World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) Religious Liberty Commission (RLC), which is a network of churches in 129 countries, in a Research and Analysis report issued on Monday observed that Sri Lanka appears to be seeking to establish social and political supremacy of the Sinhala Buddhist majority within a unitary state, in the post-war resurgence of Sihala Buddhist nationalism that no longer threatens ...

The ongoing debate on the S13, the proposed amendments and the impending Northern Provincial elections keeps throwing mildly amusing and totally ineffective arguments, concerns and complaints by the proponents of creating a Tamil “reservation” as the means to reconciliation and ethnic harmony in Sri Lanka.

Colombo, June 17 : The Tamil Tiger rebel front organisations are still operating in Germany under the guise of community organisations, the Sri Lankan external affairs ministry claimed Monday.

Colombo, June 17 (IANS) The Tamil Tiger rebel front organisations are still operating in Germany under the guise of community organisations, the Sri Lankan external affairs ministry claimed Monday.

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse pledged yesterday to proceed with the first-ever provincial polls in the island’s [...]

Sinhala officials attached to Sri Lanka's Department of Forest Conservation, which comes under the SL Ministry of Environment and Renewable Energy, have surveyed this weekend two traditional Tamil villages in the Thirukkoayil DS division of Ampaa'rai district, in a move to plant trees in the lands that belong to uprooted Eezham Tamils, who have not been allowed to resettle in the villages of ...

Sri Lankan Army soldiers stand at attention near the Sri Lanka's national flag as it is lowered as part of a daily ceremony at Galle Face Green, a promenade in Colombo in this June 4, 2013 file photo.

Hundreds of Tamil refugees, including several hundreds who have been declared as "Mandate" refugees by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in compliance with the UNHCR Charter and associated statutes, are languishing in camps in East Asian countries, and recently in Dubai, while Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Netherlands, the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway ...

Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) – a Buddhist organisation many wish to call as Right or Ultra Right – is a new phenomenon in Sri Lanka. One may prefer to brand them in any manner one would like to.

The stylish and successful cricket team are heroes to some but others feel they should not be here at all Kumar Sangakkara slipped into a smile, as smooth and easy as the shots he had played in the middle. For him the awkward question, which would have been uncomfortable for any other Sri Lankan player, was just another half-volley. "As a group of players from Sri Lanka we represent every Sri ...

Government to appoint a parliament committee to suggest trimming powers of provincial councils

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse pledged Sunday to proceed with the first-ever provincial polls in the island’s former war zone but his government said the powers of the elected council will be clipped.

A six member delegation representing the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) — an umbrella organisation of various Tamil political parties in Sri Lanka — will leave for India on Sunday, to meet the Prime...

Tamil activist, film director and actor P Manivannan has passed away due to cardiac arrest at his residence on Saturday. He was 59. Mr Manivannan has directed nearly 50 films. He has also made a mark in acting Tamil cinema by playing sharp character roles having shades of comedy and political sarcasm in more than 400 films. Director Manivannan took an active role of an artist in expressing ...

The Sri Lankan minority opposition Tamil political party is heading to India for talks with the Indian government on the latest political developments in the island, the political party said on Saturday.

Aiming at totally bankrupting the Tamil farmers of Koa'raippattu South (Kiraan) division in Batticaloa district, the occupying Sri Lankan military, which schemes Sinhalicisaton and colonisation of the pasturelands in the division, now demand 3,000 rupees per 10 cattle from the Tamil farmers. The Kappan military of Sri Lanka has instructed the Tamil farm-owners to pay the money before 25th of ...

Tamil Eelam today is a crucible of excess of power - Lankan President with unchecked executive power, the very heavy presence of his military in Tamil Eelam and the Prevention of Terrorism Act still in place almost four years after the defeat of the LTTE, says the latest Human Rights report issued by the North East Secretariat on Human Rights (NESoHR). The leading human rights groups are hoping ...

The SL government move to construct a Buddhist temple adjacent to the Saiva-Vedda, Murukan temple at the Ukanthai hill sanctuary is now abandoned after heavy protests by Tamils in Ampaarai district of Eastern Province, but Sinhalicisation of the place continues unabated following the model of another Tamil village Paanama, 16 km south of Ukanthai that is now dominated by Sinhalese, news sources ...

On July 29, 2013 the 25th year of the signing of the Indo-Lanka Peace Accord will be marked. What did it achieve and what it did not is as important as deciding where do we in Sri Lanka want to take the Accord and the 13th Amendment, both imported and forced upon Sri Lanka.

Special Relationship with India Will Be Maintained By Independent Tamil State In the Island of Sri Lanka: TGTE