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– සිංහල – Two protests took place in Colombo yesterday with one demanding the abolishing of the increased electricity tariffs and one in support of the government. The protest organised by trade unions and people’s movement aligned with opposition political parties against the government was to show the disapproval over the newly implemented electricity tariff. Opposition leader Ranil Wickremesinghe, Tissa Attanayake, Sajith Premadasa, John …
Thursday, May 16, 2013 11:22 am,
by Eye Sri Lanka Editor
▶sinhala– සිංහල ▶english– Sri Lanka’s Minister of economic Development Basil Rajapaksa along with the High Commissioner of India in Colombo Ashok Kantha commissioned the reconstructed railway track from Medawachchiya to Madhu, and after a 27 years Sri Lankans can take train to the Madhu Church. The 43-kilometer Medawchchiya to Madhu segment of the 106 kilometer long Medawchchiya – Thalaimannar line was laid …
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 3:52 pm,
by Eye Sri Lanka Editor
Human Rights Commissioner of Sri Lanka Dr. Pradeepa Mahanama Hewa said that the Commonwealth Office agreed to provide technical assistance to upgrade the human rights situation in the country. Speaking to BBC Tamil the commissioner said the that representatives from the CHOGM are scheduled to visit Sri Lanka to hold national level investigations on human rights violations reported in the country. Mahanama said we held …
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 10:27 am,
by Eye Sri Lanka Editor
As I entered the premises of the famous Sencholai children’s home in the northern Sri Lankan district of Kilinochchi, a girl in her early twenties asked me in Tamil what I was doing there. My Sri Lankan friend told her that we were asked to come by Mr. Pathmanathan. While my friend was explaining to me that she was a rehabilitated ex-LTTE …
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 11:08 am,
by Eye Sri Lanka Editor
The United Nations (UN) headquarters says it is unaware of a letter being received from Muslim politician Azath Salley. UN spokesman Martin Nesirky, when asked by Inner City Press, about the letter raising concerns on threats faced by Muslims in Sri Lanka at the hands of Buddhist extremist groups, said that he will need to see if the letter was received. “We’ll have a look. I think, …
Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:28 am,
by Eye Sri Lanka Editor
FOUR years ago this week, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam announced that their struggle for an independent homeland in northern Sri Lanka had “reached its bitter end.” The group had been fighting on behalf of the Tamil people for more than a quarter-century, and its defeat was absolute. Today, great sections of Tamil country are still a scene of devastation. The houses are either …
Monday, May 13, 2013 9:16 am,
by Eye Sri Lanka Editor
▶englishEnglish▶sinhalaSinhala If there is one weapon that Kumaran Pathmanathan now says he has faith in, it is education. “If only I had taken education more seriously, I would have the ability to think and analyse issues independently,” he says, leaning back on his chair, at his office in Senchcholai Children Care Home –Kilinochchi. Arms procurement wing This is the man who headed the arms procurement wing …
Sunday, May 12, 2013 6:47 pm,
by Eye Sri Lanka Editor
UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson says the report on Sri Lanka on the UN actions during the final stages of the war was taken seriously. “I was asked by the Secretary-General, to head a group to look, go through the recommendations of the report, and above all, look forward to the future so that we avoid coming in such situations as we did in …
Sunday, May 12, 2013 7:44 am,
by Eye Sri Lanka Editor
The report (A/HRC/22/38/Add.1) of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, on advice and technical assistance for Sri Lanka, dated 11 February 2013, was widely appreciated. But many never realized that this report was the outcome of the Resolution passed on Sri Lanka in March 2012. In other words, without that resolution, the HCHR wouldn’t have had the authority to issue a special report on …
Saturday, May 11, 2013 9:43 am,
by Eye Sri Lanka Editor
Sri Lanka has cut its policy interest rate corridor by 50 basis points to 7.0 and 9.0 percent to boost credit, saying inflationary pressures were in check, amidst warnings by the International Monetary Fund to be careful.” The Central Bank said the economy seems to have developed a greater capacity to have high growth without fueling inflation and international commodity prices were also seen …
Friday, May 10, 2013 9:33 am,
by Eye Sri Lanka Editor
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