Category: Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka – YOUNG LAWYERS ASSOCIATION DEMAND AN IMPARTIAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE  RESIGNATION OF THE MAGISTRATE OF MULLAITEEVU !

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The jurisdiction of the Mullaiteevu Magistrate has become a place of contentious judicial,  legal and political battle ground due to the Kurunthur Malai incident and the excavation of a  mass grave consisting of what appears to be the remains of LTTE carders. The Mullaiteevu  Magistrate’s Office has come under direct threat from Member of Parliament Sarath  Weerasekara who identified the Magistrate as a ‘Tamil’ Judge who is making orders inside a  ‘Sinhala Buddhist’ State. Despite condemning statements by the BASL and Lawyers’ Collective  and protests by Bars across the North…

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The political crisis of Sinhalese and Thileepan

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First and foremost, Thileepan is a LTTE soldier. The LTTE and Tamil nationalism (in its most regressive form) were represented by him. The many Sinhala literatures I am stumbling across these days have lost sight of the fact that he was a member of a death squad that killed Tamils who opposed the ideology of the LTTE brand of nationalism. His premediated suicide served as a political strategy that consequently laid the foundation for the suicide politics/culture of the Tamil Tigers. Thileepan, as a soldier, at no point embodied non-violent…

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“නිහඬ වූ පෙරළිකරුවෙකුගේ මාක්ස්වාදි පෙරැත්තය – ලීනස් ”

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ලීනස් ජයතිලක නම් අප්‍රමාණ මිනිසා අපෙන් සමුගෙන ගෙවුණු වසර දෙකක කාලයට පසුවත් ඔහු නැවත නැවත කියවිය යුතු මිනිසෙක් බව නැවත නැවත පසක් වේ. ලීනස් ජයතිලකගේ මෙහෙවර ගැන ලියවුණු “නිහඬ වූ පෙරළිකරුවෙකුගේ මාක්ස්වාදි පෙරැත්තය – ලීනස්” නම් ග්‍රන්ථය ඒ කියවීමට සඳහා ඉතා වැදගත් මූලාශ්‍රයකි. පොතේ සංස්කාරක සුසිල් හෙට්ටිආරච්චිය. කාදිනල් මැල්කම් රංජිත්, කඹුරුගමුවේ වජිර හිමි වැනි ආගමික නායකයින් මෙන්ම තරුණ, වැඩිහිටි, ස්ත්‍රී, පුරුෂ ක්‍රියාධරයින් රැසකගේ ලිපි මෙහි ඇතුළත්ය. මෙහි දැක්වෙන්නේ එම ග්‍රන්ථයට නොයෙල් පෙරේරා ලියු ලිපියකි. අල්තාරයේ මා දුටු වාමවාදී ලීනස් පුදැදුරු අපට ජීවිතයේ විවිධ මිනිස්සු මූණ ගැසෙති. ඔවුන් අතරෙන් අපගේ ජීවිත…

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UFL press release on the Inland Revenue Amendment Bill

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The President of the United Federation of Labour, Swasthika Arulingam, has filed a Special Determination Action on behalf of her Union challenging the constitutionality of the Inland Revenue Amendment Bill which was placed in the order paper of Parliament on the 8th August, 2023. The Petitioner has stated nearly half the account holders of the EPF funds do not even pay taxation while they are earning as some of their salaries are as low as Rs. 21,000. Hence the Parliament has no mandate to pass a legislation which would impose…

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Sri Lanka – චැනල් 4 වාර්තාව ගැන කාදිනල්තුමාගේ විශේෂ මාධ්‍ය හමුව ENGLISH\ SINHALA

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බ්‍රිතාන්‍යයේ බීබීසී 4 නාලිකාව විසින් ඊයේ රාත්‍රියේ විකාශනය කරන ලද වීඩියෝවක් මගින් හෙළිදරව් කර ඇත්තේ රාජපක්ෂ ආණ්ඩුවේ නිලධාරීන් 2019 පාස්කු ඉරුදින ශ්‍රී ලංකාව තුළ සිදු කරන ලද බෝම්බ ප්‍ර‍හාර වලට කෙළින්ම සම්බන්ධව සිටි බවයි. දේවස්ථාන 3 ක සහ සංචාරක හෝටල් 3 ක එකවර කරන ලද මෙම ප්‍රහාරය හේතුකොට ගෙන ජීවිත 269 ක් අහිමිවූ අතර තවත් 500 කට වැඩි පිරිසකට බරපතල තුවාල සිදුවිය. මෙම හෙළිදරව් කිරීම සම්බන්ධයෙන් ගරු මැල්කම් රංජිත් කාදිනල් හිමිපාණන් විසින් සිංහලෙන් හා ඉංග්‍රීසියෙන් කරන ලද විශේෂ මාධ්‍ය හමුව පහත වීඩියෝවෙන් දැක්වේ: A video broadcast by Britain’s BBC 4…

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சர்வதேச வலிந்து காணாமல் ஆக்கப்படோர் நாளில் மன்னாரில் மாபெரும் கவனயீர்ப்புப் போராட்டம்!

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சர்வதேச வலிந்து காணாமலாக்கப்பட்டோர் நாளினை முன்னிட்டு மாபெரும் கவனயீர்ப்பு பேரணி ஒன்று வடக்கு கிழக்கு வலிந்து காணாமல் ஆக்கப்பட்டோர்களின் உறவுகளின் சங்கத்தினரால் மன்னார் மாவட்டத்தில்  இன்று முன்னெடுக்கப்பட்டது. இப்போராட்டமானது மன்னார் மாவட்ட வலிந்து காணாமல் ஆக்கப்பட்டோர்களின் சங்கத்தின் தலைவி திருமதி மனுவல் உதயச்சந்திரா அவர்களின் தலைமையிலே இடம்பெற்றது. இதில் அம்பாரை, திருகோணமலை, வவுனியா, முல்லைத்தீவு, யாழ்ப்பாணம் ஆகிய மாவட்டங்களின் வலிந்து காணாமல் ஆக்கப்பட்டோரின் சங்கத்தின் தலைவிகள் நிருவாகிகள்,உறுப்பினர்கள் மற்றும் உறவுகள் கூட்டாக இணைந்து இந்த போராட்டத்தினை மிகவும் நேர்த்தியாக  முன்னெடுத்திருந்தனர். மன்னார் சதோச மனித புதைகுழியில் ஆரம்பமான குறித்த போராட்டம் மன்னார் சுற்று வட்ட பாதை ஊடாக தபாலகம் வைத்திய சாலை ஊடாக மன்னார் பொது விளையாட்டு மைதானத்தில் இறுதி நிகழ்வுடன் நிறைவடைந்தது. போராட்டதில் ஈடுபட்டவர்கள் கறுப்பு கொடிகளை ஏந்தி காணாமல் ஆக்கப்பட்ட பிள்ளைகளின் புகைப்படங்களை சுமந்து…

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