03December2023
Featured Articles
Featured Articles
Sri Lanka police in the crosshairs for torture and death, once again
Scores of angry Tamils took to the streets in northern Sri Lanka demanding justice for a young man who died in custody. On Tuesday, protesters condemning police brutality carried placards in Tamil, Si...
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: A crisis, crackdown and caution
As Sri Lanka continues to reel under severe socio-economic and political crisis,...
Media
Journalists reporting protest to oust Sri Lanka president beaten up 'black and blue'
Security forces and police resorted to violence injuring at least eight journali...
Human Rights
Excavations to resume on Sri Lanka’s largest mass grave
A court in north-western Sri Lanka has ordered to recommence investigations - ha...
International Affairs
X-Press Pearl disaster: Indian fisherman alarmed over marine pollution
Fishermen along the South Indian coast have expressed fears after the deadly tox...
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...
Human Rights
Alive from the abyss: continuing abductions and torture in Sri Lanka
A new generation of young Tamil men are being picked up and tortured by the secu...
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...
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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