24April2018
Featured Articles
Featured Articles
Report highlights UN failure in screening Sri Lankans for peacekeeping
The United Nations has come under criticism for allowing troops including a frontline commando from an elite police unit in Sri Lanka, alleged to have been involved in serious human rights violations,...
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...
Media
“Army and police collaboration” in assassination of top Sri Lanka journalist
Sri Lanka police Criminal Investigation Department (CID) probing the assassinati...
Human Rights
State medics refuse treating Muslim assaulted by Sri Lanka elite police unit
Details are emerging of Sri Lanka security forces and public officials collabora...
Media & Culture
'A culture of political quietism prevails over us ' - Dharmasena Pathiraja
In Sri Lanka, the '70s represented the rising tide of the revolutionary idealism...
Politics & Economy
Anti-Muslim violence: an inevitable outcome of Sinhala military triumphalism
It was just a road rage! Two vehicles end up at a petrol station after one was ...
Human Rights
The living and the disappeared: the unending battle for justice
The signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the Government of Sri L...
Geopolitics
On Shifting Sands: The Quad and the South China Sea
The Trump administration has re-raised the decade-old geopolitical concept of th...
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
Because I am a Heart Bender
And then I seek for my face.
An eel, also lost its way when finding where the wat...
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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