A 25-year-old Sri-Lankan named M. Nizamdeen was arrested over suspected terror-related offences in Australia. The Australian law enforcement authorities said he was in Sydney on a student visa, and was arrested after finding “symbolic locations within Sydney” listed as possible targets in his notebook Officers from NSW’s Joint Counter Terrorism Team (JCTT) arrested Mohamed Nizamdeen …

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speaking in Sinhala in Galle All the problems of Tamil People won’t b solved by a new Constitution, but a new Constitution is fundamental. Without this, no issue an be addressed, said TNA Spokesman M. A. Sumanthiran speaking in Sinhala an an event in Galle on Constitutional Reform.

Indian politician Dr. Subramanian Swamy said former Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa should be given the Bharat Ratna award for freeing Sri Lanka and India from the LTTE terrorism. “Just as we have awarded Bharat Ratna to Mandela for freeing his people we should award MR for freeing his people and Bharatiyas from LTTE terror,” …

Continue reading ‘Maverick Indian Politician Dr.Subramanian Swamy wants India’s Highest Civilian Award “Bharat Ratna” to Be Given to Sri Lankan Ex-President Mahinda Rajapaksa for Freeing His and “Bharatiya” People From LTTE Terrorism.’ »

By B Sivakumar and D Govardan No other political prince in India would have waited so long for the coronation. And when it happened on Tuesday, 21 days after his father M Karunanidhi passed away, Stalin sought to accept the DMK crown with humility and hope, promise and poise. Elected unopposed as DMK president at …

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By Anbarasan Ethirajan of BBC News in Mannar Experts in northern Sri Lanka are trying to identify the remains of dozens of bodies in a mass grave in the country’s former war zone. So far the skeletal remains of more than 90 people have been unearthed in the north-western town of Mannar. The mass grave …

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(text of a Press Release Issued by the Tamil National Alliance Media Office on 28.08.2018) The Meeting of the Presidential Task Force on the Development of the North and East took place yesterday (27.08.2018) at the Presidential Secretariat. The meeting was presided over by His Excellency the President. Several ministers and government members of Parliament …

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By The Sunday Observer” Political Editor It came like a bolt from the blue. All of a sudden, the concerted preoccupation of the Rajapaksa proxy Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) and Joint Opposition camp is to push the theory that the former President, twice elected and once defeated in presidential elections over a decade, can …

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By Meera Srinivasan Sri Lankan authorities have excavated nearly 100 skeletons at a mass grave in Mannar, located in Sri Lanka’s Northern Province, where state armed forces and Tamil rebels clashed in a 30-year civil war. According to local media reports, some locals living in the Tamil-majority province, whose relatives went missing during and after …

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By P.K.Balachandran The port town of Trincomalee in Eastern Sri Lanka is known for its scenic beauty eminently qualified to be featured in the National Geographic Channel. But historically,it has been noted for something very different – its strategic value as a naval base. Trincomalee’s military value had been grasped by world powers from the …

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China, through top level diplomatic channels, has asked from the Sri Lankan government if a “discomforted neighbour” was behind the protests in Jaffna against the housing project funded by Beijing, Asian Mirror learns. This comes in the wake of the public resistance to the Chinese-funded project to build 40,000 houses in the Jaffna district.

By Manopriya Gunasekara The Special High Court yesterday issued summons to Former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and five others to appear before the Court on 10 September over misappropriation of funds to erect the D. A. Rajapaksa statue in Weeraketiya, Madamulana. The case, heard as the second in the Special High Court,was filed under the …

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By Dr Reeza Hameed The Nineteenth Amendment has once again become the subject of controversy, and its current focus concerns the provision in the Nineteenth Amendment that disqualifies the same person from being elected as President for more than two terms. The two-term limit is not a constitutional innovation. A provision imposing a term limit …

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By P.K.Balachandran The United States and Japan have both cast their eyes on the Eastern Sri Lankan port of Trincomalee to counterbalance the presence of the Chinese in Hambantota in the South and Colombo in the West and its growing clout around the Bay of Bengal. The Trincomalee harbor was meant to be a major …

Continue reading ‘While India Retains Contol Over Trincomalee Tank Farm, the USA and Japan Eye Trinco Harbour in a Bid To Counter Balance China’s Clout in the Bay of Bengal.’ »

