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Rizana Nafeek's letter from Al Dawami Prison – Dailynews.lk On right is a photocopy of the letter written by Rizana Nafeek from Al Dawami Prison in Dawami on January 10, 2007. In this letter she says this is the second statement she is making after she was arrested on murder charges. She said she is 19 years and her date …

– http://www.locallanguages.lk/sinhala_how_to_install_in_english.html සෞදි අරාබියේදී මරණ දඬුවමට ලක්ව හිස ගසා මරා දැමුනු රිසානා නෆීක් ගේ මාපියෝද නංගී සහ මල්ලීද දැඩි ශෝකයට පත්ව සිටියහ. මුතූර් සාපිනගර් ප‍්‍රදේශයේ රිසානාගේ නිවස පිහිටා තිබිණි. එය වටේට තහඩු ගසා පොල් අතු සෙවිලි කල මඩුවක් වැනි නිවෙසකි. අද (9) පස්වරුවේ අප එහි යනවිට එම නිවසේ සිටියේ රිසානාගේ මව ෆරීනා නෆීක් (43) සහ නැගණියන් දෙදෙනා වන රිෆ්නා සහ රිෆ්කා …

  This is sheer madness. This is how one could describe the potentially disastrous hate campaign unleashed against the Island’s peaceful Muslim community by a handful of racist rabble rousers who are law unto themselves. Recently two Muslim payment hawkers were attacked by monks at Embilipitiya. Police, first refused to accept victims’ complaints, recorded them only after JVP intervention.  Then there …

  The Sri Lanka Muslim Congress has, in a resolution unanimously adopted on Saturday, noted ‘with grave concern the intensity and widespread religious intolerance’ and ‘attempts to stall progress in devolution by weakening or abolishing the provincial council system’.   The following is the full text of the Resolutions unanimously adopted at the 24th Delegates’ Conference of the SLMC:   …