Despite battlefield losses last week with the LTTE
delivering bodies of 30 soldiers killed in action through the ICRC,
Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa while agreeing that the road forward
is hard remains convinced that victory is certain.
Rajapaksa expressed these thoughts in an interview with
today’s issue of the Irida Divaina where he said that the progress
made had been a little faster than originally planned.
"We are moving forward in accordance with those plans," he
had said.
To fight the war correctly, it is necessary to get an analysis...
MPs resignation turns
spotlight on forgotten sneak entry cases
Close on the heels of JVP MP Anuruddha Polgampola quitting
his seat over a charge of human smuggling, G. H. Buddadasa, Chairman of
Kaduwela Pradeshiya Sabha has called for punitive action against two
ministers of the UPFA-run Western Provincial Council under investigation
over a similar charge.
Jeyaraj quits Rivira/Nation
group under new ownership
Tamil affairs commentator, D.B.S. Jeyaraj, who wrote two
weekly columns to The Nation and Bottomline newspapers, has
in a letter to the new owners of the Rivira Media Corporation, the
publishing company, has expressed unhappiness about the change in policy
under the new owners and said...
