Sri Lanka editors receive death threats for Channel-4 video comments (TamilNet)
Sunday Leader, a weekend broadsheet in Sri Lanka, said in the latest edition that two of the paper’s editors, Frederica Jansz, and Munza Mushtaq, received Thursday “hand written death threats by post.” The threats relate to Sunday Leader news stories on the authenticity of the August Channel-4 video which showed armed Sri Lankan soldiers executing Tamil prisoners stripped naked and hands tied …
President opens Sri Lanka Maha Vihara in Lumbini (Daily News)
President Mahinda Rajapaksa ceremonially opened the Sri Lanka Maha Vihara, a monastery constructed by the Sri Lankan Government in Lumbini, Nepal, the birth place of the Buddha as the Prince Siddhartha Gautama yesterday morning.
Sri Lanka: Absurd logic of seeking moderates amid a genocide – paper (TamilNet)
While many international actors are coming to realise that the problem in Sri Lanka is in fact rooted in the character of the Sinhala-dominated state, the London-based policy nexus which theorised, argued for, and solicited international consensus around Colombos military slaughter is still insisting that their strategy was essentially right, the Tamil Guardian newspaper said this week. These …
Sri Lanka: Amnesty, CPJ, RSF call for probe into Channel-4 video death threats (TamilNet)
New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Amnesty International, and Paris-based Reporters Without Borders (RSF), three premier watchdogs on media freedom, independently called Sri Lanka to investigate into the death threats received by two senior editors of Sri Lanka’s Sunday Leader for the editors’ coverage of the Channel-4 broadcast video which showed armed Sri Lankan soldiers …
Sri Lankan PM inaugurates Buddhist centre at Sanchi (New Kerala)
Bhopal, Oct 31 : Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnashri Wickramanayake Saturday said ties between India and his country are growing stronger after he inaugurated a Buddhist prayer centre at Sanchi in Madhya Pradesh.
SLIIT puts Sri Lanka on the World Map (Sunday Observer)
Sri Lankan team from Sri Lanka Institute of Technology (SLIIT), became the 1st runner-up in the Asia Pacific NetRiders Skills Competition 2009 held on October 29 beating 15 other countries across Asia Pacific over Tele Presence and Webex.
Sri Lanka: Chomsky: West’s self-interest reduces R2P to “noble rhetoric” (TamilNet)
During an invited lecture at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) of London University, Noam Chomsky, one of the world’s well known intellectual and professor emeritus of linguistics at MIT, said on Sri Lanka, that although there’s “a lot of noble rhetoric about Responsibility to Protect (R2P), there is no particular Western advantage in protecting people who are being slaughtered …
Fleeing not Sri Lanka but Indonesia (Herald Sun)
Talk about jumping to conclusions about boat people… Here’s Paul Howes, the Australian Workers Union boss, on the Sri Lankan boat people refusing…
Sri Lankan president prays at Tirupathi (New Kerala)
Hyderabad, Oct 31: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa Saturday offered prayers at the famous Lord Venkateshwara temple at Tirupathi in Andhra Pradesh.
