Multiculturalism does not threaten sovereignty

- By Shakunthala Perera

Canada is an interesting example of how best to use elements of a diverse society to a country’s progress. It has many lessons for Sri Lanka. It has over 200 [...]

36 girls, pregnant following rape, kept in special facility

The government is keeping 36 young girls, who are pregnant following rape, at a special facility, Chairman of the National Child Protection Authority Jagath Wellawatte says.
The youngest among them is 14 years of age.
According to the chief legal officer of the NCPA, the children’s home will keep them under its custody until the court cases [...]

Casualties of Sri Lanka’s conflict -28 March 08

The recent surge in fighting in Sri Lanka’s civil war is taking a heavy toll on the country’s civilian population. The Red Cross says more than two hundred people were killed and three hundred wounded in the first two months of this year alone, many of them children. Bomb attacks have become more frequent since [...]

Release journalists Tisse

Brutal attack on leader of the Sri Lanka sister party of the Socialist Party

Brutal attack on leader of the Sri Lanka sister party of the Socialist Party(Source : www.socialistparty.org.uk )
After the recent Committee for a Workers’ International (CWI) [...]

Child Soldiers

Child soldiers recruited by TMVP in Batticloa.
Pictures :
TMVP office in Batticaloa.
(TMVP is the political bureau of Karuna para-military group)

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STOP killing the media and its journalists

To:  President of Sri Lanka
Your Excellency the President of Sri Lanka
Presidential Secretariat,
Colombo,
Sri Lanka.
Protest and condemnation – Stop intimidating the media and journalists
We have watched with indignation and despair, the breach of freedom of expression and brutal suppression of the media and journalists under your government. We have read and heard the explanations given by your [...]

‘We are better off without the LTTE’ : S C Chandrahasan

March 24, 2008
S C Chandrahasan is the son of Samuvel Selvnayagam, a Tamil leader who was known as the Mahatma Gandhi [Images] of Sri Lanka [Images]. After the island-nation’s ethnic conflict began in 1983, Chandrahasan founded the Organisation For Eelam Refugees’ Rehabilitation.
OFERR works in Sri Lanka and India, and has [...]

Sir Arthur C Clarke: 90th birthday reflections

 

Hello! This is Arthur Clarke, speaking to you from my home in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
As I approach my 90th birthday, my friends are asking how it feels like, to have completed 90 orbits around the Sun.
Well, I actually don’t feel a day older than 89!
Of course, some things remind [...]

Interview with Lionel Bopage on Prabhakaran

Former JVP General Secretary Lional Bopage speaks on the present situation in Sri Lanka and future of JVP.
English :
Sinhala :