Sri Lanka: Experts dismayed by regressive steps, call for renewed UN scrutiny and efforts to ensure accountability

(Lanka-e-News -08.Feb.2021, 7.45AM) UN human rights experts* have urged the Sri Lankan authorities to stop rolling back hard fought progress made in recent years on rebuilding democratic institutions, and to press for accountability for... Read more >>

Let's win the Geneva resolution to defeat the repression..! We demand the establishment of a field office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombo..!

Anubawananda writes

(Lanka-e-News -04.Feb.2021, 11.30PM) If Mahinda Rajapaksa would have won the presidential election, the imposition of international sanctions on Sri Lanka was a necessary step. If so it was the logical end of years of Rajapaksa rule. Fortunately,... Read more >>

King Kekille has not done what this comedy commission is doing -Karu

(Lanka-e-News -04,Feb.2021, 11.30PM) Mr. Karu Jayasuriya, chairman of the National Movement for a Just Society, said that the recommendations of the Presidential Commission to Investigate Political Revenge had not been made by King Kekille and... Read more >>

Sri Lanka: Justice Under Attack -HRW

UN Human Rights Council Should Pursue Accountability

(Lanka-e-News -02.Feb.2021, 1.45PM) Sri Lanka’s government is aggressively attacking efforts to hold officials to account for past grave abuses, Human Rights Watch said in a report released yesterday(01). The 93-page report, “Open Wounds and... Read more >>

The President's Easter Commission which released multitude of suspects and closed its operation is outrageous..!

An exposure by Russel Hewawasam

(Lanka-e-News- 01.Feb.2021, 8.15 PM) The series of horrific suicide bombings that took place in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, April 21st 2019, went down in history as the most serious and brutal attack happened in recent days in a country... Read more >>

Asset freezes..! Travel bans..! Universal jurisdiction.! Sri Lanka on alarming path towards recurrence of grave human rights violations - UN report

(Lanka-e-News- 29.Jan.2021, 10.30AM) A new UN report published on Wednesday (27) warns that the failure of Sri Lanka to address past violations has significantly heightened the risk of human rights violations being repeated. It highlights worrying trends Read more >>

A suspicious burnt body found inside a mosque alleged to be self immolated

(Lanka-e-News -23.Jan.2021, 11.30PM) A burnt body of a man who allegedly set himself on fire has been found at a mosque in Ratmalayaya, Mohammedia Masjid in Puttalam on 20th afternoon According to the reporter, the deceased was a 27-year-old man... Read more >>

SRI LANKA: Four years prison term for contempt of court violates the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission

(Lanka-e-News- 17.Jan.2021, 9.AM) A three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka found S. V. R. P. P. A. R. L. S. Alphonsu, known also as Ranjan Ramanayake, as guilty of having committed the offence of contempt of court and sentenced him to four ye Read more >>

Sri Lanka: A Return to Threats, Fear: Crackdown on Critics, Disregard for Accountability

A Statement by Human Rights Watch

(Lanka-e-News -13.Jan.2021, 11.30PM) Sri Lanka’s human rights situation has seriously deteriorated under the administration of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2021. Government security forces have increase Read more >>

CID director planning to kill Kosgoda Tharaka, shocking conspiracy exposed

An exposure by keerthi Rathayake

(Lanka-e-News - 06.Jan.2021, 11.00PM) "One country, one law" was an attractive slogan in Gotabaya's election campaign. But like other election promises made by Gotabaya, the 'One Country, One Law' pledge was blown away. There is no ruler in recent history Read more >>

Third monk brutally murdered while saffron robes demand the release of murderer Kudu Duminda..!

(Lanka-e-News - 06.Jan.2021, 11.30PM) A dweller monk has been abducted, brutally murdered and burned following Gotabaya Rajapaksa becoming the president. This is the third mysterious assassination of a monk in less than a year since Gotabaya became the pr Read more >>

The country is reaching a turning point in militarization..! Colonels above Government Agents..!

(Lanka-e-News - 03.Jan.2021, 8.30AM) President Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has appointed 25 Army officers above the government agent and District Chief Medical Officers who have no education or experience in medical or administration covering 25 districts of the Read more >>

The Muslim Council of Britain to launch legal action against Sri Lankan government’s ‘forced cremations’

(Lanka-e-News -30.Dec.2020, 9.20PM) “The ongoing ‘forced cremation’ policy by the Sri Lankan Government of COVID-19 deceased has included a 20-day old baby and over 100 Muslims according to a reliable source. In response to this, the Muslim Council of Bri Read more >>

Sarath Fonseka vs Sarath Weerasekara

By - Prof. D. A. Basnayaka

(Lanka-e-News -27.Dec.2020, 10.30PM) Recently Mr. Fonseka unwittingly found himself in a heated argument with Mr. Weerasekara in the parliament over a social media post, in which Mr. Weerasekara’s son can be seen saluting his father, who was recently offe Read more >>

Easter Commission is a 'Crime Sanctification Commission'..! A need of an international inquiry is essential..!

