The LTTE had dug its own grave through a series of mistakes starting with the killing of fellow Tamils, moderates and militants alike, and climaxing in indirectly helping Mr Mahinda Rajapaksa to win the Nov 2005 presidential election by asking the Tamils to boycott the polls, resulting in the defeat of peacenik and UNP rival Ranil Wickremasinghe, DMK leader and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M Karunanidhi has said.
‘I have no obligation toward General Sarath Fonseka’ says Mano Ganesan. Colombo: Law maker Mano Ganesan and his Western People's Front are keeping their options open on the Presidential election.
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will get the prestigious Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development this year for her ‘outstanding contribution to the promotion of democracy and pluralism’, it was announced here on Friday.
Justice and Law Reforms Minister and Parliamentarian Milinda Moragoda has formed his own party, the Sri Lanka National Congress in a bid to reach what he called the “nation’s full potential.”
New LTTE leadership’s grand idea of a Transnational Eelam Government suffered an inglorious defeat when 90 percent of the Tamil diaspora showed its contempt by abstaining from voting for the transnational government.
Terming their visit to IDP welfare centres at Menik Farm and other places on Nov 16 as a very good opportunity to have a firsthand assessment .
The three forces commanders boycotted the farewell parade accorded yesterday to the former Army Commander and the Chief of Defence Staff Sarath Fonseka.
General Fonseka retired with immediate effect, his plea to continue in service till 1st of December, rejected.
“Sri Lanka Freedom party is a proud political outfit which has saved the country recently from the scourge of terrorism, and all our party supporters and partners have the right to be proud, said President Rajapaksa.
India has dismissed as baseless and absurd the reported claim of former Sri Lanka’s Chief of Defence Staff that Indian armed forces were kept on standby alert at the request of President Mahinda Rajapaksa who expressed a fear of an army coup in the Island nation.
General Sarath Fonseka’s letter addressed to the President, seeking retire from the Sri Lanka Army, was marked confidential with an annexure which was also marked confidential.
When there was a move by some disgruntled group in the army to surreptitiously stage a coup with a view to snatch power through the barrel of gun, Sri Lanka Government rightly turned to India which kept it troops on high alert on the 15th October to overcome any eventually.
Pranab Mukherjee, India’s time tested trouble shooter is likely to make a two-day visit to Colombo, which has slipped into election mode.
At least 18 people were killed when a powerful suicide car bomb ripped through the Peshawar headquarters of Pakistan's top spy agency Friday morning at about 6:40 a.m., before the city's rush-hour.
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa, on principle, has accepted the resignation of General Sarath Fonseka – Chief of Defence Staff, with effect from 01 December 2009 .
The Tamil Nadu government has announced a Rs 100 crore package to Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in Tamil Nadu that will improve their living condition, and make them beneficiaries of the government’s “free colour TV scheme” and other welfare schemes like the Chief Minister’s Insurance Scheme and marriage assistance.
With President Barack Obama’s departure to the Asian region on Thursday, November 12, his first official visit to a region he knew well, when he was living in Indonesia as a child his deputy national security adviser for strategic communication Ben Rhodes him as the first U.S. president with “an Asia-Pacific orientation.”
Myanmar’s top leader and Head of State, Senior-General Than Shwe arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport, Katunayake on Thursday morning. He was received on arrival by President Mahinda Rajapaksa, First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa, ministers and high officials.
In a democracy, the buck stops at the door of the political executive. For good or bad. It is the political executive that faces the music.
South African soil will not be allowed for any transitional government. South Africa will not tolerate any such move by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
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