17April2021
Featured Articles
Featured Articles
‘Remove the name board or face PTA wrath’- terror police threaten council chair
Even the colour of a dress and a name board has become the eyesore of the Rajapaksa regime in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan Police has now threatened to slap the draconian Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) on...
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
Tamil Bishop who exposed the human cost of Sri Lanka’s bloody war, no more
He was more than a Bishop. A human rights crusader to the core and a saviour of ...
Media
Sri Lanka police detain tortured journalist for obtaining legal assistance
Police in Sri Lanka has detained a journalist who went to give a statement about...
Human Rights
Sri Lanka: Land grab designed to break up traditional Tamil land, says new report
Ongoing land grabbing by government institutions including the military in Sri L...
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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