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UN gives international community the greenlight to punish Sri Lanka for torture

Congress is calling on the Biden administration to formally hold Sri Lanka responsible for its human rights abuses and violation of international humanitarian law,...

Sri Lanka’s ancestral inhabitants are Tamils! There are evidence of Sinhalese scholars – Professor Pusparatnam

Tamils are the ancestral inhabitants of Sri Lanka and Tamil language is Sri Lanka's mythical language Jaffna. Charest Professor Pusparatnam, Head of History, Archaeology...

The mysterious ‘global financier’ suing Sri Lanka

As sovereign debt restructuring nerds, team Alphaville has had an eye on Sri Lanka. But our attention was properly piqued when the US government...

Dynamite use sends shockwaves through fishing industries

Using explosives is illegal, wasteful and devastating to marine life and people’s livelihoods. Yet in Sri Lanka and around the world it’s thriving as...

Kurunthurmalai – One Country, Two laws

On 26.08.1981, a report appeared in the Tamil daily Suthanthiran as follows. "The Saiva people in the area suspect that a Sinhala Buddhist racist...

Truth in Sri Lanka is even more disturbing

This chilling Dispatches documentary reports on the aftermath of 2019’s apparently random terrorist attack, and alleges unpalatable truths On Easter Sunday 2019, six suicide bombings...

Corrupt governance needs to be fixed to rebuild Sri Lanka – Survey

The increase in the price of petrol and diesel has been accompanied by the removal of the QR Code quota system for the purchase...

Is the IMF setting Sri Lanka up for a second car crash?

Sri Lanka is bankrupt and restructuring its debts. But there’s a high risk that this restructuring will not be thorough enough, leaving the country...

Sri Lanka’s Truth Commission Plans Under Fire

We, nine international human rights organizations, have grave reservations about the Sri Lankan government's proposed National Unity and Reconciliation Commission. Our concerns echo many...

France wants to deepen its influence in the Indo-Pacific amid big-power interest in the region

French President Emmanuel Macron made a brief but historic stopover in Sri Lanka last month, in a show of France’s desire to offer an “alternative” to the...

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