04July2020
Featured Articles
Featured Articles
International outcry against Sri Lanka threatening Yasmin Sooka
More than 150 individuals including two former UN human rights high commissioners and 50 organisations from around the world have demanded Sri Lanka stop threatening internationally renown human right...
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
Tamils defy military restrictions through to pay homage to war dead
War affected Tamil people in the North and East braved the restrictions imposed ...
Media
Tamil journalists in Sri Lanka’s east facing death threats
A group of Tamil journalists from Sri Lanka’s east have been threatened with dea...
Human Rights
“My son was beaten to death,” in Sri Lanka’s high-security prison
Sri Lanka’s top human rights watchdog has been urged to probe the death of a you...
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
Relatives of Disappeared ask “betraying” Tamil politicians to step aside
In a statement to the media to mark Independence Day on 4 February, the Associat...
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
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...
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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