An exposure by Russel Hewawasam

(Lanka-e-News - 25.Dec.2020, 4.25 AM) With the connivance of the present government, the most fraudulent procrastination and the slow progress of the investigations of the brutal Easter attack has revived a new discourse within the masses following the e Read more >>

Attorney General Dappula and Solicitor General have inflicted corona to the highest echelons of the judiciary in the country including the Minister of Justice, the Chief Justice and judges..!

(Lanka-e-News -19.Dec.2020, 11.40AM) All Supreme Court Judges, including the Chief Justice, the Minister of Justice, the Attorney General himself and the upper echelons of the Attorney General's Department, are now at risk of contracting corona due to the Read more >>

Should we rally for the killer president’s demand or to chase the Rajapaksas? Lets learn from the Mahara prison massacre

Dharmawijaya writes

(Lanka-e-News -13.Dec.2020, 5.15PM) President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has called on the people to rally against corruption and fraud. He is the only powerful head of state in the world today. He came to power on the pretext of eradicating corruption, fraud and Read more >>

If the Secretary to the President can repeal the Acts of Parliament, why a Parliament? -Karu

(Lanka-e-News -10.Dec.2020, 5.30PM) If the Secretary to the President can repeal important bills passed in Parliament, why maintain a Parliament? Such incidents have never been reported in the history of Parliament. This is an insult to Parliament. Theref Read more >>

Families demand to know fate of relatives in Mahara Prison..!

Eyewitness report by a special correspondent

(Lanka-e-News 06.Dec.2020, 9.25PM) “Where is my son, where is my brother?” was the constant refrain of about 50 people gathered outside the Mahara prison on December 5, six days after the prison massacre that left 11 dead and more than 100 injured. Most o Read more >>

The dangers facing Tamils in Sri Lanka can be overcome..!

S. V. KIRUPAharan, France

(Lanka-e-News 05.Dec.2020, 5.15PM) Ever since the independence of then Ceylon from the British in 1948, the people of Tamil Eelam, whose homeland is the North East, have never succeeded in winning their political rights. No one can deny that the armed s Read more >>

Reveal the truth..! Commission investigating Easter attack has 13 most important questions to answer..!

(Lanka-e-News -03.Dec.2020, 12.40PM) The Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the suicide attack on several tourist hotels, including Catholic churches in Sri Lanka, on Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019, is examining evidence from various parties and indiv Read more >>

It is revealed that Mahara prison shooting was shot at inmates infected with Corona ..! Weerawansa confirms President's statement is false.! (Photo)

(Lanka-e-News -01.Dec.2020, 6.00PM) It has now been confirmed that Kovid-19 infected prisoners were shot inside the Mahara Prison on the orders of the government. This has been confirmed by the PCR tests done for the 105 inmates who were hospitalized afte Read more >>

Shani must be entered to the hospital but Shani was entered to to a detention center..! Gota plans to destruct Shani; Dappula don’t be bestial..!

By Chandrapradeep

(Lanka-e-News -26.Nov.2020, 2.00PM) Gotabhaya Rajapaksa has ordered to transfer the former CID director SSP Shani Abeysekera, to a quarantine camp run by the army, preventing to get entered to a hospital, when Shani was waiting to receive a second report Read more >>

Challenging impunity for crimes against media in Sri Lanka

(Lanka-e-News - 25.Nov.2020, 7.15PM) Dozens of journalists have been killed, abducted or have disappeared in the past two decades in Sri Lanka, with 2005-2010 being the most dangerous. According to Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka (JDS) 44 journalis Read more >>

It is not a crime to bribe voters with public money ..! Future elections i catastrophe ..! Lalith Anusha acquitted of the sil cloth distribution case

(Lanka-e-News - 20.Nov.2020,11.30PM) Sri Lanka judiciary gave an improbable verdict which completely destroyed the holding of free ad fair elections in future who it ruled out there is nothing wrong in giving bribe for voters on public money. The judgemen Read more >>

Ali Sabri's aunt dies of corona infection, Fake PCR report issued and buried..!

(Lanka-e-News -18.Nov.2020, 11.30PM) Ahmed Junaideen Fatima Nilusha, 83, a resident of 32 Borupana Road, Walagamba Mawatha, Ratmalana, died suddenly on Sunday, November 15th As soon the neighbours heard the news of her death it was informed to the... Read more >>

The government is going to rob the Colombo University premises; FUTA oppose

(Lanka-e-News -16.Nov.2020, 6.00PM) Gota's government is forcibly plundering acres of land belonging to the Colombo University. The Federation of University Teachers Association (FUTA) has issued a statement against it. It is in full below. FUTA Press R Read more >>

Why are politicians silent about Shani Abeysekara?

