19April2018
Featured Articles
Featured Articles
Sri Lanka military compelled to acknowledge harassing Tamil journalist
The Sri Lankan military was made to admit that a senior officer harassed a Tamil journalist while covering a news story in the country’s militarised northeast. Commanding officer the Alampil camp in M...
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 president's office confirms militant monk in Tokyo meeting
In an obvious bid to diffuse opposition to affiliation with an extremist Buddhis...
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 ...
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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