Sri Lanka News Updates with Discussions

I heard the sea down south is quite deep. So ask the Sinhalese to jump in it. LOL

We will have a lot of fun.

Responding to the threats exerted by the Cabinet Minister Rishad Badurdeen on the Mannar Magistrate (Mr. A. Judeson), the Lawyers for Democracy (LFD) urges the President to remove the said Minister with immediate effect. Confirmed information discloses that the Minister has interfered with the course of justice and threatened the Magistrate and thereafter the court houses came under attack.

The LFD is shocked to learn of the incident where the Minister had intimidated the Magistrate and obstructed the administration of justice. In case no. 396/12, the Magistrate has made judicial orders and the law requires the Authorities to carry out the order of the court. A minister has no lawful authority whatsoever to interfere with course of justice.

Sri Lanka and Australia are on a collision course over what the Australian High Commissioner in Colombo Ms Robyn Mudie asserts is the failure on the part of the Sri Lankan Navy (SLN) to put an end to human smuggling.

Australian HC Mudie urged Navy Commander Vice Admiral Somathilake Dissanayake to step up SLN action, at a hurriedly arranged meeting at SLN headquarters to discuss the issue last Wednesday (18).

Asked whether Australian action had been prompted by his failure to take tangible measures, Vice Admiral Dissanayake told The Island that trawlers carrying hundreds of men, women and children had been detained since the conclusion of the conflict in May 2009. Those who found fault with the SLN for the crisis had conveniently forgotten that about 400 men, women and children had been taken into custody over the past two weeks alone.

He said: 'The SLN intelligence as well as other sister services and police are working overtime to thwart smugglers plans. But unfortunately, Australia is not supporting our efforts, though pressure is being brought on us to apprehend those spearheading human smuggling operations.'

Vice Admiral Dissanayake said that the Australian HC had been fully briefed on the situation and Australia s failure to back the SLN.

Australia would remain the prime attraction for economic refugees as long as it allowed them to exploit their laws, the Vice Admiral said.

Referring to his predecessor, Vice Admiral Thisara Samarasinghe s call for tightening of Australian laws, Dissanayake said that the situation would change overnight if Australia deported at least a single boatload of bogus refugees. He said, 'I brought to HC Mudie s notice the need to address contentious issues. Those bent on making money will do anything to lure people into leaving for countries like Australia.'

The Vice Admiral alleged that Australia s refusal to give SLN access to information pertaining to refugees of Sri Lankan origin was a serious impediment to ongoing investigations. I

Australia had refused to reveal details of Sri Lankan trawlers in their custody, he said, alleging that among those detained in Australia were trawler crews. Asked whether he was at least aware of the number of Sri Lankans held in detention in Australia, the Vice Admiral said that except the number of those arrested by the SLN and other State agencies and those deported by Australia, Sri Lanka wasn t privy to details.

The Australian HC had alerted him recently to the presence of a trawler drifting about 200 nautical miles off Sri Lanka, the Navy Chief said. Although the Australian HC requested prompt action to track down the vessel, she had not revealed its exact location, he said.

The SLN Chief said that tough action taken by the UK had obviously discouraged those seeking to enter that country illegally. He pointed out that almost 1,000 Sri Lankans had been deported from the UK since the conclusion of the conflict.

Charge him for contempt of court and throw the book at him. Other morons will learn a lesson.

how come when he was sent their by the swiss puppy....??

What is that story ?

http://lankanewsweb.com/english/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2149:minister-bathiudeen-managed-the-mannar-operation-from-the-thalladi-camp&catid=1:general&Itemid=29

Raja marooned Sinhala people in the East.

He is forceing Tamils to vote Terrorists....its not going to happen.

Sinhala fools vote for Criminals but Tamils not doing it.

That's why people vote TNA.