bringing their queens and concubines from India, people of this land had already been “converted” intoBuddhism.

It seems most arguments, “for” and “against” on most issues, are not based on facts and are not logically argued too. But they certainly carry lot of punch and that is what is expected, I believe.

UN Slow to Answer on Sri Lanka Harassment Until Briefing with Censors

By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, September 5 -- When Navi Pillay wrapped up her visit to Sri Lanka, she spoke of "the harassment and intimidation of a number of human rights defenders, at least two priests, journalists, and many ordinary citizens... people in villages and settlements in the Mullaitivu area were visited by police or military officers [and were] subsequently questioned."

UN Slow to Answer on Sri Lanka Harassment Until Briefing With Censors by nelvely

A Suitable Enemy

( September 5, 2013, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Where would all the fairy tales be without the monsters?

How does a hero escape irrelevance, once the last monster is slain?

Can a king muster armies and stifle opponents, if the land is not menaced?

A Suitable Enemy by nelvely

ELECTIONS WOES OF PAPER AND PASTE

By Shanika Pitigala
Pic By Manilka Jayasingha
2013-09-05
Seasons go and seasons come, every day is a new start they say, and yes, every new day brings about new events. When one ends another begins. As the enthusiasm of the Perahera, the drum beating and the whip cracking ends, when the decorated streets of Kandy are rearranged and normalcy returns, it’s that time again for another set of activities!

No sooner the religious decorations came down, each lamp post, each parapet wall seems to be getting new wall papers of different colors and shades. All picturing different faces, and then it strikes- it is now the time for election propaganda. And it has commenced in a ‘gala’ manner.

Well of course, how can one win a contest without a proper canvassing process? The office of each candidate is also decorated in the respective colors as represented by the party to which they belong. Also displayed are large size cutouts and posters. The wonder is what a lot of unknown persons and yet again what a large number of candidates.

The other morning my eyes ached as I strained harder than ever, and looked even for a little piece of space on the brick walls, but failed. All I could spot were faces of people and each face placed in a square had a cross next to their ‘preferential number’. Well, I must say, one has a wide selection of faces to choose from. Then there are all those flags of different hues hanging at each corner of the respective offices of candidates and the surrounding areas.
I could not help but notice, the very neat and artistic handwriting on the middle of the road which leads to my house. Well, first I only saw one then to realize it just did not stop at one. There were several such writings on the tarred roads, displaying the symbol and the number, of certain candidates contesting at the Provincial Council elections to be held in September.

http://www.nation.lk/edition/news-features/item/20540-elections-woes-of-paper-and-paste.html

The first signal of the elections was like the whip crackers signaling the arrival of the Perahera- the posters started appearing. They were mainly on walls of houses which are by the roadside. Parapet walls, other facades, lamp posts, nothing was spared. There was only one thing missing, the preferential numbers.

One day very recently while driving home, I spotted a little girl struggling to remove the posters that were pasted on the private wall of her home. If one were to count she had removed over three to four posters that were pasted one on top of the other. To our surprise they were not of the same party, but of different parties! Oh well, and she goes, ‘why have they pasted them on our wall?’ Well you haven’t got the right to vote yet, so don’t bother, was the remark of a passerby.
Anyways, to a point the propaganda process is vital for the contestants, time will decide who the winners will be but the issue at hand is the amount of paper that is being used up for the posters. Also the environmental impact of these posters on the hill country or rather the country on the whole.

On an earlier occasion when the environmental conditions in Kandy Town were discussed, it was highlighted that paper and garbage were big time polluters of the City. Now the issue at hand is, where would all these posters and cutouts end up, when removed, on the given deadline.
That’s the time when all propaganda material is removed from the visible corners of the city. A beautiful city that is said to have survived time and tide and is a UNESCO designated World Heritage Site is now covered with paper and paste. Not even one single surface is spared by the poster campaign that is being conducted to perfection.

