08/28/2011
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The Sunday Leader
A US embassy cable released by the Wikileaks website last week quotes a former US official in Colombo as saying that a group of doctors who were in the Wanni during the war, had been “coached” on what to say at a press briefing in Colombo after they were arrested.
08/28/2011
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The Sunday Leader
By KUSAL PERERA The largest number of detainees over the “grease devil” protests, is from Navanthurai, Jaffna. Over one hundred men were reported arrested on August 23, 2011. The time of the arrests was around 01.30 a.m, which is dead of the night, when devils, if any, usually roam. The rounding up operation of fast-sleeping men in their homes was by the military.
08/25/2011
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The Sunday Leader
The Sri Lanka Army has deployed more troops in Jaffna with additional foot and mobile patrols to assist the police in maintaining law and order in the area.
08/14/2011
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The Sunday Leader
By S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole As I enjoy a well-deserved rest in London, having fled there because of harassment and threat of arrest, TamilNet has issued a description of my travails with inaccuracies and the claim that I have fallen out with the President.
07/31/2011
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The Sunday Leader
“We hope that investigation and prosecution of this crime will now be expedited, and that there will be similar progress in resolving the many thousands of outstanding cases of disappearance in Sri Lanka,” the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said.
07/31/2011
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The Sunday Leader
The Sunday Leader is proudly Sri Lankan. As Lasantha Wickremetunge wrote in his posthumous editorial, “the Leader is there for you, be you Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim, low-caste, homosexual, dissident or disabled”.
This is the inclusive Sri Lanka in which we believe, and towards which we labor. The government may call us traitors, but it is they who betray this ideal.
07/24/2011
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The Sunday Leader
Dilan Perera, Minister for Foreign Employment Promotion and Welfare said that the age limit for domestic workers going to the Middle East will be raised to thirty within the next three years.
07/24/2011
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The Sunday Leader
In a very perceptive article in “The Sunday Leader” of 17 July 2011, Uvindu Kurukulasuriya has exposed the cosy and mutually profitable relationship that exists today between the highest levels of the executive and the judiciary.
However, he has prefaced his excellent analysis with an allegation that the politicisation of the judiciary in post-colonial Sri Lanka commenced under Justice Minister Felix Dias Bandaranaike “who invited judges to political parties and offered drinks”. It was also alleged that “that was only one method among many that Felix used to politicise the judiciary”. The author of the article attributed both these allegations to Mr.Walter Jayawardene Q.C.
07/24/2011
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The Sunday Leader
Houses and shops along Pamankada Road, Wellawatte were torn down in an attempt to widen the road. The occupants said they were given only a day’s notice before their houses were broken down. According to residents, even though they were paid Rs.125,000 per perch, they weren’t given enough time to move, or find a temporary residence, nor did the Government make any attempt to relocate them.