The latest to use the word was the unnamed BBC correspondent who was quoted on the 11.30pm BBC News on Tuesday night. “Appalling”. That was how the BBC Correspondent described the conditions at the relief village for the IDPs in the Vanni. Just one damning word is all that was needed. There was no effort [...]
The Media Centre for National Security said it has received information that numerous private organisations and individuals have collected money on the pretext of using for the soldiers’ welfare following the defeat of LTTE terrorism. The Centre said yesterday (May 29) that the Government has taken adequate measures to ensure the welfare of soldiers. The [...]
As power struggles wage between factions of the LTTE overseas with Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP attempting to grab the leadership of the now defunct LTTE, Tamils living in the Northern part of Sri Lanka are vehemently opposed to any presence of a renewed LTTE terror or democratic outfit again ,reports reaching Colombo from Jaffna stated. [...]
THE Sri Lanka Army will be strengthened and modernized to meet any internal or external threat to the country despite the Sri Lankan military’s victory against the LTTE, Army Commander General Sarath Fonseka told the media yesterday. Addressing the media at the Army Headquarters soon after the ‘Victory Parade’ to mark the Sri Lanka Army’s [...]
26 May 2009 Excellencies, Friends, We are focusing on Sri Lanka at a time when the 30 year conflict which has affected our country so negatively has come to an end. Mr. President, I heard a little while ago from the previous speaker about conflict zones and been given access to conflict zones when the [...]
Sri Lanka has received a clean bill of health from the UN Human Rights Council, which adopted a resolution praising the government for its humanitarian assistance to hundreds of thousands of internally displaced Tamils. The resolution was approved by 29 nations, 12 voted against and six abstained. China, Cuba, Egypt and Pakistan were some of [...]
It has been reported that certain Western countries are in the process of collecting evidence to try the Sri Lankan Leadership, both Political and Military for committing war crimes. What are War Crimes? The concept of War Crimes is a recent one, came into being after conclusion of the World War II. Mass murder of [...]
A dollar shark named Kusal Perera recently wrote; “Tamil separatism survives on the strength of Sinhala nationalism.” He is not alone in disseminating such views. Conspirators of INGOs and NGOs, evangelists of ecumenical Christian sects, colonialists of the neo liberal West and separatists of the Elam and the federal bandwagons have been spreading similar views [...]
Uncertainty surrounding the fate of Velupillai Prabakharan, the leader of the Tamil Tigers, deepened last night after a statement purporting to be from the rebels admitted that he was dead. The statement, seen by The Times, appeared to be signed by Selvarasa Pathmanathan (KP), the Tigers’ head of international relations. Sources close to the rebels [...]
The two students were hungry, and they had no time even to cook a meal. So, they drove to the nearby Tamil shop in Pendle Hill to buy ready-made Sri Lankan food boxes. They had just alighted from the car, when they observed several other cars screeching to a halt in front of them. Having [...]