Senior Army officer Major General (retired) Chagie Gallage had revealed that it was former Army Commander Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka who ordered to take the LTTE uniform off Velupillai Prabhakaran’s dead body. Prabhakaran’s dead body was found from the Nandikadal area on the morning of May 19, 2009, following heavy gunfire. Gallage was a Brigade …

Continue reading ‘Ex-Army Chief Sarath Fonseka Berated Senior Officers For Not Removing LTTE Leader Prabhakaran’s Uniform and got them to Display his Corpse in a Loin Cloth when Lying at Nandhikkadal Reveals Maj-Gen Chaggie Galage.Lying at Nandhikkadal and’ »

No ‘politics’ was discussed at the meeting between President Maithripala Sirisena and former President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the latter’s residence in Medamula this morning, a highly placed source close to the former President told Asian Mirror. The discussion took place afer Sirisena paid last respect to the former President’s deceased brother, Chandra Rajapaksa, at the …

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President Maithripala Sirisena visited the Medamulana residence of former President Mahinda Rajapaksa this morning to pay last respect to Chadra Tudor Rajapaksa, the younger brother of the former President. Sirisena was first greeted by former Speaker Chamal Rajapaksa. Then former President Mahinda Rajapaksa also joined him.

By Lakmal Sooriyagoda The Attorney General (AG) yesterday filed indictments in the Permanent High Court-at-Bar against former Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and six others including former Chairman and members of the director board of the Land Reclamation and Development Corporation (LRDC). This is in connection an incident that the D.A. Rajapaksa Museum and Memorial in …

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Sri Lanka’s government may have set a record in the history of Westminster parliamentary system by voting Friday to defeat a crucial de-limitation report it had commissioned and introduced in the House. Minister Faiszer Musthapha also voted against the “Report of the Delimitation Committee for the Delimitation of electorates in Provincial Councils” which he himself …

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The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) on Thursday turned down Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswaran’s request to boycott the meeting of the Presidential Special Task Force on Northern Development which is scheduled to be held on August 27. TNA Parliamentarians at a meeting held at the Opposition Leader’s office under the patronage of TNA leader …

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by Saman Indrajith Minister Field Marshal Sarath Fonseka railed against police Special Task Force (STF) Commandant Senior DIG M.R. Latheef making a controversial statement in Parliament yesterday. The minister used the time allocated to him in the Parliamentary debate to speak on the recent arrests of his political supporters, trying hard to convince that those …

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By Saman Indrajith Minister of Development Strategies and International Trade Malik Samarawickrama informed Parliament that the Attorney General had said that there was no need to present the Sri Lanka-Singapore Free Trade Agreement to Parliament. The Minister said so when Ministers Lakshman Kiriella and Arjuna Ranatunga contradicted each other in Parliament yesterday while speaking on …

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By Kavindya Perera Colombo Chief Magistrate Ranga Dissanayake yesterday recalled the notice issued on former Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who had been ordered to appear before the Colombo Chief Magistrate’s Court on 7 September, as a suspect in the case where he is alleged to have misappropriated State funds to the tune of Rs. 90 …

Continue reading ‘Colombo Chief Magistrate Recalls Notices Served on Gotabhaya Rajapaksa and Six Others Over D.A. Rajapaksa Memorial Museum Case by Colombo Addl agistrate as”Illegal” but Impounds Passports of All Seven Suspects.’ »

Former Chief Justice Sarath Silva may have openly violated constitution by presenting himself as legal counsel for ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa who was questioned by police in connection with the abduction of journalist Keith Noyahr. Official sources noted that the police Criminal Investigation Department (CID informed the Mount Lavinia Magistrate that Silva was present as part …

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by Lakdev Liyanagama Three and a half years after he was ousted from power, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa was the focus of attention last week. Although some of the reasons for the publicity Rajapaksa generated may not have been to his liking, other events may have reignited presidential ambitions for the country’s fifth Executive President. …

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Plans are afoot to start a United National Party breakaway party under the leadership of the party’s former General Secretary Tissa Attanayake, Asian Mirror reliably learns. Although the new party will not align itself with the SLFP or the Joint Opposition, it will pressurise the government to protect the interests of the UNPers. “It is …

