Author: Edi tor

The Stupid 4 Sri Lanka Muslim Congress party MP’s who were taken for a ride by the Rajapakshes false promises are now regretting for voting in favour of 20th amendment. One of the promises was that they will grant permission to bury Muslim nationals who die of Covid which to date has not materialised. Pakistam PM Imran Khan will be… Continue reading "The 4 Muslim MP’s who was fooled by Rajapakshes."

Former US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes and Global Criminal Justice Stephen Rapp recalled during a webinar on Friday (12) that then Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa had admitted to killing LTTE leaders after they surrendered to the military in 2009 instead of putting them on trial. Speaking at an online panel discussion on Justice and rule of law Rapp said he remembered a… Continue reading "“I Killed Them, I Killed Them”: Ex-US War Crimes Ambassador Says Gota Told Him About Surrendering LTTE Leaders"

Sri Lanka has hit back at the United Nations Human Rights High Commissioner Michelle Bachelet’s latest report calling for targeted sanctions, saying it is based on “speculative, presumptive and unsubstantiated opinions.” It came in a 30-page response to her report which called for targeted sanctions — asset freezes, travel bans and the reference to International Criminal Court of those responsible… Continue reading "Lanka bluntly writes off UN Human Rights Chief’s report"

By C.V. Wigneswaran –  Justice C.V. Wigneswaran MP Someone asked me: Hon’ Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam has used the word “Genocide” in Parliament yesterday. Both Government and Opposition MPs objected to such a strong word being used. As a Lawyer, Law Lecturer, Judge and Politician what have you to say?  My response was: Due to logistical reasons I could not attend Parliament yesterday. Otherwise I would… Continue reading "Today Is The Sixth Anniversary Of Genocide Resolution"

In fact, by this, it is only a shade less intrusive than co-sponsorship of 30/1 as was done in 2015. Is it prudent to go down the road of supporting a consensual resolution? Of course, the proponents of the resolution would fervently work towards a consensual text, as they would be able to sell it to other members of the… Continue reading ""

COLOMBO, Feb. 12 (Xinhua) — China has helped Sri Lanka in its fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and the island country now looks forward to furthering its ties with China in order to recover from the pandemic, Sri Lanka’s Foreign Secretary Admiral Jayanath Colombage said. In a recent interview with Xinhua, Colombage said 2021 will be a very challenging year… Continue reading "Sri Lanka looks forward to furthering ties with China in 2021: official"

(Lanka-e-News -13.Feb.2021, 11.30PM) The junta government of the Gotabaya-Mahinda Rajapaksa-led Rajapaksa family, which came to power swearing not to sell the country, has made all arrangements to sell 21 state-owned tea estates to China, reports Lanka e News. Who is this Fujian . .? As a first step, the government is announcing that the Sri Lanka Tea Board has signed… Continue reading "21 valuable tea estates owned by the government given to China..! Here are the conspiracy of the incredible deal..!"

Minister’s withdrawal of security to a Tamil National Alliance (TNA) frontliner for participation in this protest is part and parcel of a grand pseudo-nationalist bonfire that we are witnessing to our intense mortification, fanned by a racist media which has abandoned all claims to professionalism let alone impartiality. But this profound misery has been, let me repeat, enabled by criminal… Continue reading "Sri Lanka is definitively in a post-Trump international order."

As Mr Lee would say, when Singapore parted from the alliance with Malaysia after the racial clashes in the early 1960 and Singapore wanted to be an independent state, Singapore’s leaders were in search of a model from which they could draw worthy parallels. The model Lee Kuan Yew picked was Ceylon. When I eventually asked the time-pressed Prime Minister… Continue reading ""

The alarming spike in Covid-19 positive cases in Sri Lanka over the past few days could be associated with the widespread transmissibility of the highly contagious, mutant viral strain first identified in the United Kingdom, a senior medical official said. New variant: Talks tomorrow on the need for islandwide lockdown http://www.sundaytimes.lk/210214/news/new-variant-talks-tomorrow-on-the-need-for-islandwide-lockdown-432644.html

The minister who leads the National Freedom Front did not deny his controversial statement for obvious reasons. His entire interview with the Sunday Lankadeepa was recorded and he could not take the well-worn route of blaming the media. He therefore chose to clarify that what he intended to say was not that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa should replace Prime Minister Mahinda… Continue reading "PM said was that burial will be permitted but did not say of Covid victims. Who is fooling whom?"

