19August2019
Featured Articles
Featured Articles
Top military ranks to Sri Lanka ex commanders “illegal and undemocratic”
Questions have been raised as to the legality of SL President’s decision to award military honours to to two wartime commanders including a suspect in a criminal case regarding the enforced......
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
Top general accused of war crimes calls for military rule in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s ex army chief who is facing criminal allegations of war crimes in La...
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
Tamil political prisoner halts 9 day fast unto death
A Tamil political prisoner has agreed to stop his fast unto death protest in a h...
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
Resolving Sri Lanka’s political squabbles won’t end Sinhala Buddhist militancy
\There has been a rash of public commentary in recent days blaming the Easter Su...
Media & Culture
Impunity Island: Sri Lanka's "predator emeritus" on rebound
Many local journalists feel discomfort when they hear the name Gotabaya Rajapaks...
Reflections
Vairamuttu Varadakumar: the quiet centre of the struggle for Tamil rights
The Tamil community has lost a quiet hero. V. Varadakumar held the centre of Tam...
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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