India played a critical, albeit covert, role in the success of Sri Lanka’s war against the Tamil Tigers, with the Indian Navy providing vital intelligence in locating and destroying at least a dozen LTTE rogue vessels laden with arms, says the first such detailed account of the operation.
India’s covert support to Sri Lanka in the [...]

By Prof. Hudson McLean

Devolution, Discrimination be damned!
The Terrorist LTTE is no more. However the Real Troublemakers who are sitting in their high chairs in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia are still going on pumping their bellows.
Its about time, the Tamils who wish to continue being Sri Lankans stand up and tell their Diaspora, “Either Put-up or [...]

Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva, Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka told LAKBIMAnEWS in an e-mail interview that the world is no longer Euro-centric. Ambassador Jayatilleka was part of the Sri Lankan delegation that secured a notable diplomatic victory at UNHRC’s special session on Sri Lanka held in Geneva last week. Sri Lanka [...]

 
By Malin Abeyatunge
The Anglo Saxons or the Gang of White Supremos (GOWS) tried all avenues, used all financial and logistical resources to get the Sri Lankan Government to agree for a ceasefire to give oxygen to LTTE and save megalomaniac Prabhakaran who may be rotting in hell now for the brutal murders he and his [...]

For many years we indulged the LTTE, in part because we felt sorry for the Tamils of Sri Lanka and believed the LTTE slogan that Tigers were Tamils and Tamils were Tigers, in part because we thought the Tigers would win out and would provide us with a useful base to extend our influence in [...]

The general impression in this country was that Switzerland had refrained from taking sides in the conflict between the Sri Lanka State and the LTTE because of a long standing policy of neutrality in foreign affairs. After all the first steps relating to Swiss neutrality were taken as far back as 1515. It was thought [...]

 
Piyal Samarakone
We set the example for others to follow although it’s not palatable for the West. But the truth remains, as the way it should remain, the double standard and insecure West not willing to accept, simple because preface is from a tiny Buddhist nation.
Our sincere believe Pakistan will come out victorious just like us [...]

 
By Charles.S.Perera
The war in Iraq and Afghanistan continues without an end in view. America and the West are apprehensive of another attack by the Al Quaida terrorists, without any knowledge of which Western Capital would be their next target .
 In Afghanistan the Western high power nations with supposed to be well experienced Armed Forces, with [...]

 
By Shanaka Jayasekara
Consider for a moment if it was possible to defeat the Hezbollah or Hamas. The achievements of the Sri Lankan security forces are of a comparable scale. There were no coalition troops or hi-tech geospatial imagery or other hi-tech equipment, it was the strength and courage of the indigenously trained Sri Lankan security [...]

It seems as all Western Media Units have aligned against Sri Lanka after the unprecedented defeat of Western allies in UN Human Rights Council. It was the first time for many decades that UNHRC had staged a special session of vote on human rights issue, and for the FIRST TIME since the World War II, [...]