05April2020
Featured Articles
Featured Articles
Sri Lanka: court to rule on disappearance victims right to representation in Mannar
A court in northern Sri Lanka halted the judicial inquiry of the country’s largest mass grave, in order to decide on the family members of disappeared Tamils’ right to participate in the legal proceed...
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
Police mislead parliament to whitewash criminal record of Geneva envoy
Police in Sri Lanka have misled the parliament body probing the eligibility of i...
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
No report from Sri Lanka’s rights body on two years old anti-Muslim riots
Sri Lanka’s national human rights watchdog is yet to release its report into inv...
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
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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