That Mr Weerawansa’s remarks stirred a hornet’s nest is to put it mildly. After all, the SLPP had been built on the sweat and toil of Basil Rajapaksa, its principal strategist. A top government leader sent Mr Weerawansa an emissary asking him to politely withdraw the remarks or face the consequences. He was adamant. Social media had a field day.… Continue reading "Weerawansa gave up his Apple i-Pad after turning anti-American and switched to a Samsung tab"

PM’s remark on Covid-19 burial, ‘Legalising only through Gazette amendment’   Political decision expressed on behalf of Govt.  No special discussion on Covid-19 with Pakistani PM  All Muslim MPs and Opposition seek meeting  Notwithstanding the political decision recently expressed by Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa on behalf of the Government, permitting the burial of the bodies of Covid-19 victims cannot be done without… Continue reading "Geneva Odyssey: More Confrontation Or New Approach?"

In one aspect, extra-judicial killings by various means such as enforced disappearances, Sri Lanka’s experience is much worse than in Myanmar where imprisonments were more than but killings after arrest were less. In Sri Lanka, after the election of the new president and the government, the military is directly running public affairs. If this process of militarization continues and if… Continue reading "Sri Lanka will acquire the same problems experienced by the people of Myanmar."

For the Rajapaksas, the minorities are aliens, permanent guests who will be allowed to live on sufferance, and on terms of manifest and submissive inequality. A case in point is the strangely similar genesis of the National Anthem and burial issues. The Army Commander laid the foundation stone for a temple complex in Kankasanturai, Tissa Raja Maha Viharaya, named after… Continue reading "Tamils and Muslims, divided by Tiger extremism, were brought together by Rajapaksa extremism"

SLPP embarrasses Prime Minister; then buries its head in the COVID sand Nevertheless, the Government did not explain in Parliament as to why the PM had given an assurance that burials would be allowed, though some SLPP MPs dug an even bigger hole for themselves and their Government by claiming at a news briefing that what the PM meant was… Continue reading "Government make a complete fool of its own leaders"

Colombo’s Archbishop His Eminence Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith yesterday asked for a probe into those individuals who identify themselves as Christin pastors and indulge in unethical conversions targeting celebrities such as artistes, sportsmen, accomplished women and businessmen. He stressed the need to work out a legal procedure to regulate the activities of ‘such persons’. Cardinal Ranjith who highlighted this issue in… Continue reading "Catholic Archbishop calls for probe on Alleluia pastors"

What the P2P protest did was to provide an opportunity where the long-suppressed Sri Lankan Tamil community could engage in an imaginative political campaign of this scale and scope. It displayed to the world at large the creative potential within the community to organise and execute a huge political demonstration of this nature. Above all, it refreshed memories of past… Continue reading "Tamil “P2P” Protest of 2021 and the Tamil “Satyagraha” of 1961"

Several countries, including Sri Lanka, have strongly objected to the decision by the Organising Committee of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva, Switzerland, to hold the UNHRC sessions online, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dinesh Gunawardena, told Ceylon Today. He added the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights had decided to hold the sessions online, despite notifications from… Continue reading "Holding UNHRC sessions online: Sri Lanka Objects"

Sri Lanka asked to deal with Indian fishermen issues in a hu .. Read more at:http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/80878884.cms?utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst

The Government was committed to uphold the policy of  “One country-one law” Ven. Rathana Thera had said that the Muslim laws were violating human rights of Muslim women and girls By Ajith Siriwardana and Yohan Perera   Justice Minister Ali Sabri informed Parliament yesterday that steps were being taken to amend the Muslim Laws and that a Cabinet Paper had already… Continue reading "Govt. to amend Muslim Laws: Ali Sabri"