By A Special Correspondent

(Lanka-e-News -06.Nov.2020, 3.55AM) In the history of Sri Lanka, has a President or Prime Minister been taken by surprise with the CID or the police arresting powerful people? When was the first time it happened? It was on the morning in February 2018 tha Read more >>

Save Central Bank of SL and clean Colombo University bogus Economics Dept and cancel Emiritus Prof position given to robber WD Lakshman..!

Investigative Journalist Forum

(Lanka-e-News - 30.Oct.2020, 1.30AM) This investigative article says why WD Lakshman (WDL) considers as No.1 Robber, Criminal and deal maker, therefore, has to save SANASA campus from his hands before he destroys it (it already family and henchmen tree) a Read more >>

Here is Pompeo's Derana TV interview with many hints about who Sri Lanka should choose (Video)

(Lanka-e-News - 28.Oct.2020, 10.30PM) US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo landed in Sri Lanka last night. He left today after meeting the President Gotabhaya and Foreign Minister Dinesh of Sri Lanka. During this tight tour, he gave an interview only t Read more >>

This is the Statement issued by the Chinese Embassy in Colombo against the US Secretary of State's visit to Sri Lanka, leaving aside diplomatic ethics.

(Lanka-e-News - 28.Oct.2020, 11.00PM) When a friend comes to a person's house, it is a serious offense for others in the house to disrespect the friend. The Chinese Embassy in Colombo had made such a serious mistake by issuing the following statement when Read more >>

Diana Gomage was a dual citizen when she is sworn in..! Geetha's fate for her too ..! Here is the evidence with Diana's history !!

(Lanka-e-News- 26.Oct.2020.11.30PM) Lanka e News revealed that Diana Gomage, the National List MP who voted for the dictatorial 20, was a dual citizen when she was elected to Parliament, betraying the mandate of the people who voted for the Samagi Jana B Read more >>

Defeat the Attempt to hand over the Country’s administration to Dual Citizens; against the people’s will -Deshamanya Karu Jayasuriya

(Lanka-e-News -21.Oct.2020, 9.40PM) The attempt to reform the constitution to make it possible for those holding citizenship in other countries to make law and run the administration in Sri Lanka is deplorable. No person who is concerned about the securi Read more >>

Difficulties in following Sri Lankan airlines quarantine procedure..!

-Sri Lankan airlines crew

(Lanka-e-News -21.Oct.2020, 10.00PM) This email is to address the directives imposed on Sri Lankan airlines crew by the ministry of health in Sri Lanka, civil aviation authority of Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan airlines itself and difficulties faced by the crew a Read more >>

Corona vaccine would be released for the people with Christmas..! How millions of vaccines are produced ..!

By Chandrapradeep

(Lanka-e-News -19.Oct.2020, 11.30PM) Professor Jonathan Van-Tam, Deputy Chief Medical Officer of the National Health Service (NHS-UK), delighting the entire world announced, the vaccine against the Kovid 19 virus will be available to the public after Chr Read more >>

The Amarapura-Ramanna Samagri Maha Sangha Sabha made its position clear on the proposed 20 A (Video)

(Lanka-e-News -12.Oct.2020, 11.30PM) The Chief Incumbent of the Sri Lanka Amarapura - Ramanna Samagari Joint Sangha Sabha, which has 20,000 monks in 6,000 temples across the country, said at a media briefing today, thhe government must immediately repeal Read more >>

This time it is not the amendments that divide the people, but first let's reconcile all to the suppression of corona and secondly bring a new constitution with the support of all..! -Deshamanya Karu

(Lanka-e-News -10.Oct.2020, 10.30AM) First and foremost, work towards a non-divisive, all-party, integrated program to combat the corona virus. For that, it is not a constitutional amendment that divides the people, but first get the support of all partie Read more >>

Temporary Suspension of Consular Services at Foreign Ministry

(Lanka-e-News -10.Oct.2020, 9.35AM) The Foreign Ministry has decided to suspend all services offered by the Consular Affairs Division of the Ministry until further notice, to restrict the congregation of the general public and thereby to prevent the sprea Read more >>

Defend Constitutional Democracy in Sri Lanka: An Appeal to Parliamentarians of all Political Persuasions

By Dr Lionel Bopage

(Lanka-e-News -28-Sep.2020, 9.20PM) The Twentieth Amendment to the Constitution Bill introduced in Parliament early this week has drawn unprecedented opposition from various concerned citizens, intellectuals and civil society organisations. Even members a Read more >>

Two third Governments foolish and moronic lane track law.!!

