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Tamilnet (Free subscription) | yesterday
Expressing outrage over the murder of Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunge, Reporters sans frontières (RSF), a Paris-based media watchdog, in a press release issued today, said: "President Mahinda Rajapaksa, his associates and the government media are directly to blame because they incited hatred against him and allowed an outrageous level of impunity to develop as regards violence against the...
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Sri Lanka Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
President Mahinda Rajapakse and his team deserve a big bouquet of thanks from all patriotic Sri Lankans for saving the country by standing up to the LTTE and its allies. Prior to his election, the LTTE was not only bragging about a de facto Tamil Eelam but strutting around the Western Capitals as fully fledged ‘national’ leaders. The previous Sri Lankan political leadership and the Colombo’s...
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Dust In My Eyes (Free subscription) | 07/01/2009
Meanwhile, Tamil suspicion of the government in Colombo is unlikely to abate anytime soon. Mr. Rajapakse has shifted the official rhetoric away from ethnicity and toward counterterrorism, describing the current spell of victories as liberation of the Tamils from the clutches of “LTTE terrorists.” But the Sinhalese, who feel squeezed between their Tamil minority at home and the 60 million Tamils...
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Relief Web (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
... of Kilinochchi was greeted with jubilation in majority Sinhalese areas, with President Mahinda Rajapakse delivering a speech to the nation on January 2 that called on the LTTE to surrender their fight for an independent state. Rajapakse also vowed to crush the LTTE once and for all this year, defining 2009 as the 'Year of Victory'. The loss of Kilinochchi is a major symbolic defeat...
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 06/01/2009
Meanwhile, Tamil suspicion of the government in Colombo is unlikely to abate anytime soon. Mr. Rajapakse has shifted the official rhetoric away from ethnicity and toward counterterrorism, describing the current spell of victories as liberation of the Tamils from the clutches of "LTTE terrorists." But the Sinhalese, who feel squeezed between their Tamil minority at home and the 60 million Tamils...
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Tamilnet (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
The United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) government led by Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapakse is to table a motion seeking the extension of the State of Emergency for another month when the Sri Lanka's parliament meets on January 6 Tuesday. Since August 12, 2005 the country is being governed under the State of Emergency extended every month by the parliament, sources said.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse Friday hailed his troops' capturing of the Tamil Tiger headquarters in the island's north as "an unparalleled victory". The government troops wrested from rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) control the town of Kilinochchi, their former administrative headquarters, on Friday. "This was an unparalleled victory", Rajapakse told a gathering...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse on Jan. 1, 2009 effected a minor change to his Cabinet of Ministries, presidential officials told reporters. Rajapakse himself had taken over the functions of the Ministry of Media and Information by moving the incumbent Anura Yapa to the Ministry of Investment Promotion. Dr. Sarath Amunugama who held the Investment Promotion subject has been moved...
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Sri Lanka Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/01/2009
... states in the Third World, especially those led by nationalist leaders such as President Mahinda Rajapakse. In most parts of the world, these external forces and their successors have, over decades and even centuries, encouraged divisions and patronized this or that particularistic group, in order to prevent the consolidation of strong nation-states. This is, has been and will continue to...
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Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
The Sri Lankan army says it is advancing on the military headquarters of the Tamil Tiger rebels at Mullaitivu, a jungle district where the Tigers are said to have their main facilities. The assault comes a day after Sri Lankan troops captured Kilinochchi, the de facto political capital of the Tamil Tigers in the north of the island. President Mahinda Rajapakse called the army's capture of Kilinochchi...
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NHatky (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
... of the shrinking of major LTTE dominated areas,” he added.On Friday, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse confirmed the reports that Kilinochchi had been recaptured by the troops after 10 years. After confirming the “stunning blow to the LTTE”, Rajapakse gave a last chance to the rebels to surrender or else die. The victory followed days of heavy fighting.Exactly a year ago, Rajapaksa’s...
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Raw Story (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
Sri Lanka said Friday its troops had finally captured the unofficial capital of the Tamil Tigers and urged the rebels to lay down their arms and end their decades-old struggle for a separate homeland.But just hours after President Mahinda Rajapakse announced the news, a suspected Tiger suicide bomber attacked Sri Lanka's air force headquarters in Colombo, killing at least two airmen and injuring...
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Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
... Kilinochchi, the rebels' de facto political capital in the north of the island. President Mahinda Rajapakse called the army's capture of Kilinochchi an "unparalleled victory" and urged the rebels to lay down their arms. Two explosions have hit the Sri Lankan capital since the President's TV address. Three people were killed near Air Force headquarters in Colombo and three others were injured...
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Sri Lanka Guardian (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
“Then there were the several racial attacks on the Tamils and that too was another type of terrorism. Terrorism is an evil force and so is racism and whatever else that have streaks and strains of racial and religious intolerance ingrained in them.”by Victor Karunairajan(January 03, Toronto, Sri Lanka Guardian) The year 2009 has begun for Sri Lanka with the president, the Honourable Mahinda Rajapakse...
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Sri Lanka Guardian (Free subscription) | 03/01/2009
Immediately after the historic victory of the Sri Lankan forces Wickremesinghe rushed to the Daily Mirror and demanded that the petrol prices be reduced. Obviously, he was attempting to steal the thunder from the Mahinda Rajapakse. It is this kind of cheap politics to grab the headlines that makes him the mean-spirited political joker blaming sour grapes. Does he think that this a political...
