News & Announcements
Sri Lanka Humanitarian Appeal
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High Commission Responses to Media
Official position concerning three medical doctors
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Sri Lanka Small Miracle - Sri Lanka Tourism's new brand launched
New look and feel in keeping with the repositioning strategy - His Excellency President Mahinda Rajapaksa declares 2011 as "Visit Sri Lanka Year"
23 June 2009. Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka Tourism officially launched its new logo and tagline "Sri Lanka Small Miracle" today, ushering in a new era for Sri Lanka Tourism. [view] [read more]
Situation Report on medical facilities provided in the Welfare centers Vavuniya
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Update on Influenza 'A' virus subtype 'H1N1' (also called as 'Swine Flu')
Sri Lanka is not among the World Heath Organization declared 74 countries with a pandemic threat alert on H1N1. However, the health authorities in Sri Lanka have taken following measures to prevent the spread of H1N1
virus in the country.
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Update on the Humanitarian Assistance in the North of Sri Lanka - 12 June 2009
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Access for journalists to the North
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Visit of Hon. Rohitha Bogollagama, Minister of Foreign Affairs 4-5 June, 2009
Hon. Rohitha Bogollagama, Minister of Foreign Affairs meeting Rt. Hon. David Miliband, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom in London, 5 June 2009.
June 5: Meetings with the Rt. Hon. David Miliband, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, Minister of State for Foreign and
Commonwealth Affairs [Press Release]
Meeting with the Rt Hon. Kamalesh Sharma, Commonwealth Secretary-General [Press Release]
June 4: Meeting with the Rt. Hon. William Hague, MP & Shadow Foreign Secretary (Conservative) and the Rt. Hon. Edward Davey, MP & Shadow Foreign Secretary (Liberal Democratic
Party) [Press Release]
Al-Jazeera Television interview with Rohitha Bogollagama Hon Minister of Foreign Affairs on 4th June 2009 [View]
New era in foreign relations to safeguard motherland - President
In order to, protect our new freedom after defeating terrorism, and to prevent being under the pressure of others, it is necessary to begin a new era in foreign relations to safeguard my motherland, said President Mahinda Rajapaksa addressing the nation at the Victory Day and
Tribute to War Heroes celebration in Colombo, today (03.06.2009).
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Address to the media by Rohitha Bogollagama Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka at the media briefing of the visit of UN secretary General to Sri Lanka on 23rd May 2009
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In Sri Lanka: On the Streets of Colombo
Colombo, Sri Lanka. The euphoria remains on the balmy streets of Colombo. One week ago the Tamil Tigers were at last defeated -- on the beaches of the north -- after 26 years of terrorism. Their human hostages have escaped.
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The idealist I once knew became the Tamils' Pol Pot -
by N. Ram
In my opinion, the international - and especially west European - response has got it wrong on two counts. There has been a tendency to mechanically balance responsibility for the crisis, and therefore to equate the desperate, last-ditch actions of an extremist organisation -
banned or designated as terrorist by some 30 countries including India - with the responses of a legitimate government. Second, justice has not been done to Mahinda Rajapaksa's government for its astonishing feat of rescuing by military means close to 275,000 civilians who
were, in the view of the whole world, confined by the Tigers for use as a human shield.
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Sri Lanka wide open for democracy
by Ananth PALAKIDNAR
Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama, commenting on the elimination of LTTE terrorism, says that Sri Lanka is now wide open for democracy with peace returning to the country almost after three decades. The Minister also added that the international community should be happy
with the manner terrorism was rooted out from the island nation.
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Humanitarian situation in the North of Sri Lanka
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Address by His Excellency President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the ceremonial opening of Parliament, Sri Jayawardhanapura - Kotte May 19, 2009
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Joint Statement at the Conclusion of UN Secretary-General's Visit to Sri Lanka, 23rd May 2009
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LTTE wiped out from Lankan soil
Bringing the 30 year cruel war to an end, the troops militarily defeated the LTTE with all its leaders being killed this morning. The news of the defeat of the LTTE, with its' three top leaders being shot dead, while fleeing in a vehicle this morning, brought a sigh of relief
to the entire nation. Early today, the masses were jubilant when the first news broke that the body of Charles Anthony, son of LTTE leader Velupillai Prabakaran was discovered. An enthusiastic population celebrated lighting crackers at regular intervals.
Towards the afternoon, the military announced the killing of three top LTTE leaders and a host of others bringing an end to the cruel war that claimed over 100,000 lives in three decades. Thus the curtain fell on separatism of the country which haunted the entire nation from
1975 since the criminal and notorious demand for a separate state called by the infamous Vadukkodai resolution.
Now there are no LTTE leaders and no terror outfit called the LTTE. The troops have completed the most impossible of the impossible missions in the Sri Lankan history. Those who lived by the gun had perished by the gun. There is no gun toting sole representative of Tamils in
this country anymore. Tamils are representatives of Tamils.
The future of Tamils will never record names of terrorists’ leaders like Prabhakaran, Charles Anthony, Soosai, Nadesan, Pottu Amman, Elango, Ramesh or anybody for that matter. Tamil terrorism stand buried from today and the Tamil people are freed from the grip of terrorism. The
nation of Sri Lanka continue to have its' legitimate armed forces to protect the people.
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Schoolgirl recruited to fight for Tigers
AMBEPUSSA, Sri Lanka - A demure 16-year-old in a pink sweater, skirt and sandals, Darshika Kugandirasan doesn't look like a frontline guerrilla fighter.
She looks like a schoolgirl, which she was until two months ago. She was studying at Malawi Central College, hoping to become a teacher, even though classes were often cancelled because of the war.
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Kill or be killed: 11-year-olds forced to fight for Tamil Tigers
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Britain condemns LTTE massacre in Buttala
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, has strongly condemned the LTTE massacre of civilians in a remote village in Buttala yesterday.
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New Year promise of freedom & prosperity - President
At a time when the country awaits the dawn of peace and prosperity we are happy to welcome the Sinhala and Tamil New Year which brings the promise of a new awakening to our people.
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Foreign Minister's Sinhala & Hindu New Year Message
This year's celebration of the Sinhala and Hindu New Year is taking place in our country in a new atmosphere of hope and anticipation that at last, the armed conflict is coming to an end.
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Ransomed in the last redoubt
A veteran Sri Lankan monitor, Lord Naseby sees an end in sight to the country's bitter ethnic strife - even if a worrying number of civilians remain trapped in the northern conflict zone.
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"Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has links with multiple terrorist groups including the Taleban": Prof. Rohan Gunaratna
Dr. Rohan Gunaratna, Head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore met the Bottomline defence correspondent Ruwan Weerakoon this week. During this exclusive interview with The Bottom Line
Defence Correspondent Ruwan Weerakoon, he stated that the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has links with multiple terrorist groups including the Taleban, an associate group of Al Qaeda.
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Former cadres starting a new life
Situated about 20 minutes away from the main road in Welikanda, the Senapura centre is home to 74 former cadres who fought with the LTTE at various stages.
Ranging from 18 to 35 years in age, they are mainly from Batticaloa, Vavuniya, Mullaitivu, Kilinochchi and Jaffna, and the programme they are following spans one year or more.
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