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28 Aug 2008
Response to Dushy Renetunga.doc Now who is responsible for this sad plight of women in the Muslim societies? Isn’t it the degenerated and oppressive dictators, installed and prot...
28 Aug 2008
Sovereignty of the People AND THE RULE OF LAW People can exercise their sovereignty effectively only if they are well informed. My experience is that in most democracies misinformation and disinfo...
15 Aug 2008
Peaceful Solutions to Eastern Muslims.doc Though the East is cleared of the LTTE and the “Eastern Provincial Council” has been constituted amidst controversies, the Eastern Muslims complai...
01 Jul 2008
Journalist and British High Commission Staff attacked Mr. Perera and his friend, Mr. Mahendra Amaraweera a Sri Lankan national working as head, political section of the British High Commission in Colombo...
27 Jun 2008
State media level dangerous allegation against Sri Lanka Press Institute State media level dangerous allegation against Sri Lanka Press Institute Free Media Movement expresses its serious concern that State controlled media...
14 Jun 2008
Another journalist receives death threat Former deputy Editor of the Sunday Leader, Editor of monthly magazine Montage and leading investigative journalist and South Asia co-coordinator of In...
12 Jun 2008
Head state media calls for journalist's death.doc Chairperson of State controlled Sri Lanka Broadcasting Cooperation (SLBC) called for the death of senior journalist Poddala Jayantha. This outrageous ...
08 Jun 2008
Pressrelease.doc In latest attack, on 5th July journalist M.A.C. Jalees was assaulted by political party supporters and his camera was taken away. Earlier journalists...
28 May 2008
Pillayan blames.doc TMVP have weapons and power now!!! Muslims are defenseless people. We have no weapons !!! we were afraid to speak out against the TMVP and its atrocit...
03 May 2008
World Press freedom day statement of FMM.doc It is with deep disquiet that the Free Media Movement (FMM) recognises the World Press Freedom Day that falls today. This day is almost a cruel joke i...
03 May 2008
World Press Freedom Day - SAMC Statement In a statement marking World Press Freedom Day 2008, the regional media watchdog facilitated by the South Asian Free Media Association, urged Afghanis...
19 Apr 2008
Sri Lanka's Growing Ties with Israel The Island’s growing ties with Israel have become a cause for serious concern among many especially within the discriminated and discarded Muslim co...
12 Apr 2008
Take family permission for conversion.doc The Malaysian government will introduce a regulation requiring non-Muslims wishing to convert to Islam to inform their family before doing so. Announc...
06 Apr 2008
Eastern Provincial Council Election 10 May 08 The Muslims are now the unquestioned first majority in the Eastern Province. At the General Elections
of 2000 and 2001 the Muslims accounted for five...
30 Mar 2008
Letter of Condemnation to India H C. pdf It has been reported that film director Thusara Peiris was harassed and assaulted by a group calling
themselves as “Tamil Nadu Film Directors Assoc...
19 Mar 2008
Three journalists released.doc Journalists K.Wijesinghe, Camaramen Ranga Lasanatha, visual editor Unyanan of www.outreachsl.com are the journalists released today. E - kuality pri...
15 Mar 2008
Stop this Islam Bashing.doc Indonesia has said the film Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders plans to release about the Koran could derail interfaith dialog and harm efforts towar...
09 Mar 2008
Save the Rohingya People.pdf Do not repatriate those Rohingyas and save their lives, Sri Lankan government request...
09 Mar 2008
The world is still silent about Gaza holocaust.pdf The Zionists falsified history and exaggerated the number of Jews who died during World War II in order to justify the establishment of the Israeli en...
08 Mar 2008
Librian of SLRC cut with a razor knife.pdf Mrs. Ranjani Aluthge, librarian of the of state
controlled Sri Lanka Rupavahini Cooperation (SLRC) was cut with a razor knife this evening, 5th March...
08 Mar 2008
FMM Press release.pdf number of journalists have being taken in for questioning on 7th and 8th of March with some of them held incommunicado for hours. Most of the journali...
