12/13/2010
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BBC
A Tamil minister in the Sri Lankan cabinet denies reports that the Tamil version of the national anthem has been abolished.
12/12/2010
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NDTV
Colombo: In a move likely to further alienate the ethnic Tamils in the country, Sri Lanka has scrapped the Tamil version of its national anthem at official and state functions. Now the national anthem can only be rendered in the majority Sinhala language at official functions.
12/12/2010
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Hindustan Times
The Sri Lankan cabinet has mandated the Sinhala version of the national anthem instead of a Tamil version used in some parts of the country, a media report said. The move will mean that the Tamil version of the anthem will no longer be played at any official or state functions, the Sunday Times reported. The decision was taken on Wednesday.
12/08/2010
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BBC
Sri Lanka's government calls a senior opposition leader a "traitor" after he wrote an article saying that the country should investigate "the many allegations against us".
11/30/2010
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Adaderana
This is what we said from the start, Construction and Housing Ministers Wimal Weerawansa told Ada Derana regarding the Wikileaks documents on Sri Lanka. He added that this substantiates the fact that it was the US that led the International operation against Sri Lanka. They wanted to isolate us internationally, Wimal claimed.
09/12/2010
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Sunday Observer
Construction, Engineering Services, Housing and Common Amenities Minister Wimal Weerawansa says the introduction of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution has paved the way to create stability and uphold democracy in the country. The Minister in an exclusive interview with the Sunday Observer said if this Amendment leads to even dictatorship, a single Opposition MP would not have crossed over to the Government or voted in favour of this Amendment. It is only those who want to turn this country to chaos who oppose this Amendment.
08/31/2010
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TamilNet
Wimal Weerawansa, Sri Lanka minister of Housing and Common Amenities, accompanied by the Russian Ambassador to Sri Lanka, visited Jaffna Tuesday morning preceding India’s Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao who was expected in Jaffna Friday evening, sources in Jaffna said. Wimal Weerawansa and the Russian Ambassador returned to Colombo Friday evening after participating in some events in Jaffna peninsula.
07/18/2010
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Sunday Leader
An opinion piece by Tisaranee Gunasekara: The prime target of Minister Wimal Weerawansa’s delusive fast was neither the UN nor its Secretary General, but the Lankan public. Minister Weerawansa and his political handlers would have known that their attempt at blackmailing the UN Secretary General was bound to fail. And, as even the Sinhala nationalist defenders of Weerawansa’s actions admit, the fast was not really meant to end in, death. So why fast, if one knew that the UN was not going to knuckle down? And why call it a fast-unto-death, if there was no real intention of, fasting unto death? Minister Weerawansa’s was a pseudo fast (unto death) and its real aim was to delude the Lankan people into forgetting, at least momentarily, their many substantive discontents and rally round the Rajapaksas in outrageous ire against the ‘evil machinations’ of the latest ‘arch-villain’, Ban Ki Moon.
07/17/2010
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Reuters
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. country chief in Sri Lanka, recalled to New York in a spat over demonstrations outside the U.N. office in the capital, Colombo, will go back to his post, the world body said on Friday.