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In keeping with President Maithripala Sirisena’s decision to declare the Thripitakabhivandana Week from 16th – 23rd March 2019 to mark the declaration of the Theravada Thripitaka as a national and world heritage, the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Washington DC, under the..

During the 40th session of the UNHRC session in Geneva, GSLF Executive Committee exposed the double standards of the UNHRC toward Sri Lanka. Mr Ranil Jayanetti, a member of the GSLF Ex-Comm. group highlighted that how UNHRC acted in biased..

The Rear Admiral Sarath Weerasekara was in the 40th UNHRC session and highlighted that High Commissioner of the HRC is biased toward Tamil terrorists Diaspora. The full text of the speech delivered by Rear Admiral Weerasekara is as follows; Mr…

President Maithripala Sirisena had not given his consent for co-sponsoring the UNHRC Resolution to extend 2015 Resolution by two more years, UNP MP Dr Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe said in Parliament, yesterday.The MP, who recently crossed over to the Opposition, declared that..

Pick-me Taxi Company has produced numbers of commercial video discrediting the National Anthem of Sri Lanka. The Patriots Pick-me drivers and public are staging a protest in front of the Pick-me head office in Nugegoda Sri Lanka on 18th March..

(Courtesy of dailymirror.lk) A resolution on ‘Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka’ was submitted to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Monday by six main sponsors including the UK and Canada. The main sponsors are Canada,..

(Courtesy of The Island) One-time Foreign Secretary and former UN Under Secretary General Dr. Palitha Kohona criticized the government decision to co-sponsor Geneva Resolution again at the expense of an opportunity to push for re-examination of allegations on the basis..

Two Tamil men have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences following a call from a member of the public. The men were stopped at Heathrow airport yesterday morning, 4 March, under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000. Police..

The Global Sri Lankan Forum – Executive Committee, GSLF-Ex. Comm. is actively participating to the 40th UNHRC Session in March 2019 in Geneva. The GSLF have planned series of activities to counter the adverse propaganda against Sri Lanka and to..

The first budget issued by the pro-Tamil, Pro-LTTE and anti-Sinhala –Buddhist Minister of Finance, Mangala Samaraweera has proposed to  pay compensations to the families of LTTE Tamil terrorists and disabled Tamil terrorists. Pro-federalist Samaraweera who signed the anti-Sri Lanka UNHRC..