02 Mar 2008
Update: Bulletin 450 Should journalists write their stories despite government censorship or should they stop using their pen as a show of protest? What is the most consci...
02 Mar 2008
Qaradawi slams Dutch MP’s anti-Islam film plan PROMINENT Muslim scholar Sheikh Yousuf al-Qaradawi has slammed a Dutch MP, who plans to release an anti-Islam film on the Internet this week, as ‘...
02 Mar 2008
Playing With Fire The statement by Germany’s Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble that European newspapers should reprint the controversial Danish cartoons of the Pro...
22 Feb 2008
Causes and Consequences of Our Foreign Policy In fact, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney came of age and were inspired by a foreign policy of force for both prestige and perceived profit. To be stron...
18 Feb 2008
Iran MPs want action on Dutch, Danes over cartoon TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iranian lawmakers have urged the president to review ties with Denmark and the Netherlands over the reprinting of a satirical carto...
18 Feb 2008
Jews who accuse Nazis of genocide commit genocide against Palestinians Most of the inhabitants here are refugees who traditionally owned their homes and lands in what we now call Israel. But they were chased out at gun po...
13 Feb 2008
Message from SAFMA President to Sri Lanka Media Rights action day Feb 14th The mass media of Sri Lanka are facing a crisis of security and survival as it has never done before. In the past, the Sri Lankan mass media has been ...
13 Feb 2008
American Policies and the Middle East If we abandon our ideals in the name of defending them, we defeat ourselves. I have long felt that all the world - including its most troubled regions...
13 Feb 2008
Consequences of a Nuclear Middle East What good would it do Hamas if it evoked the anger of the Egyptian public and became responsible for the calliopes of the Palestinian cause?
Governm...
13 Feb 2008
Iran’s defense spending per capita among lowest in Mideastdoc Iran’s defense expenditure per capita remains among the lowest in the Middle East region despite having the second highest population behind Egypt, ...
30 Jan 2008
Sign of Media Repression.pdf A car and a motorbike followed investigative journalist Lasantha Ruhunage of the Sinhala Ravaya newspaper for
more than 30 minutes yesterday, attempt...
28 Jan 2008
Suhaib Kasim of Thinakaran stabbed.pdf The Associate Editor of the state controlled Tamil daily Thinakaran, Suhaib M Kasim, was stabbed at his
home in Colombo around 8.30pm on 28th January...
28 Jan 2008
Defence Secretary Gotabhaya statement.pdf Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksha has openly stated
that media has to be censored and criminal defamation brought back. He has gone on to name t...
22 Jan 2008
What did the Government gain from the CFA termination?.doc Many are still weeping for the Ceasefire Agreement (CFA) that was unilaterally abrogated by the Government on January 2.The countries involved in the ...
16 Jan 2008
Akashi lauds commitment to political solution.pdf Japanese Special Peace Envoy Yasushi Akashi yesterday said the Japanese Government continued to support Sri Lanka in view of achieving sustainable pea...
16 Jan 2008
THE CEASEFIRE IS DEAD FROM TODAY! The Ceasefire Agreement [CFA] after a long period of terminal illness is now dead. Prabhakaran did say that it was not worth the paper it was written ...
16 Jan 2008
Deadly blast hits Sri Lanka bus.pdf At least 23 people have been killed and dozens hurt in a bomb attack on a bus in Sri Lanka, the military says.
The attack took place in the town of ...
10 Jan 2008
Police attempt to abduct a senior journalist .pdf Free Media Movement is shocked and outraged that in an apparent abduction attempt police tried to enter the residence of senior journalist Poddala Jay...
10 Jan 2008
Challenges Faced by the Muslim Congress Within the Muslim Political Arena .pdf From the time the Muslim Congress switched sides in the Parliament to cross over to the government ranks from the opposition benches and until now, th...
