Anura questions real motive behind decision to jail Fonseka

Wigneswaran maintains his neutral stand

Northern Province Chief Minister C V Wigneswaran is maintaining his stand to remain neutral at the Parliamentary elections next week. In a media statement released yesterday, Wigneswaran said that he took the decision to remain neutral after giving it deep thought and continues to maintain that stand. He says the Tamil speaking people should vote for the candidates they feel will address their immediate concerns. Wigneswaran said that he will not urge any Tamil in the North and East to back a

12 Aug, 2015

Tamil detainees in Lanka still tortured, says charity

Sri Lankan security forces have continued to torture Tamil detainees even after the election of reformist president Maithripala Sirisena in January, according to a report. The report, by the UK-based charity Freedom From Torture (FFT) and published on Thursday, comes just four days before critical parliamentary elections on 17 August, the Guardian newspaper reported. The charity said that more than a third of the alleged torture victims in the report had returned to Sri Lanka from the UK, some

13 Aug, 2015

UNP accuses UPFA of marketing Maithripala

The United National Party (UNP) has accused the United People?s Freedom Alliance (UPFA) of marketing President Maithripala Sirisena ahead of the Parliamentary election as a last resort to win public support. Former UNP Parliamentarian Karu Jayasuriya said that the UPFA campaign commenced with the slogan “can?t do without Mahinda” then they changed it to “we rise with Mahinda” and now they have abandoned both slogans and have started using the photograph of President Maithripala Sirisena to boos

12 Aug, 2015