Sri Lanka has dispatched another contingent of the Sri Lanka Force Protection Company (SLFPC) on a "peacekeeping" mission under the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) even though Sri Lanka's military stands accused of human rights violations both at home and abroad. The Lebanon-bound contingent comprises 125 Army personnel, including 11 Officers and 114 Other Ranks from the Corps and Regiments of the Army. The departure of this contingent follows the Advance Party of the 15th SLFPC, consisting of 12 Army personnel that proceeded for the UN mission in the first stage last month (...
Tamils in Keerimalai, Jaffna, blocked another land grab attempt by Sri Lanka's Land Survey department, who are trying to acquire 29 acres of Tamil owned land. The officials arrived in Keerimalai without notifying the landowners in an attempt to secretly survey the land. The land they are trying to acquire, includes a 'presidential palace' that was built in 2012 by the Sri Lankan military on land that it had seized from Tamils. On March 26, the land survey department were forced to abandon their work at the same location after Tamils had resisted their attempt to survey the land. இரகசிய காணி...
In response to a court case filed by former Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumaratunga, the Colombo High Court issued an interim injunction preventing Mathripala Sirisena from functioning as the chairman of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) on Thursday. Kumaratunga had raised concerns over the manner in which Sirisena was appointed to the position of chairmanship as well as his role and the impact it had on the party. In response to the complaint, the High Court issued an interim injunction order restraining Sirisena from functioning as the chairman of the SLFP and from exercising any...
Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Education website has been hacked and is currently offline, with a message purportedly left by an A-Level student stating there are “security flaws”. “This website was hacked,” says the message displayed for all users who tried to access the website. “Sorry for unauthorised access to your website,” said the message. “But your website has some security flaws.” This is not the first time that a Sri Lankan government website has been hacked. In recent years, on May 18, several Sri Lankan government websites have been hacked, with messages left commemorating the massacre...
United States representative Wiley Nickel has urged Secretary of State Anthony Blinken to address the plight of Eelam Tamils by supporting their right to self-determination and called for "a fair and impartial independence referendum to resolve this painful conflict".
The Colombo Christian Cooperation Movement joined farmers of Mayilathamadu and Madhavanai, as they marked 201 days of protest calling on the removal of illegal Sinhalese settlers and the return of their rightful land. Members of the movement, including Fr Sakthivel, Fr Rohan, Fr Gerald, Rev. Terence, Rev Nisanga and Sister Rasika held placards at the protest site yesterday as they expressed their solidarity with the farmers. They called on the Sri Lankan government to halt the economic destruction of the farmer's livelihoods is a form of genocide. The Mayilathamadu and Madhavanai Livestock...
Celebrations took place in the North-East to mark Easter Sunday and Good Friday.
The world's largest refiner, China's Sinopec plans to start work on a refinery in Sri Lanka by June, the power minister said last Thursday. Officials of Sinopec Overseas Investment Holding were visiting Colombo for talks with Sri Lankan authorities. "The officials indicated that the management of Sinopec has decided to double the capacity of the refinery from the original proposal," the minister, Kanchana Wijesekera, wrote on social media platform X. Officials of the Sinopec Overseas Investment Holding Pvt Ltd (SOIHL) visited the Ministry of Power & Energy yesterday. The officials led by...
State Minister of Social Empowerment, Anupa Pasqual says president Ranil Wickremesinghe should consider a presidential pardon for Gnanasara, a convicted racist Buddhist monk, following his recent sentencing. This comes days after Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary Galagoda Aththe Gnanasara was sentenced to four years in prison. Sri Lanka's high court recently rejected a bail application filed by the monk. The judge had stated that the counsels had failed to present any special circumstances before the Court that would warrant the release of Gnanasara on bail. The defence had urged the...
Sri Lanka’s former president Maithripala Sirisena claimed that India was behind the deadly Easter Sunday attacks that saw hundreds killed as churches and hotels were bombed in 2019. According to a report in the Sunday Times , Sirisena told Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) that an Indian diplomat admitted Delhi’s involvement behind the bombings. He reportedly went on to claim that not only did the diplomat confess to being behind the attack but told Sirisena that it was “because Sri Lanka has not been considerate in giving India any projects, say like for example, the...