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By Colonel R Hariharan The passing away of Muthuvel Karunanidhi, 94, last of the leaders groomed in the Dravidian stable of rationalist godfather “Periyar” EV Ramasamy Naicker, leaves a huge void in Tamil Nadu politics. The leader, endearingly called Kalaignar (pronounced kalainyar, meaning gifted scholar) by his party cadres, was a man for all seasons. …

Continue reading ‘Does M. Karunanidhi’s Son and Successor M.K.Stalin Have The Leadership Skills of his Father To Lead the DMK Party to Victory at the Polls?’ »

By Kishali Pinto Jayawardene The three years during which Sri Lanka breathed (or was it gasped?) in freedom’ seems to be the rather messily translated refrain which the United National Party at least is trumpeting to all and sundry as this month (August 2018) notes three years of the National Unity government being voted into …

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(Text of Editorial Appearing in “The Island” of August 21st 2018 Under the Heading “Why this hullabaloo?) Mahinda has set the cat among the pigeons, as is his wont. He has got his backers in the Joint Opposition (JO) to say he can run for President again. This argument is not of recent origin, though. …

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In a letter to President Maitripala Sirisena with regard to the imprisonment of Bodu Bala Sena general secretary Ven. Galagodaathte Gnanasara Thera, the Mahayanayake of the Kotte chapter of the Siyam Nikaya, the Most Ven. Ittapane Dhammalankara Thera has highlighted several points including the one that if monks who speak on behalf of the people …

Continue reading ‘Siyam Nikaya Kotte Chapter Mahanayake Writes to President Sirisena Saying Gnanasara Thero Spoke For the Country and that Imprisoning Monks Who Speak for the Country Would be Seen As a Challenge to the Entire Bhikku Community’ »

By Manopriya Gunasekera The Presidential Commission to inquire into allegations of large scale frauds and malpractices in SriLankan Airlines, SriLankan Catering Ltd and Mihin Lanka (Pvt) Ltd has issued notices to four persons including former Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa and former SriLankan Airlines Chairman Nishantha Wickremesinghe to appear before it.

By Shamindra Ferdinando Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) Chairman Prof. G. L. Peiris will soon move the District Court, seeking a clarification as regards President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s eligibility to contest the 2019 presidential election. Prof. Peiris revealed his party’s plan, yesterday, at a media briefing at the Nelum Mawatha Office of former President Rajapaksa. Former …

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By Shavini Madhara Making a statement on the abduction and assault on Nation Newspaper Deputy Editor Keith Noyarh in 2008, former President Mahinda Rajapaksa informed the CID that he could not remember if there was a journalist called Keith Noyarh at the time of the alleged assault incident, the prosecution informed court yesterday. Senior State …

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By Meera Srinivasan Sri Lanka’s former President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who served two consecutive terms in office from 2005 to 2015, appears keen on a third, despite a legislation barring him from contesting. “There is an opinion that I can contest again, we need to find out if I am eligible,” he told reporters, on the …

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By Shamindra Ferdinando The Northern Province Governor Reginald Cooray has denied allegations that he was planning to construct two Buddhist temples in one-time LTTE stronghold Kilinochchi soon after the dissolution of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) run Northern Provincial Council later this year. Cooray, a former MP said so in response to Northern Chief Minister …

Continue reading ‘Northern Chief Minister Accuses Northern Governor of Planning To Construct Buddhist Temples In Kilinochchi After Provincial Council is Dissolved:Cooray Dismisses Allegation as false& Challenges Wigneswaran To Prove it by Identifying Locations.’ »

By Amali Mallawaarachchi Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa is not qualified to contest the upcoming Presidential election, Higher Education Minister Wijeyedasa Rajapakshe said yesterday. He said that according to the provisions of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, a former President is barred from contesting any Presidential election. The provisions stipulate that no President can hold …

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Prof. G.L.Peiris, a former Sri Lankan Minister for Constitutional Affairs who is currently one of the leaders of the Joint Opposition (JO), has said that there is no constitutional bar against any person being President of Sri Lanka more than twice, even though the 19 th.Amendment (19A) enacted in 2015 says that a person cannot …