For those pasting the posters, the best time of the day is after nightfall, with the least hindrance to the public. No harm done, in that I guess, nights are peaceful when most are in their homes sitting in front of the Television, there again news flashes and advertisements are constantly running giving notices about the upcoming election.

When the elections ‘saga’ comes to an end, some of the free cattle roaming the streets would have had most of the walls cleaned as they would be seen chewing the papers and posters instead of the grass. However, the matter of concern is the beautification process of the City, where several development projects are now on the cards, while some are already on course keeping in mind that Kandy is a city in which, most of the buildings are preserved as being of archaeological value and importance.
Sometimes by morning we see, these posters in the drains or by the roads without regard to the Party and the persons represented by the posters. Who are the offenders? Or another may question, is it an offence? As for the answers, all would say, it is all a matter of time, till the elections are over.

Why should we wait for certain officials or organizations or any person involved in environmental protection to come remove the posters? And a couple of days later for news items to be flashed saying large amounts of posters were removed.
However, there is a closely fought contest to secure the 25 seats in the Kandy Province. Well, with a record of 17 recognized political parties in the fray for the elections, there is propaganda material to match that is lying around, including large numbers of handbills that are being distributed by a countless number of supporters of the contestants.

After Pillay: Sharma To Do Damage Control For Lanka

September 5, 2013

The Government of Sri Lanka has decided to place its hopes on Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma seeking the protection of the Secretariat ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo in November, the Colombo Telegraph learns.

Rajapaksa and Sharma

Sharma has promised to assist the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka (HRCSL) to regain its status as a credible mechanism after the Commission was downgraded to “B” status.

The Commonwealth Secretary General recently dispatched a team for a dialogue with the HRC in Colombo. During the discussions the Commonwealth team has assured they will help the HRC to raise its standards and build capacity in a bid to help the commission to uplift its standards putting the past behind. Human Rights Commissioner Prathibha Mahananama told our sources that looking beyond the past was essentially mean that the HRC would not focus on the post-war period but look to the future.

Colombo Telegraph further learns that during the recent visit of External Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris to London,conversations have taken place between the Sri Lankan Minister and Secretary General Sharma with specific reference to the visit of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay to the island last week. Pillay who left Colombo on Sunday issued a strong criticism against the country’s human rights record and said after the war, Sri Lanka’s “democracy was undermined and the rule of law eroded.” She warned that the country was moving in an increasingly “authoritarian direction.”Read More

TNA MP quizzed by TID

September 4, 2013

TNA Parliamentarian P. Aryanenthiran has been questioned by the Terrorist Investigations Department (TID) over some alleged conversations he has had with political prisoners.

Aryanenthiran had been quizzed for nearly 1 ½ hours by the TID after he was summoned to record a statement.

He was asked about his conversations with Tamil political prisoners over the telephone in the recent past.

The TID had asked him about one particular telephone call where he had spoken to a political prisoner for nearly 25 minutes.

The TNA MP had said that he receives several telephone calls and SMS messages so the conversations he has with political prisoners is nothing special.

He also said that when he receives a missed call he tends to return the call not knowing who it is. (Colombo Gazette

Tamil Nadu activists speak out: interview with Save Tamils Movement

05 September 2013

Tamil Nadu Activists Speak Out Interview With Save Tamils Movement by nelvely

Floral tribute at Mullivaikal: Gross misrepresentation, says Pillay’s Office

UN High Commissioner’s Spokesman says allegation is latest in a pattern of abuse

Claims UN Envoy wanted to commemorate all victims of conflict where 30-year war ended

Says UN dropped plan after Govt. took exception

Says Pillay made her views on LTTE very clear

By Dharisha Bastians - September 5, 2013
The Office of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay broke its silence yesterday over Government claims that she had attempted to a pay floral tribute where LTTE Leader Vellupillai Prabhakaran had been killed, saying the allegations were a ‘gross misrepresentation’.
Spokesman for the High Commissioner Rupert Colville told the Daily FT that it was a “gross misrepresentation” to pretend Pillay was planning to honour the LTTE. “She made her views on the LTTE very clear in her statement,” he asserted.
Colville said the visiting UN Envoy had wanted to pay respects to all those who had lost their lives as she often does while visiting countries recovering from conflict. “We considered the general area where the war ended after nearly 30 years might be a suitable spot to commemorate ALL those who died during that conflict,” Colville said.

