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National Security in Sri Lanka :
Boston, we are not sitting ducks
Lakshman I.Keerthisinghe LLB, LLM. MPhil
Attorney-ay-Law
It was reported on the Colombo Page on April 27,
2013 that: Sri Lankan Deputy Permanent Representative to the United
Nations in New York Ambassador Major General Shavendra Silva said
that the United States and other Western countries should understand
that terrorism wherever and in whatever form is terrorism and it
should be eliminated. Speaking to the national radio Major General
Silva said bombs used in the Boston attack are similar to the bombs
used by the Tamil Tiger terrorists in Sri Lanka.
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COMRADE PHILIP GUNAWARDENE’S 41st DEATH
ANNIVERSARY:
He fought to free Motherland from imperialist shackles
The revered memory of Comrade Philip, popularly
called and known as the Lion of Boralugoda, is affectionately
recalled today, in honour of his sterling contribution towards the
struggle for Independence and Emancipation of his motherland for a
period of over four decades, commencing from the days the Island was
called and known as Ceylon, that was a relatively privileged Crown
Colony of the Brittish Raj, till she regained her Independence and
became an Independent Sovereign State, currently known as the
Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka .
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The Human Dimension
NEVER LOSE HOPE FOR HOPE IS ALL WE HAVE…
Watching the carnage of the Boston marathon,
pondering what man is capable of in hurting other men, what stood
tall and majestic over it all, was the unwavering hope and
determination shown by the victims. One woman who lost her foot in
the blast wanted to dance again. No, wanted would be the wrong word
– she was determined to dance again. It was not the progress made in
the field of prosthetics but the singular ray of hope they
expressed, thereby with one sweeping act, cancelling the devastating
effect of the bomb.
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