23April2019
Featured Articles
Featured Articles
Sri Lanka state intelligence under spotlight after deadly Easter Sunday blasts
Following a series of powerful bomb blasts that killed hundreds, it has emerged that the Sri Lankan government had been kept in the dark about the deadly attacks.......
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 caught red handed lying about UN rights chief
A top official handpicked by Sri Lankan president Maithripala Sirisena to repres...
Media
Sri Lanka police officer assaults Tamil journalist in Jaffna
A Tamil journalist has been admitted to hospital after he was assaulted by a sen...
Human Rights
Sri Lanka: The 'White Vans' never went away
Torture and rape of Tamils by the Sri Lankan security forces is continuing accor...
Politics & Economy
IMF, World Bank & Sri Lanka's bloodbath: "Collateral damage on private people"
The Sri Lankan military’s victory over the LTTE, in 2009, involved a high number...
Human Rights
A distant grief: Mourning the dead in exile
They stood mourning their dead in a cold church hall, hands respectfully clasped...
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
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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