This is what Fox History mentioned about the LTTE in the new program they are telecasting on International Terrorism “The Tamil Tigers are one of the deadliest and most ruthless terrorists organisations the world has ever known. Since embarking on their campaign of violence in the early 1980s, they have killed almost 60,000 people – more than the rest of the world’s terrorist organisations...

This is what I searched today on Google when I heard it on the Radio. Surprisingly it was true as the Daily Mirror had an article. Either Minister Dulles is promising this to gain votes for the party before the election or if it is indeed true us Colombo dwellers can hope to live trouble free as all the politicians might move to the new capital! “Built over two hundred years ago the city of Colombo...

An interesting viewpoint, which I thought might set the stage for a few comments!!! Is THIS what it is REALLY then, this whole issue of the IDP’s in camps? Silly me, and I was actually naïve enough to think that BOTH SIDES were actually discussing the pro’s and con’s of WHY the IDP’s couldn’t be re-located to their natural residences soon. Could it REALLY be that, IN FACT, what we (the Majority)...

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Sad as this seems it sounded funny as UK has been putting Sri Lanka under fire. Article from the Guardian Yarl's Wood: strongly criticised by the children's commissioner for England. Photograph: Dan Chung Ministers were facing accusations today that hundreds of children are being held unnecessarily in immigration detention centres as official figures revealed, for the first time, that 470...

Over the past few weeks many stories have been circulating and questions asked about the 14 year old girl who died at Museaus College, Colombo. Please pass this to all friends as nothing is worth the loss of a 14 year old…. I received this email written by Farah Azoor Tennakoon who is friend of the family. My name is Farah Azoor Tennakoon, the best friend of Mrs. Sandhya Jayawardene, the mother...

When I read this headline today I thought it was something to do with the aftermath of war. But it was about the plight of two baby elephants in Pinnawala. “The army and the police were deployed to tear two tiny baby elephants from their protesting mothers at the behest of Minister of Sports and Recreation Gamini Lokuge, who granted Diyawadane Nilame Nilanga Dela`s wish that the little jumbos...

Sri Lanka’s soon-to-be-ex-Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva took time off from his busy schedule of sipping martinis, getting up the Americans’ noses, and fighting on the Western Front, to have a little chat with us. This is his first interview since the Foreign Ministry announced that he has been recalled from Geneva, effective August 20th. http://blacklightarrow.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/out-in-the-wilderness-dayan-jayatilleka-on-pleading-the-13th-being-a-hippy-and-getting-sacked-by-boggles/