Fishermen protest in Hikkaduwa blocking main road

UN Chief calls for a genuine national process

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has underlined the critical importance of addressing accountability in Sri Lanka through a genuine and comprehensive national process achieving national reconciliation. The Inner City Press website?quoted?the UN Chief as saying that he had?recognized through a recent meeting he had with a delegation which had visited Sri Lanka, the important steps taken by the Government of Sri Lanka since the end of the conflict. Recently Ban Ki-moon met the Japanese ambassador

04 Mar, 2013

Brits want foreign monitors at northern polls

Britain has called for international monitors to be in place during the scheduled elections in the Northern Province later this year. Senior Minister of State at the British Foreign Office Sayeeda Warsi said her government would like to see a free and fair election in the north. She has said this while addressing an event organized by the Global Tamil Forum in the British Parliament premises last week. The Global Tamil Forum held its third anniversary gathering at the British Parliament with the

03 Mar, 2013

MR warns of attempt to create an Arab spring in Sri Lanka

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has warned of attempts to create an??Arab Spring? in Sri Lanka to topple the government. The Arab Spring is a revolutionary wave of demonstrations, protests, and wars which occurring in the Arab world that began on 18 December 2010 which led to the leaders of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen being removed from power. In an interview with India’s The Hindu newspaper, the President said?denied that the Army killed LTTE chief Vellupillai Prabakaran?s 12-year-old son Balac

02 Mar, 2013