His Excellency Maiththreepala Sirisena, President, The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Presidential Secretariat, Colombo 01. Your Excellency, An Appeal Calling for Withdrawal of the Sri Lankan Co-sponsorship of UNHRC Resolution A/HRC/30/L. 29 that Make Unfounded War Crime Allegations against the Sri Lankan Armed Forces Your Excellency is already aware...
by Shamindra Ferdinando The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has assured that a report titled ‘A factual appraisal of the OISL report: A rebuttal to the allegations against the armed forces’, too, would be examined. Thomas Hunecke, human rights officer, Asia-Pacific section has...
by Gamini Gunawardane Rtd. Snr. DIG Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his recent Wesak visit to Sri Lanka had said among other things in his speech at the BMICH to celebrate the International Wesak Day, that “Whether it is on land or in the waters of Indian Ocean...
සිරිමන්ත රත්නසේකර දිස්ත්රික්ක 15 කට බලපෑ අධික වැසි සහිත කාලගුණ තත්ත්වය මත ඇතිවූ ගංවතුර, නායයැම් සහ වෙනත් අනතුරු හේතුවෙන් ඊයේ (31 වැනිදා) වනවිට පුද්ගලයන් දෙසීය තුන්දෙනකු මියගොස් තවත් පුද්ගලයන් අනූහය දෙනකු අතුරුදන්ව ඇතැයි ආපදා කළමනාකරණ මධ්යස්ථානයේ සහකාර අධ්යක්ෂ ප්රදීප් කොඩිප්පිලි මහතා ‘දිවයින’ ට පැවසීය. එසේම පුද්ගලයන් හැටතුන් දෙනකු තුවාල ලබා...
By H.L.D. Mahindapala Regurgitating the anti-Sinhala-Buddhist propaganda, first injected into the political mainstream by G. G. Ponnambalam, in 1939 at Navalapitiya, has been the forte of the one-eyed theoretician, H. L. Seneviratne. (HLS). He has made a career out of his “Sinhala-Buddhist World View”, to use his fanciful lingo, which...
By Neville Ladduwahetty In general, the two recognized approaches to reconciliation are: Retributive justice and Restorative justice. While retributivejustice involves the perpetrator and the victim, restorative justice involves the perpetrator, the victim, and the community. Furthermore, while retributive justice is punitive, meaning that by punishing the perpetrator the victim...
By Rear Admiral SarathWeerasekera VSV RWP USP The Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL), under the chairmanship of U R De Silva PC, has made some important decisions regarding attacks on the SL Judiciary by websites, social media and tabloids. According to the news Upul Jayasuriya PC, a former president...
His Excellency Maiththreepala Sirisena, President, The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, Presidential Secretariat, Colombo 01. Your Excellency, An Appeal Calling for Withdrawal of the Sri Lankan Co-sponsorship of UNHRC Resolution A/HRC/30/L. 29 that Make Unfounded War Crime Allegations against the Sri Lankan Armed Forces Your Excellency is already aware...
