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US ambassador Atul Keshap has told ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa to look for another option as Gotabhaya Rajapaksa cannot contest the 2020 presidential election. Meeting him a few days ago at his Wijerama Mawatha home, Keshap briefed Mahinda about the US government stand with regard to Gotabhaya and the presidential polls. The ambassador was making a farewell call, as he is… Continue reading "”Gotabhaya Rajapaksa cannot contest the 2020 presidential election” says US"

(Lanka e News -24.June.2018, 11.25PM)  A ‘yellow murder mania’ which is a challenge to laws , justice and pristine Buddhism  is most  dangerously rearing its monstrous head across the entire country. This  group of blood lusty yellow monsters  under the pretext of helping  the hooligan monk  Gnanassara who was in jail  wearing the ’jumper’ met at the residence of Gotabaya… Continue reading "‘Yellow murder mania’ –conspiracy hatched in devil incarnate Gota’s house! (video)"

By Vishwamithra – “Democracy; the fools have a right to vote. Dictatorship; the fools have a right to rule” ~Bertrand Russell  The whole of Sri Lankan society, at least the rumor-prone Colombo pukka sahibs, went berserk when they heard a ‘sermon’ of some sort from a so-called highly-placed Buddhist Monk of the Asgiriya Chapter asking a notorious sibling of Mahinda Rajapaksa to take control of… Continue reading "Gotler Or Hitler, Two Sides Of The Same Coin"

Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa would not have any difficulty to get former Sri Lankan Ambassador to Russia Udayanga Weeratunga, who was alleged to have involved in MiG deal, to return to Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said today. “Hitler’s brother would not have any difficulty in bringing back Weeratunga to Sri Lanka as he is still associated with the latter,” PM Wickremesinghe told… Continue reading "Hitler’s brother would not have any difficulty in bringing back Weeratunga to Sri Lanka as he is still associated with the latter,” PM Wickremesinghe"

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA), of which the Ilankai Tamil ArasuKatchi (ITAK) is the single largest constituent, appears to be heading for a split, with the Sampanthan and Wigneswaran factions failing to find a common ground to work together.    A likely outcome is the emergence of two new groupings, with the ITAK and its adjuncts being on one side and… Continue reading "TNA set to split as elections approach"

The work of Father Nandana Manatunga and his team has helped secure convictions against perpetrators of rape and torture Father Nandana Manatunga was awarded the 2018 Gwangiu Prize for Human Rights by South Korea’s May 18 Memorial Foundation. (Photo supplied) Quintus Colombage, Colombo Sri Lanka Father Nandana Manatunga champions families of political prisoners as well as victims of torture, rape and other… Continue reading "Threatened Sri Lankan priest wins rights prize"

Let us not continue to be pawns in the hands of scheming individuals or institutions. Let us agitate in a systematic, organized way for Justice for our affected people. Let us move forward together to reach our political objectives. I make this request of you on this emotive day.  C.V. Wigneswaran Let us identify ourselves as a determinable group of… Continue reading "HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE WIGNESWARAN’S MULLAIVAIKAL SPEECH THAT SHOOK THE WORLD"

H.E. Ambassador Miroslav Lajčák, Permanent Representative of Slovakia President of UN General Assembly(2017/2018)   Your Excellency   Sri Lanka is misleading the UN General Assembly   Please share the following with all UN members:   Sri Lanka Representative: ”Sri Lanka had emerged from a long conflict and embarked on a process of peacebuilding. …. By addressing the hearts and minds of the… Continue reading "Sri Lanka is misleading the UN General Assembly"

While Donald Trump was having discussions with Polpotian communist leaders of North Korea to negotiate no conflicts and peace, there were clashes between fascist racist demonstrates and left oriented anti fascist organizations in several western cities. In the protest in London police were forced to escort around 20 neo-Nazi protesters out of Westminster after they staged an “anti-Jewification” protest. Hundreds… Continue reading "BAHU ON MAHINDA A CLOSE CHAPTER"

By Lasanda Kurukulasuriya The US quit the UN Human Rights Council on Tuesday (June 19) with rhetoric intended to assert the moral high-ground, slamming the council and selectively ‘naming and shaming’ council members outside its charmed circle of ‘friends.’ While the statements of US Ambassador to UN Nikki Haley and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in Washington reeked of imperial arrogance,… Continue reading "US Will Not Give Up Its Strategic Objectives In Sri Lanka Despite Leaving the United Nations Human Rights Council"

