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  • Witness to Thileepan’s fast

    Sep 15
    As we entered the premises of the Nallur Kandasamy temple we were confronted by a sea of people seated on the white sands under the blazing sun.
  • Sri Lanka recalls envoy to Japan after Prime Minster is finger printed at airport
    Sri Lanka has recalled its envoy to Japan after Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayake was finger printed, made to wait for approximately half an hour and processed through normal passenger channel instead of the VIP lounge at Narita airport in Japan.

    Wickramanayake, had visited Japan at the invitation of the head monk of
    a well-known Buddhist temple in Kobe to the chief guest at a religious ceremony.
  • Aiding Repression
    Sanctions compel people to change their government's conduct.
  • Pakistan destroyer on goodwill visit to Sri Lanka
    A Pakistani navy ship arrived in Sri Lanka on a goodwill visit aimed at strengthening existing ties and the level of cooperation between the two countries, according to navy sources in Sri Lanka.

    PNS ‘Zulfiquar’, Pakistan’s destroyer class ship arrived in Colombo harbour on Saturday, September 5 and was ceremonially welcomed by the Sri Lanka Navy in the presence of Pakistan Defence Adviser Colonel Syed Khurram Hassnain Alam.
  • UN officials expelled by Sri Lanka
    Chief of Communications for UNICEF in Sri Lanka, James Elder's visa to continue to remain in Sri Lanka was refused earlier this month by Sri Lanka's Department of Immigration without giving any reasons.

    News of Elder’s eviction was followed by news of another senior UN diplomat expelled from Sri Lanka in July for providing details to the international community of mass killings of civilians during the final battles against the Tamil Tigers, also emerged.
  • Continuing misery of Sri Lanka’s camps
    Almost 4 months since the end of the war, little progress has been made at the camps that hold nearly 300,000 Tamil civilians which have been described as “shocking and disturbing”, recent press reports said.

    New mobile phone footage of conditions in the Manik Farm camp in Vavuniya shows ill people lying on mud floors with intravenous drips in their arms and no hospital beds in sight.
  • SLA massacred civilians in bunkers – medical worker
    The advancing Sri Lanka Army massacred civilians by paving their bunkers with tanks, by throwing explosives inside the bunkers and by shooting the injured, says a medical worker,who came out of Mullivaykkal during the last days of the war.
  • Sri Lanka floats LTTE revival stories, keeps Tamils incarcerated
    Sri Lanka’s defence secretary has warned the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) are being revived at local and international levels and would attempt to challenge the government again.
    Gotabhaya Rajapakse, who is also the brother of President Mahinda Rajapakse, cautioned that the LTTE would make a fresh attempt to resume arms smuggling and train cadres overseas and bring them in boats, reported the Island newspaper.
  • Sri Lanka hits out at reports of GSP+ withdrawal
    Sri Lankan officials have responded angrily to reports that the European Union may withdraw the GSP+ concessions that Sri Lanka is currently entitled to.

    “Western countries should remember that economic power has shifted from the west to the east,” said Palita Kohona, Sri Lanka’s new ambassador to the UN.

    “New markets open up in the east. Our friends China, India, Japan, Korea, Iran … a whole range of countries [can help]," he was quoted as saying.
  • Sri Lanka finds common ground on human rights with ‘tested friend’ China

    Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse told a visiting Chinese communist party delegation that the two countries are tested friends and China will always have Sri Lanka’s unwavering support on the One-China policy.

    Rajapakse made the remarks on Friday, September 4, at a meeting with the visiting delegation of the Communist Party of China (CPC), led by a member of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau and Party chief of China's Tianjin municipality Zhang Gaoli.

  • BBC: UN patience wears thin in Sri Lanka
    The United Nations says it cannot continue to indefinitely fund the sprawling, overcrowded and militarized camp in which Sri Lanka has interned hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians.

    Speaking to the BBC, the UN's Sri Lanka chief, Neil Buhne, said people should be allowed to leave the barbed wire-ringed Manik Farm camp.

    Mr Buhne also criticised Sri Lanka’s denial of access for the International Red Cross to 10,000 Tamils whom the government calls LTTE suspects.
  • Le Monde calls for Sri Lanka to ‘stop’

    "After winning the war, the Sri Lankan regime is in the process of losing the peace. Following the historic, but bloody and distasteful victory, against the armed struggle of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa could be magnanimous and reach out to the Tamil minority and open the way for national reconciliation.

  • BOX STORY: Venerable Thera refused Canadian visa

    The Canadian embassy in Colombo has refused visa to a Buddhist monk due to the applicant’s passport displaying the titles Venerable and Thera, according to media reports.

  • TNA candidates receive death threats, Ruling party men confiscate voting cards
    The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) said Wednesday, July 29 that it received complaints that three candidates of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) contesting the election to the Vavuniyaa urban Council have been issued with death threats.
  • State terror' in local elections
    Police authorities in northern Sri Lanka have rejected accusations by opposition parties that the government is terrorising the region in the run up to Vavuniya Urban Council elections.
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