The winner of this year's OTHER peace prize: Fidel Castro handed China's Confucius award – for his 'important contributions' to world peace

• Former Cuban dictator hailed for not resorting to violence
• Chosen by nine judges in a 16 strong panel 
• Previous winners include Russian leader Vladimir Putin
• Castro, now 88, did not attend the award ceremony
• The award was made a day before Malala Yousafzai received the Nobel     

By HENRY AUSTIN FOR MAILONLINE

PUBLISHED: 10:39 GMT, 11 December 2014 | UPDATED: 12:08 GMT, 11 December 2014

He brought the world the brink of nuclear war but that hasn't stopped the former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro from being awarded China's version of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Hailing the aging revolutionary icon's 'important contributions' to world peace, he was selected to win the Confucius Peace Prize, the state-run Global Times newspaper reported.

'While in office, Castro didn't resort to violence or force to settle disputes in international relations, especially with the United States,' the paper wrote, seemingly forgetting the Cuban missile crisis. 

The Winner of This Year's OTHER Peace Prize Fidel Castro Handed China's Confucius Award – for His 'Importan... by Thavam Ratna

Women Must Be Partners and Drivers of Climate Change Decision-Making

Phumzile Mlambo-NgcukaInfluencer

December 09, 2014

As leaders from around the world gather in Lima, Peru this week to discuss global cooperation in addressing climate change, a woman in Guatemala will struggle to feed her family from a farm plot that produces less each season.

A mother in Ethiopia will make the difficult choice to take her daughter out of school to help in the task of gathering water, which requires more and more time with each passing year.

Women Must Be Partners and Drivers of Climate Change Decision-Making by Thavam Ratna

Marijuana Legalization Questions Answered by Dr. Phil Leveque

Dr. Phillip Leveque Professor of Pharmacology Salem-News.com-Dec-10-2014

A high school student interviews Dr. Leveque about his experience with marijuana/cannabis and legalization.

(PORTLAND, Ore.) - Dear Dr. Leveque, I am a sophomore at Lee's Summit North High School. I have contacted you today because we need to "interview" someone over our topic (my topic being the legalization of medicinal Marijuana) and my first choice was to talk to you.

From Dr. Leveque:

My first exposure to marijuana was in 1928. I was a newspaper boy in southern Oregon and there were about 40 newspaper boys. I happened to be the youngest one. White, American boys were smoking cigarette butts that they picked up on the street.

Marijuana Legalization Questions Answered by Dr. Phil Leveque by Thavam Ratna

Ebola vaccine trial suspended for checks after joint pains

Clinical trial in Geneva interrupted a week early after four patients complained of pain in hands and feet

Health workers wear protective gear before entering the house of a person suspected to have died of Ebola in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Photograph: Michael Duff/AP

Lisa O'Carroll and agencies in Geneva and Freetown-Thursday 11 December 2014

A clinical trial of an Ebola vaccine has been suspended in all 59 volunteers in Geneva a week early “as a measure of precaution” after four patients complained of joint pains in hands and feet, the University of Geneva hospital said.

“They are all fine and being monitored regularly by the medical team leading the study,” it said on Thursday.

The human safety trials of the vaccine being developed by the pharmaceutical firms Merck and NewLink are scheduled to resume on 5 January in up to 15 volunteers after checks to ensure that the joint pain symptoms were “benign and temporary”, the hospital added.

The decision to suspend the trials comes as health officials in Sierra Leone discovered scores of bodies in a remote diamond-mining area, raising fears of a spike in the number of unreported deaths.

The World Health Organisation said it uncovered a “grim scene” in the eastern district of Kono.

Sierra Leone has now overtaken Liberia as the country with the highest number of Ebola cases in west Africa, with 7,897 cases since the beginning of the outbreak.

The WHO said that over 11 days “two teams buried 87 bodies, including a nurse, an ambulance driver, and a janitor drafted into removing bodies as they piled up”.

The response team also found 25 people who had died in the past five days piled up in a cordoned-off section of the local hospital. The district of more than 350,000 inhabitants had reported 119 cases up to 9 December.

“Our team met heroic doctors and nurses at their wits’ end, exhausted burial teams and lab techs, all doing the best they could but they simply ran out of resources and were overrun with gravely ill people,” said Dr Olu Olushayo, a member of the WHO’s Ebola response team.

A spokeswoman from the Red Cross in Sierra Leone said: “It just shows you how quickly and how easily the virus can spread.”

