President Mahinda  Rajapaksa  addressing the Victory Day pared at the Galle Face Green said that only agreeable recommendations in the LLRC Report will be implemented (which will help keep his government in power!).

The President also rejected international calls to withdraw troops from the country’s former war zones where Tamils live, warning that the LTTE diaspora had not given up separatism so the Militarisation will continue in Tamil areas.

“Some are shouting remove military camps from the north and east,” Mr Rajapaksa said at the ceremony to mark ‘victory day’ on the third anniversary of crushing of the Tamil Tigers and killing  of Over 50 000 Tamil Civilians in May 16-18, 2009. Claiming that “the LTTE diaspora had not given up their separatist ideas, ” the President said, “We cannot jeopardise national security by removing camps from Tamil areas.” Continue reading →

Minister Samarasinghe has said that it is not the intention of his government to dismantle the High Security Zones.  It is learnt he said this in answer to a question at a meeting he held on 10 May 2012 in Melbourne, Australia. 

The Sri Lankan Government has issued a circular informing all Divisional Secretaries and Officers-in-Charge of police stations to take legal action against those who disrespect the Buddhist flag but they should NOT take any legal action against Buddhist who damage Muslim mosques or Hindu Temple.

The Prime Minister ordered the mosque’s relocation on Sunday, following an attack on the mosque on Friday by hardline Buddhists, including monks and interestingly the attack on the mosque was watched by the SL Army and police and no one was arrested. It is believed that the extremists who work in collusion with bankrupt Government politicians wishing to create religious, ethnic and other strife in society so that they can emerge as ethnic/religious saviours creating a new voter bank by taking advantage of an artificially created trouble. Continue reading →

Residents in the islands of Jaffna said that candidates from the Eelam People’s Democratic Party (EPDP) had threatened and harassed them. It is due to these people complained to local journalists of the incident of a child being raped by a EPDP member.
One of the recent suspects in a rape case was an EPDP candidate, they charged. ‘When an election comes up, the politicians make promises, but they give us nothing,’ one of the islanders said.

They had threatened the local people for talking to the journalist and warned that they must only talk to the police who are working with the EPDP members.  Continue reading →

With the DMK ruling out its participation, the present delegation, which is visiting the neighbouring country from April 16-22, is now void of representation from the two big parties in the state as the ruling AIADMK has already pulled out its representative.

DMK President M. Karunanidhi on Sunday ruled out his party’s presence in a Parliamentary delegation visiting Sri Lanka this week to assess the rehabilitation and political process, saying the visiting schedule  sent by External Affairs Ministry showed that the proposed visitors are meeting pro government groups and are not meeting war effected Tamils without the supervision of the Army and it also took that past experiences showed that there was no use of such visits.  Continue reading →

The Indian delegation of Members of Parliament, which arrives here on April 16, are given opportunity to speak to pro government groups of  Tamils in Sri Lanka  only. The program is organised by the government to meet only the pro government  groups in the Northern Province, Eastern Province, in the hills, and in Colombo. 

On the 16th: (Colombo)

1. The delegation Led by the Leader of Opposition in the Parliament, Sushma Swaraj, arrives here late on April 16 for a Red Carpet Welcome by the Government Ministers, and has a packed programme schedule by the Sri Lankan government ahead of leaving on April 21.

Onthe 17th: (Visit Colombo Politicians)  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 and trained forces to kill the Tamil Civilians and LTTE Leaders who surrendered with white flag after UN negotiated the surrender. Continue reading →

• ”I will have to use the Green card if we don’t say that LTTE is active’, 
• ‘’LTTE Threat persists but situation under control’, 
• ”We will kill the 200 LTTE leaders we hold in the secret camps’
• ”We will kill more Tamil civilians if they ask for equal rights’

Thinks the Rajapakshes say in secret to their close supporters?.

About 11,000 LTTE cadres who either surrendered to the security forces or were captured during the war had been rehabilitated and reunited with their families and about 3,800 out of 4,000 LTTE detainees had been released; about 4,000 LTTE members who had escaped were still at large, the Defence Secretary said yesterday. Continue reading →

This week, Minster Weerawansa  a close friend of President Rajapakshe asked the people to boycott US products including KFC, McDonalds, Coca Cola and stop using Google Search engine and G-mail.

