By Easwaran Rutnam – Pictures by Thusitha Kumara A parliamentary delegation from the EU visited Sri Lanka last week, its second mission to the country over the past two years. The delegation was headed by EU Parliament MP Jean Lambert. The visit comes just weeks after the EU supported a Resolution on Sri Lanka at [...]
By Faiszer Musthapha Sri Lanka was affected by a 30 year war. Sri Lanka always respects human rights. I believe the Geneva resolution is unwarranted because we are in an era of national reconciliation and I would interpret this resolution as a mechanism which could create polarisation on an ethnic basis. It is because we [...]
By Nirmala Kannangara Roshan Gunathilaka told The Sunday Leader that he has got a legal deed for his 70 acre property within the Knuckles range but added that he did not know that it was a reserve zone when he purchased the land.”Yes I purchased this land in 2007 and developed an existing building,” Gunathilaka [...]
By Samanmalee Unanthenna This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it”. Abraham Lincoln, Inaugural Address, 1861 Several months ago, in an article I wrote, [...]
By Faraz Shauketaly Duminda Silva – the member of Parliament from Kolonnawa, a Colombo suburb – has incurred costs of at least LKR 18 Million and could have incurred as much as LKR 39 Million at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore. Silva was admitted to the private hospital in November 2011 and has remained [...]
French Election: Four Ways Nicolas Sarkozy Got Screwed By Christopher Dickey The French president survived Sunday’s vote. But to win the runoff in May, he’ll have to stop running against himself. The president of France is in deep trouble, and he’d like to have his countrymen think they are, too, if they don’t re-elect [...]
A former director of an organization outlawed by the Canadian government over its ties to Sri Lankan rebels said Thursday he was living in fear after his car was destroyed in an unexplained fire. Kamal Navaratnam’s 2002 Honda CRV was parked in his Toronto driveway when it went up in flames at about 3 am [...]
By Dinouk Colombage May Day, or International Workers’ Day, is traditionally a celebration of the international labour movement and left-wing movements. Its origins lay with the labour movements around the world. On this day street demonstrations and marches by the working people and their labour unions are organised. It is a day which traditionally was [...]
By Maryam Azwer A recent UNICEF Progress Report on adolescents has revealed that 54% of Sri Lankan girls between the ages of fifteen and nineteen, think that a husband is justified in hitting his wife. The statistics highlighting such attitudes among Sri Lankan girls towards marital violence are even higher than those pertaining to other [...]
China Dissident Chen Guangcheng Escapes House Arrest By Dinouk Colombage One of China’s best-known dissidents, Chen Guangcheng, has escaped from house arrest and has released a video addressed to Premier Wen Jiabao. In it he makes three demands, including one that Wen investigate what Chen, who is blind, calls the brutal beating up of his [...]
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