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| Relatives have right to retain any lawyer to defend accused - Hemantha |
| 2011-11-30 |
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President’s Counsel Hemantha Warnakulasuriya told The Island that the accused was still seriously ill and was being treated abroad. "The documents produced in Court would show the seriousness of the injuries and as Duminda Silva cannot understand the contents of any document it is unimaginable that he could sign a letter giving sanction to anyone to appear for him. Duminda Silva’s relatives, aggrieved by the order making him a suspect, had the right to retain any counsel of their choice and before me another counse
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| UNP goes it alone to save SF |
| 2011-11-30 |
Having failed to secure the support of the Democratic National Alliance (DNA) and the JVP, the main opposition party, UNP has decided to go ahead with its campaign alone to pressure the government to release the imprisoned defeated presidential election candidate, General Sarath Fonseka.
In a brief interview with The Island, Deputy General Secretary of the party, parliamentarian Dr. Jayalath Jayawardena emphasised the UNP’s resolve to continue its struggle both here and abroad for Gen. Fonseka. The Gampaha District
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| National Anthem can be sung in Tamil: Vasudeva |
| 2011-11-23 |
Some government officers have decided to allow the national anthem to be sung only in Sinhala at a public function, despite the government’s decision not to introduce such a restriction in any part of the country, Parliament was informed yesterday
Minister of National Languages and Social Integration Vasudeva Nanayakkara who responded to an oral question raised by UNP MP Dayasiri Jayasekera in the House, said that instructions were
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| MR warns of post-war threats to national security |
| 2011-11-23 |
President Mahinda Rajapaksa on Tuesday (22) said that some of the self-styled human rights champions had the audacity to call the killing of hardcore LTTE terrorist Thamilselvan in a SriLanka Air Force raid an attack on the peace process.
Such criticism was part of their strategy to force Sri Lanka to call off its battle against LTTE terrorism, the President told the annual Convocation of Sir John Kotelawala Defence University (KDU) at Temple Trees, where the conferment of Bachelors
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| Mullaitivu LG elections on Dec. 31? |
| 2011-11-19 |
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Local Government elections for the two divisions in the Mullaitivu District where polls were not conducted would depend on the pace of the de-mining activities and the level of resettlement, the Elections Commissioner’s Department said.
LG elections were not conducted in the Puthukkudiyiruppu and Maritimapattu Divisions at the last local government elections in the North due to the delay in the resettlement process affected by the de-mining activities in the are
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| LLRC: Probe possible war-related incidents |
| 2011-11-19 |
The final report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) will ask the government to investigate incidents that may have occurred during the final stages of the war that militarily defeated the Tiger guerrillas two and half years ago.
This is on the grounds that there appears to be a prima facie case based on the information the commissioners have received. However, the commission has neither named the specific incidents nor identified the pers
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| Ranil on sex harrasment ‘charge’ – Dissidents’ document |
| 2011-11-19 |
The United National Party (UNP) dissidents have alleged that party leader Ranil Wickremesinghe has attempted to seduce several young male politicians to have homosexual relations with him, according to a ‘charge sheet’ handed over to the party’s general secretary Tissa Attanayake, last week.
Charge number 16 of the document refers to an alleged incident in which the UNP leader had tried to seduce Matara district UNP MP Buddhika Pathirana into ‘an illicit homosexual relationship with him.’
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| Show Us The Report |
| 2011-10-01 |
The Commonwealth Committee expects the report of the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) to be submitted at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, Australia later this month.
However the LLRC insists the report will only be made available next month as had been previously announced and a draft-copy will not be given before that.
Amitav Banerji, Director of Political Affairs at the Commonwealth Secretariat was quoted by PTI yesterday as saying that while the LLRC is expected to submit its repo
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| IDPs still in camps number 7,427 – Weerakoon |
| 2011-09-21 |
He assured Parliament that they would be resettled by December 31, this year.
Weerakoon said that the resettlement process had been delayed due to ongoing de-mining operations in the region. He emphasized the government’s commitment to resettle those displaced due to the conflict.
He said that those who remained to be resettled comprised 3,324 persons accommodated at the Kadirgamar Welfare Centre and 4,103 at the Ananda Koomaraswamy Welfare Centre.
The Minister was responding to a query by UNP Colombo Dist
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| HRC to probe why SF’s party was rejected |
| 2011-09-15 |
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The Human Rights Commission (HRC) of Sri Lanka is inquiring into why the registration of former Army Commander Sarath Fonseka’s political party known as the ‘Democratic Party’ was rejected, antha Ketagoda said yesterday.
The Elections Secretariat had refused the registration citing that it had not fulfilled the required criteria for recognition as a political party.
Subsequently, the party activists lodged a complaint with the HRC on the grounds that Mr. Fonseka’s civil and political rights had been
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