While the Colombo city beautification project continues, the government has turned its attention towards Bauddhaloka Mawatha and the residents around the proposed new Russian Embassy complex are facing eviction. The Sri Lankan Government has sold nine acres of prime land to the Russian Embassy, for its upcoming project, bordering Bauddhaloka Mawatha, in the most sought after location of the country. …
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Terrorism is not a Muslim monopoly By Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar,TNN
"All Muslims may not be terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims." This comment , frequently heard after the Mumbai bomb blasts implies that terrorism is a Muslim specialty, if not a monopoly. The facts are very different. First, there is nothing new about terrorism. In 1881, anarchists killed the Russian Tsar Alexander II and 21 bystanders. In 1901, anarchists killed …
Read More »Sharon An obituary in blood By Ameen Izzadeen
Yet another Israeli leader dies and escapes from being tried for war crimes. Ariel Sharon could escape war crimes charges but in the world court of public opinion, he will remain a war criminal. Sharon is not alone, almost all Israeli leaders since that country’s creation in 1948 are war crimes suspects. Arab and Palestinian blood is on their hands. …
Read More »Zionist war criminal Ariel Sharon died after eight years in death throes. By Latheef Farook
Western leaders’ responses demonstrate their powerlessness in the face of Jewish crimes. Israel’s former prime minister Ariel Sharon, known for his massacres and genocides of Palestinians ,destruction of their properties and accused by an Israel commission itself of massacring Palestinians, died on Friday 10 January 2014. However world leaders from United Nations secretary General Ban Ki Moon, United States President …
Read More »In India, a Spectre For Us All, And A Resistance Coming By John Pilger
In five-star hotels on Mumbai's seafront, children of the rich squeal joyfully as they play hide and seek. Nearby, at the National Theatre for the Performing Arts, people arrive for the Mumbai Literary Festival: famous authors and notables drawn from India's Raj class. They step deftly over a woman lying across the pavement, her birch brooms laid out for sale, …
Read More »President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s visit to Israel By Latheef Farook
Why island’s Muslims, not Muslim politicians, are concerned? President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s two day visit to Israel, during his current tour to the region which included Jordan and the Israeli occupied West Bank, remains the greatest achievement for Israel which has been aggressively trying to enter the country through backdoors only to be sent out from front doors since mid 1950s. …
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