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by Jayadeva Uyangoda Political discussions in the country at present are largely dominated by questions around two themes: which individual will win the next presidential election and which political party will win the next parliamentary election. These are no doubt important questions, but there is a more serious political question about what will happen to …

Continue reading ‘Regime Change in Sri Lanka May Cause Unmanageable Political Conflict,Ethnic and Social Polarization and Make Violence Necessary For Both Regime Survival and Regime Resistance.’ »

By Spectator The General Secretary and de facto head of the radical nationalist organisation, Bodu Bala Sena (BBS), Galagoda-aththe Gnanasara thero was recently sentenced to nineteen years imprisonment by the Court of Appeal, to be completed in six years. This follows a previous six-month prison term imposed on him by the Homagama Magistrate’s Court. While …

Continue reading ‘Pressure Mounts on Maithripala Sirisena to Issue Presidential Pardon to Bodu Bala Sena Gen – Secy Gnanasara Thero Convicted for Contempt of Court Offences.’ »

By Kishali Pinto Jayawardene Core elements of the fifty-six page decision handed down by the Court of Appeal this week sentencing General Secretary of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara to six years rigorous imprisonment for contempt ‘in the face of the court’ constitute a stern warning to unruly individuals (monks or laymen) …

Continue reading ‘Stringent Verdict of Appeal Court Against Gnanasara Thero In Contempt of Court Case Will Be Potentially Strong Deterrent To Those Wishing To Follow Bodu Bala Sena Gen Secy’ »

by Anurangi Singh Prosecutors are mulling leading evidence from journalist Keith Noyahr who was abducted and tortured in May 2008 via video conference, under provisions of the Witness and Victims Protection Act, Sunday Observer reliably learns. As the investigation into Noyahr’s abduction allegedly by a military intelligence group led by Major Bulathwatte nears conclusion, and …

Continue reading ‘Former Associate Editor Keith Noyahr May Testify in his Case of Abduction and Assault Via Teleconference From Australia With Senior Counsel From AG Dept Leading Evidence.’ »

By Zhang Kun/China Daily Archaeologists from the Shanghai Museum embarked on a 40-day excavation mission to Sri Lanka on Monday. The group will be working in ancient ruins in Jaffna alongside representatives from the Central Cultural Fund and a local university in Sri Lanka. Chen Jie, head of the archaeological team from the Shanghai Museum, …

Continue reading ‘Chinese Archaeological Team From Shanghai Museum in Sri Lanka on a 49 day Excavation Mission to Unearth Sino Relics in Jffna,Mannar,Trincomalee and Galle.’ »

Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa told the CID Friday that he was unable to recall two crucial telephone calls which investigators link him to the abductors of news editor Keith Noyahr 10 years ago. The former leader was questioned for the first time in connection with the May 2008 abduction and torture of Noyahr, a news …

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By Veeragathy Thanabalasingham The government will complete three years in office today (17), marking a milestone of sorts when the two traditionally rival political parties, the United National Party (UNP) and Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP), set aside their differences and came together to form the National Unity Government. There was plenty of goodwill on …

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By Bindu Shajan Perapaddan Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the only non-Congress leader to have completed a full term as Prime Minister, breathed his last at the All-India Institute of Medical Sciences on Thursday evening. The 12-time Parliamentarian was 93. “Unfortunately, his condition deteriorated over the last 36 hours and he was put on life support systems. …

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By Kelum Bandara Some legal experts are of the opinion that there former President Mahinda Rajapaksa is not debarred from contesting the Presidential Election for the third time, it is learnt. These legal experts believe though the 19th Amendment barred anyone from seeking the Presidency for the third time, it did not have retrospective effect.

