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(யாழ். இந்துக் கல்லூரி பழைய மாணவர், யாழ். பல்கலைக்கழகத்தில் விசேட வர்த்தமானி பட்டம் பெற்றவர், கொழும்பு சட்டக் கல்லூரி பழைய மாணவர்)

தோற்றம் : 28 செப்ரெம்பர் 1952 — மறைவு : 18 மார்ச் 2012 Continue reading →

Sri Lanka should not forget India’s support in killing the LTTE amidst protest by court closures and protests by lawyers and artistes in South India, although it had to support the US-led resolution at the UNHRC due to DMK leader M. Karunanidhi’s threat to pull out of the UPA government, said minister Dullas Alahapperuma. He was speaking at a certificate awarding function organized by the National Youth Corps and Sabaragamuwa University.

In the final war in May 2009 more than 100,000 Tamil Civilians were killed by the Sri Lankan forces with the help of Indian government supplying arms trained forces to kill the Tamil Civilians and LTTE Leaders who surrendered with white flag after UN negotiated the surrender. Continue reading →

Russia who helped Sri Lankan Army kill more than 40,000 Tamil civilians  in May 2009, yesterday said that Sri Lanka’s situation with regard to human rights does not in any way call for an external intervention and the Sri Lankan government is capable of solving its internal issues including human rights. 

According to Russian ambassador to Sri Lanka, Vladimir P. Mikhaylov Russia strongly views that powerful nations do not have any right to dictate terms to other countries on how these countries should be governed and what kind of leaders should be in power. By saying this he gave a green light to smaller countries governments around the world to kill its political opponents and members of its minorities.   Continue reading →

Press Statement: For immediate release

Nobel Peace Prize Nomination: UK and Australian MPs support Channel 4 ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ Documentary Team

I join my Australian colleague, Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon, in releasing the joint submission we made to the Norwegian Nobel Committee nominating the team at ITN and Channel 4 that produced the documentary film ‘Sri Lanka’s Killing Fields’ for the 2012 Nobel peace Prize.

As Sri Lanka remembers on February 4 its independence from Britain in 1948, it remains accused in front of the world community of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the last phases of the war in 2009. Continue reading →

The Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakshe and the forces are intending to celebrate the second anniversary of the killing of more than 40,000 Tamil Civilians which falls on 19th May Thursday in a grand scale. A special event is organized at the Galle Face Green for this celerbations.

Some government political leaders have asked the president to invite the European Parliament (Conservative MEP’s) Geoffrey Van Orden and Charles Tannock who said that the Sri Lankan government did not kill any Tamils in the European Parliament debate on  ’a resolution on the situation in Sri Lanka after a recent UN report’. Continue reading →

MORE REHABILITATED LTTE CADRES TO BE FREED BY GOVERNMENT BUT NO INFORMATION OF THE  4,360 DETAINED WILL BE RELEASED NOW, WHY?

• So far a total of 6,539 ex-LTTE cadres have been reintegrated into the society after being  rehabilitated.
• Another 4,360 LTTE Members who surrendered  remain in rehabilitation camps.

Necessary arrangements are currently underway in order to reintegrate several rehabilitated LTTE cadres into to society to mark the 2600th Sambuddha Jayanthi, Commissioner General of Rehabilitation Brigadier Sudantha Ranasinghe said.  Several of those remaining are intended to be released on Vesak full moon Poya Day, he mentioned.