Sri Lanka News Updates with Discussions

Tibet`s spiritual leader in exile the Dalai Lama condemned Buddhist attacks on Muslims in Myanmar and Sri Lanka on Tuesday, calling religious violence `unthinkable.`

The Buddhist leader delivered remarks to 15,000 people at the University of Maryland, pleading for an end to ethnic violence in Myanmar that has displaced 135,000 people and killed hundreds over the past year.

`Killing people in the name of religion is really very sad, unthinkable, very sad,` the Dalai Lama said. `Nowadays even Buddhists now involved, in Burma and Sri Lanka also. Buddhist monks ... destroy Muslim mosques or Muslim families. Really very sad.` (Source: Global Post)

After yesterday`s initial release of what appeared to be photos of several private military contractors from Craft International at the scene of the Boston bombing, independent journalists have now identified many more images of this team.

Mike Adams of Natural News made an interesting discovery that one of the members of this team was carrying a radiation detector:

Adams asks some very important questions related to these guys:
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Zubeidat K. Tsarnaeva, the Boston bombing suspect`s mothers_day.jsp' class=black>mother, thinks this whole thing is a set up.

Business Insider says: Tsarnaeva said that Tamerlan Tsarnaev got involved in `religious politics` five years ago, and that the FBI had previously contacted her about her son`s activities.

She says:

`He was controlled by the FBI, like for three, five years,` she said. `They knew what my son was doing, they knew what actions and what sites on the Internet he was going [to], they used to come...and talk to me...they were telling me that he was really a serious leader and they were afraid of him.`

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what went wrong?

Minister Keheliya Rambukwella`s son Ramith has been called into the Sri Lankan Squad for the T20 international against Bangladesh in Kandy by national selectors, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) announced today.

Following is the squad announced by national selectors
1) Kusal Janith Perera
2) Dilshan Munaweera
3) Lahiru Thirimanna
4) Dinesh Chandimal (Captain/WK)

self explanatory!

A British tourist is `shocked and upset` after being deported from Sri Lanka for displaying a Buddha tattoo on his arm, he says.
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Antony Ratcliffe, 42, from Nottingham, was turned back at Colombo`s main airport on Friday for allegedly showing a lack of respect for Buddhism.

The authorities are tough on perceived insults to Buddhism - the religion of the island`s majority ethnic Sinhalese.

JERUSALEM (AP) An errant Palestinian rocket, not an Israeli airstrike, likely killed the baby of a BBC reporter during fighting in the Hamas-ruled territory last November, a U.N. report indicated, challenging the widely believed story behind an image that became a symbol of what Palestinians said was Israeli aggression.
Omar al-Masharawi, an 11-month-old infant, was killed on Nov. 14, the first day of fighting. An Associated Press photograph showed Omar`s anguished father, Jihad al-Masharawi, clutching his slain child wrapped in a shroud. Palestinians blamed Israel, and the image was broadcast around the world and widely shared on social media.

China has refused a loan of US$500 million sought by the Sri Lankan Government to buy petroleum products and stressed that China would only approve only project loans, informed sources said yesterday

A Finance Ministry official said the loan which was being negotiated last year had not materialised because China was only prepared to grant project loans for which interest rates were relatively high.

China had become Sri Lanka`s biggest lender. The country had obtained US$3.1 billion in loans and export credit to Sri Lanka about 18 months ago. The government had obtained Chinese loans, at interest rates varying from 2.9 per cent to 8.25 per cent, for major development projects such as the building of the Hambantota Port, the Mattala Airport, the Moragahakanda Irrigation Scheme and the Norochcholai Coal Power Plant. Meanwhile the country`s total debt burden has increased to Rs.6,610 billion with 52 per cent of it being from domestic borrowings. - See more at: http://www.dailymirror.lk/news/26139-china-refuses-us500mn-loan-for-sl.html#sthash.zkI3m9cs.dpuf

The brother of Khuram Shaikh--the British tourist who was killed in the 2011 Christmas eve tragedy at Tangalle - accompanied by a British MP will visit the country next week in a bid to urge Lankan authorities to expedite the investigations and bring charges against those responsible for the killing of his brother.

Nasser Shaikh accompanied by British Labour Party MP Simon Danszuk will be in the country to find out the progress made in bringing those responsible for the killing to justice, a spokesman from the British High Commission told the Daily Mirror.

Just how many people have America`s drones killed? Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham has put the death toll at 4,700 the first time an American official has publicly put a precise figure on the impact of strikes by unmanned aerial vehicles. The South Carolina lawmaker`s office said he was citing an estimate already discussed on cable television.
Graham, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, used the figure during a question and answer session on Tuesday with the Rotary Club of Easley in his home state of South Carolina. His remarks were first reported by the Easley Patch.

some of our Sinhales Buddhists Upasakayon are sharing this on FB these days :D

A News Reported in Arab News

`Sri Lanka denied reports yesterday that its ambassador in the Kingdom was recalled due to the execution of Rizana Nafeek. We transferred the present Ambassador Ahmed A Jawad to Colombo upon the completion of his tour of duty in the Kingdom, Karunatilake Amunugama told Arab News from Colombo yesterday. Ambassador Jawad`s three-year term ended Dec. 9.

Amunugama said that there is no question of downgrading the embassy since this is a routine transfer. He also said that Jawad will be replaced by another ambassador who will soon be formally appointed. `

Tupac Hologram Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre Perform Coachella Live 2012
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Crowds were astounded--and critical reception was mixed--when the digital recreation of the late rapper appeared on stage with (the alive and well) Snoop Dogg at the California music fest. The hologram even gets its own Twitter account, with nearly 25,000 followers. Plenty of celebs were impressed by the show, with stars including Katy Perry, Miley Cyrus, and Kanye West tweeting about the event. Perry tweeted `I think I might have cried.`