23March2019
Featured Articles
Featured Articles
Sri Lanka refuses to hand back military occupied land
Thousands of acres of land occupied by the military in northern Sri Lanka will not be released to their rightful owners despite ongoing protests. Scores of war displaced Tamil families have been prote...
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 PM requests Tamils to “forget the past” on war crimes (VIDEO)
War affected Tamils who have been denied justice for nearly a decade were asked ...
Media
Sri Lanka police officer assaults Tamil journalist in Jaffna
A Tamil journalist has been admitted to hospital after he was assaulted by a sen...
Human Rights
Sri Lanka: The 'White Vans' never went away
Torture and rape of Tamils by the Sri Lankan security forces is continuing accor...
Politics & Economy
UK Shredding Sri Lankan skeletons in the closet
Britain’s Foreign Office has destroyed hundreds of diplomatic files about its re...
Human Rights
A distant grief: Mourning the dead in exile
They stood mourning their dead in a cold church hall, hands respectfully clasped...
Media & Culture
Impunity Island: Sri Lanka's "predator emeritus" on rebound
Many local journalists feel discomfort when they hear the name Gotabaya Rajapaks...
Reflections
Ambalavaner Sivanandan (1923-2018): An anti-racist fighter from Ceylon
One of the many sad consequences of the ethnic war in (so-called) Sri Lanka is t...
Poetry & Prose
Press Releases
Sri Lanka: 'End brutal crackdown against students' - JDS
The Journalists for Democracy in Sri Lanka has called on the Sri Lankan authorit...
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