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`` I share your dream to strengthen the Sri Lankan nation under a single flag in a united country `` MR
Country will proceed towards progress
– President
February 3, 2014, 9:48 pm
President Mahinda Rajapaksa has, in his Independence Day message, said that the country will proceed in its journey towards progress.
The full text of his message is as follows:
On this day, as we celebrate the 66th anniversary of our independence, we restate our commitment to safeguard the freedom and rights of our people, and decide on our future free of dictates from the re-emerging forces of colonialism.
With our freedom strengthened by the defeat of separatist terrorism, we proceed on our journey towards progress, This requires new social, political and economic strategies that include modern infrastructure such as ports, airports, highways, power and energy and the latest trends in industry, commerce and trade, and education. While most of this is already in place, in the new drive for development, much more remains to be achieved offering exciting challenges ahead.
It is our belief that the strength of our freedoms largely depend on developing indigenous skills and knowledge, to restore tae glories of our past and move ahead to the victories of the future.
As we celebrate our freedom today we should remember with the deep gratitude the members of our Security Forces who courageously stepped forward to defend our sovereignty and territorial integrity when they were under grave threat. We shall always honour and pay tribute to the great sacrifices they made to ensure that we live in freedom and unity.
Our policy of Non-Alignment, with a commitment to justice and humanity, has brought us friends in the global community who understand our trials in recent decades, and are ready to help us go forward in freedom with the assurance of support in international fora.
I share your dream to strengthen the Sri Lankan nation under a single flag in a united country. Achieving this requires hard work, with diligence and honesty of purpose. It calls for patriotism that transcends the barriers of geography and community, with reconciliation in a rich unity of purpose.
This will lay the foundation for the success of our children and future generations who will inherit this land, to live in peace and harmony bringing the glories of new achievements that inspire us from our past. Let us together pledge to build this futures for our, land and people in the peace and freedom we have won.
Mahinda Rajapaksa
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Journalist Mel Gunasekara
MONDAY, 03 FEBRUARY 2014 18:30 E-mail Print
Police said today the man whom senior journalist Mel Gunasekara had hired to paint her residence at Christmas time was believed to have stabbed her to death on Sunday when his attempt to rob an empty house had failed because she might have accosted him.
Police spokesman Ajith Rohana told a news conference held at the Mirihana Police Station where the suspect Samson Joseph Anthony (39) was being detained
that the killing was initially rumoured to be linked to her work as a journalist at a leading media organisation but it was not so.
“There were no eyewitnesses so we had to look for clues. We found a finger print inside the house,” he said.
SSP Rohana said the police sniffer dogs had stopped close to where CCTV cameras were installed at the house of a prominent public servant down Subodhipura Mawatha in Battaramulla.
“When we examined the video footage we found that a man chewing betel and wearing a yellow shirt and a light blue denim leaving the area a short while later wearing a black trouser and a blue shirt,” he said. “We found the betel he had left behind. When we showed the images to Ms. Gunasekara’s parents they
identified the man as the mason who painted their house at Christmas time. We traced the suspect through his mobile phone. He was also unable to switch off the BlackBerry mobile phone which he robbed and was in his possession.”
SSP Rohana said the man had later thrown away the battery but with the information obtained from communication towers he was arrested at Dompe.
“He lives in Dompe with his wife and three children,” he said.
During interrogation the suspect admitted to have entered the house from the backyard and was taken by surprise when Ms. Gunasekara accosted him because the family members without fail were known to attend Sunday service between 6.30 a.m. and 8.30 a.m.
The suspect said it was when she had screamed at him that he grabbed the knife lying on the table and stabbed Ms. Gunasekera several times.
“I washed the knife and changed my clothes. I wore a black trouser and a blue shirt belonging to the victim’s brother,” he said.
Ms. Gunasekera is reported to have attended a school function the previous night and had slept over.
Police said investigations had revealed that the suspect had observed the movements of the family for some time before breaking into the house.
Police warned people to be more cautious when employing painters, masons, gardeners and electricians or when allowing sales reps to enter the house without proper identification.
“It is the duty of the police to solve crimes but it is also the duty and the responsibility of all concerned as far as possible to prevent crimes from taking place,” he noted.