He said that the Government had taken exception to the plan.
“The Government learned that we were considering doing this and made it very plain that they saw it in a different light. We considered their point of view carefully and felt in the end that it might be misinterpreted – as indeed it has been – so decided not to proceed,” Pillay’s Spokesman told the Daily FT.
The High Commissioner’s Spokesman charged the misrepresentation that Pillay was going to honour the LTTE with a floral tribute was “the latest in a pattern of mendacious abuse” she had referred to in her closing remarks in Colombo last Saturday. Pillay charged that Government propagandists and Ministers claimed she was a tool of the LTTE, which she said was “wildly incorrect” and “deeply offensive”.
Colville explained that the words she was to speak in Mullaitivu had been included in her final statement, where she paid her respects to all Sri Lankans, across the country, who were killed during those three decades of conflict, and offered her heartfelt sympathy to their families.
External Affairs Minister G.L. Peiris told a press briefing in London on Monday that High Commissioner Pillay had kept the Government in the dark about the plan to pay floral tributes in Mullivaikal. In a statement issued soon after her departure on Sunday, the Government Information Department accused the UN Envoy of having made what it called a “surreptitious” effort to pay a floral tribute at Mullivaikal.
“It was pointed out by the Sri Lankan side to the OHCHR delegation that if such a gesture needed to be made it should be done at a venue common to all victims of the 30-year terrorist conflict and not on the grounds where the LTTE leader met his death, the Government said in a statement.

UK Tamils want British monitors to oversee ‘vote on self-rule’

By Shamindra Ferdinando-September 4, 2013,

An organisation calling itself the British Tamil Conservatives (BTC) has urged the British government to deploy election monitors in Sri Lanka ahead of the first Northern Provincial Council polls scheduled for Sept 21.

Claiming that the Sri Lankan government was holding Northern PC polls due to international pressure, the BTC asserts that a free and fair election would largely depend on the deployment of polls observers.

The group said that the forthcoming polls would give those living in the Northern Province a rare opportunity to express their aspirations for what it called self-rule.

The BTC declared its support for the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) while urging the Tamil Diaspora organisations to throw their weight behind the Tamil leadership in Sri Lanka. The BTC said: "The TNA stands for the legitimate aspirations of Tamils’ self-rule and seek a political solution to a conflict that has not been resolved."

Deputy Elections Commissioner M. M. Mohamed yesterday told The Island that polls Chief Mahinda Deshapriya had requested for observers from member states of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) as well as the Commonwealth. The Election authority in Bangladesh had confirmed its participation in the monitoring mission, Mohamed said, adding that the deployment of foreign personnel was the prerogative of the polls chief.

Polls chief Deshapriya emphasised that the Election Secretariat would take all possible measures to prevent irregularities. The deployment of foreign polls monitors would be part of the overall strategy to create a level playing field in the run-up to the polls. Responding to a query,

Deshapriya said that the government as well as in the Opposition was aware of the measures taken by him to prevent irregularities. Deshapriya said that there was an ongoing dialogue involving all political parties contesting the Northern, Central and North-Western Provinces.
A senior spokesperson for the External Affairs Ministry told The Island that those calling for deployment of foreign observers had conveniently forgotten the circumstance under which the TNA was accused by the EU of being the beneficiary of violence unleashed by the LTTE in the run-up to Dec 2001 parliamentary polls. Civil society organizations as well as foreign missions that were constantly crying for free and fair elections here, however conveniently remained mum, the official said.