09 Jan 2008
Culture of Violence Threatens to Engulf Whole Country.pdf The assassination of Minister of Nation Building D M Dassanayake by a suspected LTTE claymore mine in a suburb of Colombo while on his way to Parliame...
09 Jan 2008
Attempts to silence Jaffna daily UTHAYAN.pdf The Free Media Movement is deeply concerned and condemns the attempt to silence the UTHAYAN newspaper, published in Jaffna.
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08 Jan 2008
Senior journalist and a TV channel labelled as terrorist by a minister .pdf The Free Media Movement (FMM) is seriously alarmed by the statements made in press conference on 7th January 2008 in by the Minister of social service...
07 Jan 2008
Journalists face death threats for resisting Government MP’s thuggery.pdf A number of journalists in Sri Lanka have received credible information that underworld gangs have been ordered to threaten, harass and even kill them...
07 Jan 2008
Abrogation of ceasefire Agreement.doc A cease-fire provides only an opening for a tedious journey that we have to undertake to reach a lasting solution. In other words, it is an intermissi...
30 Dec 2007
Dr. Dutugemunu retreats amidst attacks from Rupavahini workers.pdf The mediamen against the savagery and thuggery of this nature pays gratitude to the SLRC workers for teaching the thug a good lesson. It is irony of f...
30 Dec 2007
President orders not to report Minister Mervin’s rude behavior in state media.pdf President Mahinda Rajapakse ordered not broadcast the recorded scenes of the chaos in Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation premises in 8 PM news bulletin...
30 Dec 2007
President sacks Peter Hill at a stroke but decides to...pdf The brute Minister’s conduct at the Rupavahini TV station is well evidenced and only action required is immediate sacking of the Minister and then c...
30 Dec 2007
What is wrong with the President - Why is he stillpdf Everything has been told about Mervyn Silva, an underworld goon rose to the level as Labour Minister due to His Master’s reciprocal gift for some hi...
25 Dec 2007
The Middle Path - By Altaf Husain.pdf Perhaps the most overwhelmed being on planet earth at this
moment is the young Muslim. Think about it. You are the news. Every time you turn on the t...
25 Dec 2007
SINHALISATION OF EAST IS A FACT.pdf REPLY TO MINISTER PATALI CHAMPIKA RANAWAKA
BY M.I.M. MOHIDEEN...
25 Dec 2007
Ramifications of Land Alienation in the East.pdf On September 5, Tamil National Alliance (TNA) leader, Rajavarodayam Sampanthan, addressed parliament in an adjournment debate on the current situation...
25 Dec 2007
East Not at Ease-SLMM.pdf A total of seven abductions were reported to the SLMM, with
most victims being abducted from their homes, the report said adding that six people were...
04 Dec 2007
Hundreds of Tamil civilians Detained.pdf FAILURE TO EFFECTIVELY SECURE AND PROTECT THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF
TAMILS IN THE CITY OF COLOMBO IN TAKING STEPS TO INVESTIGATE MATTERS
RELATING TO...
02 Nov 2007
Update: Impinging Media Freedom.pdf Media freedom and the freedom of expression took an incredibly downturn in the month of October 2007 in Sri Lanka. It is a dangerous situation for med...
21 Oct 2007
The Show Goes On... And On.rtf The "Middle East Peace Process" is like one of those big budget Broadway extravaganzas; they go on for years, but with each revival the cast changes. ...
21 Oct 2007
The Armageddon Lobby.rtf This article investigates the history of contemporary Christian Zionism in the United States and the impact of this movement on US policy issues relat...
21 Oct 2007
Democracy And National Liberation.rtf The Hamas election victory in January 2006 has led to an increased interest in the Islamic Resistance Movement. Hitherto little had been understood of...
21 Oct 2007
Formalising Apatheid Packaged As Peace Initiative.rtf Political maneuvers can be spun to sound good if the details are kept vague, but when held to scrutiny it becomes obvious that the upcoming Israeli of...
