CaFFE Executive Director, Rajith Keerthi Tennakoon said Lanka e-news played an important role in disseminating news items and believed in the right to information to the people.

the streets as their right to information and the rights of the media were being suppressed. The organizations also alleged that the media had been attacked in January for the past two years and that this January was no exception.

Media organizations said several journalists had been killed and five media organizations set on fire but no action had been taken by the government.Chandana Sirimalwatte of the Media Against Suppression (MAS) said fingers were being pointed at the government and challenged it to prove if it was innocent by r

The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) has commenced processing the evidence it has received. "Now, we have entered the second phase of the process, that is to analyse thousands of written and verbal evidence submitted by the public", Media Consultant of the Commission Lakshman Wickramasinghe said.

"But this doesn’t mean the Commission has stopped public hearings. We will continue to hold public sittings as and when needed", he said.

The sensitivity with which GoSL is handling this transition is reflected in the decision by the Manila-based Gush Peace Prize Foundation, which recognizes exemplar contributions to peace and human rights, science, politics, arts and literature, medicine and other fields, who in November 2010 awarded the prestigious Gush Peace Prize for 2010 to Major General Mahinda Hathurusinghe, who has commanded the armed forces in Jaffna since January 2010 and overseen the transformation of the Army into a community building force, gaining the trust and t

The attack, in the wee hours of Monday Morning, on the Lankaenews office, in Malambe, came in for strong condemnation from the Campaign for Free and Fair Elections (CaFFE) and the Centre for Human Rights (CHR).

A statement from the two organizations, condemning the attack said the attack on Lankaenews office in Malambe, Sri Lanka on Monday morning, which destroyed property worth up to fifteen million rupees was the latest attack on media, right after the end of the Galle Literary Festival (GLF) when the attention of the whole world w

The News Editor of Lanka e News Bennet Rupasinghe charged that the attack was by a group not happy with the news reports of its website Lankaenews.com. “The incident took place at around 1.30 a.m. in the morning and we were informed by the residents in the area. There is a Devalaya right next to our office, who informed the police immediately,” he said.

“All the computers, telephones, fax machines and the two photocopiers were completely damaged due to the fire. We had a library with bo

A section of the Tamil Diaspora is stepping up pressure on Sri Lanka over alleged war crimes during Eelam war IV, in spite of Sri Lanka’s post-war national reconciliation efforts. Government sources say the Diaspora efforts receive the support of a section of the international community and some INGOs, which depend on ‘Western’ funds for their survival. (Read More)

The Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) yesterday said submissions would be accepted from the public only till January 31.

LLRC Coordinator, Lakshman Wickremasinghe said thereafter the commission would analyze the submissions within three months before May15, when the final report would be presented to the President.

“The LLRC will not accept submissions after the end of January unless the LLRC makes an exception,” Wickremasinghe said.