The investigations were carried out by police personnel led by Mirihana Special Crimes Operations Unit Inspector Nimal Karunaratne under the directions of Colombo South DIG Sumith Edirisinghe.
“We will produce him Courts and detain him for questioning for 48 hours after obtaining the necessary detention orders,” SSP Rohana said. (Supun Dias and Sanath Desmond)
http://www.dailymirror.lk/news/42528-journalists-killing-suspect-held-for-questioning-.html
Sri Lankan Police have found a dead body of a Lady journalist!
Journalist stabbed to death
February 2, 2014 at 3:05 pm | lanka C news
Journalist stabbed to death
Police have found a dead body of a Lady journalist who had been stabbed to death. This body has been found in Battaramulla, Gamunu Mawatha.
The body has been of Mel Gunasekara (36) who has also worked with French News Service. She has worked with many media institutions and she has been working on Business News Reporting.
February 2, 2014 at 3:05 pm | lanka C news
Journalist stabbed to death
Police have found a dead body of a Lady journalist who had been stabbed to death. This body has been found in Battaramulla, Gamunu Mawatha.
The body has been of Mel Gunasekara (36) who has also worked with French News Service. She has worked with many media institutions and she has been working on Business News Reporting.
The Police reports that the murder has taken place in the kitchen and that it is suspected that someone known to her would have done that. Police also says that even the dog has not barked while the murder has been done and that it shows the fact that someone known to her would have committed the murder.
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Further investigations on this regard have already been started.
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Mel Gunasekara
படுகொலை!
Journalist Mel Gunasekara
Sunday, February 02, 2014
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How will India vote in Geneva next month?
Special
How will India vote in Geneva next month?
February 1, 2014, 8:33 pm
By S Venkat Narayan
Our Special Correspondent - The Island
NEW DELHI, February 1: India has politely declined to give an assurance of its support to Sri Lanka on a resolution the United States is planning to move in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva next month. The resolution may seek an impartial international probe into the excesses and human rights
violations allegedly committed by the island nation’s security forces during the last phase of the socalled Eelam War IV in early 2009.
Sri Lankan External Affairs Minister Prof Gamini Lakshman Peiris met his Indian counterpart Salman Khurshid here last Wednesday and sought India’s help against the US resolution, expected to be moved by Washington for a third consecutive year. The Sri Lankan government did little in response to the previous
resolutions in 2012 and 2013 to assuage an agitated international community.
India had voted for the US-sponsored resolutions so far.
"We heard them out, but gave no assurance about what we will do in Geneva when the resolution comes for voting," an official who attended the Peiris-Khurshid talks told the Sunday Island. "They know what we want. They know what the world also wants from them. Let’s see what they will do between now and end of March, when the resolution may come up at the UNHRC."
Khurshid apparently advised Prof Peiris to engage with Washington directly, and told him that India will take a stand on the proposed resolution at an appropriate time.
The Sri Lankan minister was here primarily to interact with the 82 New Delhi-based heads of diplomatic missions who are concurrently accredited to Sri Lanka. They all met him in small groups during a two-hour session at the Sri Lankan High Commission here. Some of the ambassadors who met the very articulate Prof Peiris said the resolution the US is planning to bring at the UNHRC figured prominently in their discussions. The minister apparently explained to them the government’s efforts to help the Tamils, and sought the sympathy and understanding of the countries whose diplomats he addressed..
However, there is an unstated sense of disappointment here over the reluctance of President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government to take any visible action on the ground to pacify the global community agitated by the reported killing of 40,000 innocent Tamil civilians and the island’s Tamils who are clearly suffering from
a collective sense of hurt and humiliation.
This is a highly sensitive issue in Tamil Nadu too. India goes to the polls to elect a new Lok Sabha—-lower House of Parliament—-from mid-April. The Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is being attacked on a regular basis by political parties in Tamil Nadu for not doing enough to ensure that justice is done to Sri Lankan Tamils. The DMK snapped its alliance with the UPA on this ground last March. The UPA has no allies in Tamil Nadu right now.
