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By Ira de Silva from Canada According to news reports, there seems to be a difference of opinion on whether investigations into the final phase of the Eelam war in 2009 will be done by competent local investigators and judges..

An event should be held on 31st January 2016 in remembrance of victims who died and were injured in the attack against the Central Bank of Sri Lanka by LTTE Tamil terrorists on January 31, 1996. 41 members of the Central..

  The spokesman of the common opposition Dullas  Alahapperuma yesterday said President Maithripala Sirisena, the Free Media Movement, Western countries and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party should reveal their position over the statement made by Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in..

The editorial by the New York Time on 28th January 2016 in the head line of “Time for Justice in Sri Lanka”reflects a poor and only a superficial understanding of issues pertaining to Sri Lanka and shows the baseness towards..

The Missing Persons Commission, also known as the ‘Paranagama Commission’ says the figure of 40,000 civilians killed during the final weeks of the war is a myth. A statement signed by the Chairman of the Commission, former justice Maxwell Paranagama,..

The Chief mock of the Sri Mangalaramaya Buddhist Vihara in Batticaloa, Ven. Ampitiye Sumanarathana thero, is reporting that Pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists backed Tamil villagers in Malayakaduwa village trying to chase away the resettled Sinhala families from their land. The Ven…

Former External Affairs Minister Prof. G. L. Peiris, addressing a gathering of Buddhist monks and political activists in Aranayake over the weekend described the constitutional reform initiative as a smoke screen intended to mask other measures which the government was..

Of late foreign-funded petitions are seen highlighting cruelty against elephants in temples. These same petitions omit to lobby against ritual animal sacrifice or slaughter of animals nor do they wish to have any role in passing legislation on the Animal..

A body of Sri Lankan professionals living in the UK have reported to the commonwealth about the executive controlled impotent justice system in Sri Lanka, to seek immediate intervention to ensure that the government of Sri Lanka adhere to the..

DHARSHAN WEERASEKERA ‘- What dost thou take me for? ‘- A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred pound, filthy, worsted-stocking knave;  a lily-livered, action-taking whoreson;  glass-glazing, superserviceable, finical rogue’ (King Lear, 2:2)..