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Sat, 26 Oct 2024 Today's Paper
Three weeks has passed since the Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks on three churches and three luxury hotels, which killed nearly 300 people and it is 18 days since the last suicide explosion took place at Sainthamaruthu in the Ampara District. Yet,
Intelligence-driven kinetic means can only do so much. The acid test would be to prevent the recurrence of the monstrosity that surfaced on the Easter Sunday. A good part of that responsibility lies with the local Muslim community. Their contribution
Sufism reigned. It was at its best in Kaththankudi. Aesthetics were part of the culture and there was a general air of lightness, positivism and cheerfulness. Women were bustling around the city in beautiful pastel coloured dresses. Lemon green, pink
In my eighties - Do I look forward or backward April 21 Easter Sunday I was numb with grief but my mind went racing with multiple thoughts. Let calm descend over me to take stock of the situation. This reprehensible dastardly act was the work of crim
Muslim-majority Bangladesh was born out of an explicitly secular and linguistic movement spearheaded by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. But it did not take long for the new born to show that it was “Islamic” as well as “Bengali”.
‘A supplementary budget of 190 million rupees for two bulletproof vehicles for the President and the newly-appointed Secretary of the Ministry of Defence has been passed in parliament! One of my neighbours made it a point to approach me during my m
Scurrilous Documents similar to Kavikola of the old times had vanished from our soil over the past few decades. However, the politicos will never allow those age old cultural habits to die naturally. They come forward to revive them occasionally.
Aasiya Bibi, a Pakistani Catholic woman who spent almost a decade on death-row over blasphemy allegations in Pakistan, was finally allowed to leave for Canada. According to latest information received, Asia Bibi is now in Canada.
A simple question needs to be addressed on the Easter Sunday Bomb Attack in Sri Lanka. Could our Government pursue an intelligence based anti-terrorist drive to combat the ISIS linked terrorist groups without the bomb blasts happening?
On May 15th, the United Nations marks the International Day of Families. In Sri Lanka also the families – recognised worldwide as the nucleus of society -- need to play an effective role in restoring normalcy, inter-religious and inter-racial unity
Admittedly, there is a huge amount of work to be done, but the rapidity of the response and speed in which our police and security services apprehended the Islamist terrorists following the Easter Sunday attacks, and exposed the vast extent of their
The Easter Sunday bombings came as a rude shock to me. When the news broke out that fateful Sunday morning that churches were being bombed, I found it hard to believe. My family was horrified. What manner of barbarians would take innocent lives and t
The terrorist group that was behind the barbaric suicide bomb attacks on three churches and three five-star hotels on Easter Sunday (April 21) which killed nearly 300 innocent men, women and children seem to have been contained.
“One should remember that Sri Lanka is yet to overcome the terrorist threats. This is because Sri Lanka has become a victim of global terrorism……We have already received support from several international intelligence services.
Most of our school children are at home these days and parents are both elated and concerned as a result. Parents are elated because there is no place safer for children than home. But they have their concerns because education has been disrupted.
The Easter Sunday terror attacks have opened the Pandora’s Box of questions on various aspects of Islam, its teachings and commands, amid an avalanche of Islamophobia, hate speech, distrust and scorn.
More than two weeks has gone by after the brutal and gruesome carnage that was unleashed against the innocent, unarmed Christian worshippers and unsuspecting diners, who had shown up in numbers to enjoy the Easter brunch at the leading hotels in Colo
Presidency goes away beyond the holder’s personal likes and dislikes. It goes beyond the holder’s fears and pleasures; its scope is so large and extending beyond the personal boundaries of one’s lamentable limitations, a not-so-sophisticated
‘Terrorist has no religion’. That’s a poster-line. Appropriate, given the context of the Easter Sunday attack. It is moreover a statement that clearly disassociates the religious from the terrorists, especially those of the Muslim community in
In as much as we expressed our gratitude and appreciation to the members of our Intelligence Services, Armed Forces, Police and the STF for the effective and efficient manner in which they carried out search operations, arrested the suspects and seiz
Arabization of the local Muslims finally made way for the emergence of militants who blew themselves up on April 21 causing immeasurable damage to the country and its people. Only after the serial bombings that rocked the nation on April 21, some pe
After more than two weeks after the Easter Sunday bombings we are trying to understand two things; one is what these ruthless terrorists want and the other is whether the Holy Quran propagates violence of any kind.
Delivering the inaugural speech at the ceremonial sitting held last Monday at the Court of Appeal (CA), the 47th and newly-appointed CA President Justice Yasantha Kodagoda expressed his concerns over reforms that could be introduced to the administra
When a government stands divided among themselves, when the Prime Minister and the State Minister of Defence are left out of Security Council meetings and even the venues are kept secret to them; what kind of a democratic government are we looking at
Sri Lanka is once again in the spotlight of the world; regretfully for ugly and vile reasons. This is Sri Lanka’s 4/21 moment (9/11 in the USA and 11/26 in India). The Easter Sunday massacre of gigantic proportions (253 dead and still counting amon
With Sri Lankan religious leaders meeting almost daily for a dialogue to promote inter-religious and inter-racial unity in diversity in the aftermath of the Easter Sunday massacres, the United Nations today and tomorrow also marks a related event. It
As I ponder sadly on the Easter Sunday disaster still wiping my tears, our hearts go out to the hundreds killed, and those injured and most of all, to those who lost their nearest and dearest ones in the blasts. The murderers have left in their wake
In light of the current terrorist threat that is haunting the country, this is a time when the entire nation should stand together to defeat the common enemy. The threat is being aimed at every citizen irrespective of his caste, creed, religion, race
Sri Lanka’s battle against Islamic extremism would involve two integral parts: (a) an intelligence driven kinetic approach to flush out, arrest or neutralize violent extremists; and (b) a State facilitated and community- led approach to combat non-
Sri Lanka was caught completely off guard by the string of bomb attacks that ripped through the capital Colombo and multiple other locations in the island. Adding to the fear and confusion, further explosives are being found across the country, in a
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