by Rajavarothayam Sampanthan (Text of letter sent by TNA leader R.Sampanthan to President Mahinda Rajapaksa) R.Sampanthan, Member of Parliament, Trincomalee. President, Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kadchi (I.T.A.K.) Parliamentary Group Leader, Tamil National Alliance (T.N.A.) 176, Customs Road, Trincomalee. 5th September 2012. His Excellency President Mahinda Rajapakse, President, Democratic Socialistic Republic of Sri Lanka, Presidential Secretariat, Colombo. [...]
Archive of entries posted on 6th September 2012
Pradeep Sanjaya Injured at Kilinochchi Wins First Paralympic Medal for Sri Lanka in London
by Reemus Fernando Soldier Pradeep Sanjaya proved his coach Jansz Dissanayake’s prediction right, when he won the bronze medal in the T46 400 metres at the 2012 Paralympics in London on Wednesday, to become the country’s first Paralympics medalist. There were many doubters, when Jansz predicted that his unassuming protege would be a prospect at [...]
Jayalalithaa has Shown how far an Autonomous State could Offer Resistance Instead of Mutely Following the Dictates of the Central Government
by Meena Kandasamy A visiting football team sends out the superficial message: all is well in Sri Lanka. It does not reveal that 4,000 university teachers have been striking for the past two months demanding better wages and greater spending on education, or that the government ordered the closure of all universities last week. It [...]
Protesting the Forced Repatriation of Visiting Sports persons and Others from Sri Lanka
We the undersigned are aghast and anguished by the recent decision of the government of Tamil Nadu, acting on the Chief Minister’s orders, to send back two sports teams from Sri Lanka that were in Chennai to play matches against local school teams. Two days after the Chief Minister issued her orders, members of a [...]
Appeal Court Commits Minister Bathiudeen to stand trial charges of contempt of Court
By Chitra Weerarathne The Court of Appeal yesterday committed Cabinet Minister Rishad Bathiudeen to stand trial on Contempt of Court charges following his pleading not guilty. Trial was fixed for February 13, 2013. Bathiudeen has been charged on three counts. The first charge is telephoning Mannar Magistrate Anthony Judeson on July 17, 2012 and attempting [...]
Muslim Congress Assumes People can be Fooled All the Time
by Dr.M.A.Mohamed Saleem “You are with us or against us” and many other slogans President Bush used after 9/11 to force an alliance. In the forthcoming local elections, The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) position is better described as ‘with you and also against you.’ The SLMC joined the United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) to [...]
Neither Spread of Buddhism nor Entrenchment of Security Forces is Welcomed by The Population of Northern Province
by Kath Noble The government has been trumpeting its success in resettling IDPs to all and sundry of late. Hardly a week goes by without some reference to the official statistics, which indicate that at the end of July there were only 5,443 people remaining at Manik Farm, while another 7,329 were staying in welfare [...]
