04September2026
Featured Articles
Featured Articles
The Policing of Grief: a glimpse of what unfolded in Jaffna
The telephone calls came from the District Secretariat. Be ready at eight in the morning on 25 August, the families of the enforced disappeared in Mullaitivu and Kilinochchi were told, and wait at the...
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: police conceal identity of policeman who pulled gun at Tamil MP
Police in northern Sri Lanka declined to disclose the identity of a policeman wh...
Media
Journalists reporting protest to oust Sri Lanka president beaten up 'black and blue'
Security forces and police resorted to violence injuring at least eight journali...
Human Rights
Sri Lanka police in the crosshairs for torture and death, once again
Scores of angry Tamils took to the streets in northern Sri Lanka demanding justi...
International Affairs
X-Press Pearl disaster: Indian fisherman alarmed over marine pollution
Fishermen along the South Indian coast have expressed fears after the deadly tox...
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...
Human Rights
Alive from the abyss: continuing abductions and torture in Sri Lanka
A new generation of young Tamil men are being picked up and tortured by the secu...
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...
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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