He is also is demanding that Rajapakshe brothers and SL UN Secretary Kohena to give up the Green card they hold, but one of the Green card holder has refused the request and called Minister Weerawansa a ‘Mad Dog’. Continue reading →

Under pressure from All political parties in Tamil Nadu, which want India to support a US resolution at United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva seeking accountability for war crimes in the last phase of the Eelam war in Sri Lanka wher more than 40,000 Tamil civilians were killed in May 2009, New Delhi is quietly working on a weaker solution that will give nothing to Tamils in real terms while maintaining healthy relations with Sri Lankan Government. Continue reading →

RSS joins Pakistan and Supports killing of more than 40,000 of Tamil Hindus in Sri Lanka by Sinhale (Buddhist dominated) Army.

Taking a stand at variance with that of the BJP, the RSS on Sunday said India should not support the US-sponsored resolution in the UN against the Sri Lankan government on alleged human rights violations, calling it an attempt by the west to dictate to a democratic government, and support the Sri Lankan Government which killed more than 40,000 Hindus in May 2009. Continue reading →

Sri Lankan ambassador: We back Israel’s war on terror 

Donald Perera, who served as Sri Lankan chief of staff during offensive that ended in Tamil rebels’ surrender after more than 30 years, is enjoying a change of pace in Israel. In interview with Yedioth Ahronoth, he recalls seeing body of rebel leader Prabhakaran, says IDF needs public’s support to successfully eradicate terror. ‘Citizens must realize struggle will exact a heavy price,’ he adds…… read more 

Sri Lanka: Ties with Israel exposed

Sri Lankan Ambassador Donald Perera also expressed support for Israel against the Palestinians, comparing Hamas to the LTTE.

Referring to Israel’s attack on a Gaza-bound Turkish ship, he said: “As a military man I can understand that Israel had to protect itself. Due to Sri Lanka’s vast experience in fighting terror, I can say that it will always support countries that also oppose  [terror].”………….. read more 

Israel Supports Sri Lanka

Israeli Ambassador to Sri Lanka based in New Delhi, Mark Sofer has said the Israeli government has discussed the UN advisory report with President Mahinda Rajapaksa and has extended the country’s support to Sri Lanka. The advisory panel report on Sri Lanka was compared to the Goldstone report by the UN in 2009, where Israel was accused of war crimes during the Gaza conflict…………. read more 

Sri Lanka government sought the support of the Kingdom and other Muslim countries in the region yesterday to show their solidarity toward the island nation for its successful killing of more than 40,000 Hindus and Christian Tamil Civilians in May 2009 at at the current UN summit for human rights being held in Geneva.

“A time has come for friendly countries to help us against the wrongful propaganda targeting Sri Lanka, the only nation in the recent history, which successfully wiped out terror from the country.” he said

• He did not talk about the killing of more than 40,000 Tamil Civilians in May 2009 by the Government forces which do not accommodate even 1% of Muslims to its arms forces fearing they would turn against the government.
• He did not talk about the NOT implimenting the promised  ”13+ political package” made by the so called ‘able leadership of President Mahinda Rajapaksa’  before the killing of the Tamil civilians in thousands in May 2009.
• He did NOT talk about the arms deal made between Israel and Sri Lanka.
• He did NOT talk about the Sri Lankan Governments support given to Israel against the Palestinians, comparing Hamas to the LTTE by the SL Ambassador to Israel.

Racist Sri Lanka Minister Champika Ranawake  threaten a repeat of the 1983 (Killing of Tamils by government backed forces).

With able assistance from the likes of Champika Ranawake of the Hela Urumiya the demise of the Rajapakse dynastic rule will be hastened. He claims that there is a Government elected by the people and that there is the Judiciary too to take care of wrong doing! Continue reading →

The Channel 4 documentaries about the scale of war crimes in Sri Lanka, the second of which was shown last night, have been truly shocking and breathtaking.  

There can be little doubt left that a full and independent investigation into human rights abuses now and during the recent conflict is overdue. 

David Cameron’s Government simply hasn’t done enough to demand a full and proper investigation by the United Nations. It’s time he and William Hague stopped standing on the sidelines and got involved in the fight for justice for all those victims of human rights abuses in Sri Lanka.   Continue reading →

The diaspora is the biggest threat to the Government of Sri Lanka, they know it, do we?

