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'Sri Lanka and Myanmar are ethnocratic states' - Dr Maung Zarni
Thursday, 22 April 2021

'Sri Lanka and Myanmar are ethnocratic states' - Dr Maung Zarni

'Enemy of the State' screamed the banner headline of a Burmese national newspaper in September, featuring full page photograph of Maung Zarni. More hatred follows, a week later. "These publications ar...

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Politics & Current Affairs

Sri Lanka: A crisis, crackdown and caution

Sri Lanka: A crisis, crackdown and caution

As Sri Lanka continues to reel under severe socio-economic and political crisis,...

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Media

Journalists reporting protest to oust Sri Lanka president beaten up 'black and blue'

Journalists reporting protest to oust Sri Lanka president beaten up 'black and blue'

Security forces and police resorted to violence injuring at least eight journali...

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Human Rights

Tamil mothers of disappeared fear the worst as bodies wash ashore in Colombo

Tamil mothers of disappeared fear the worst as bodies wash ashore in Colombo

Families searching for their enforced disappeared relatives fear that the bodies...

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International Affairs

X-Press Pearl disaster: Indian fisherman alarmed over marine pollution

X-Press Pearl disaster: Indian fisherman alarmed over marine pollution

Fishermen along the South Indian coast have expressed fears after the deadly tox...

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Politics & Economy

Tamil resistance lives on despite Sri Lanka’s ban on 'Maaveerar Naal'

Tamil resistance lives on despite Sri Lanka’s ban on 'Maaveerar Naal'

Over the three decades that it has been celebrated, Maaveerar Naal has undergone...

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Human Rights

Alive from the abyss: continuing abductions and torture in Sri Lanka

Alive from the abyss: continuing abductions and torture in Sri Lanka

A new generation of young Tamil men are being picked up and tortured by the secu...

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Media & Culture

Impunity Island: Sri Lanka's

Impunity Island: Sri Lanka's "predator emeritus" on rebound

Many local journalists feel discomfort when they hear the name Gotabaya Rajapaks...

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Reflections

Dharmaretnam Sivaram: 'Appa died doing what he loved most'

Dharmaretnam Sivaram: 'Appa died doing what he loved most'

This year marks the 15th anniversary of our father’s death and to this day, no o...

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Press Releases

JDS condemns attacks on journalists following Sri Lanka Easter Massacre

JDS condemns attacks on journalists following Sri Lanka Easter Massacre

Journaists for Democracy in Sri Lanka denounces the spiteful hate campaign direc...

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  • JDS is the Sri Lankan partner organization of international media rights group, Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The launching of this website was made possible by the EU’s European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR), of which Reporters Without Borders is a beneficiary.