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| University dons signal restart of agitation |
| 2013-03-01 |
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FUTA President Dr. Nirmal Ranjith Dewasiri addresses yesterday’s media briefing at the Colombo University. He is flanked by FUTA Assistant Secretary Dr. Harini Amarasuriya and Vice President of the Open University Teachers’ Association B. D. Witharana . Pic by Nimal Dayaratne
University teachers yesterday warned that they would have to resume their agitation for more funds for the education sector, claiming that the entire sector was in a mess.
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| Doctoring pictures |
| 2013-01-01 |
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Stars happened to be eclipsed at this year’s Oscars ceremony. US First Lady Michelle Obama stole the show with her stunning appearance at the star-studded event to announce the Oscar for the best picture, Argo. She looked, as usual, gorgeous, flashing as she did a disarming smile, in a shoulderless dress which outshone all others’. Not even the Iranians with a visceral antipathy towards anything American could ignore her though they obviously did not take kindly to Argo, based on a true-life, CIA-assisted operation to rescue
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| Pursuing social justice in the Age of Neo-Liberalism |
| 2013-03-01 |
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The Arab Spring and the global ‘Occupy Protests’ are clear examples of growing dissent over spiraling inequalities
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s message marking World Day of Social Justice on February 20 underscores a defining challenge of our times: “As we seek to build the world we want, let us intensify our efforts to achieve a more inclusive, equitable and sustainable development path built on dialogue, transparency and social justice.”
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| Ranil’s ‘path’ and the ‘thorns’ on it |
| 2013-03-01 |
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Ranil Wickremesinghe seems to be following his uncle, marking time while trying to quell rebellions within his party
One of my friends recently met a member of a visiting Australian opposition delegation. Discussing matters of mutual interests, the foreigner had informed my friend that a prominent stalwart of the United National Party had submitted a dossier on alleged abductions and disappearances of journalists in Sri Lanka. The stalwart had further stressed that steps would be taken to raise the matter in relevant international
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| The fog of War |
| 2013-01-01 |
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In this Friday, Feb. 22, 2013 photo, Zoe Sale, producer of the documentary "No Fire Zone" which shows the last violent days of the Sri Lankan civil war, watches a screening of the film in New Delhi, India. The documentary, which accuses Sri Lanka of committing war crimes is part of a growing campaign of pressure on the South Asian nation over its conduct during the war. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
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| ‘Ethnic animosities’ – whose handiwork? |
| 2013-03-01 |
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Apparently, ‘discourse’ in Sri Lanka on what has come to be characterized as the National Question is continuing to be bedeviled by issues in Historiography. If greater clarity is to be achieved in our understanding of the ‘conflict’ in this country, there needs to be objective, impartial, factual and unemotional commentary and writing on the issues at the heart of this country’s ethnic relations, which make-up a good part of the substance that constitutes our ‘conflict.’
While commun
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| US ‘disappointed’ with SL - Blake |
| 2013-02-28 |
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US Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Robert Blake said the US was ‘disappointed’ about Sri Lanka’s failure to address several issues including the implementation of the LLRC action plan.
Mr. Blake told the US House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific on Tuesday that, “I must say progress thus far on implementing the LLRC action plan has been slow and we’ve been disappointed as you say that the government has not proceeded so far with elec
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| Diplomat rejects claims Sri Lanka forces rape Tamil detainees |
| 2013-02-28 |
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Sri Lankan soldiers on guard near Dharmapuran Photo: Rights groups say up to 40,000 civilians were killed by security forces in the final months of an offensive that ended in May 2009. (Nir
Sri Lanka's top diplomat in Australia has rejected claims the Sri Lankan Government is using rape and sexual assault as a way of extricating confessions from suspected Tamil Tiger sympathisers.
A Human Rights Watch report has detailed what it says is widespread rape and torture by Sri Lankan security forces.
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| Sri Lankan Army Rebuts Rape Charges in HRW Report |
| 2013-02-28 |
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Sri Lanka today dismissed as "fabricated lies", a report by a leading rights group alleging that its military used rape and other forms of sexual violence to torture suspected Tamil rebels since the end of the island's civil war in 2009.
The 141-page report by New York-based Human Rights Watch titled "We will teach you a lesson" has provided details of 75 cases of alleged rape and sexual abuse by Sri Lankan troops during the final military battle with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
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| Fonseka warns UN will probe war in Lanka |
| 2013-02-28 |
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Former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka has warned that the United Nations (UN) is expected to introduce some regulations soon through which a delegation will be able to come to Sri Lanka even without visas to investigate the incidents which took place during the war.
He said that the European Parliament has already said that allegations of war crimes which took place in Sri Lanka should be investigated through an international body.
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