The Red Cross has sent two burial teams to the district from neighbouring Kailahun and has deployed an emergency medical team from its Ebola treatment unit in Kenema, made up of four international and six local health workers.

There is no treatment centre in Kono but because of the fears that this could become a new hotspot the workers will help with infection control in the general hospital.

The Sierra Leone authorities said they ordered a two-week “lockdown” in Kono until 23 December, in the hope of containing transmission of the virus.

Up to now the number of cases in Kono has been small compared to other districts such as Bombali, Port Loko and Freetown, which have had 890, 973 and 2365 cases respectively.

Separately Gavi, the global vaccines alliance, has committed up to $300m (£192m) to buy Ebola vaccines and is ready to begin procurement as soon as the WHO recommends one for use, the alliance said on Thursday.

Up to an additional $90m could also be used to support countries to introduce the vaccines and to rebuild their health systems, it added.

Clinical trials with experimental shots are now underway as experts race to contain an epidemic that has killed more than 6,000 people in west Africa, though there is still uncertainty over how well they will work and how many doses are needed.

The Piper and his broken charm!

President Mahinda Rajapaksa on the day he assumed his second term in 2010/ File photo

 December 11, 2014

With ruling party members still threatening to exit and the opposition campaign gaining momentum, can the Rajapaksa campaign continue to sing the same old tune?
The 8 January 2015 presidential election is a feeding frenzy for international conspirators and the LTTE rump. The candidacy of Maithripala Sirisena is not part of the democratic attempt to effect change through a multi-party, pluralistic electoral process. He is Washington’s pawn in the grand geopolitical struggle for influence between the US and China.
The Sirisena candidacy project is the brainchild of vengeance-seeking, power-hungry ex-President Chandrika Kumaratunga and former Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera. He challenges President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s bid to remain in power for a third unprecedented term in order to ensure Sri Lankan troops and the Commander-in-Chief is tried in The Hague for crimes of war.

The Piper and His Broken Charm! by Thavam Ratna

Human Rights Day: Human rights matter every day for everyone, everywhere 
9 December 2014

“Human rights matter because they are dependent on only one thing: being human.”

This is one of the short video messages sent by everyday human rights defenders from around the world through the video sharing platform, Vine, the main social medium used to celebrate this year’s Human Rights Day.

The UN Human Rights Office wanted to focus on why human rights counted every day for people everywhere, and asked that they declare themselves part of the human rights community through these short messages.

In his traditional message for the Day, UN Human Rights Chief, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, highlighted the first words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by virtually all UN Member States on 10 December 1948, more than sixty years ago: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."

“In perhaps the most resonant and beautiful words of any international agreement, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights promises, to all, the economic, social, political, cultural and civil rights that underpin a life free from want and fear,” the High Commissioner stressed. “These human rights are not country-specific. They are not a reward for good behaviour, or particular to a certain era or social group. They are the inalienable entitlements of all people, at all times and everywhere, 365 days a year.”

Zeid recalled that the Declaration is the kernel of the entire international human rights legal system, thanks to which people have “obtained justice for wrongs, and national and international protection for their rights.”

“Violations have been prevented. Independence and autonomy have been attained,” he said. “Many people – though not all – have been able to secure freedom from torture, unjustified imprisonment, summary execution, enforced disappearance, persecution and unjust discrimination, as well as fair access to education, economic opportunities, rich cultural traditions and adequate resources and health-care.”

Support for the Declaration continues to grow: this year the Convention against Torture reached its 30th year, the Convention on the Rights of the Child is 25. In 2015, the very first of the international agreements giving effect to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination marks its half century.

“The power of the Universal Declaration is the power of ideas to change the world. It tells us that human rights are essential and indivisible – 365 days a year,” the High Commissioner said. “Every day is Human Rights day: a day on which we work to ensure that all people can gain equality, dignity and freedom.”

- See more at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/NewsEvents/Pages/HumanRightsDay2014.aspx#sthash.hBzTCNdo.dpuf

Three Years And Yet No News About Missing Activists

It is exactly three years since human rights defenders, Lalith Kumar Weeraraju and Kugan Muruganandanwent missing in Jaffna.

December 10, 2014

The two activists were last seen travelling in a motorbike on December 9 evening, as they ran errands in the area to organise a media briefing for some MPs the following day in commemoration of the world human rights day. Since then, no information concerning their whereabouts have surfaced.

