“The right is more precious than peace.”  -Woodrow Wilson
When a country is being ravaged by war, an account of the events and reasons which caused it is topical and calls for no apology or explanation.

There appears to be a general misinformation concerning the civil war in this island. It is often repeated, particularly in the information media that the Tamils are fighting for a separate state because they are discriminated against in education and employment opportunities by the majority Sinhalese.

At the Annual General Meeting held at Homebush Boys' High School on Sunday, 3rd December , T Pratheepan
has been elected as the new President of Jaffna Hindu College Old Boys Association Sydney. The AGM was followed with musical event and dinner which attracted more than 150 guests .  

Sri Lankan authorities should either charge or release a freelance Tamil journalist detained for nearly a week, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Parameswaree Maunasámi, who wrote for the Sinhala-language weekly Mawbima, was arrested at her home south of Colombo on November 24 along with another Tamil woman, according to the local media advocacy group Free Media Movement (FMM).

Gotabaya Rajapakse, the Sri Lankan Secretary of Defence and brother of SL President Mahinda Rajapakse, narrowly escaped a bomb blast in Colombo Friday morning. Fourteen including Gotabaya Rajapakse's security commandos, were injured in the attack, suspected to be a suicide mission, Police said. Lt. Col. (retd.) Gotabaya Rajapakse, who advocates a military solution to the Tamil national problem, was on his way to a defence meeting with Mr. Mahinda Rajapakse.

BY SHANTI SENADEERA
INTRODUCTION
It is through language that we develop our thoughts, shape our experience, explore our customs, structure our community, construct our laws, articulate our values and give expression to our hopes and ideas. ‘Mother Tongue is a common language that is freely and comfortably spoken by adult generation both at home and outside to their successors in a community and reflect one’s culture and ethnic backgrounds’1. It is the means by which different groups within the society maintain their identities.