Sri Lanka News Updates with Discussions

The monster is there again. Sweet talk, then forget. But the underlying theme: As one guy said - it`s an economic problem, not an ethnic issue!

Yes it is all about spreading the wealth - the Tamils` wealth. By hook or by crook. Either looting at riots or looting the bunkers. Then kappam, kidnap and ransom. Then hold them in Nazi camp and ask for `donations.`

All in the name of Mahavamsa, the get rich quickly book.

It is learnt that the Presidential elections will be held in February and the nominations close on Dec 14th.
Parliamentary elections will be after that and we are still working with our sources to get the exact dates for those.
Aani enterprises have ears in the corridors of power.
Our source definitely doesn`t work at Kollupitiya polisiye!
Aani breaks news to the world!!!!

From a lecture by Prof. Gananath Obeysekera:

Let me begin with the classic narration of Sigiriya in chapter 38 of the Mahavamsa entitled `The Ten Kings` dealing with the reign of Dhatusena followed by the next chapter on `The Two Kings` which is about Kasyapa and Mugalan (Mogallana). Chapter 40 is missing, the only one in all of the one hundred chapters that constitute the three Mahavamsa texts. The first ten couplets of chapter 38 deal with the takeover of Anuradhapura by Tamil rulers and the emergence on the scene of Dhatusena, son of an ordinary householder belonging to the Maurya (Moriya or `peacock`) clan. This is followed by a very interesting story about the early life of Dhatusena (couplets 11-28). It says that a certain householder, Dathanama of the Maurya clan had two sons, Dhatusena and Silatissabodhi, by a woman of the same caste.

Tamil activists` shock on return to Jaffna

By Saroj Pathirana
BBC Sinhala

It has been six months since the end of the armed conflict in Sri Lanka, but normality has yet to return to the Tamil cultural heartland of Jaffna, activists and former residents say.

Groups of former Tamil residents and media activists recently visited Jaffna.

It was an emotional and nostalgic journey for Nirmala Rajasingham - the first woman to be detained under Sri Lanka`s anti-terror laws in 1982 - when she visited her home town after nearly three decades.

Sri Lanka`s war hero, Hon. Minister of Nothing Karuna Amman, recently visited the newly renovated Moratuwa stadium. The Secretary to the Ministry of Sports, Mr. Sarath Ponseka, hosted the Hon. Minister. Although Moratuwa is only a short distance from Colombo, Mr. Pons insisted that Hon. Karuna Amman stay overnight, and sample his newly acquired culinary skills, as well as the local belles.

Hon. Karuna Amman, under whose tactical guidance the Srilankan forces won the war, boasted to the Moratuwa girls how he lined up and shot 600 surrendered policemen in 1990. `Pons should be careful`, he said, `if he forgets to add salt to the food, I will blow his head!`

Z Khan 36 6 109 2

I Sharma 33 0 135 2

Harbhajan Singh 48.4 4 189 2

A Mishra 58 6 203 1

I was wondering how Maninder will report on the happenings at Ahmedabad. The guy who sells the Mumbai Taj debacle as a great success, the Zorroism of Hemant Karkare as brilliant leadership and India`s helplessness vis-a-vis Sri Lanka as grand strategy will surely be elated by Mishra`s two hundred and Bajji`s near double hundred.

Ottavio Quattrocchi

Quattrocchi has been covered widely in the media because of his involvement in the Bofors Scandal and his friendship with Rajiv and his Italian-born wife Sonia Gandhi. Magazine cover from India TodayOttavio Quattrocchi is an Italian businessman who was being sought until early 2009 in India for criminal charges for acting as a conduit for bribes in the Bofors scandal.

Gaddafi`s night in with `500 attractive girls` - and the Koran

Mini-skirts and plunging necklines forbidden as Libyan leader tries to convert Roman `hostesses` to Islam

By Michael Day in Milan
Tuesday, 17 November 2009
The mysterious host asked the Italian hospitality agency for `500 attractive girls between 18 and 35 years of age, at least 1.7 metre high`, and if the women who answered the call were in the dark about their duties, they must have felt confident that the event would be an interesting one.

The victimising of those who flee for their lives
By MARGARET TAYLOR - The Dominion Post Last updated 09:36 16/11/2009

OPINION: Australia`s appalling treatment of asylum seekers has again ignited a media frenzy that has generated unsavoury political points-scoring and ill- informed name-calling at the expense of some of the world`s most vulnerable people.

It has further victimised Sri Lankan `boat people` who are dismissed as queue-jumpers and illegal immigrants.

India India India!
India`s hidden hand is seen everywhere!
They send weapons,impose a naval blockade and provide vital intelligence to demolish the tigers.
Then they cultivate Gen Ponseka. They send the Tamil Nadu MPs to rein in the TNA and Muslim Congress. They (MK Narayan) meet SF in Washington DC. They invite Ranil thuma to Delhi.
Then they tip off Dr. Modamulane Rajapakse that SF is planning a coup, and promise to send Indian troops to gurad him aginst the Veerayas.

As usual Aani enterprises had eyes and ears in the corridors of power. This is for LNP viewers only. Don`t go by what ST and SF say. This is the authentic news.

This is in Sinhala (MR speaks English only with Hilary Clinton). One of our Sinhala brethren please translate.

He is up the papasi tree. Some one is not doing a reality check!
When the inevitable happens, Ranil thuma will be there to catch!
Long live Anagatha Janadhipathi Ranil Mahathmiya:))

VP had the peculiar habit feasting the prospective suicide bombers before dispatching them on a mission. In the process VP put on massive weight while the bombers evaporated into thin air.

Pottu attended the wedding feast of a suspected spy before moving in for the kill.

Lasantha Wickrematunga had regular aapa meals on Sunday mornings with HE the President Dr. Modamulane Mahinda Rajapakse...

Sarath Ponseka had a one to one meeting with HE the President.

This is the recurring nightmare of Ponseka`s driver!

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was a brilliant General, masterminding many famous victories in France and Africa. But Hitler`s paranoia did not spare him. This is the account given by his son, of the last moments of this great man:

Rommel`s son, Manfred, was 15 years old and served as part of an antiaircraft crew near his home. On October 14th, 1944 Manfred was given leave to return to his home where his father continued to convalesce. The family was aware that Rommel was under suspicion and that his chief of staff and his commanding officer had both been executed. Manfred`s account begins as he enters his home and finds his father at breakfast: