www.dinamina.lk has been reported as an attack site

(July 11, 2009) I received the following message when I attempted to visit Sri Lanka state-owned Dinamina newspaper's website. This is based on average security preferences.

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Diagnostic page for www.dinamina.lk

What is the current listing status for www.dinamina.lk?

Site is listed as suspicious - visiting this web site may harm your computer.
Part of this site was listed for suspicious activity 3 time(s) over the past 90 days.

What happened when Google visited this site?

Of the 404 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 7 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent. The last time Google visited this site was on 2009-07-09, and the last time suspicious content was found on this site was on 2009-07-02.Malicious software is hosted on 2 domain(s), including hit-senders.cn/, eachbul.net/.
This site was hosted on 1 network(s) including AS5087 (LANKA).

Has this site acted as an intermediary resulting in further distribution of malware?

Over the past 90 days, www.dinamina.lk did not appear to function as an intermediary for the infection of any sites.

Has this site hosted malware?

No, this site has not hosted malicious software over the past 90 days.

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Where are these Sri Lankan crooks? Where is police and Interpol?

(July 10, 2009) Sri Lanka police and the Interpol are yet to hunt several Sri Lankan racketeers who are involved in massive frauds amounting billions of rupees.

One such person is the Chairman of the collapsed Pramuka Bank Rohan Perera (see photo) that slipped out of the country in 2002 before the court could issue a notice ordering him not to leave the country.

on December 19, 2002 the Monetary Board cancelled the license granted to Pramuka Savings and Development Bank.

However, by a Gazette Extraordinary No. 1145/25 on August 17, 2000, the Finance Minister had listed Pramuka Savings and Development Bank amongst a select group of banks for deposit of trust funds by the Public Trustee. This has been repeated in the government Gazette on June 28, 2002.

Another absconding business giant is Sicilia Kothalawala, wife of Lalith Kothalawala who is now remanded under suspicion for cheating billions of rupees of the depositors of the Golden Key Credit Card Company. Sicilia Kothalawala is a director of the company and she is believed living in Singapore.

Ill famous Sakvithi Ranasinghe, a fraudster who swindled a massive amount of money from depositors who were after high yields, silently slipped off the country and still no productivity can be seen in the declared actions to hunt him.

Post-Sarath Nanda Silva period: Sri Lanka's former Treasury Secretary appeals to amend judgement

(July 10, 2009) In Sri Lanka, weeks after the retirement of the former Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva, a series of legal measures are underway to amend the judgements delivered by him.

This time, powerful former Treasury Seecretary Dr. P. B. Jayasundara has filed a motion in the Supreme Court appealing the self-submitted affidavit stating he will not assume any post in the public service be revoked. He cites that the above mentioned affidavit is a impediment for him to proceed with the appeal of the President from him to assume the posts of the Secretary of the Treasury and the Ministry of Finance.

The motion is to be considered by a tri-party bench headed by the Chief Justice Asoka de Silva on July 14.  

Jayasundara had to file the aforesaid affidavit in accordance with the judgement delivered by the Supreme Court regarding the transferring of shares of the Lanka Marine Services Ltd to John Keells Holdings Private Ltd. 

The Supreme Court on July 21, 2008 ruled that the transaction in selling of 90% shares of Lanka Marine Services (Pvt) Ltd to John Keells Holdings Private Ltd and selling of valuable land at Bloemendhal without a valuation and cabinet approval was entered into without lawful authority and is illegal, unlawful and arbitrary.

The judgment delivered by the Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva with Justices N.G.Amartunga and Jagath Balapatabendi agreeing had held that the fundamental right to equality and equal protection of the law of the petitioner Vasudeva Nanayakkara who is Presidential Advisor was infringed.

The Court in his findings noted that in the said transaction, the John Keells Holdings Ltd had worked hand and glove with the former chairman of the PERC P. B. Jayasundera.

Vasudeva Nanayakkara in his public interest litigation cited 31 respondents including K.N. Choksy, former Minister of Finance, Karu Jayasuriya, former Minister of Power and Energy, Ranil Wickremesinghe, former Prime Minister Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga, former President of Sri Lanka, Milinda Moragoda, former Minister of Economic Reforms, Sripathy Sooriyarachchi, former Minister, Public Enterprise Reforms, Charitha Ratwatte, former Secretary to the Treasury, P.B. Jayasundera, Secretary to the Treasury and former Chairman, Public Enterprises Reform Commission (PERC), John Keells Holdings Ltd. its present Chairman Susantha Ratnayake and former chairman, V. Lintotawela.

A post-Sarath Nanda Silva scenario in the making?

(July 98m 2009) Two fundamental rights petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court seeking changes to the verdicts delivered under the purview of the former Chief Justice Sarath Nanda Silva


One petition was filed by B. K. Abhaya Padmasiri Balasuriya of Bahirawakanda, Kandy citing that the former Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva, when he was the Chairman of the Court of Appeal, made a district court judge of Kandy to lodge a false complaint against him and he was remanded for 294 days as a result of it.