Having supported the US-backed resolutions on two previous occasions, India finds that Colombo has done nothing so far to justify any change of stance in Geneva this time. Therefore, it looks extremely unlikely that India will either support Sri Lanka or abstain from voting at the UNHRC next month.
Analysts here say President Rajapaksa is highly unlikely to order an impartial and credible probe any time soon simply because such a probe will expose the crucial roles played by himself, his brother and Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, and at least 14 other senior officials of the security forces, who were
responsible for executing the brilliant but brutal assault on the LTTE to end the three-decade-long civil war, and thus successfully eliminate for good the world’s most dreaded terrorist outfit.
If the Nuremberg trials against the Nazis and the other war crimes trials conducted by United Nations-appointed tribunals into the killings in Cambodia, Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone and Lebanon are anything to go by, the roles of the top political and military authorities of the country concerned will be investigated, and punishment meted out to those held responsible for such crimes.
If such an independent probe were to be ordered in Sri Lanka, heading the list of people whose roles may be investigated is President Rajapaksa himself because he is Commander-in-Chief of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces, and nothing would have happened without his approval.
Next to him may be Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, who used his close access to his brother and President Rajapaksa to procure whatever arms and other equipment from wherever possible to defeat the LTTE.
Then Head of Joint Staff Air Marshal Donald Perera, Army Chief Sarath Fonseka, Navy Chief Wasantha Karannagoda, and Air Force Chief Roshan Gunathilake may be investigated. In addition, those whose roles will have to be probed include the Commanders of Divisions 53 (then Brigadier/now Major General Kamal
Goonaratne), 55 (Brig/Maj Gen Prasanna Silva), 57 (Brig/Maj Gen Jagath Dias), 58 (Brig/Maj Gen Shavindra Silva) and 59 (Brig/Maj Gen Nandana Udawatta).
The Divisions led by them had enabled the humiliating defeat of the LTTE rebels by surrounding them and successfully shutting down all their possible escape routes and trapping them at one place in the Wanni.
The roles of Heads of Task Force One (Brig Rohana Bandara), Task Force 2 (Brig Satyapriya Liyanage and Task Force 8 (Col GV Raviprya, who actually killed Prabhakaran) too will be probed by such an investigation.
There is an uneasy feeling here that the issue may not be brought to a closure for a long time to come, at least till the next election in Sri Lanka a couple of years away. If President Rajapaksa wins that election too, the world may have to simply forget about a credible probe into the excesses of 2009.
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US frustrated with Sri Lanka’s reconciliation
Assistant Secretary of State Nisha Biswa says lack of progress in Sri Lanka has frustrated her government and the international community, the Associated Press reported.
According to reports Biswa told reporters at the end of her visit Saturday that the international community’s patience is wearing thin. She says the U.S. will sponsor a resolution asking Sri Lanka to do more on reconciliation and accountability at the U.N. Human Rights Council in March.
She also expressed concern about the worsening human rights situation.
Source: The Sunday Times LK 01-02-2014
How will India vote in Geneva next month?
February 1, 2014, 8:33 pm
By S Venkat Narayan
Our Special Correspondent - The Island
NEW DELHI, February 1: India has politely declined to give an assurance of its support to Sri Lanka on a resolution the United States is planning to move in the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva next month. The resolution may seek an impartial international probe into the excesses and human rights
violations allegedly committed by the island nation’s security forces during the last phase of the socalled Eelam War IV in early 2009.
Sri Lankan External Affairs Minister Prof Gamini Lakshman Peiris met his Indian counterpart Salman Khurshid here last Wednesday and sought India’s help against the US resolution, expected to be moved by Washington for a third consecutive year. The Sri Lankan government did little in response to the previous
resolutions in 2012 and 2013 to assuage an agitated international community.
India had voted for the US-sponsored resolutions so far.
"We heard them out, but gave no assurance about what we will do in Geneva when the resolution comes for voting," an official who attended the Peiris-Khurshid talks told the Sunday Island. "They know what we want. They know what the world also wants from them. Let’s see what they will do between now and end of March, when the resolution may come up at the UNHRC."
Khurshid apparently advised Prof Peiris to engage with Washington directly, and told him that India will take a stand on the proposed resolution at an appropriate time.
