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Sri Lanka, Bank Ki-Moon Wants To Appoint Panel Of Experts

By Wasana Ekanayake

By Asoka Weerasinghe Mr. Ban Ki-Moon Secretary General of the United Nations New York, US Dear Secretary General: The word that has hit the print media is that you had announced your intention to appoint a panel of experts to advise the UN chief (you) on accountability issues related to Sri Lanka. Um .. You know what, Ban?  The pressures from... »

Catholic Justice Commission of Brisbane Archdioce’s

By Wasana Ekanayake

By Blaise Lowe The recent article by Peter Arndt on Sri Lanka is just another attempt by some ignorant Australian playing God just because he works for the Catholic Justice Commission.  It is strange to hear a Australian talking about human rights.  One has to only look to the Australian aborigines to see what human... »

UN Move Unjustifiable, Ban Ki Moon Comes Under Colonial Pressure

By Wasana Ekanayake

By Professor Laksiri Fernando A few days after the British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, addressed the World Tamil Forum in London and the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, talked to the same Forum delegates, on Friday March 5th, the Secretary General of the UN, Ban Ki Moon, telephoned Sri Lanka’s President, Mahinda Rajapaksa to tell... »

Blake, Miliband, Solheim – How Much Have You Been Paid To Harass My Motherland?

By Wasana Ekanayake

By Ranjit Wikcremeratne From the day our current President became the President of my motherland, you guys have been harassing our government and the people in various forms.  WHY?  There should be a reason, and that reason, I cannot understand. President Bush said many times that any country which harbors and supports terrorists or terrorism were... »

Sri Lanka’s North and East Are Not The Panama Canal, Madam Ambassador

By Wasana Ekanayake

By Hela Puwath WHY IS US EMBASSY (USAID) BUTTING IN TO TAMIL LAND OWNERSHIP ISSUES? Rebecca Cohn and Ambassador Butenis, why is the US Embassy (USAID) involved in Tamil land ownership issues? What business has the US in Sri Lanka’s land issues?   And why is the Sri Lanka government allowing the US to interfere in the internal... »

USAID Teaching Lanka How To Become An East Timor

By Wasana Ekanayake

By Hela Puwath Referencing an article which examines the U.S. Government taking Sri Lankan officials on land study tour to Timor-Leste. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is taking 13 government officials from central and provincial ministries on a 7-day study tour to learn how land ownership issues are being resolved in Timor-Leste... »

Exercise Your Patriotic Duty To The Nation

By Wasana Ekanayake

By A. A. M. Nizam The people of the country gave a mammoth victory to President Mahinda Rajapakse in the recent Presidential Election, defeating the conspiratorial anti-national elements brought together by the persuasion and financing of the international and Tamil diaspora rogues, expressing their gratitude for eradicating the terrorist menace from this country, and... »

Blake’s Sri Lanka Fixation

By Wasana Ekanayake

By Sugeeswara Senadhira Not a week passes without some absurdly critical comment by Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Robert Blake, on Sri Lanka. One could understand when Blake, as Ambassador to Sri Lanka, makes statement after statement on Sri Lankan issues, but there too, he has made more comments on local... »

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Sri Lanka Probe Army Officers Over Editor’s Murder

By Wasana Ekanayake

Sri Lankan police are to question dozens of military intelligence officers in connection with the internationally condemned assassination of a senior editor, a spokesman... »