“Muammar is leader of the revolution until the end of time…. When they (the protestors) are caught they will beg for mercy, but we will not be merciful.” — Muammar Gaddafi (Address to the Nation – 22.2.2011)

January 18, 2011, Parliamentarian Namal Rajapaksa, eldest son of President Rajapaksa (‘The Universally-Renowned Lord of the Three-Sinhala Lands’), met […]

Is there more to the sudden death of 40 year old Pitchai Jesudasan, the main suspect in the Lasantha Wickrematunge murder case?
Lasantha’s wife calls for inquiry
Lasantha’s wife Sonali Samarasinghe Wickrematunge told this correspondent there appeared at first glance to be some kind of cover up in keeping with the rest of the botched investigation that […]

A little more than a year after the United States took its seat for the first time as a member of the United Nations Human Rights Council, debates
persist over whether it should have continued the Bush administration’s policy of disengaging from the UN’s primary human rights body. This debate largely revolves around the issue of […]

“Neither President Rajapakse nor I on his behalf will answer questions on war crimes, Director of the Presidential Media Unit told Lanka Standard today. The defiance from the Presidential Secretariat came
when Lanka Standard asked the President’s spokesperson how the President reacts to the new order by the US District Court on alternative service of summons.
Slammed […]

OCTOBER 18, 2011: War-torn island’s former navy chief is named by witnesses in documents filed in Perth
Police in Australia are examining a so-called “war crimes” dossier of information that claims to confirm Sri Lankan forces bombed and shelled civilians during the country’s civil war.
And activists have called on the Australian authorities to make use of […]

REPORT FROM UNHRC IN GENEVA SEPTEMBER 2011 SESSIONS: As far as the UN Human Rights Council-HRC and Sri Lanka are concerned, the 18th session is historic. The President of this session is the Ambassador of Uruguay, Ms Laura Dupuy Lasserre.
Same speech each time
Since the HRC was established in 2006, the Minister of Plantations of Sri […]

Police are circulating the attached form in Jaffna with instructions to fill and hand over to the Grama Sevaka by tomorrow October 18,2011. The image of the form attached is the one that was delivered at a home in Nallur. This was usually done under the under Emergency Regulations. However the government disingenuously allowed the […]

While the whole nation was shocked by the multiple killings at Mulleriyawa, another set of gruesome murders have been reported from Puhulyaya, Panahakaduwa, in Udawalawe. A father M K Lalith (37), mother R Indrani Gnanalatha (32), son M K Dilan Chathuranga (12), daughter M K Nadeeka Sevuwandi (8) were killed due to a shooting which, […]

‘The function of a leader is to make his people free of fear’ – Pundit Nehru in Discovery of India
This column dedicated to the notion of making Sri Lanka the Wonder of Asia turns its spotlight today on another malpractice: Political Violence and Fear Psychosis, that is affecting the aspirations of Sri Lankan society to live […]

‘There is reason for fearing that men and women will be taught that dishonesty, if it can become splendid, will cease to be abominable’– Anthony Trollope in his Autobigraphy (1883)
The famous English Novelist, Anthony Trollope wrote the above words after he was disgusted by what he perceived as a decline of ethical values in
British public life […]