21 Oct 2007
Update: Navamani - 21.10.07.pdf For a greater insight of Sri Lankan Muslim Affairs
READ NAVAMANI
Please find attached clippings from Navamani of 21st October 2007 in PDF format....
21 Oct 2007
Update: Navamani - 14.10.07.pdf For a greater insight of Sri Lankan Muslim Affairs
READ NAVAMANI
Please find attached clippings from Navamani of 14th October 2007 in PDF format....
10 Oct 2007
NAVAMANI 07.10.07.pdf For a greater insight of Sri Lankan Muslim Affairs READ NAVAMANI...
03 Oct 2007
FMM URGES GOVERNMENT TO RECONSIDER.doc government plans to enact legislation avowedly to give effect to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). According to human ...
03 Oct 2007
Update: Bulletin 430.doc Last week, the prime minister of the United Arab Emirates ruled that news gatherers should not be jailed “because of their work.” Journalists hail...
03 Oct 2007
Athas Attacked by government ministry.pdf The International Federation (IFJ) is concerned for the safety of one of Sri Lanka’s top
investigative journalists after an attack posted on a mini...
03 Oct 2007
Attack on journalist Iqbal Athas.doc The Free Media Movement (FMM) expresses its serious concern and takes strong exception to recent remarks by the official military spokesperson of the ...
05 Sep 2007
Houses torched in Ashroff Nagar.doc Muslim Guardian is continuously reporting that Muslims in the East even after the liberation have been facing severe harassments especially from the G...
05 Sep 2007
Bring Peace to the East.doc The alliance between the breakaway faction of the ruling party (SLFP M) headed by former minister Mangala Samaraweera and the UNP has re-energised opp...
05 Sep 2007
Game of Muslim Political Leaders.doc After the liberation of the East, the government is now on the threshold of entering into a dialogue with the LTTE for a negotiated settlement to the ...
05 Sep 2007
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05 Sep 2007
Muslim Political Arena.doc From the time the Muslim Congress switched sides in the Parliament to cross over to the government ranks from the opposition benches and until now, th...
02 Sep 2007
Ebulletin August 2007.doc The report issued by HRW dated 6th Aug documents the deterioration of media freedom in Sri Lanka.
The government has tried to silence those who quest...
30 Aug 2007
Update: Bulletin425.mht Program to fund research on Internet’s social impact
Worldwide
Professionals in developing countries working for NGOs or other civil society grou...
22 Aug 2007
Update: Remembering Mutur.doc July 2006. LTTE closes the sluice gates of Marvil Aru and triggers the War for Water, locking all of the societies in the region, Muslim, Tamil and Si...
20 Aug 2007
Muthur - spot of crucial challenges.doc The Muslim villages in Muthur have been facing severe Humanitarian Crisis since the beginning of the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka....
11 Aug 2007
Update: Evacuate from Arafa Nagar_Muthur.doc Reports say about 50 to 75 IDP families who had recently returned to their own lands in Arafa Nagar,Muthur have been ordered by the Defence authoritie...
08 Aug 2007
Update: Pothuvil Issue.doc Lack of voices and representation of Muslims in many "trouble shooting arrangements" has become a major issue in the country. Specifically this would ...
07 Aug 2007
Update: Bulletin422.doc The Reuters Foundation is offering full bursaries for journalists from developing countries to attend training on business writing. The course is sche...
04 Aug 2007
Update: Influence of Media on Muslim.doc A discussion on the influence of media in creating negative impressions on issues of Sri Lankan Muslims and methods of improving media savvy among Mus...
06 Jun 2007
Update: SAPFinalDeclaration.doc Safma's Parliamentary Forum-II: South Asian Parliament Shimla Declaration:Towards South Asian Unity: A Call for ActionShimla, India: J...
21 May 2007
Media Training Workshop Students Workshop on
the Role Media in 21st Century
Sir Lanka Muslim Media Forum conducted a Student Media Training Workshop at Khairiya Muslim Ba...