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 [...]
(by Rajan Philips-The Island)
Last week I highlighted three episodes as evidence of the dystopian state of Sri Lankan politics. There are many more but one in particular deserves dishonourable mention: the KP interviews. The serialized media interviews of T.S. Pathmanathan (KP) should raise the concern whether Tamil [...]
Mervin Silva is a elected member of Parliament and a Deputy Minister as well. He has a reputation of being in the news for the wrong reasons and the most recent one was tying up of a Samurdhi Officer (govt. employee) to a tree in front of his colleagues and the cameras, [...]
ALMOST one full year before the Tamil Tigers were crushed, a discerning Sri Lankan diplomat summed up, in simple prose, how, and in what circumstances, would the war in his country end. As he spoke to me from Geneva in June 2008, there was no doubt in Dayan Jayatilleka’s [...]
by John Stanton
“Sri Lanka has been a friend and democratic partner of the United States since gaining independence in 1948 and has supported U.S. military operations overseas such as during the first Gulf War. Commercial contacts go back to 1787, when New England sailors first anchored in Sri Lanka’s [...]
If you thought men’s sexual response is quite simple and their needs can be met easily, then you certainly need to revise your knowledge of the “birds and bees,” for men aren’t as simple as they are made out to be.
According to Fox News, here are 10 things that you didn’t [...]
Internally-displaced Tamils in Sri Lanka should be settled again in their original places, R. Sampanthan, leader of the parliamentary group of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) of Sri Lanka, said on Tuesday.
“This is the most important demand now in the absence of a political settlement,” Mr Sampanthan told reporters after [...]
by Babu G. Ranganathan
Not all prophecy in Scripture has been fulfilled yet but the second coming of Jesus Christ was totally fulfilled in the first century. The second coming of Christ had to do with the destruction of the Jewish Age and the establishment of Christ’s Kingdom.
Jesus said that some [...]
A striking facet of Gotabhaya Rajapaksa’s intriguing personality is the candour he displays in some media interviews. Instead of bluffing, sidestepping or trying to wriggle out of answering tricky questions the Defence secretary responds directly and fields them in a frank, forthright manner.
This characteristic was very much evident in the telephonic [...]
It is a happy augury that the recent visit of Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapakse to New Delhi — his first since the comprehensive military defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in May last year followed by impressive wins for Mr Rajapakse’s party in the Parliament election and his personal triumph for the [...]
It was heartening to hear President Mahinda Rajapakse identifying reconciliation and development as the priorities of his new government. However, it is crucial that both processes should unfold with the active involvement of Sri Lanka’s citizenry, rather than being imposed from above by an omnipotent state. We seem to already have [...]
The new M.I.A. video has stirred up some understandable controversy. Her political leanings come from what has happened in Sri Lanka’s civil war. She was born in the United Kingdom and then moved to Sri Lanka where her father became part of a group that was fighting the government. [...]
You knew President Obama was going to play golf when he was in Asheville, North Carolina, over the weekend, because he apparently does that literally (not literally) all the time. But surely you’re wondering what else went on. Well, the veil of secrecy has been lifted at last. The Obamas played some tennis, ate some [...]
Only two faces will be fresh faces in the new cabinet, while an SLFP founder member Mr DM Jayaratne, popularly known as “Dee Mu”, is tipped to be Sri Lanka’s next Prime Minister, political sources in Colombo revealed.
Basil Rajapakse who is also the brother of President Mahinda Rajapakse is proposed to [...]