Mahinda Rajapaksa is seen by many Tamils as the Hitler of the 21st century

Be positive and believe in yourself, unite, work together and focus on the bringing a peaceful Political Package to be implemented so that the Tamils can live in peace in Sri Lanka. Lets learn to listen to the world leaders and respect and follow the the Law of the country you live in now. Only than they will support us to achieve a Political Package that will allow the minorities live a normal life in Sri Lanka. We will get there. Continue reading →

Sri Lanka is illegally holding hundreds of detainees who are vulnerable to torture and execution

COLOMBO — Sri Lanka is illegally holding hundreds of detainees who are vulnerable to torture and execution, Amnesty International said Tuesday in a report urging UN support for a probe into alleged war crimes.

The 63-page document entitled “Locked away: Sri Lanka’s security detainees,” said arbitrary and illegal detention and enforced disappearances were routine in Sri Lanka, where rights abuses “go uninvestigated and unpunished.” Continue reading →

By Thusiyanthan

Sri Lanka’s High Commissioner in the U.K Dr. Chris Nonis called on the Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Council  to look beyond the inflammatory rhetoric of the agents of separatism with collateral agendas, and to make sure that the people of the UK do not fall prey to covert pressure from extremely well-funded lobby groups who use coercive measures for fundraising, and subsequently use their funds to influence opinion leaders, think tanks, and legislators, who are in reality surrogates for the extreme rump of terrorism.

He did not talk about current government Not implementing the current constitution in full which gives some political rights to the Minority Tamils. The 13th amentment of the constitution is not implemented in Sri Lanka and before May 2009 when more than 40,000 Tamil Civilians and LTTE Leaders who surrendered with white flag after UN negociated it with SL President were killed by the Sri Lankan forces. He did not speak about the War crime investigation requested by the world in Sri Lanka. 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.  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 →

India yesterday said that some Pakistan based terrorists groups were travelling to India through Sri Lanka.

CHORONOLOGY OF EVENTS – SRI LANKA

• Sinhalese Nationalism

• Ethnic Tensions

• Civil war intensifies

• War and diplomacy

• Peace moves

• War & Mounting violence

• Tamil Tigers defeated
• ……………….. READ MORE

The Tamils of Sri Lanka pinned their hopes and faith on the Tamil Nadu leaders, considered them as benefactors and redeemers, but they have miserably failed to practice what they preached. In the meantime, blame has been squarely placed on the former LTTE political czar B. Nadesan for the demise of the LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran. Continue reading →

‘History will find you wrong because I shall write that history’ – Winston Churchill is supposed to have told British Prime Minister Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin during an exchange in the House of Commons in the 1930’s.

In Sri Lanka, the history of the Eelam War is being written (and re-written) by its victors, the Rajapaksa Siblings.This ‘victor’s history’ will be a Sinhala supremacist and a Rajapaksa supremacist narrative, with Sinhala spinelessness and Rajapaksa infallibility as its main axioms.

According to this revanchist history, Tiger separatist-terrorism would be the main cause of the Eelam War, with Tamil ultra-nationalism and Indian/Western machinations playing a supplementary role. Majoritarian errors and crimes, such as the Sinhala Only, anti-Tamil riots (including the Black July) or the media-wise standardisation will not figure in this narrative. Nor will there be any mention of the violent Sinhala responses to non-violent protests by democratic Tamils, starting with the attack by a Sinhala mob on the 300 plus members of the Federal Party who were engaged in a peaceful sit-in against the ‘Sinhala Only Act’ at the Galle Face Green. Not only did the police watched impassively as the unarmed Tamil protestors were ‘kicked, beaten and spat upon’; when the injured Federal Party MPs entered the parliament that evening with ‘blood-stained bandages’, Prime Minister SWRD Bandaranaike quipped loudly, “Honourable wounds of war!” (quoted in‘Tigers of Sri Lanka’ by MR Narayan Swami). The fate of the Bandaranaike-Chelvanayagam Pact and the Dudley-Chelvanayagam Pact (destroyed by Sinhala extremism) will not merit mention either. Continue reading →

SRI LANKA- Update No. 21: Chandrika proposes and the Maha Sangha disposes

by Dr. S.Chandrasekharan    

“In effect, Sinhala Buddhist Hegemonism has vetoed the legitimate rights of the Tamil people.” D.B.S.Jeyaraj in Sunday Leader of 13th August, 2000.