Sasitharan Letcsumanon has lived through a civil war, endured freezing conditions in a refugee camp and survived a treacherous journey into the UK. But it was only during a late-night walk through a Norwich housing estate that he became the victim of a vicious assault. The 39-year-old was punched in the face and beaten with a stick as he walked… Continue reading "Sri Lankan asylum seeker attacked on city housing estate"

Sirisena refuses to even discuss Swaminathan’s memorandum; compensation issues to be dealt with by designated body –UNP’s damage-control move misfires as Mujibur Rahman MP plays counsel President Maithripala Sirisena on Tuesday rejected outright a proposal by a United National Party (UNP) Cabinet Minister to pay “compensation” to Tiger guerrilla “ex combatants” and their “next of kin.” “I am not going… Continue reading "President rejects proposal to pay compensation to former Tamil LTTE cadres and their families"

Former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday said that ONLY if he was nominated to contest the next presidential election, he would renounce his US citizenship and he would be able to do so within two months. If not, than he will stay as a US citizen. A journalist asked if he was after the super power like Mahinda rule before… Continue reading "ready to renounce US citizenship if invited to run for President"

By Jayadeva Uyangoda Is Sri Lanka ready for an elected dictator? This is the latest question to enter the country’s current political debate. Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s preparations to contest the next presidential election in 2019 have already precipitated a potentially explosive controversy that can last weeks and months. An admirer of Gotabaya Rajapaksa has echoed as a positive political desire, what his… Continue reading "Is Sri Lanka ready for an elected dictator?"

A UN Committee has listed a missing Sri Lankan among cases which require urgent action. The UN Committee on Enforced Disappearances has listed Gopalakrishan Kugachelvam in a list of 500 missing persons which requires urgent action. The Committee published the list of names of the disappeared persons with regard to whom the Committee has requested the State party concerned to… Continue reading "UN Committee lists missing Lankan among cases for urgent action"

The United States on Wednesday (20), made a surprise move by removing itself from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) alleging that the international body was acting against Israel with regard to the conflict with Palestine. The UNHRC has been a hot topic in Sri Lanka since 2009, and after allegations of human rights violations and war crimes gained… Continue reading "US quitting UNHRC is beneficial for Sri Lanka"

The Government has issued an extraordinary gazette notification listing the names of 14 individuals living overseas with links to the LTTE and banning them from entering Sri Lanka, by placing them in the list of designated persons. The amendment to the List of Designated persons under the United Nations Regulations No. 01 of 2012 has been made through a gazette… Continue reading "14 individuals linked to LTTE designated by Sri Lankan govt"

Judges of this country should be bold and be able to do justice                                  Wickremesinghe is grooming Sajith, Ravi, Akila, Harin, Sagala and me for the UNP Leadership                                     … Continue reading "If Gota is going to be President, God help this country!"

Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka “If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.” — Voltaire I was more alarmed by what I saw and heard on TV news last evening than by anything I have seen or heard in the Sri Lankan media throughout my life. What I saw and heard was the most dangerous and morally debased public statement, i.e. a… Continue reading "Sinhala Buddhist state with a ‘Hitler and military rule’ + Tamil Eelam"

ECONOMYNEXT – A top Buddhist monk has asked Sri Lanka’s former defence secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa to become another “ Hitler” who is known to have killed up to six million Jews in the Holocaust. A chief priest of the Asgiriya chapter, Venduruwe Upali, blessed Rajapaksa on his 69th birthday Wednesday by encouraging him to return to power and “rebuild the… Continue reading "Top Buddhist monk asks Sri Lanka’s ex-defence chief Gothapaya Rajapakshe to return as ‘Hitler’"

By Shamindra Ferdinando Having had brazenly used the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to adopt an anti-Sri Lanka Resolution in Oct 2015 on the basis of unsubstantiated war crimes allegations, the US has endorsed what we have been saying with regard to the inherent bias and lack of objectivity on the part of the UN agency, former External… Continue reading "US repeating Lanka’s allegations against UNHRC"

Ceylon Teachers Union (CTU) led by Joseph Stalin early this week alleged that the Northern Education System is highly politicized and there is large-scale misuse of power. The Union has now taken up the issue with Northern Governor Reginold Cooray who had promised to call up Provincial Education Ministry officials on 26 June for an explanation regarding the allegations. Ministerial… Continue reading "Northern education system gets bad report"