• Sri Lankan Navy needs to expand says Gota

    Nov 24
    Four years after the end of the armed conflict, Sri Lanka needs more naval assets said the Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa.

    Addressing the Galle Dialogue 2013 event, and praising the Australian government's contribution to Sri Lanka's naval fleet, he said,
  • Sri Lanka not ready to live under aggression - Rajapaksa
    Photograph ColomboPage


    Unveiling a statue of the Vietnamese leader Ho Chin Min in Colombo today, the Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa asserted that Sri Lanka values its freedom and sovereignty, and that Sri Lankans 'are not ready by any means to live under the fears of invasion or aggression'.

  • NPC faces obstacles - C.V. Wigneswaran

    The Northern Province’s Chief Minister, C. V. Wigneswaran has said that the Northern Provincial Council (NPC) faces many impediments to its ability to function.

  • Tamil councillors in Jaffna attacked after Heroes Day commemoration

    Picture: TamilNet

    Civic members of the Karaveddi South-West Pirathesa Sapai (PS) were attacked by security forces after commemorating LTTE cadres, just days before the annual Heroes Day on November 27 or 'Maaveerar Naal'.

    According to TamilNet, the chair of Karaveddi South-West PS, Mr P. Viyakes, was questioned by security personnel and later attacked.

    Further reports of attacks on the deputy head of Valveddiththurai Urban Council have also emerged.


    Members of the Sri Lankan military allegedly attacked the councillor’s house at 2am and threatened his family.

  • British Tamil students remember sacrifice at 'Youth Maaveerar Naal'

    Over 150 Tamil students from across the UK gathered today at the annual Youth Maaveerar Naal in remembrance of lives that have been sacrificed in the Tamil nation’s struggle against genocide .

    The inter-university remembrance event, ‘Youth Maaveerar Naal’, hosted this year by Imperial College London, saw several universities prepare theatrical dance performances, poems, songs and speeches in remembrance of sacrifices in the Tamil struggle against genocide.

  • MC Ellaalan releases 'Her Yesterday' at Youth Maaveerar Naal
    A British Tamil Rapper, MC Ellaalan released his second rap song at Youth Maaveerar Naal today.

    Tamil Guardian caught up with the rapper at the end of the event to talk about the motive behind his second song.

  • SL Army build archway depicting battles between Sinhala and Tamil king
    The Sri Lankan army unveiled a new archway in Anuradhapura on Saturday, depicting the historic battles between the Sinhala King Dutu Gemunu and the Chola King Ellalan (or 'Elara').



  • New figures highlight deportation of legitimate refugees by Australian immigration authority

    Latest figures form the Australian Department of Immigration and Border Protection indicate that most of the asylum seekers coming from the island of Sri Lanka had been persecuted on the basis of their race, religion, nationalit

  • Indian Navy Chief visits Sri Lanka for conference

    India’s Chief of Naval Staff Admiral DK Joshi has arrived in Sri Lanka to attend an international maritime security conference in Galle.

    Admiral Joshi was welcomed at the Katunayake airport by Sri Lanka’s Chief of Staff of the Navy, Rear Admiral Jayantha Perera.

  • UN Special Rapporteur to visit North-East

    Sri Lanka’s external affairs ministry announced today that the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Internally Displaced Persons, will visit Sri Lanka next week.

  • UNP slams Rajapaksa over possibility of int'l inquiry
    Sri Lanka's opposition, the UNP, has slammed the President Mahinda Rajapaksa and his government for allowing the country to be brought up in front of an international inquiry.

    In a special statement, the UNP condemned the government's signing up to the 39th sentence of a declaration signed by all leaders of the Commonwealth during the summit held earlier this month, which said all nations would adhere to the Vienna Declaration.

  • Police destroy posters promoting self-determination in North-East

    Police in the area of Velvettithurai have recently had to destroy posters and stickers on walls in support of a separate state for the North-East of Sri Lanka.

  • Credentials worthy of the SL Cabinet
    The Deputy Minister S.M. Chandrasena, who organised the protests in Anuradhapura during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meet which mobbed the Channel 4 news team who were on board a train towards the North, has been appointed a Cabinet Minister by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, reports the Colombo Telegraph.
  • Poet's arrest part of 'on-going witch hunt' - Jaffna Uni lecturer
    Speaking to Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) on the arrest of the Norwegian Tamil poet Jayapalan, a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Jaffna, said that the arrest  “was part of the ongoing campaign of witch-hunt against Tamils journalists, university students and academics”.
  • Norwegian Tamil poet arrested by SL intelligence in Maankulam
    The acclaimed poet and actor, Jeyapalan, was arrested in Maankulam on Friday by the Terrorism Investigation Department (TID) at taken to the TID office in Vavuniya.

    Jeyapalan, who resides in Norway having fled the ethnic conflict, had returned to pay his respects at his late mother's grave in Maankulam.

    According to reports, at approximately 5pm, security forces arrested him stating he had violated visa regulations. He is understood to have entered Sri Lanka on a tourist visa.

    However, according to PTI, the Sri Lankan police spokesperson Ajith Rohana said that Jayapalan had been arrested for holding seminars in Jaffna.

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