The two activists were closely working with the Movement for People’s Struggle organisation and they strongly believe the two activists were abducted by the military as Lalith had already received several death threats from the military in the days leading up to the abduction.

The case on the disappearance of the two activists was heard today at the Jaffna Magistrate Courts to which Minister Keheliya Rambukwella and JVP MP Sunil Hadunnetti were due to attend to make statements with concern to comments they had made on the two activists. However, due to their absence, a further inquiry was fixed for March 15, 2015.

Following their disappearance, when Media Minister Rambukwella was inquired by media concerning the incident he said he is aware of where the two activists were being detained but refused to divulge the information.

Lalith was a non-academic staff member of the Jayawardenapura University. He left his employment to fight for the rights of the war affected families and residents of the North i order to restore their democratic rights.

On Sri Lanka, ICP Asks UN Genocide Adviser Who Cites Failure, Rights Up Front

By Matthew Russell Lee

UNITED NATIONS, December 9 -- When the UN's Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide Adama Dieng took questions on December 9, Inner City Press asked him if he considered what happened in Sri Lanka in 2009 (and before and after) to be genocide, and of the work of and reaction to the UN panel, see below.

  Dieng said what happened in 2009 was a failure of the international community, with the killing of thousands "under our eyes." Video here, and embedded below.

  Dieng cited the UN's Petrie report, and then Ban Ki-moon (who'd gone on a Rajapaksa sponsored victory tour of northern Sri Lanka in mid 2009) later establishing a "Rights Up Front" program.

  

On Sri Lanka, ICP Asks UN Genocide Adviser Who Cites Failure, Rights Up Front by Thavam Ratna

26 Incidents of Suppression of Dissent Recorded in October 2014

INFORM, a long standing human rights documentation centre in Colombo, Sri Lanka in has recorded  26incidents of suppression of dissent in Sri Lanka.  the Summary of  the report follows:

INFORM Report: Repression of Dissent in Sri Lanka October 2014: Summary:-10/12/2014

As the deadline for submissions for the UN Human Rights Council appointed investigation into alleged violations of international human rights and humanitarian law approached, a Tamil person in the North was arrested and several others were searched and compelled to hide, for attempting to cooperate with the UN investigation. The Presidentially appointed Governor of the Northern Province sought “clarification” into why an outspoken Tamil Councilor of the Northern Provincial Council had asked for an extension of the deadline for submissions for the UN investigation. Media reported that the government has launched an investigation into the Tamil National Alliance’s (TNA) alleged “plot to provide unsubstantiated information to UN war crimes investigators” and that emails to the investigation team would be monitored. Well-known human rights defenders were labeled as terrorist sympathizers by a Sinhalese newspaper, accused of sending information to the UN investigation team and supporting the revival of the LTTE. The President of the Vavuniya Citizens Committee in the North was assaulted and had to be hospitalized after he was involved in a protest campaign to free a Tamil woman HRD detained without charges since March 2014.

A group of opposition parliamentarians and two journalists were attacked by a mob when they visited the Sri Lanka Ports Authority (SLPA) Security Training Institute at Slave Island on a fact-finding mission. There were harassments and obstacles to an event on journalism organized by Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL), with the senior staff, their family members, resource persons and participants receiving threatening phone calls and SMS messages. The Military harassed a monthly Tamil newspaper which stands for the right to self-determination, demanding that the printers alert them before printing the paper. A distributor of the paper was interrogated at a Military camp and later assaulted. A senior Tamil journalist and press freedom activist in Jaffna was also subjected to interrogation. An injunction was issued against a strike by railway employees while Trade Union leaders and protesting fisher folks were attacked physically. A poster was put up discrediting human rights defenders involved in organizing an annual remembrance for disappeared persons and one of their houses was stoned the night before the event. Student activists involved in protests were attacked at least three times in three separate places and incidents, causing injuries to many students. The Minister for Higher Education discredited students again, referring to them as “flies” and 12 students were arrested in relation to the Minister’s visit to a university.

Freedom of movement was curtailed against those who were considered as persons who could pass critical comments against the government. On two separate occasions, a wife and a mother of a Tamil man, who was killed for allegedly being involved in attempting to revive the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), were prevented from going abroad, although they possessed valid visas and had no formal court orders restricting overseas travel. Foreign passport holders were barred from travelling to most parts of the war-ravaged Northern Province without permission of the Ministry of Defense, and a UN official was turned back when going for an event related to the World Food Day.

