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The Sri Lankan government was moving against armed jihadis, a new menace in the Eastern part of the island country, which just ended a long drawn out war against the LTTE, claimed a front-page report in the weekly Lakbimanews on Sunday. Official Indian sources told The New Indian Express that presence of jihadis had begun to cause concern to both …

I refer to Kath Noble’s article in the Island of June 17, in which a whole paragraph is devoted to me. Before dealing with that paragraph, I must set out the background to it. In my article HRC Special Session in the Island of June 15, I described the   Westerners as the grand specialists in the art and science of …

Sri Lanka Muslim conference was founded in 1977. Its singular vision was to bring together the Muslim Women’s organizations as one united body to work in solidarity to raise the status of women and add quality to their lives. The founder’s vision was manifested in action when initially 17 organizations came together as one in the year following 1976. The …

Dr.M.M.M.Najim, Chairman of the Taaruf Lanka delivers the welcome address Chief Guest Justice Saleem Marsoof hand over the first copy of the Sinhala version of the Miracles of the Quran to Mr.A.Liyavudeen, Chairman of CIS. Chief Guest Justice Saleem Marsoof with the guests of honours Mr. A.Liyavudeen, Chairman of CIS, , Mr.Amjad Saleem, COuntry Director/Muslim Aid, Moulavi Fazal, Chairman of …

Alas! It is a great and terrible world. – the Lama in Kipling’s Kim. My purpose in this article is to argue that the West has done incalculable harm to Sri Lanka, though without any malevolent intent, through its over-indulgent attitude towards the LTTE. That attitude bred in the LTTE what might be called a victim syndrome which became a …