09/03/2011
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The Hindu
Sri Lanka can initiate inquiries into allegations that have been levelled against its Army of war crimes in the final stages of the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam in 2009 only if it is provided specific instances with prima facie evidence, a parliamentarian from President Mahinda Rajapaksa's ruling alliance has said.
09/01/2011
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Daily Mirror
Adviser on Reconciliation to the President Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha refuted claims today that he had admitted to there being Army personnel involved in war crimes and that these persons would be investigated.
07/06/2011
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The Hindu
A prominent Sri Lankan political figure on Wednesday accused the British media of conducting a hostile campaign against the Sri Lanka Government singling out The Times and Channel 4 for what he described as their attempts to “falsify” facts.
05/04/2011
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Daily News
I was told yesterday by one of those NGO activists who had benefited hugely from foreign funding that several embassies were furious with me because of an article I had written about a meeting at the house of the American ambassador at which UN officials were present.
04/17/2011
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Sunday Observer
BY RAJIVA WIJESINHA I have now had an opportunity to read through what is supposed to be the Report of the Panel appointed by the UN Secretary General to advise him on what were termed accountability issued. The report has been leaked by the indefatigable Sanjana Hattotuwa, who does however note that he cannot confirm if this is the actual text. He adds that the UN has regretted the leak. (followed by http://groundviews.org/2011/04/17/government-mp-rajiva-wijesinha-clarifies-allegation-against-groundviews/)
04/15/2011
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The Sunday Leader
The BBC Sinhala Service, in asking for comments on the 2010 US Report on Human Rights in Sri Lanka, gave me little notice, and suggested I could just glance through the synopsis with which the report began. As it happened, I was able to look through some of the rest, which was good, because I discovered a mismatch between the introduction and the rest of the report. The former engaged in sharply critical generalisations, and predictably the introduction alone was used in The Sunday Leader. The rest of the report was more circumspect, and did not bear out the harsh generalisations.
07/19/2010
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Radio Australia, The Island
Interview of Prof Rajiva Wijesinha
by Matt Abud of Radio Australia
Regarding the Panel appointed by the UN Secretary General
06/18/2010
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The Economist
A COLLEAGUE in London reports a disturbing dinner conversation with a visiting Sri Lankan MP (Rajiva Wijesinha) and sometime spokesman for the government. His visit coincided with the publication of the Saville Report, a long-awaited and costly investigation into "Bloody Sunday", the British army's massacre of 13 people in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, in 1972.