President J.R. Jayewardene, whatever his faults, was not without wisdom. At a time when non-alignment was a buzzword, he remarked that there were only two non-aligned nations in the world and they were the United States and the Soviet Union. Once the Soviet Union disintegrated, only the US which was the sole remaining superpower, remains Read More
By Shamindra Ferdinando Arift has emerged in the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) with one of the most prominent Northern Provincial Council members, Ananthi Sashitharan publicly accusing TNA National List MP, M.A. Sumanthiran of having deprived her of an opportunity to address UNHRC members at a recent crucial meeting in Geneva due to her alleged past Read More
By Zacki Jabbar, Describing Human Rights as an issue that all countries were faced with, the visiting Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai said yesterday that the real problem lay with the West’s attitude.
මීට වසර 16 කට පෙර එනම්, 1998 මාර්තු 05 වන දා කුරිරු එල්ටීටීඊ ත්රස්තයන් විසින් කොළඹට එල්ල කළ 21 වන ප්රහාරය දියත් කළේය.
Minister of External Affairs and Leader of the Sri Lanka delegation Prof. G.L. Peiris, delivering the National Statement at the High Level Segment of the 25th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on 5 March 2014, rejected the Report of the High Commissioner in its entirety, saying it was fundamentally flawed and Read More
By Tim King According to the United Nations Human Rights Commission (UNHCR), allowing children to serve in the military, in a combat environment is a war crime. This is simple for most people to understand. But if it is illegal, why does the US allow children to serve in its military and how is that Read More
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Sri Lanka was militarily dismantled in the May of 2009. To survive and revive, the LTTE’s international network that supported the three-decade terrorist and guerrilla campaign was forced to transform. Throughout the conflict years in Sri Lanka, the LTTE network operating overseas, largely in the West, conducted Read More
The Coastal Security Group (CSG) has formed three special teams to nab two Madurai-based agents, who acted as vital links in the smuggling of gold biscuits from Sri Lanka by sea on Saturday, CSG Additional Director-General of Police C.Sylendra Babu said.
Stewart Bell | MAPLE RIDGE, B.C.—On the slim strip of grass outside the Fraser Regional Correctional Centre, a totem pole thunderbird shows its cedar wings to the river plain that meanders out to the Strait of Georgia and the Pacific.
Stewart Bell, TORONTO — A Canadian awaiting sentencing in New York for his role in an arms smuggling ring that sought missiles and assault rifles for Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels has apologized and asked to be released with time served.
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