When Sri Lanka received independence, its administration and education were of an extremely high standard. Our graduates from the Arts and Medical faculties were considered equivalent to British university standards and were globally accepted. The English writing capacity of Arts graduates surpassed their British counterparts. They completed their postgraduate studies at British universities. Free education […]

Police have obtained a written Order from the Mannar Magistrate not to permit the Media and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), that are working closely on the missing and enforced disappearances issue, to visit the Mannar mass grave site to collect information or report on it. Police have claimed that several Media outlets have misinterpreted the information […]

The Court of Appeal yesterday found Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) General Secretary Ven. Galagoda Atte Gnanasara Thera guilty on all four charges and sentenced to 19-year-rigorous imprisonment, to be served concurrently within 6 years, over his contemptuous behaviour inside the Homagama Magistrate’s Court on January 25, 2016. While handing out a 56-page judgement, Court of […]

President of the Government Medical Officers’ Association, Dr Anuruddha Padeniya, incensed by the fact that he was forced to admit that only about half of the private practitioners had participated in the token strike, retorted that the trade union was currently in the process of compiling a ‘traitors’ list of journalists working against the interests […]

Image: Sri Lanka MPs like to fight among themselves as well. The political class in Sri Lanka, as in many other countries in the world, is not beloved of those who voted them into office; and they are very well aware of that unpleasant fact. Given that knowledge, it is inconceivable that our Members of […]

The relationship between Sri Lanka’s military politics is a topic that gets occasional media attention. However, there is hardly any serious scholarly work on the subject, despite the fact that maintaining a framework of balance in civil-military relations during and after the civil war has surely been a major policy preoccupation among the country’s civilian […]

The Office of Missing Persons has decided to step in to fund the excavations of a suspected mass grave site in Mannar ‘as long as necessary’, in the first major step by the permanent office to investigate and trace disappeared people in Sri Lanka in accordance with its mandate. The grave site currently under forensic […]

Image: LTTE trained civilians including children as civil defense forces. BERLIN (AP) — German authorities have arrested a Sri Lankan man suspected of involvement in killing captured government soldiers as a member of the Tamil Tigers rebel group a decade ago. Federal prosecutors said a judge ordered Thursday the 36-year-old, identified only as Sivatheeban B. […]

(TNA Press Release/03 August 2018.) The visiting Commonwealth Secretary-General Rt. Hon Patricia Scotland met with the Leader of the Opposition and the Tamil National Alliance Mr Sampanthan at the office of the Leader of the Opposition in Parliament today (3rd August 2018). Briefing the Secretary-General Mr Sampanthan pointed out that even though the war has […]

This brief guide is prepared by the Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) to raise awareness on salient points in relation to the Judicature (Amendment) Act No 9 of 2018 enacted in May 2018. As the guide indicates, if fully implemented, the present legislation can address delays with justice with specific cases in Sri Lanka. While […]