Sri Lanka’s chief of defence staff Admiral Ravindra Wijegunaratne gave half a million rupees in cash to help the main suspect in the abduction and murder of 11 children escape arrest, the Colombo magistrate was told Wednesday. Colombo Fort Chief Magistrate Lanka Jayaratne ordered the bank of Ceylon to provide details of a navy account …

Continue reading ‘CID Tells Court that Ex-Navy Chief Ravindra Wijegunaratne Gave 5 Lakhs From Navy Fund to “Navy Sampath” the Main Suspect in Mass Murder of Abducted Youths to Help Him Evade Arrest.’ »

Former president Mahinda Rajapaksa’s youngest son Rohitha travelled from Tangalle to Tanzania to propose marriage to his sweetheart on top of snow-covered Kilimanjaro, another sibling said. Second son Yoshitha was the first to announce the engagement yesterday atop the highly romantic setting on the highest mountain in the African continent.

by D.B.S. Jeyaraj Sri Lanka’s finest Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar was assassinated in Colombo by a suspected sniper of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) a decade ago. His death was mourned by the nation at large as a tremendous loss to the country. The void caused in Sri Lanka’s foreign affairs sphere after …

Continue reading ‘Life and Times of Lanka’s Finest Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar’ »

Novelist Sir VS Naipaul, who won the Nobel Prize in literature, has died aged 85, his family have said. Sir Vidia, who was born in rural Trinidad in 1932, wrote more than 30 books including A Bend in the River and his masterpiece, A House for Mr Biswas. His wife Lady Naipaul called him a …

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By Lucien Rajakarunanayake There is diversion in the politics of the Joint Opposition, moving away from the defeat of the Yahapalana coalition and plans for the coming presidential and general elections, to the demand for the office of Leader of the Opposition. The big debate in parliament this week was over declaring the JO’s leading …

Continue reading ‘If Joint Opposition MP’s Want Opposition Leader Post They Must Have Courage To Resign From UPFA/SLFP and Face Risk of Losing Their Parliamentary Seats.’ »

By Saman Indrajith Speaker Karu Jayasuriya yesterday said the status quo would remain as regards the post of the Opposition Leader in Parliament. It is currently held by TNA Leader R Sampanthan. Making a special announcement at the commencement of sittings yesterday, the Speaker said that his final decision was that the constitutionality and Parliament …

Continue reading ‘Tamil National Alliance Leader Rajavarothayam Sampanthan Will Continue To Be Leader of the Opposition in Parliament ules Speaker Karu Jayasuriya.’ »

By Gopalkrishna Gandhi (Author,Scholar and Diplomat Gopalkrishna Gandhi who served as India’s High Commissioner in India is the grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and Rajaji) “Jakkirathaiya irunga,” he said in Tamil, over which his command was legendary. “Take care” is how the phrase would translate. But in the way he said it, laying stress on the …

Continue reading ‘DMK Leader Karunanidhi Told Former Indian Envoy Gopalkrishna Gandhi – “Secession Will Never Be Given Up By Prabhakaran…….. We Grope In The Dark”’ »

by K. Venkataramanan It is the misfortune of some leaders that public perception, based on their recent actions and political positions, tends to overshadow their long history of engagement with an issue. It is so with M. Karunanidhi, who was an outspoken champion of the cause of the Sri Lankan Tamils for five decades, but …

Continue reading ‘Though a Lifelong Warrior for the Sri Lankan Tamil Cause DMK Chief Karunanidhi Was Misunderstood in the End’ »

By S.S.Selvanayagam Firebrand Buddhist monk Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara Thero, known for his hard-line approach, was jailed yesterday for six years after being found guilty of contempt of court over his conduct during a court hearing regarding the case of missing journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda. Gnanasara Thero, the Secretary General of the Bodu Bala Sena (BBS),was found …

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By Dharani Thangavelu Muthuvel Karunanidhi, former chief minister of Tamil Nadu and the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) president, is dead, the Kauvery Hospital in Chennai announced today. “With deep anguish, we announce the demise of our beloved Kalaignar Dr M. Karunanidhi on 7. 8. 2018 at 6.10 pm. Despite the best possible efforts by our …

Continue reading ‘94 Year Old DMK President “Kalaignar” Muthuvel Karunanidhi who was Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Five Times Passes Away at Chennai Kauvery Hospital on August 7th 2018.’ »

By A.S.Panneerselvan (This Article originally published in “Frontline Magazine”was Reproduced on this Blog on June 9th 2017.It is Being posted again due to its current timeliness) THE 1957 elections to Parliament and the State Assemblies constituted a defining moment. It established the democratic credentials of a country newly liberated from colonial rule; it was the …

Continue reading ‘The Ideology, Rhetoric and Politics of DMK Leader and Former Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi.’ »