(Lanka-e-News -18.Sep.2020, 9.30PM) The majority of the people in the country were devastated by the traffic congestion created by a strange new lane track law introduced by the Rajapaksa family government which made stupid destruction to its policy of tu Read more >>

UN Human Rights Council 45: Rita French's statement on behalf of the Sri Lanka Core Group

(Lanka-e-News -15.Sep.2020, 7.30PM) The UK's International Ambassador for Human Rights, Rita French, delivered this statement on behalf of Canada, Germany, North Macedonia, Montenegro and the UK, the Core Group on Sri Lanka.. Read more >>

20A: Four Key Ways in which Accountability is Compromised - TISL

(Lanka-e-News -10.Sep.2020, 9.30PM) ⋆ Operationality of RTI at risk ⋆ Removal of Audit Commission impairs monitoring of public spending ⋆ CIABOC’s investigative powers compromised Read more >>

20th Amendment at a glance..!

By A President Counselor

(Lanka-e-News- 04.Sep.2020, 9.25PM) ⋆ Basically, brings back 18A, except the reduction of the terms of President and parliament to five years, 2-term limit for the President and right to information ⋆ President appoints Ministers and deputies; not req Read more >>

How Sri Lanka suppress underworld for Deshabandu’s IGP dream

(Lanka-e-News -03.Sep.2020, 10.45PM) Since Gotabhaya took over the presidency, about seven people linked to the underworld and the drug mafia has been taken to the police station to show the infamous weapons and shot dead by unknown gunmen. Only God knows Read more >>

Sri Lanka: Changing the Constitution for the Benefit of All Its Residents

Dr Lionel Bopage

(Lanka-e-News -28.Aug.2020, 11.30PM) Sri Lanka is already deeply enmeshed with a crony economic system. As a consequence, businesses thrive not by managing risks, but by returns accumulated through nexus between the business and political classes. This is Read more >>

A country without a defense Minister..! -Dr. Nihal Jayawickrama

Discussed by Shalika Wimalasena

(Lanka-e-News -27.Aug.2020, 9.45PM) Once again there is no Defense Minister in the country. During and after the appointment of the Cabinet, the official government media reported that the defense ministry would be held by the President. But the gazette n Read more >>

Reforms must Strengthen Democracy -Karu

(Lanka-e-News- 23.Aug.2020, 11.30PM) It is my pleasure to send good wishes to the 9th Parliament that was declared open yesterday (August 20th). The new Parliament embodies the strong mandate given to the government. It is also welcome that more than a th Read more >>

The Island wide power outage on the 17th was a disruptive act

(Lanka-e-News -19.Aug.2020, 8.20PM) Lanka e news internal information service learns the 8-hour power outage that swept across the island on the 17th was the result of a sabotage operation. The sabotage has taken place in the... Read more >>

People in Sri Lanka are more prone to thugs..! A citizen’s note on election results..!

(Lanka-e-News -08.Aug.2020, 3.50PM) The people of Sri Lanka are amazing ! When we see the result of this election, we feel a fear of the future of Sri Lanka and the aspirations of the people. I wonder if the people... Read more >>

145 for pohottuwa..! easy two third win..! UNP wiped out..! Gnanasara too a Member of Parliament..! - Here is the final official result of the 2020 parliamentary election

(Lanka-e-News -07.Aug.2020, 11.30PM) The final official results of the parliamentary elections have been released. Accordingly, the People's Alliance alone has won the vast majority of 145 seats in the next Parliament, including the national list seats. T Read more >>

The number of injured Sri Lankans in the explosions in Beirut has increased

(Lanka-e-News - 07.Aug.2020, 11.00PM As of 06 August 2020, noon the number of injured Sri Lankans in the explosions in Beirut has increased to 10 persons whereas the total number injured has exceeded 5000 persons. The death toll has increased... Read more >>

Was only Rajapaksas’ responsible for the arrest of Shani Abeysekara ?

By Wishwamithra Deshabandu

(Lanka-e-News- 03.Aug.2020, 11.00PM) The entire good governance is fully responsible for the arrest and imprisonment of Shani Abeysekera by the Rajapaksa regime, which has begun its vicious cycle of revenge and witch hunt. In particular, Ranil Wickremesin Read more >>

Break the Vicious Cycle: Do Not Vote for Repression..!

By Dr Lionel Bopage

(Lanka-e-News- 03.Aug.2020, 11.20PM) Since independence in 1948, all Sri Lankan governments have presided over ever-increasing corrupt practices, failing to deliver a vibrant economy or a fair and just society. They have failed to improve the standard of Read more >>