The Police, Military and the Government were directly implicated in many of the incidents, while other incidents were perpetrated by “unidentified persons / groups” who appeared to have links to the Defense establishment. Based on media reports, the Government and Police have not taken decisive actions to arrest and prosecute those responsible for any of the incidents.

Read the full report as a PDF: Repression of Dissent in Sri Lanka – INFORM report – Oct2014-English(09Dec2014)

Security Message for U.S. Citizens in Sri Lanka

Date: December 9, 2014

Sri Lanka will hold presidential elections on January 8, 2015.  The campaign will feature large public events‎ and rallies.  Political rallies and election campaigns in Sri Lanka have occasionally turned violent.  U.S. citizens are reminded to avoid polling stations, large public gatherings, political rallies, and demonstrations.  U.S. citizens are advised to monitor local media in case of public disturbances.

We strongly recommend that U.S. citizens living or traveling in Sri Lanka and the Republic of Maldives enroll with the U.S. Embassy through the State Department's Smart Traveler Enrollment Program (STEP). STEP enrollment gives you the latest security updates, and makes it easier for the U.S. Embassy to contact you in an emergency. U.S. citizens without internet access may enroll at the Embassy. U.S. citizens traveling abroad should regularly monitor the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Consular Affairswebsite, where the current Worldwide Caution, Travel Warnings, Travel Alerts, and Country Specific Information can be found. The U.S. Embassy also encourages U.S. citizens to review "Traveler's Checklist," which includes valuable security information for those living and traveling abroad. Follow us on Twitter and the Bureau of Consular Affairs page on Facebook as well.

In addition to information on the Internet, travelers may obtain the latest information on security conditions by calling 1-888-407-4747 toll-free in the United States and Canada, or outside the United States and Canada on a regular toll line at 1-202-501-4444. These numbers are available from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday (except U.S. federal holidays).

The Consular Section of the U.S. Embassy in Colombo is located at 210 Galle Road. The telephone number is +94 11 249-8500. If you are an American citizen with an afterhours emergency, please call our hotline at: 077-725-6307. If you are unable to reach the duty officer on this number, please dial 011-249-8500. The fax number is +94 11 249-8501. The Consular Section's e-mail address is colomboacs@state.gov and here is the internetweb page.

Millions of people around the world set to Write for Rights to mark International Human Rights Day

"Write for Rights epitomizes what Amnesty International is all about – individuals helping other individuals, wherever they might be. It is a unique and extraordinary event that brings together millions of people in a bid to secure justice for men, women and children around the world."-Alex Neve, Secretary General, Amnesty International Canada

Amnesty International supporters and human rights activists from more than 100 countries around the globe are taking part in the world’s largest annual human rights event around International Human Rights Day December 10 with a two week campaign.

Called Write for Rights, the event mobilizes supporters to put pen to paper or send electronic messages on behalf of individuals and communities suffering from brutal human rights violations including arbitrary detention and torture.

Supporters in Canada are signing petitions, writing letters, participating in events and posting tweets calling for justice, freedom and protection from human rights violations. Some of the cases, amongst others, include:

• A fair trial for Canadian citizen and ethnic Uighur, Huseyin Celil serving a life sentence in China for his human rights activities in support of the Uighur people. Huseyin Celil’s case is of special interest to Amnesty members in Canada who have been campaigning since 2006 for his safe return to his family in Canada.

• Proper compensation and medical assistance for the victims of Bhopalwho still await justice after the 1984 gas leak disaster which killed more than 22,000 and left half a million injured.

• Real action to end violence against Indigenous women and girls in Canada.

• The release of Raif Badawi, whose family are in Quebec, and who was imprisoned in Saudi Arabia in 2012 for posting pro-democracy messages on the internet.
 

Canadians can join Write for Rights events on December 10 from coast to coast.

Here is just a small sample of events happening across the country:

• ‘Invitation to Write for Rights’ at Margaret Hennigar Public Library, Bridgewater NS

• Ottawa Write for Rights and Winter Barbecue

• Schools in Barrie, ON, raise Amnesty’s flag at City Hall to mark Human Rights Day

• Lethbridge Action Circle at The Owl Acoustic Lounge

• Letter-writing at the Vancouver  Public Library

• Youth “Dance for Rights” in the streets of Montreal

• Write your own letters or tweets at home, work or school online


For further details of the over 240 events or to register online, visitwww.writeathon.ca.You can also join a thousand more individuals writing on their own.

