Ranil appoints another committee to study Moon's report
2011-04-27
A committee headed by former senior civil servant Bradman Weerakoon has been appointed to study in depth, analyze and report their observations to the UNP on the report by the panel of experts appointed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Secret discussions between the President and Wijedasa
2011-04-27
UNP parliamentarian President's Counsel Wijedasa Rajapakse had met with President Mahinda Rajapaksa recently and had discussed at length about the legitimacy of the report by the panel of experts appointed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Sri Lanka and the action to be taken against it.
LankaeNews journalist Shantha remanded till the 28th over contempt of court charges
2011-04-27
Pugoda Magistrate Kumari Abeyratne has ordered that LankaeNews journalist Shantha Wijesuriya, who was arrested on the 25th by the Kirindiwela Police over contempt of court charges, be remanded till the 28th.
Protest against appointing Chandrasena as Chief Executive of Mobitel
2011-04-27
The SLFP trade unions have raised objections to the decision by the administration to appoint Kapila Chandrasena as the Chief Executive of the Mobitel Company, which is a subsidiary of Sri Lanka Telecom.
“War crimes charges have been leveled due to the carelessness of our people”
- Major General Prasanna Silva
2011-04-26
The Defence Attache of the Sri Lankan High Commission in the UK, Major General Prasanna Silva says that the country was facing war crimes charges at an international level due to the shortcoming of some people who operated the war and that such allegations would never have come up had the war being carried out in the manner he steered his battalion.
Lotteries Board advertising only through Willie's Thineth
2011-04-26
The administration of the National Lotteries Board has been taken entirely under the Thineth advertising agency. The company is owned by Secretary of the State Resources and Enterprise Development Ministry, Willie Gamage.
Airport chairman Prasanna gives duty free liquor dansela for the New Year
2011-04-26
Airport and Aviation Services Chairman Prasanna Wickremasuriya has given a duty free liquor dansela at the airport for the New Year, trade union sources said.
The Australian Tamil Congress is calling on the Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard to openly call for an independent international investigation into war crimes in Sri Lanka, after a report on the issue submitted to the United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki Moon by a UN Expert Advisory Panel was officially released today.
TGTE is urging Ban Ki-Moon to take the next important step
2011-04-26
Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam (TGTE) applauds UN Secretary
General's decision to release the report on Sri Lanka, despite intimidation
by the Sri Lankan government. Sri Lankan government should know that their
days are numbered before they are hauled before the International Criminal
Court. TGTE will not rest until that happen.
Defence Secretary in Los Angeles
Story about going to Uzbekistan is a lie
2011-04-26
A Defence Ministry official said the story about Defence Secretary Nandasena Gotabhaya Rajapaksa going to Uzbekistan published in a website is a lie and that the Defence Secretary is currently in Los Angeles in the US.