The petitioner says that the former Chief Justice chased him away without allowing him to make clarifications last year when he attempted to proceed with a fundamental rights petition. He also said that he had to wait until the former Chief Justice retired to resubmit the petition.


In the second incident, the Asia Pacific Golf Course Limited, Access International and the owners Water's Edge residencies have appealed through a motion for reconsidering the verdict in relation to the property citing that they incurred losses due to the Supreme Court verdict to revert them to the state. 


In Sri Lanka’s Judiciary: Politicised Courts, Compromised Rights, the latest policy report from the International Crisis Group, warned that the Sri Lankan judiciary is not working in a fair and impartial way that secures justice and human rights for everyone regardless of ethnicity. This risks undermining the government’s recent military victory over the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam). A durable national reconciliation process is only possible if human and constitutional rights are fully restored.

“The judiciary has not acted as a check on presidential and legislative power but has instead contributed to the political alienation of Tamils”, says Robert Templer, Crisis Group’s Asia Program Director. “Under the former chief justice, the Supreme Court’s rulings strengthened political hardliners among Sinhala nationalist parties”.

Rather than assuaging conflict, the courts have corroded the rule of law and worsened ethnic tensions. They are neither constraining militarization of Sri Lankan society nor protecting minority rights. Instead, a politicized bench has entrenched favored allies, punished foes and blocked compromises with the Tamil minority. The judiciary’s intermittent interventions on important political questions have limited settlement options for the ethnic conflict.

Come, give me a hand, let’s go (A poem)

If you are not dead
Or dying
You have to wake up
When the day breaks
Every morning is fresh
Although not in a dew on a petal
Wipe the dust on your bruised forehead
Come, give me a hand, let’s go
Forget the nightmares of blood
Tread soft on wreck
There’s a brook of fresh life
Somewhere in the land
Forget we were defeated
What is the meaning of success?
Life is minutes, days and years
Come, give me a hand, let’s go

-Ajith Perakum Jayasinghe

Mercy Mission arrives in Cape Colorado instead of Captain Ali

(July 07, 2009) The load of relief items collected by Tamil Diaspora in UK in April in the name Mercy Mission to be dispatched defiantly to the civilians that were trapped in a Sri Lanka government designated no-fire zone prior to the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE), is finally arriving in Sri Lanka today in a ship named Cape Colorado instead of the Captain Ali that languished for months near Colombo and Chennai ports seeking permission to be unloaded.

The Tamil Diaspora now seems less interested in the welfare of the internally displaced people who are now held in government run camps amidst severe hardships and they have focused their attention in setting up of a Transnational Self-governance for the Ealam Tamils. The separatist Ealam movement has lost ground in Sri Lanka amidst the severe suppressive measures of the government to crack down on the LTTE remnents.

However, the 27 container load weighing 884 tons of relief items will be vital for the Tamil IDPs to ease their hardships at least a little. Proud Sri Lanka government rejected these relief items but later agreed to accept it under the influence of India.

Last link to old left of Ceylon passed away

(July 07, 2009) A prominent figure of the early leftist movement in Ceylon and wife of S.C.C. Anthony Pillai, Caroline Anthony Pillai a.k.a Dona Caroline Rupasinghe Gunawardena, passed away in Kosgama, on the outskirts of Colombo on July 06. She was born on October 08, 1908.

She is the sister of Philip, Harry and Robert Gunawardhanas.

She spent much of her life in India, but gradually became less of a revolutionary and more of a helpmate to her husband in the labour movement in Madras, reported The Hindu, quoting S. Muthiah.

 S.C.C. Anthony Pillai joined the Lanka Sama Samaja Party (LSSP) in 1936 and party and the leadership soon felt he had the makings of a good trade union leader. But he needed to know Sinhalese and Philip Gunawardena suggested he take lessons from Caroline. Later the teacher and the student go married.

The Party asked them to move to central highlands and, together, despite harassment by both the planters and the authorities, they helped to organise the labour. During the World War II period, as the authorities cracked down on the LSSP leadership, Anthony Pillai went underground in Madurai with the help of Bolshevik Leninist Party of India. He was later arrested in March 1947 and sentenced to two years R.I. for possessing seditious literature. 

On June 6, 1946 Anthony Pillai was elected President of the Madras Labour Union and became a major figure in the Indian labor movement. 

In 1947, he was elected President of the Madras Port Trust Employees’ Union, in 1948, he was elected to the Madras Municipal Council, then he became, in turn, General Secretary and Vice-President of the All India Port and Dock Workers’ Federation and then President of the All India Transport Workers’ Union. In 1952, he was elected Vice-President of the Hind Mazdoor Sabha, the Socialists’ trade union federation.

S. Muthiah wrote to The Hindu on February 23, 2009, "By then he had matured considerably from the days of the B&C strike, and in the years that followed gained the reputation of being a trade union leader who preferred negotiation to strikes and who encouraged productivity so that he could demand monetarily more for the workers from managements. This ‘softening’ cost him the leadership of a couple of unions."

When Anthony Pillai died in 2000, Caroline returned to Sri Lanka.