28January2022
Featured Articles
Featured Articles
Sri Lanka military’s latest assault weapon: Barbed wire wrapped palm frond
Police in Sri Lanka have once again received a complaint against military officers occupying the Mullaitivu district for assaulting a Tamil with a palm stick wrapped in barbed wire. The victim, a driv...
Interviews
Interviews
'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...
Politics & Current Affairs
Sri Lanka launches offensive against Tamils preparing to mourn war dead
Tamils in Sri Lanka are faced with the risk of losing the opportunity of collect...
Media
Sri Lanka’s misplaced COVID -19 response policy kills promising Tamil journalist
Pragas Gnanapragasam deserved to live longer. This young Tamil journalist became...
Human Rights
Tamil man abducted while EU team is in Sri Lanka to probe rights record
A war affected Tamil man was forcefully abducted in Eastern Sri Lanka allegedly ...
International Affairs
X-Press Pearl disaster: Indian fisherman alarmed over marine pollution
Fishermen along the South Indian coast have expressed fears after the deadly tox...
Politics & Economy
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...
Human Rights
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...
Media & Culture
Impunity Island: Sri Lanka's "predator emeritus" on rebound
Many local journalists feel discomfort when they hear the name Gotabaya Rajapaks...
Reflections
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...
Press Releases
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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