Constitutional Reforms abandoned:  The statement of D.B.S.Jeyaraj succinctly expresses the agony of the Tamils from the day the Sri Lankan government introduced “Sinhala only Act” in 1956. It was a repetition of sorts when Chandrika’s father Bandaranaike tore up the agreement between himself and the Tamil leader Chelvanayagam known as BC Pact, when more than 200 monks and 300 others marched to his Rosemead Palace in protest against the agreement. Continue reading →

The Senior Minister of Good Governance and Infrastructure Facilities, Ratnasiri Wickremanayake spoke about the need to find an immediate Political Solution to Sri Lanka’s ethnic problem. He Addresed a meeting of the Sri Lanka Freedom Party Central Committee in the Horana Electorate. A leader said that after 60 years of discrimination towards the Tamils by the successive Sinhala  dominated  governments, the  Tamil issue has developed into one where the Tamil community  is demanding  viable solution to their concerns through constitutional amendments. If the 13th amendment was implemented in full most of the Tamils would have not supported the LTTE who took arms after the Tamil politicians failed through the Sri Lankan parliament.  Continue reading →

The President’s statement that the only political solution to the ethnic issue should be proposed by a parliamentary select committee at a meeting with media heads was a clear indication that his promised ’13+ Political package’ he had promised to implement once the LTTE was killed was a lie and he cheated the UN and the Indian government as he had no intention of implementing a ’13+ political package’ once the killing of Tamils.

The President had said that he would not implement any other proposal other than the one presented by the parliamentary select committee. Then why was he talking to the Tamil political leaders of a Political Package? 

President Rajapakshe and his brothers who have killed more than 100,000 Tamil civilians during his last 6 years of ruling are known racists and do not have the guts to even implement the current constitution in full, it is believed that they are  trying to buy time to getaway  from the war crimes they did. Continue reading →

• India is not the only country Prof. Gunaratne cannot travel to. 
• He was arrested in Indonesia and deported in May 2005. 
• The Indian delegation was not happy with Prof. Gunaratne, and confined to be headed by a Colonel, nearly staged a walk out. 
• “We brought pressure on them not to do so because we enjoyed very close relations between our countries. Also, India helped us most to win the war,” 
• Prof. Gunaratne was working out a deal to help Gotabaya Rajapaksa to travel to the United States after his son’s wedding in Colombo on 30 June.

Sri Lanka government recently held a seminar in Colombo to tell the world how they defeated the Tamil Tigers. Sri Lanka wanted the world to learn their military strategies, tactics and doctrine so they could win their own wars. 

However, the wider audience to whom the battlefield success stories were to be related boycotted the event or sent low-level delegations. Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksha himself admitted that the seminar was a failure as a result of the boycott. With the exception of Defence Attache of the US embassy in Colombo, Lt. Col. Lawrence Smith, whom the US said was sent as a “note taker,” there was no one representing the world’s largest and most powerful military. There were none from the United Kingdom nor from the NATO. …………. read more

Tears roll down the cheeks of a Sri Lankan ethnic Tamil woman as she holds a photograph of her "abducted" family member during a protest in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, June 30, 2011. Hundreds of Sri Lankan Tamils protested Thursday demanding to know the whereabouts of their family members abducted by "white van squads" allegedly operated by the Sri Lankan government during the height of the countrys civil war. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/06/30/international/i055054D30.DTL#ixzz1QnYmBpPP

The protesters said they have not heard from their sons or husbands since they were bundled into often white-colored vehicles or surrendered to the army over involvement with the now-defeated Tamil Tiger rebels.

Sri Lanka is under pressure to investigate alleged human rights violations, including execution of prisoners and heavy civilian casualties during the final days of the war. A U.N.-appointed experts panel has called for investigations into alleged atrocities committed by both sides and said the civilian deaths may be in tens of thousands…. Read more

The last two months in Sri Lanka have seen increasing international pressure coupled with domestic struggles against Mahinda Rajapakse’s government. In fact, in the post-war context, other than perhaps General Sarath Fonseka’s challenge during the presidential elections of January 2010, which split the war coalition in the south, these recent weeks have been among the most worrying of times for the Rajapakse regime. International criticism centring on questions of post-war accountability and political reconciliation has suddenly coincided with anti-government domestic mobilisations by a range of actors – from workers challenging the government’s pension schemes, estate workers calling for wage hikes, university teachers moving on strike actions and student unions opposing leadership training by the military for university entrants…………… read more

Give it in writing, TNA tells govt. (Rajapakshe Family is Not trustworthy!)

The government’s response to the basis of the talks should be given in writing for progressive discussions, the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) said.

