17January2020
Featured Articles
Featured Articles
Sri Lanka's new government “unleashing a chilling process of repression”
Credible Information gathered by the International Truth and Justice Project – Sri Lanka (ITJP) and JDS reveals how the new government of Sri Lanka under a majority Sinhala hardliner has............
Mo...
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: Buddhist mob violate court order with police backing
A Buddhist mob defied court by cremating the body of a Buddhist monk in an open ...
Media
RSF demand Sri Lanka's presidential candidates to guarantee press freedom
A leading international media watchdog has condemned a threat made against a jou...
Human Rights
More skeletal remains surface in Sri Lanka’s former war zone
Skeletal remains including at least one human skull had been unearthed in an are...
International Affairs
Future Labour government to reexamine military assistance to Sri Lanka (VIDEO)
British military assistance to Sri Lanka will be reviewed under a future Labour ...
Politics & Economy
JDS : A proponent of multidirectional memory among Sinhala readers
Today, JDS turns ten years old. In July 2009, it was launched by an exiled group...
Media & Culture
Fare thee well Jean, the snow white Rose from the hills!
We sit in your quiet hallway; introducing ourselves to the curious you. I look d...
Reflections
Seeing Each Other: Remembering Jean Arasanayagam (1931-2019)
How do I begin? Perhaps with a conversation between two poets, both women, both ...
Poetry & Prose
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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