Describing as “an insult to injury” Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s assertion that his country would not bow to outside pressure and withdraw the Army from the North, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) president M. Karunanidhi on Sunday said the Tamil Eelam Supporters Organisation (TESO)would soon organise a conference to discuss these issues and take […]
Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana As a strong message to the politicians who govern the country, the most venerable Agga Maha Panditha the Supreme Maha Nayaka of the Sri Lanka Amarapura Sangha Sabha Dauldena Gnanissara said that “Dasa Raja Dharma” should be practiced by rulers when the former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka visited him […]
Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana In an obvious reply to Minister Wimal Weerawansa, former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka said what he had told about war crimes was that he was prepared to take the responsibility as the former Commander of the Army and defend any allegation against any body alive or dead who were […]
Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Blaming that those who negotiated General Fonseka’s release from the jail with the President are responsible for the freedom without civic rights he received Ranil Wickramasinghe said Tiran Alles being a member of parliament should tell the nation the circumstances under which such a sorry state came into being. […]
The latest survey carried out by the well known American pollster Gallop Poll in respect of people’s acceptance of the Head of State of their respective country, out of 21 countries in the Asia Pacific Region, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has been ranked in the 3rd position. The survey says that 91% of the Sri Lankans […]
Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Responding on the threat by the Attorney General’s Department on Ms. Hirunika Premachandra, the AsianHuman Rights Commission has said it is the the CID who should be charged with contempt of Court rather than the murder victim’s daughter Hirunika. […]
Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Sri Lanka’s Housing Minister and leader of the National Freedom Front, a constituent party of the governing coalition,Wimal Weerawansa criticized forrmer Army Commander Sarath Fonseka for saying Sri Lanka must cooperate with any international inquiry into war crimes they allege since we did not do such crimes. […]
Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Sri Lanka Army’s former commander Sarath Fonseka rejected accusations that thousands of civilians had been killed in the closing phase of the army’s offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in an interview with BBC’s Charles Haviland in Colombo.. […]
Onlanka News – By Walter Jayawardhana Sri Lanka’s main opposition the United National Party has appointed a committee chaired by Wijedasa Rajapaksa to draft a private member’s bill to win back the civic rights of the former Commander of army Sarath Fonseka , said the party’s General Secretary, Tissa Attanayaka. […]