The seasoned soldier and patriot Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara defended the war heroes from bogus war crime allegations and the nation from separatism. It was a single hand handled operation in side the UNHRC head office in Geneva by Rear …

Any person with an iota of IQ would have hidden his head in utter shame seeing garlanded Dr Pakiyasothi Saravanmuttu being welcomed to the John Kothalawala Military academy as a guest of honour by the Principal of the institution.

To …

Sri Lankans in Australia  who demonstrated against  Ranil Wickramasinhe’s  visit to Australia  has issued following  press  release to discreadit  Ranil’s political statements that the protest demonstration was a political  agenda.

The full text of the letter is as follows;

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by Shamindra Ferdinando

Former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has alleged that those who had been with the LTTE until the very end of the conflict in May 2009 were now pursuing war crimes allegations against Sri Lanka.

Referring to a …

by Shamindra Ferdinando

The Federation of National Organizations (FNO) wants the government to commission an ‘official assessment’ on OISL (OHCHR Investigation on Sri Lanka) in the wake of both President Maithripala Sirisena and Premier Ranil Wickremesinghe ruling out foreign judges …

R Chandrasoma

Ancient Sri Lanka paid heavily for its misfortune in being very close to that politico-geographic behemoth called India. Indeed, the history of our land is – broadly speaking – coterminous with our encounters with our dangerous neighbour.

The …

A report had been compiled by eminent  legal professionals  under the theme of  ‘A factual appraisal of the OISL report: A rebuttal to the allegations against the armed forces’  and same had been handed over to a group of retired …

By Malinda Seneviratne

Not too long ago, there was a call for an international inquiry into allegations of war crimes. The call came from both within the country and without. From within it was the usual suspects, the rights-fixated NGOs …

By KAMALIKA PIERIS

When Mahinda Rajapakse became President of Sri Lanka in 2005, Ajit Samaranayake said the event ‘opens a new chapter in post independence history, where a leader unburdened by either dynastic trappings or the stigma of elitism find …

(Courtesy of Ceylon Today)

BY SHIVANTHI RANASINGHE

The focus of the West, UN, civil rights groups and like-minded politicians, is to engineer reconciliation in Sri Lanka. Their agenda is to reconcile the Sinhalese with the Tamils. Unfortunately, this is not …