Sri Lanka’s parliament will vote Wednesday on constitutional reforms enabling President Mahinda Rajapakse to seek a third term, in changes critics say point to the country’s slide into autocracy.
Under the proposed amendments, the two-term limit will be scrapped, allowing the populist Rajapakse, who was resoundingly re-elected for the second time [...]
The 18th Amendment will fundamentally transform Sri Lanka’s political system, stripping away the façade of democracy. The 18th Amendment will end presidential term limits, eliminate the Constitutional Council, increase the Executive’s control over appointments, and give the President the power to regularly attend and address Parliament. Its effect will be to remove vital checks on [...]
Paving the way for the current President Mahinda Rajapaksa to seek reelection for a third term, Sri Lanka`s apex court has ruled that the proposed constitutional amendments are consistent with the country`s Constitution and can be approved with a two-third majority in the parliament , the Speaker announced today to the [...]
Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper. He has threatened to seek a change in the law to deal with further refugees. Photograph: Adrian Wyld/APThe arrival off the west coast of Canada of a rusty boat containing nearly 500 exhausted Sri Lankan Tamil asylum seekers has sparked an angry debate about racism [...]
The detained LTTE arms smuggler and international funds manager, Kumaran Pathmanathan alias KP, has appealed to Tamil Nadu politicians to “refrain from idle rhetoric and instead help Tamils in Sri Lanka to live in harmony and prosperity with others.”
In a phone interview to DBS Jeyaraj published in Daily Mirror on Saturday, KP said: “We need [...]
Sri Lanka’s three senior batsmen stepped up their game in front of a clamorous full house in Dambulla to end their four-tournament losing streak at home to India. Tillakaratne Dilshan will grab the headlines for his maiden century in Sri Lanka, which he celebrated by running halfway to the dressing room and pointing to his [...]
RIYADH: The Sri Lankan Embassy received on Saturday the medical report regarding the Sri Lankan housemaid who was found with 24 nails and needles embedded in her legs, arms, hands and forehead, allegedly pushed into her body by the Saudi couple she worked for as a method of punishment.
A video [...]
A senior Sri Lankan minister is heading to New Delhi on Tuesday to meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other Indian officials during a two-day visit.
Economic Development minister Basil Rajapaksa, who is also President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s brother, is expected to apprise Singh about developments in the war-ravaged northern districts of Sri [...]
“KP”SPEAKS OUT -1: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE FORMER TIGER CHIEF
KP SPEAKS OUT -2: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE FORMER LTTE CHIEF
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Source : dailymirror.lk
Q: What happened finally to your plan of rescuing Prabhakaran and his family by helicopter? Why did the plan not take off?
It’s a very sad story
After Prabhakaran’s son Charles Anthony [...]
“KP”SPEAKS OUT: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE FORMER TIGER CHIEF
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Q:So how did the return occur? How and why did you re-join the movement?What was your role during the last days of the war?
That’s another long story.
I was now out of the movement and leading a quiet life in Thailand with [...]
(Source – Dailymirror.lk)
It was one year ago on August 5, 2009 that Thambiaiya Selvarasa Pathmanathan alias “KP” was taken into custody in Kuala Lumpur at First Tune Hotel on 316 Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman road.The former chief arms procurer of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) was brought to Colombo the [...]
Sri Lankan exporters braced for hard times as the EU’s withdrawal of import concessions took effect Sunday after Colombo’s refusal to allow scrutiny of its human rights record.
Sri Lanka has long been a preferred source for top high streets brands and its garment, china and other exports enjoyed lower European Union [...]
On July 21 the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth published an interview with Donald Perera, Sri Lanka’s ambassador to Israel. Perera, the former Sri Lankan Air Force commander and Chief of Defence Staff, thanked Israel profusely for its support in the fight against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), saying: “For years Israel has aided [...]
Canadian officials have said that hundreds of Sri Lankan asylum seekers who arrived in the country after three months at sea are in good condition despite their gruelling voyage.
At least 450 Tamil migrants reached British Columbia on the Thai-flagged MV Sun Sea cargo ship, in a human smuggling operation possibly organised by Sri Lanka’s [...]