The TNA and the government met on June 23 as part of a series of talks between the two parties since February this year. It is due to the President Mahinda Rajapakshe who promised to implement a 13+ Political Package  before the last days  of Killing of LTTE and more than 40,000 Tamil Civilians by his Sinhale Army has now changed his mind. Currently the President Rajapakshe is not even going to implement the CURRENT constitution in full and he is considering ’13-’ political package as an eye wash to the world.

Racist Sinhale leaders in Sri Lanka are well known for lying to the Tamil Leaders and cheating the Tamils, and Rajapakshe family will not be an exceptional to follow racist policies of Sinhale leaders. Continue reading →

Defence Secy orders probe AGAINST HIS OWN MEN?

Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa directed Jaffna Army Commander Major General Mahinda Haturusinghe to inquire into an incident where a group of Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Parliamentarians was attacked by members of Army while attending a meeting.

Tamils in Jaffna who are under army control at the rate of one army to every 13 Tamils living in Jaffna feel that the members of the Army who attacked the Tamil MP’s in Jaffna cannot leave the area which has a check point in every junction in Jaffna hence the  Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa  is only fooling the western world by ordering an inquiry on his own men who attacked the Tamil MP’s. It is firmly belived that this order was an eye wash to the world and no one will be arrested or taken into custody by the Police or Army in Jaffna who are all Sinhalese. Continue reading →

When a group of UK Tamils with their Lawyers & Barrister went to see an immigration officer, to try to stop the deportation of these death sicken refugees, they were showed a list of Sri Lanka Tamils 63 people travelling in Sri Lankan Airline on the same day, our sibling were deported by a charter flight to Sri Lanka.

The officer questioned the Tamil group, if  the Tamils who came to this country as refugees now travelling with enthusiasm & desire to go to Sri Lanka, then why these people are here claiming refugee states? One reason for the desperate cry for compassion to stop, failed, was due to those very self-fish & arrogant Tamils who got their PR or citizenship stop thinking about others who faces the same dilemma & worse than them. Continue reading →

A United States Federal Court has issued summons on President Mahinda Rajapaksa in connection with three civil cases filed under the Hague Convention claiming monetary damages under US Torture Victims Protection Act (TVPA) over alleged extra-judicial killings, the Justice Ministry sources said.

The civil cases against the Sri Lankan President were filed in Washington DC and the petitioners were seeking US$30 million as damages on six counts of violating the TVPA.  The summons on the President have been served on the Justice Ministry Secretary who is the Sri Lankan Central Authority in accordance with the provisions of The Hague Convention, to which the US and Sri Lanka are signatories. Continue reading →

There are a lot of similarities in the situations experienced by the Israelis and Sri Lankans, (Palestians and Tamils are same!), Israel supports Killing of more than 40,000 Tamil Civilians by the Sri Lankan Army.

Israel believes Sri Lanka knows how to deal with UNSG Ban ki-Moon’s expert panel report on accountability issues in Sri Lanka, says outgoing Israeli Ambassador Mark Sofer. New Delhi-based Sofer, accredited to Colombo, says, “We have seen the report and we believe the government of Sri Lanka knows how to deal with it. We have discussed the issue with President Mahinda Rajapaksa.” Continue reading →

”At every meeting we have been waiting for the government to announce it response to the draft we had forwarded. But, each time we are told that the response would be announced at the next meeting” says TNA Parliamentarian M. A. Sumanthiran .

The Tamil National Alliance (TNA) left the sixth round of Bi-partisan talks, with the government yesterday, disappointed as the latter had once again not responded to its draft on devolution, TNA sources said. 

A TNA Parliamentarian who wished to remain anonymous said that if one were to use a popular but common Sinhala saying, “It has been a case of Balagiri Dosaya Adha Nevai Heta (a continuing case of postponement, not today, but tomorrow). Current Mahinda Rajapakshe government is known as a racist government who killed more than 40,000 Tamil CIVILIANS in may 2009 and killed LTTE Leaders who after negotiating with UN surrendered with white flag. The talks with the Tamil MP’s is made as an eye wash to avoid the War crime accusation on the government leaders. The UN looked away when the SL Government killed more than 40,000 Tamil civilians in May 2009 on the belief that President Mahinda will implement the promised 13+ amendment political package. But President Rajapakshe is a another Karunanithy of TN who is interested only in making money for his family members and promoting his son to be the next president of Sri Lanka. He will achieve this only by allying to the Sinhala extremist groups like JHU. Continue reading →