Rajapaksa Calls “Bull Shit” On Global Mail Coverage

By Eric Ellis -September 5, 2013

Eric Ellis

Last weekend, as a courtesy, The Global Mail emailed Sri Lanka’s unelected Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa a link to our story on the nepotism among Sri Lanka’s powerful elite.

Gota, as Sri Lankans know him, is the country’s enforcer-in-chief. The former soldier is credited with having masterminded his presidential brother Mahinda’s 2009 victory over Tamil separatists and ending a 26-year civil war that killed more than 100,000 people – as many as 75,000 in its brutal last weeks.

He had chosen not to co-operate in our research, but we sent on this piece anyway, the third in a three-part series How Not To Win A War. The series examines how his tiny island is emerging from that war and why, four years on, so many Sri Lankans, particularly of its minority Tamil community, are risking their lives on leaky boats in the vain hope of starting new lives in Australia.

‘The Brothers’ Grip’, in particular, reported how Gota and his triumphant Sinhalese relatives and cronies are getting rich quick as they turn Sri Lanka into their family’s political and business fief, a ‘mafia state’ as some Sri Lankans even described it.

Ban refers to Sri Lanka

September 4, 2013

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has made a reference to Sri Lanka in his annual report on the work of the UN.

In his report released at the UN Headquarters, the UN Chief says the UN is looking at strengthening its capacity to respond to crisis situations by using a panel report on Sri Lanka as a guide.

The panel report on Sri Lanka was compiled after the UN was accused of failing to immediately address the humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka during the war.

“I have engaged the Organization in a reflection on strengthening our own capacity to respond to crisis situations and protect human rights through follow-up to the Internal Review Panel on United Nations action in Sri Lanka,” UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said in his report.

He called on UN Member States to be ready to do their vital part, to muster the will to act in a united manner to end egregious violations of international humanitarian and human rights law.

“We cannot allow ourselves to become so accustomed to civilians bearing the brunt of violence that we lose our sense of outrage and our will to act,” he said.

The UN Secretary General said that the normative framework to protect civilians, including the concept of “responsibility to protect” and discussions about “responsibility while protecting”, has continued to be the subject of debate, not always matched by action. (Colombo Gazette)

‘Secret’ press conference in Sri Lanka High Commission in London?

Thursday, 05 September 2013

The Sri Lankan journalists are questioning why Sri Lankan High Commission in London barred all Sri Lankan journalists from a press conference chaired by Foreign Minister Professor G. L. Peiris on Monday.

All Sri Lankan journalists who wanted to attend were told by High Commission officials that the press briefing was only open for foreign media.

They are of the opinion that Sri Lankan High Commissioner Dr. Chirs Nonis who is extremely sensitive about press reports wanted to prevent journalists questioning about his handling (or mishandling) of arrangements with regard to the upcoming CHOGM in Sri Lanka.

The Foreign Minister who usually meet Sri Lankan journalists during his visits to London has avoided them this time probably on the advice of Dr. Nonis, they say.

The journalists were planning to raise questions about Dr. Nonis his failure to engage with the Sri Lankans in UK in many vital issues to the community and promoting his own brand of tea during official functions, in particular.

Vimukthi Sahan @ Paradise Road Galleries

September 5, 2013

Vimuthi Sahan, an emerging contemporary, started professionally painting in 2007 and since then he has already had a solo exhibition and collaborated in many group shows island-wide.

A graduate of the University of Visual and Performing arts, Sahan, in this exhibition depicts life in Sri Lanka, the political and social turmoil the younger generation face today. Living and breathing in a post conflict country. Where are we heading? Where do we want to be?

He also approaches the importance of technology today and how his generation interacts and the affect it has on personal relationships.

With the use of strong, distinctive colours such as Black, White, and Red together with fragmented, erratic lines, Sahan succeeds in bringing forward the voice of his generation.

This exhibition will be presented at Paradise Road Galleries from 6 September 2013 to 3 October 2013. The exhibition is open to the public from 10am to midnight daily. For further information please email art@paradiseroad.lk