The Sri Lankan minister was here primarily to interact with the 82 New Delhi-based heads of diplomatic missions who are concurrently accredited to Sri Lanka. They all met him in small groups during a two-hour session at the Sri Lankan High Commission here. Some of the ambassadors who met the very articulate Prof Peiris said the resolution the US is planning to bring at the UNHRC figured prominently in their discussions. The minister apparently explained to them the government’s efforts to help the Tamils, and sought the sympathy and understanding of the countries whose diplomats he addressed..
However, there is an unstated sense of disappointment here over the reluctance of President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s government to take any visible action on the ground to pacify the global community agitated by the reported killing of 40,000 innocent Tamil civilians and the island’s Tamils who are clearly suffering from
a collective sense of hurt and humiliation.
This is a highly sensitive issue in Tamil Nadu too. India goes to the polls to elect a new Lok Sabha—-lower House of Parliament—-from mid-April. The Congress Party-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) Government of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is being attacked on a regular basis by political parties in Tamil Nadu for not doing enough to ensure that justice is done to Sri Lankan Tamils. The DMK snapped its alliance with the UPA on this ground last March. The UPA has no allies in Tamil Nadu right now.
Having supported the US-backed resolutions on two previous occasions, India finds that Colombo has done nothing so far to justify any change of stance in Geneva this time. Therefore, it looks extremely unlikely that India will either support Sri Lanka or abstain from voting at the UNHRC next month.
Analysts here say President Rajapaksa is highly unlikely to order an impartial and credible probe any time soon simply because such a probe will expose the crucial roles played by himself, his brother and Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, and at least 14 other senior officials of the security forces, who were
responsible for executing the brilliant but brutal assault on the LTTE to end the three-decade-long civil war, and thus successfully eliminate for good the world’s most dreaded terrorist outfit.
If the Nuremberg trials against the Nazis and the other war crimes trials conducted by United Nations-appointed tribunals into the killings in Cambodia, Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Sierra Leone and Lebanon are anything to go by, the roles of the top political and military authorities of the country concerned will be investigated, and punishment meted out to those held responsible for such crimes.
If such an independent probe were to be ordered in Sri Lanka, heading the list of people whose roles may be investigated is President Rajapaksa himself because he is Commander-in-Chief of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces, and nothing would have happened without his approval.
Next to him may be Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, who used his close access to his brother and President Rajapaksa to procure whatever arms and other equipment from wherever possible to defeat the LTTE.
Then Head of Joint Staff Air Marshal Donald Perera, Army Chief Sarath Fonseka, Navy Chief Wasantha Karannagoda, and Air Force Chief Roshan Gunathilake may be investigated. In addition, those whose roles will have to be probed include the Commanders of Divisions 53 (then Brigadier/now Major General Kamal
Goonaratne), 55 (Brig/Maj Gen Prasanna Silva), 57 (Brig/Maj Gen Jagath Dias), 58 (Brig/Maj Gen Shavindra Silva) and 59 (Brig/Maj Gen Nandana Udawatta).
The Divisions led by them had enabled the humiliating defeat of the LTTE rebels by surrounding them and successfully shutting down all their possible escape routes and trapping them at one place in the Wanni.
The roles of Heads of Task Force One (Brig Rohana Bandara), Task Force 2 (Brig Satyapriya Liyanage and Task Force 8 (Col GV Raviprya, who actually killed Prabhakaran) too will be probed by such an investigation.
There is an uneasy feeling here that the issue may not be brought to a closure for a long time to come, at least till the next election in Sri Lanka a couple of years away. If President Rajapaksa wins that election too, the world may have to simply forget about a credible probe into the excesses of 2009.
=============
US frustrated with Sri Lanka’s reconciliation
Assistant Secretary of State Nisha Biswa says lack of progress in Sri Lanka has frustrated her government and the international community, the Associated Press reported.
According to reports Biswa told reporters at the end of her visit Saturday that the international community’s patience is wearing thin. She says the U.S. will sponsor a resolution asking Sri Lanka to do more on reconciliation and accountability at the U.N. Human Rights Council in March.
She also expressed concern about the worsening human rights situation.
Source: The Sunday Times LK 01-02-2014
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