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Five minutes is all I have, so I`m going to say a few things in a very disjointed way Before that there was reference made a couple of times to four great religions of the world being present in this country and whenever that fact is mentioned I always remember, something that Judge Weeramantry wrote about the laws of this country, you know that the laws in this country, we have many laws, we have the Roman Dutch law, we have the English law, we have Thesavalamai, we have the Kandyan Law, we have the Muslim law, we have the Mukuwa law and he said the Sri Lankan law is embarrassed by the richness of its source, rather than the lack of it.

Why are children leaving to a foreign hand to support a family when the economy in that country is booming?

A leading human rights group, Amnesty International (AI) says Muslim politician and government critic Azad Salley must be immediately released or charged with an internationally recognizable criminal offence .

Sally, the leader of Sri Lanka`s newly formed Muslim Tamil National Alliance, was taken into custody yesterday by the police.

Sally has been an outspoken critic of a Buddhist organization, Bodu Bala Sena, which has since February 2013 allegedly attacked Muslim and Christian religious establishments and agitated against certain religious practices. On 29 April he told journalists he was in hiding because he feared for his safety after receiving threats in state-run media.

Ministry of National Language and Social Integration Vasudeva Nanayakara is to submit a Cabinet paper seeking a ban on extremist groups, including the Bodu Bala Sena, Ravana Balaya and Sinhala Ravaya.

The Minister told The Sunday Leader that the Cabinet paper is being drafted and will be submitted in two weeks time.
He said that the Cabinet paper will seek to bring in new laws to crack down on such groups in the wake of the recent religious tensions in the country.

Considering the amount of people seriously listening to this garbage shows howmuch Sri Lankans (Buddhists) are brain washed.

The United States has warned that international action maybe initiated on Sri Lanka if the island fails to implement the latest resolution adopted at the UN Human Rights Council.

US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Sri Lanka should listen to the words of the international community and implement the plan that they have never implemented.

She was referring to the recommendations of the Lessons Learned and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC) which the US sponsored resolution calls for the full implementation.

Now this was not nice. He attacked from behind like a coward with a pole.

ON DECEMBER 14, 2012, the 54 nations of the Commonwealth adopted a charter setting out for the first time the fundamental values underpinning their affiliation. Alongside democracy, human rights, peace and security, and freedom of expression are certain principles Australians tend to take for granted: the separation of powers, the rule of law and good governance. None stands alone. Democracy and human rights cannot be fully achieved if the rule of law is not in place democracy cannot stand if there is not freedom of expression and without good governance all the rest falls away.

The Jameeyathul Ulema organization is attempting to do to the Muslim people the destruction caused to the Tamil people by the the LTTE organization of Velupillai Prabhakra. This has been stated by the President of the Bodu Bala Sena Organization Ven. Kirame Vimalasjothi thero.

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I do agree MR short changed the country with ministers.

[(Mirror) We are dedicated to make Namal Rajapaksa President says the Project Minister of Ports and Highways,Mr. Rohitha Abeygunawardene. The Minister was speaking at a ceremony held in a temple at Nalluruwa in Panadura. Mr. Namal Rajapaksa too had been present on he occasion.

Speaking further Mr. Abyegunawardene has said, He is the future president of this country that participated at the opening of the entrance and the shrine room today on my invitation. We are preparing to hand over the country to him. Getting Mr. Namal Rajapaksa, who is going to be the future leader of the country, to participate at the ceremony is an intelligent decision taken by the chief priest of the temple, the minister said.]

Sri Lanka`s democratic institutions are in ferment once again. The impeachment of Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake and her quick replacement with former Attorney General Mohan Peiris come as an unsavoury climax to an unedifying standoff between the judiciary on the one hand and the legislature and executive on the other.

The episode is one more instance of President Mahinda Rajapaksa placing his own and his regime`s interest over that of the country and its institutions. It is certain to contribute to institutional decay, attract international opprobrium and underscore the impression that Sri Lanka is ruled not by law but by the will of individuals. And the worrying fact about the country`s travails is that its chief executive, who ought to be the one most concerned about it and do more to strengthen them, is actively contributing to the undermining of its institutions.

The JVP has said minister Mervyn Silva was responsible for the killing of Kelaniya Pradeshiya Sabha member Hasitha Madawala.

Speaking to the media today (Jan. 09), party MP Vijitha Herath said people of Gampaha knew about the enmity between minister Silva and Kelaniya PS members.

Following a strong outcry by the people, several supporters of the minister were arrested in connection with the killing.

Gunmen who came on a motorcycle shot dead a Kelaniya Pradeshiya Sabha UPFA member just outside his house at Waragoda in Kelaniya last evening, heightening the tension in the area that has seen a hostile political battle between two ruling party factions.

The victim, Hasitha Madawala, was a close associate of PS Chairman Prassana Ranaweera and stood by him during the ongoing tussle between the PS Chief and Minister Mervyn Silva.Menaka Jayamaha, the victim`s neighbour, told the Sunday Times the killers who were wearing helmets shot Mr. Madawala at close range while he was standing outside his house.