Namini Wijedasa, a senior journalist in Sri Lanka in a series of twitters has questioned whether European Union office and US embassy in Sri Lanka supporting government’s anti-democratic law reform in the country? Some of the twitters of @Nimilamalee follows: (9) fact that this ridiculous amendment is being brought in to meet EU preconditions for […]

( Protesting mother photo by Melani Manel Perera) By Fr. Sarath Iddamalgoda. Government sources inform that construction work on the Colombo Port City (CPC) now baptized by our Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe as the International Financial City (IFC) will resume in October.  Distressed local Fisherman now inform   that the destructive sand mining by the Chinese […]

( Ruki Fernando, a well known sri Lankan HRD has been gagged  re his earlier arrest by the authorities for more than two years now; image ©s.deshapriya) by Ruki Fernando. Today, 1st Oct. 2016, I came the Bandaranayake international airport in Sri Lanka to travel to London. I was asked by the officer at the […]

(In an accompanying note, President Sirisena has said that the Office of National Unity and Reconciliation (ONUR) had drafted the National Policy  on reconciliation;  Image (c) s.deshapriya) PREAMBLE Concerned by the suffering, damage and detriment caused to the lives, dignity and security of all citizens of Sri Lanka due to the prolonged period of social […]

(Mary Sabamalai, who had to “surrender” one of her four sons to the LTTE. He went missing in 2009. Original photo: Meera Srinivasan) By Meera Srinivasan. More than seven years after the brutal three-decade-long civil war ended in Sri Lanka, people are still picking up the pieces and searching for their loved ones. The last […]

(A mother waiting for her disappeared son participating protest in Colombo, Aug 2016 ©s.deshapriya; in Vanni they are still facing military intimidation) by Shreen Saroor. Three examples of recent  intimidations On 25th August, a mother who claims her son was abducted by military police seven years ago was visited by military officers.  The officers told […]

The majority of the Tamils believe that our rights are going to be sacrificed at the altar of convenience soon. Till today nothing concrete regarding what rights the Tamils are to receive under the new constitution have been conveyed to us. If there is going to be secrecy in formulating the proposals either the Sinhala […]