17November2019
Featured Articles
Featured Articles
More skeletal remains surface in Sri Lanka’s former war zone
Skeletal remains including at least one human skull had been unearthed in an area struck by heavy shelling during the final stages of Sri Lanka’s bloody civil war that ended ten years ago. Judicial me...
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
Swiss legal debacle “triggered Sri Lanka's latest terrorists list”
Sri Lanka's most recent decision to declare a prominent international rights act...
Media
Pressure mounts on Sri Lanka to release writer jailed by misusing UN treaty law
International rights watchdogs have intensified their campaign urging authoritie...
Human Rights
Tamils protest arrest of doctor with “expertise to expose war crimes”
Tamils in northern Sri Lanka have been protesting the detention of a forensic ex...
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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