A hate campaign has been launched using Facebook to target the participants of a vigil staged last week outside the Bodu Bala Sena office at Thunmulla.

The police and Bodu Bala Sena members had disrupted the vigil and a member of the Bodu Bala Sena was seen taking photographs of those present, including journalists.

The vigil last week was organized by a Facebook group calling itself ‘Buddhists Questioning Bodu Bala Sena’ and the aim was to campaign against hate speeches targeting any particular communit

We Bodu Bala Sena - a leading civil society movement fighting for rights of Buddhists in Sri Lanka would like to make the public aware that the UK Government Report and its specific note on Bodu Bala Sena is baseless. According to this report,"A nationalist group called the Bodu Bala Sena (Buddhist army) increased campaigns against religious minorities" First of all, we have to highlight that Bodu Bala Sena means Forces of Buddhist Power and it is not an Army as specified by them. Buddhist Power means power of intellectuals and

After a fourth hunger-striker was taken to hospital last night, the Australian Human  Rights Commissioner, Professor Gillian Triggs, has called for an end to the indefinite detention of refugees given adverse ASIO assessments.

“We are worried about this man. We have been told he has kidney problems. He has been very weak for a number of days,” said Tamil Refugee Council spokesman, Aran Mylvaganam.

Several men and women who were sleeping in the struggle pandal around the Lourdes’ Church, Idinthakarai, reported with great concern and panic that they noticed four masked men with sharp weapons loitering around at 11:45 pm on April 14, 2013. As we are trying to ascertain the details and enquiring about the identity and background of these men, we hear about a heavy drinking party going on right now in the outskirts of Idinthakarai with the blessings and financing of some notorious local body leaders and local police officers. The

Information has come to light of a threat against MTV and MBC Networks and journalists attached to the institution.

Accordingly, representatives of MTV and MBC lodged a complaint with the Slave Island Police on Tuesday.

Information has come to light that a certain group is plotting to launch an attack targeting MTV and MBC and journalists working there.

A group of Sri Lankan migrants have commenced a fast in Australia, demanding that they be released.

The group of Sri Lankans are those who traveiled by boat to Australia illegally and were housed at refugee camps after they were taken inte custody.

 
made inquires from the Sri Lakan High Commission in Australia, it said that the group of migrants had been engaged in the fast for several days.

The Government of Saudi Arabia has decided to repatriate the group of Sri Lankans who had been residing under the Sarbia Bridge in Jeddah, in batches of 25 each day.

The Foreign Employment Services Bureau says this decision was arrived at during discussions between officers at the Sri Lankan Consulate in Jeddah and Saudi authorities.

 

Faith can be a comfort and faith can be a cudgel. Faith has been and remains for many to be a wellspring of inspiration that can be used to check one's moral compass and to recharge one's internal resources the struggle for all people's human rights. It is also important to recognize that there is a long tradition of religion being misused to justify the systematic denial of people's human rights, or indeed their very humanness. We must always be vigilant in watching religion.

Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard says asylum seekers going on hunger strike won't succeed in pressuring the government to change its policies.

Gillard was commenting on a group of 27 asylum seekers on hunger strike at a Melbourne detention centre.

While the Immigration Department won't comment on why the detainees are on strike, it is believed they have been granted refugee status but have had their release into the community refused due to adverse Australian security assessments.

Government's hollow statements cannot conceal the truth regarding torching of 'Uthayan' newspaper press and the Director General of the Media Centre for National Security Lakshman Hulugalle, outfoxing the CID, has 'revealed' an important matter regarding the incident says the JVP in a press release regarding the torching of 'Uthayan' newspaper printing press.