But shouldn’t the National Anthem be sung in Tamil too, according to the Constitution of Sri Lanka? A: That I don’t know. No point in talking about our Constitution because it was changed 20 times.  If you refer to the flag saying it should be the original flag that is in the Constitution. Then why not also sing the National… Continue reading "”Law may say sing National Anthem in two languages but we will sing ONLY in Sinhaha” says Defence Secretary"

y Dinasena Ratugamage India should surely support the resolution ,sponsored by several Western nations at the 46th sessions of the UNHRC, against Sri Lanka, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran said yesterday addressing journalists in Jaffna. Sumanthiran said that the TNA had held a number of discussions with India on the matter; there were many Tamil people in India,… Continue reading "TNA counting on India ganging up with anti-SL Western bloc in Geneva"

COLOMBO — The Sri Lankan government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been placed in the hot seat ahead of a U.N. Human Rights Council session beginning later this month amid a failure to ensure accountability for alleged war crimes toward the end of the country’s quarter-century long armed conflict. In a stinging report released on Jan. 27, United Nations High… Continue reading "Sri Lanka faces renewed pressure over war crime accountability"

The United States (US) Ambassador to Sri Lanka has questioned the poor coverage of the Pottuvil to Point Pedro (P2P) protest by the by Colombo-based media. Ambassador Alaina B. Teplitz tweeted saying a peaceful protest is an important right in any democracy. She also said that significant and legitimate concerns should be heard. “I saw Tamil media coverage of the march from Pottuvil… Continue reading "US envoy questions poor coverage of P2P protest by Colombo media"

By Jehan Perera – The five day march from the eastern town of Pottuvil to the northern capital of Jaffna, given the name P2P-Pottuvil to Polikandi march, came to a peaceful end having made its point to the people of the north and east and to the international community. The culmination of the march in Jaffna saw large crowds participating.… Continue reading "P2P Highlights Issues Needing In Internal Resolution To Prevent Escalation"

By Kumar David – Prof. Kuma David Imagine this scenario. A house is on fire, people of the neighbourhood rush to throw buckets of water, others carry water from nearby, still others help rescue trapped children. Then a brainless coot shouts at a helper: “You are a lousy lawyer, you lose cases: Get Out don’t douse the fire!” and screams at woman… Continue reading "Wrecking The Opposition To Serve Nandasena!"

By C.V. Wigneswaran – Justice C.V. Wigneswaran MP Someone asked me: What have you to say regarding the Cabinet decision to not grant the Colombo Eastern Container Terminal to India? My response was: What I have been warning earlier has come to pass. It is no secret that successive Sri Lankan Governments have cheated India many a time. This is another example. I expected… Continue reading "Sri Lankan Governments Have Cheated India Many A Time"

In a tripartite agreement between the Government of India, Government of Sri Lanka and the Jaffna Municipal Council, Jaffna was gifted an SLRs. 2000 million Cultural Hall. The said hall has been ready for over six months but is not operational for lack of funds for staff, telephones etc.. It was poor planning from beginning to end. The sri Lankan government that… Continue reading "Military Takeover Of Jaffna’s Cultural Hall: Sinhalese Army To Lead Tamil Cultural Revival?"

The Cabinet is expecting the Justice Ministry and other relevant authorities to take legal action against Tamil groups and Tamil politicians from the North and East, who engaged in a protest march despite several Restraining Orders being issued by Magistrate in the region and also against quarantine regulations. It is believed that indirect government orders were given to the English… Continue reading "Legal action against Tamil protesters mulled"

This year on February 4, as has happened over the past 73 years, leaders of the governing political elite ‘celebrated’ this country’s Independence Day with a show of military might. Sections of the minority communities carried out protest demonstrations in the north and east. Some politicians went to the extent of clothing themselves in black — perhaps in the hope of… Continue reading "Rajapakshes play divide and rule card to stay in power."

Sumanthiran says Minister Weerasekara is responsible if he is harmed ECONOMYNEXT- Tamil National Alliance Parliamentarian M.A. Sumanthiran says if any harm comes to him Public Security Minister Sarath Weerasekara should be held personally responsible as there are multiple threats to his life and his STF guards have been withdrawn. Parliament informed that Sumanthiran’s life still under threat Parliament was informed… Continue reading "Parliament informed that Sumanthiran’s life still under threat but Government wants him dead?"