How does the UN identify a Civilian from a Combatant (not a paper distinction)?

There are plenty of laws and conventions on how wars are to be fought, but those laws were for wars that did not have cowards manipulating them. Today’s wars are all proxy wars as state armies fight asymmetrical wars where from some corner or corners of the world, groups of people with vested interested put […]



Suspect shot while trying to flee

A suspect who was produced in the Kesbewa Magistrate’s Court from the Welikada Prison had been shot by Prison guards a short while ago, while trying to flee, Police said. […]



LTTE War Crimes : Another Witness – Anna Neistat of Human Rights Watch

Anna Neistat Senior Research of the Human Rights Watch was interviewed by Steve Paikin through the tv program ‘The Agenda with Steve Paikin” in 2009. The allegations by Anna Neistat re-establishes and reiterates as well as reconfirms of LTTE war crimes in forcibly keeping civilians without allowing them to escape to safety, shooting civilians who […]




Sri Lanka’s largest book exhibition kicks off

– by Janaka Alahapperuma – President Mahinda Rajapaksa declared open the Colombo International Book Exhibition-2014, Sri Lanka’s largest book fair yesterday morning at the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Exhibition Centre at BMICH premises amidst a large number of book publishers in the country and overseas. This book fair will continue until September 16th from 9.00am to 9.00pm. […]



Nishantha Ranatunga violated SLC Constitution – Dharmadasa

Sri Lanka Cricket Secretary Nishantha Ranatunga faced fresh allegations yesterday after the President of SLC, Jayantha Dharmadasa, alleged that the Secretary had violated the SLC Constitution and abused power! Ranatunga’s conduct as a cricket administrator has been questioned in several quarters over the years. Star cricketer Kumar Sangakkara has been one of his main critics […]



TNA & Chief Minister Wigneswaran – STOP COMPLAINING and start developing North Sri Lanka (TNA given Rs.1.385billion – Rs.380m only spent)

Ever since winning the Northern Provincial elections in 2013, the TNA and its Chief Minister has been doing nothing but complain. Complaining, crying to foreign nations and leaders, going on sponsored visits round the globe, gallivanting to India to complain and now asking Tamil youth to act as spies is all that the TNA placed […]




Sri Lanka demands to know if ITAK is pretending to seek a Federal solution but aiming for a Confederacy

The ITAK has a new leader. He is Mavai Senathirajah. It is a perfect time to bring questions out into the open and seek answers to satisfy our doubts. Top on that list is the question is the ITAK constitution Federal or Confederal? We will not accept claims of being federal while the aims and […]



Govt. wasting billions on unsolicited projects: Harsha

United National Party (UNP) parliamentarian and well-known economist Harsha De Silva said today the Government had got its priorities mixed up by spending a staggering Rs.337 billion obtained as loans from China on unsolicited projects including the proposed Port City. […]




ITAK-TNA denying fundamental right of Sinhalese and Muslims to live in North Sri Lanka

Chief Minister Wigneswaran says Tamil people have rejected separatism. That may be but what about Tamil politicians, have they rejected separatism is the more important unanswered question. Linked to this is the very ugly manner in which across the world knowing they are telling lies, the Tamil political parties and part of LTTE Tamil Diaspora […]




Collect Data on Army Activity, Wigneswaran to Tamil Youth

The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Tamil-speaking Northern Province, C V Wigneswaran, has urged Tamil youth to collect information on the deployment and activities of the Sri Lankan armed forces in the province, even as he told the Tamils, as a whole, to eschew separatism and militancy as these have proved to be counterproductive. […]



Minister: CPC losing on diesel, kerosene

The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) is losing five rupees from every litre of diesel and 23 rupees from every litre of kerosene oil at present, Petroleum Industries Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa has said. […]



How MEDIA and HR Groups purposely misinterpreted Ban Ki Moon’s Panel of Expert Report

Ban Ki Moon the UN Secretary General appointed an Advisory Panel to ADVISE HIM on the final phase of the war in Sri Lanka. That advisory panel was not an officially UN General Assembly or UN Security Council endorsed panel and that may explain why its report ended up being ‘leaked’ and thereafter becoming quoted […]