27 February 2019
Human Rights Council 40th session: draft resolution
Promoting reconciliation, accountability and human rights in Sri Lanka
The Human Rights Council,
PP1 Reaffirming the...
(26 February 2019 / Daily Mirror) Megapolis and Western Development Minister Patali Champika Ranawaka said he submitted a Cabinet memorandum asking for general amnesty to...
Image: 1989 a woman walked passed a bodies of a massacre by JVP at Menikhinna.
(Daily Mirror 29.02.19) In Anuruddha Jayasinghe’s Ginnen Upan Seethala, Kamal Addaraarachchi...
Image: UNHRC, Geneva. (c) S.Deshapriya.
Sri Lanka: Need for time-bound plan for implementation of commitments to the Human Rights Council
February 25, 2019
Your Excellency,l
We write to seek...
Lawyers for Democracy (LfD) notes, with grave concern that President Maithripala Sirisena plans to execute at least 13 death row prisoners. By lifting a...
Image : (c) S.Deshapriya.
REMARKS BY THE SECRETARY-GENERAL ON THE OCCASION OF THE 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GENEVA ASSOCIATION OF UNITED NATIONS CORRESPONDENTS.
(25 February 2019/...
(FT)Marketing slogans must match reality.
There’s nothing like a well-crafted marketing slogan for a prospective Presidential candidate. Gotabaya Rajapaksa is emerging more clearly into the...
Image: Minister Samaraweera at HRC30 (c) S.Deshapriya.
(Text of Speech made by the Minister of Finance and Media, Hon. Mangala Samaraweera during the adjournment debate...
(Ceylon Today/25.02/19) Former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay came strong on the current Sri Lankan Government for trying to seek Cabinet...
Image: AFP PHOTO/ LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI (Photo credit should read LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images)
(The Hindu/Meera Srinivasan 23.02.19) Sri Lankan ethnic Tamils demonstrate outside the main prison in Colombo...
President says troops did not commit war crimes; his proposal being studied by Foreign Ministry.
Sri Lanka is considering withdrawing its co-sponsorship of the United...
Image: Former navy chief, Wasantha Karannagoda in the middle.
(ECONOMYNEXT/Feb 23, 2019) Former navy chief, Wasantha Karannagoda, has been accused of conspiracy to murder and made a...
(intpolicydigest.org 22 Feb 2019) Is Sri Lanka on the path to establishing its own Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)? The answer, at least if...
Holding a press conference in Colombo yesterday (20 Feb) three retired service commanders, Air Chief Marshal Roshan Goonetileke), Admiral Tisara Samarasinghe and General Daya...
Image: Burned body ( File photo)
(The Island/February 20, 2019)
Investigations being conducted by the Criminal Investigations Department have revealed that some members of the Southern...
Image: Journalist Nadarajah Kugarajah was assaulted by acting Officer-in-Charge of Kopay police station.(@garikaalan)
Media Release/ 2019 Feb 19.
The Free Media Movement, while strongly condemning the police attack on...
19th February, 2019.
Dear President Sirisena,
We, the below signed citizens and civil society organizations of Sri Lanka are dismayed and alarmed by your recent statements,...
By Jehan Perera.
President Maithripala Sirisena has been joined by former president Mahinda Rajapaksa and by other opposition members in denouncing the institution of the...
(Sunday Observer 17 Feb 2019)
Right wing politicians have taken up cudgels against Navy officials testifying against senior rankers implicated in an abduction for ransom...
Image: Sri Lanka passport page.
In letter addressed to President Sirisena a well known Sri Lankan human rights activist and writer Sydney Marcus Dias has detailed...
“If they harm me, it is the country they harm.” Gotabhaya Rajapaksa (Hard Talk – Daily Mirror – October 2011)
The beautification of Gotabaya Rajapaksa is...
(The Independent) Teenager Greta Thunberg’s grassroots environmentalist activism is sweeping across the world, igniting a movement led by young people urging their governments to combat...
Image: Sri Lankan Finance Minister Mangala Samaraweera.
Meera Srinivasan/The Hindu.
Debts amounting to LKR 1,400 million to be written off; interest rates capped.
With a partial debt...
Sri Lanka today faces another constitutional crisis. At the centre of the crisis is the dynamic between the Constitutional Council, a creation of the...
Image: Two businessmen ( SLM)
Two businessmen Manjula Asanka and Raseen Chinthaka from from Boossa, Galle district has been abducted b the police and they have tortured...
Joint Press Release following the 22nd session of the European Union - Sri Lanka Joint Commission.
Bruxelles, 14/02/2019.
The European Union (EU) and Sri Lanka held...
Proponents of militarisation claim the Sri Lanka military is more efficient, competent & uses public resources more prudently than SL public service. Findings of...
Writing a letter to President Rajapaksa, detained MP Rishad Bathiudeen’s wife says that “the PCoI report had found Gnanasara Thero and his activities as one...