Artists, writers, actors and musicians, including Nino Ricci, Margaret Atwood, Deepa Mehta, Fiona Reid, Eric Peterson and David Usher, have been lending their support for this massive day of mobilization.

“Write for Rights epitomizes what Amnesty International is all about – individuals helping other individuals, wherever they might be. It is a unique and extraordinary event that brings together millions of people in a bid to secure justice for men, women and children around the world,” said Alex Neve, Amnesty International Canada’s Secretary General.

“The campaign is a great demonstration of the power of individual peaceful protest.”

Write for Rights was first launched in 2003. Since then, many activists featured in the campaign have been released from prison while others saw their conditions improved. Investigations have also been initiated into dozens of cases of arbitrary and unfair imprisonment, torture and other human rights abuses.

“Write for Rights clearly shows that concrete change can take place when people are determined to make it happen. Every year our activists empower and strengthen individuals whose human rights are under threat. In 2014 we are calling particular attention to cases involving torture. That Raif Badawi has been sentenced to 1000 lashes in Saudi Arabia for speaking out for democracy is an outrageous sentence that serves as a rallying cry for all Canadians and human rights supporters around the world. We are determined to challenge injustice and change lives,” said Alex Neve.

Visit Write for Rights

For further information:
Elizabeth Berton-Hunter, Media Relations
(416) 363-9933 ext. 332
Bberton-hunter@amnesty.ca

Bishop Rayappu Joseph Elected to Lead the Tamil Civil Society Forum

[Bishop Rayappu has been harassed by police many times]

10/12/2014 
Mannar Bishop Rayappu Joseph has been elected to lead the Tamil Civil Society Forum (TCSF), which is now formally constituted.  Outspoken academic Kumaravadivel Guruparan has been elected as one of the spokespersons. In its policy document it says that ‘ TCSF endorses the Thimphu principles of 1985. The following two are core principles in this regard: a) The right to self determination of the Tamil people based on a collective self-conscious on the part of the Tamil people as them being a Nation. Owing to their right to self-determination, the Tamil people are a sovereign nation and vice versa. b) The North and East parts of the island of Sri Lanka is the traditional homeland of the Tamil people and thus constitutes the self determining unit of the Tamil Nation.’
Bishop Rayappu Joseph Elected to Lead the Tamil Civil Society Forum by Thavam Ratna

Maithripala Sirisena Could Learn From Kerry

By Hema Senanayake - December 10, 2014

Hema Senanayake

The words and the way words are spoken are the operational vehicles of inspiration. In order to win, the leader should be inspirational. This is the only way how the leader can build his image to which voters respond. In an election it is the voter response that will make one win. I learnt this lesson from an article published by Professor Stanly Fish of the University of Illinois.

John Kerry was supposed to win but lost to George W. Bush in the presidential race of 2004. During the presidential campaign Professor Stanly Fish at the University of Illinois at Chicago made a seemingly simple point and hinted that Kerry might be defeated. He came to this conclusion after his students of freshman class submitted their judgments after listened to two recorded speeches of Bush and Kerry. Professor Stanly made the students to listen to them studiously. Students’ comments in regard to Kerry’s speech are interesting. Some commented; “difficult to understand,” “can’t seem to make his point clearly,” “I’m not sure what he’s saying,” and “he’s kind of ‘skippy’, all over the place.” Kerry was to be known for his oratory. But orators do make mistakes sometimes.Read More

Ranil- Man Of The Year!

By P.Bertie Ranaweerage -December 10, 2014 

Bertie Ranaweerage

I was sacked by the UNP government whose Minister of Education was Mr.Ranil Wickremesinghe, for giving leadership to  the teacher trainees in Teacher Training colleges in the general strike in 1980. For over three years I had to undergo a plenty of hardships. Some fifty strikers committed suicide . I have never voted for the UNP  and never will. Yet I decided to write about Mr. Ranil Wickremesinghe, the leader of the UNP, not to attack him but to appreciate him.

All the good people of this country had been searching for a good man or a woman as a common candidate to send MR and his cabal home untilMaitri’s great renunciation. I also took part in that noble endeavour by numerous ways including writing to Colombo Telegraph from time to time. In fact I tried to promote the former President CBK as she was for national reconciliation through power sharing. I knew very well, as many others, that Ranil would not be able to defeat Mahinda as the UNP was thoroughly disorganized, demoralized and split. And it looked like at that time that Ranil was not interested in contesting the Presidential Election.

