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Country must expose UNHRC’s double standards - Prelate Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.) The Mahanayake of Asgiri Chapter Most Ven. Warakagoda Sri Gnanaratana Thera stated that the whole country should rally against the resolution passed by the Geneva Human Rights Council against Sri Lanka, irrespective of party affiliations. He also said that if we are not united as a country at this critical juncture, the forces against us will benefit. The Mahanayake Thera made this statement ...

Intense focus on two key events Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.) The Government is focusing this week on two key events that are likely to be in the news for some time to come because of their potential political fallout - the Easter Sunday terrorist attacks in 2019 and the Resolution passed on Sri Lanka at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) sessions last week. The Easter Sunday attacks have been the subject of much discussion of late because the Presidential Commissi...

news Geneva Issue – the Way Forward Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.) Power revolves around in a nation’s foreign policy and how you conduct it with the rest of the world. Nations have given top priority to economic diplomacy and foreign relations and policy is based on your economies and political conduct and how you conduct and manage your economics. They need to verify your balance sheet and any economic benefits one could derive from you. The era is gone when the goodwill i...

Right Honourable Prime Minister, Canada’s efforts to prevent the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict is greatly appreciated. Your statement on the 12th of February 2021 reaffirming Canada’s commitment to draw attention to this inhumane practice with the longstanding intent of ending such conscription along with nearly 100 UN Member States endorsing the Vancouver Principles on ‘Peacekeeping and the Prevention of  the Recruitment and Use of Child Soldiers’ is most commend...

Posted on February 18th, 2021 C. Wijeyawikcrema, LL.B., Ph.D. Introduction Lemkin who lost 49 family members to the Holocaust coined the term Genocide in 1943/4. Applying his definition to past events, the first genocide took place in USA when, white man distributed blankets soaked with smallpox germs to native Americans (Red Indians). Perhaps, even before that in 1818 and 1848 genocide took place in the British colony, Ceylon. Genocide is primarily a European-Christian...

By Shamindra Ferdinando The British government has sidestepped a query on the UK accommodating a group of LTTE cadres responsible for international crimes. Global Justice Forum (GJF) representing civil society groups based in UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand-all member States of the Commonwealth, in addition to Israel, UAE and Switzerland has raised the continuing presence of those responsible for terrorism receiving privilege status at a time the UK was pushing for new resolution in respe...

In my article, published in The Island on 02.02.2021, ‘UNHRC: Truth and Reconciliation and the Tamil parties,’ I suggested that the government should, as the first step towards Truth and Reconciliation, ‘hold the TNA and the other Tamil political groups, that have an Eelam as their agenda, accountable. Let them be brought to justice for […]

Posted by Administrator on by D.B.S.Jeyaraj Anton Stanislaus Balasingham the political strategist of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam(LTTE) and political adviser to tiger leader Veluppillai Prabhakaran died 14 years ago in his South London residence, His death was not unexpected as it was known, the doctors had given him four to six weeks to live. Bala ‘Annai’ (elder brother) as he was generally known among Tamils was diagnosed with bile duct cancer , a rare and aggressive malign...

HomeOpinionLTTE Political Strategist Anton Stanislaus Balasingham LTTE Political Strategist Anton Stanislaus Balasingham 12 December 2020 01:17 am - 0     We had talked for about 15 to 20 minutes when Balasingham began coughing ceaselessly. He could not continue further and we had to end our talk. I was extremely saddened by the conversation as I could see that intensification of the war was going to be inevitable. Such escalation could only result in large scale deaths, displacement a...