Our review of The Cage by Gordon Weiss elicited an interesting question. Under the monickerBurning_Issue, the comment asked for advice on how best to engage with the Rajapaksa regime, and what the (Tamil) diaspora should do two years after the war ended. The comment is worth reading in full, and the most pertinent section is as follows, Continue reading →

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The EU as a Global Actor

From the Inside Out: The Internal Development of the European Union and its Future Role in an Interdependent World

(Berlin, International Conference, July 7^th - 10^th, 2011)

Cultural Diplomacy in Europe

A Forum for Young Leaders (CDE)

(Berlin, Weeklong Seminar, July 4^th – 10^th 2011) Continue reading →

BBC Broadcasts today 17/05/11 22.35 pm Parameswaran Subramanyam hunger strike to highlight the civil war in Sri Lanka

Did the Sri Lankan government pay these papers to Write lies about the Hunger Stike?

Once hailed as a Hero in his community after he embarked on a lengthy hunger strike to highlight the civil war in Sri Lanka, he then went to Zero and even received death threats after two of Britain’s biggest tabloids said he’d faked it all by secretly eating burgers.

Legal documentary. A young Tamil refugee fights for his reputation despite having no money to do so after two of Britain’s biggest tabloids claim he faked a hunger strike.

This episode finds out how a young Tamil refugee is able to fight for his reputation despite having no money to do so. With the help of Britain’s biggest libel firm in his corner, we follow his fight back.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b011dl62/See_You_in_Court_Episode_6/

A Tamil Makkal Viduthalai Pullikal (TMVP) official said that Hundreds of Army surrounded the residence of the Chief Minister and searched his house for few hours. The official did not say if the officers had recovered anything but confirmed that Chief Minister Pillayan was under house arrest for few hours.

According to the TMVP official the party, which has been supporting the government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, will hold an urgent meeting (18th) tomorrow after the house of Eastern Province Chief Minister and TMVP leader Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan alias Pillayan was subjected to a sudden search this evening by Sinhala Army.

It is rumoured that all the TMVP  Councillors will resign at the meeting as a protest against the Sinhala government and Karuna group. Continue reading →

“We want the government to go beyond the 13th Amendment in the devolution of power” – Minister and EPDP Leader Douglas Devananda

”We will NOT even implement the current 13th amendment in the constitution” – President Mahinda Rajapakshe

Minister and EPDP Leader Douglas Devananda said he submitted his proposals to the government at a recent meeting. He said he had called for the full implementation of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution as an initial step in evolving a political solution, WHICH THE THE SINHALA GOVERNMENTS HAD NOT DONE SINCE 1987.

The Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakshe promised to implement ”13+ amendments to the constitution” before the killing of more  than 40,000 Tamil Civilians and LTTE Leaders who surrendered with white flag after UN negotiation in May 2009 to the world leaders. This kept the world leaders look away the killing of the Minirity civilians in thousands by the government forces. But as a racist Sinhala leader  he now refuses to even implement the current 13th amendment of the constitution and the the Chinese and Russian governments have promised their support to the racist president. Continue reading →

Sri Lankan external affairs minister GL Peiris is expected to reach New Delhi on Sunday evening to lobby top Indian government ministers and officials to help Sri Lankan government to cover up the killing of more than 40,000 Tamil civilians in May 2009 which is exposed in the report compiled by the UN Secretary General’s panel of experts on accountability in Sri Lanka.

SL President has asked Peiries NOT to talk about the Promised ’13+ Political package’ before the killing of the Tamil civilians as he has no intention of even implementing the current ’13th amentment’ of the constitution which gives some rights to the minority Tamils in Sri Lanka.

The Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakshe is known for talking and promising a political package since May 2009 but never delivered anything to Tamils to date. Continue reading →

Please find below draft email to send to your MEPs :

European Union Parliament Debate on Sri Lanka – Thursday 12th May

Dear All,

The European Union Parliament is holding a debate on “Sri Lanka: Follow-up to the UN Report” on Thursday 12^th May. It is important that as many MEPs attend the debate as possible to call for truth, justice and a proper process of accountability in Sri Lanka and to highlight the level of support within the EU for the recommendations of the Panel to be implemented.

Therefore, please find below a draft email that can be sent to your MEPs – Please forward to all your members and urge as many people as possible in the UK and EU to act as a matter of urgency to contact their MEPs before the emergency debate on Thursday. 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.