Many thought that Venerable Maduluwawe Sobhitha Thera would contest the Presidential election against Mahinda as he had started a campaign against the executive presidential system but many doubted his ability to defeat Mahinda. Being a Buddhist monk he was unlikely to be voted by non Buddhists  as well as the Tamils and the Muslims.Read More

மைத்திரிக்கு 59% மஹிந்தவுக்கு 41%: பத்திரிகையின் ஆசிரியர் புலனாய்வு பிரிவினரால் விசாரணை

 by MD.Lucias on Wed, 12/10/2014 -

ராவய சிங்களப் பத்திரிகையின் ஆசிரியர் டப்ளியு. ஜனரஞ்சன குற்றப் புலனாய்வுப் பிரிவினரால் விசாரணைக்கு உட்படுத்தப்பட்டுள்ளார்.

குறித்த பத்திரிகையில் வெளியான செய்தியொன்று தொடர்பிலேயே அவர் குற்றப் புலனாய்வுப் பிரிவினரால் விசாரிக்கப்பட்டதாகவும் அவரிடம் நீண்ட வாக்கு மூலம் ஒன்று புலனாய்வுப் பிரிவினரால் பெற்றுக் கொள்ளப்பட்டுள்ளதாகவும் பொலிஸ் ஊடகப் பேச்சாளர் சிரேஷ்ட பொலிஸ் அத்தியட்சகர் அஜித் ரோஹண கேசரியிடம் குறிப்பிட்டார்.

நேற்று முன்தினம் கொழும்பிலுள்ள புலனாய்வுப் பிரிவினரின் தலைமையகத்துக்கு வரவழைக்கப்பட்டுள்ள ராவய பத்திரிகையின் ஆசிரியர் அங்கு சுமார் இரு மணி நேரம் விசாரணைக்கு உட்படுத்தப்பட்டுள்ளார். இதன் போது அந்த பத்திரிகையில் வெளியான மைத்திரிக்கு 59% மஹிந்தவுக்கு 41% என்ற தலைப்பில் வெளியான செய்தி குறித்தே குறித்த இரு மணி நேரமும் அவர் விசாரணைக்கு உட்படுத்தப்பட்டுள்ளார்.

கடந்த நவம்பர் மாதம் 30 ஆம் திகதி வெளியான குறித்த பத்திரிகையில் புலனாய்வுப் பிரிவின்  பிரதான பிரதிப் பொலிஸ் மா அதிபர் சந்திர வாகிஷ்ட ஜனாதிபதி தேர்தல் குறித்து புலன் ஆய்வு அறிக்கை ஒன்றினை ஜனாதிபதி மஹிந்த ராஜபக் ஷவிடம் கையளித்ததாகவும் அதில் பொது எதிரணி வேட்பாளர் மைத்திரிக்கு 59 வீதமான வாக்குகளும் மஹிந்தவுக்கு 41 வீதமான வாக்குகளும் கிடைக்கும் என தெரிவிக்கப்பட்டிருந்ததாகவும் முன்பக்க செய்தியில் குறிப்பிடப்பட்டிருந்தது.

அத்துடன் அந்த அறிக்கையை பார்த்த ஜனாதிபதி மஹிந்த  கோபத்தில் பிரதிப் பொலிஸ் மா அதிபர் வாகிஷ்டவை புலனாய்வுப் பிரதானி பதவியிலிருந்து நீக்கியுள்ளதாகவும் குறிப்பிடப்பட்டிருந்தது.

இந்நிலையிலேயே ராவய பத்திரிகை ஆசிரியர் புலனாய்வுப் பிரிவினரால் விசாரணைக்கு உட்படுத்தப்பட்டுள்ளார்.

எவ்வாறாயினும் தமது செய்தி சரியானதே என்ற நிலைப்பாட்டில் குறித்த பத்திரிகையின் ஆசிரியர் உள்ளார். அப்பத்திரிகையின் ஆசிரியர் ஜனரஞ்சன பீ.பீ.சி. சிங்கள சேவைக்கு வழங்கியுள்ள தகவலில் தமக்கு கிடைத்த தகவல்களின் பிரகாரம் குறித்த அறிக்கையின் உண்மை  தன்மையில் எந்தவொரு சவாலும் இல்லை என குறிப்பிட்டுள்ளார்.