25January2021
Featured Articles
Featured Articles
Sri Lankan Government in the soup over Indian fishermen deaths
As condemnations rise across both sides of the Palk Straits over the alleged killing of three Indian fishermen and one Sri Lankan Tamil refugee by the Sri Lankan Navy in mid seas, India has strongly.....
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 risks losing aid from the Muslim world due to forced cremation policy
As the Government of Sri Lanka continue its' hard-line stand on the cremation of...
Media
Norway citizen detained in Sri Lanka for alleged assault on journalists
A Norwegian citizen of Sri Lankan origin is among two in custody for allegedly a...
Human Rights
Sri Lanka warned “not to play with the lives of Tamil political prisoners”
Amidst Corona virus infection in Sri Lankan prisons increasing, protests across ...
International Affairs
International outcry against Sri Lanka threatening Yasmin Sooka
More than 150 individuals including two former UN human rights high commissioner...
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...
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...
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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