Given Sri Lanka’s majoritarian turn, appeals to address Tamil aspirations may be ineffectual.
India’s appeal to Sri Lanka to address the aspirations of its Tamil...
Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake reportedly supported the abolition of the Provincial Council system in Sri Lanka in remarks made this...
Mario Arulthas and Madura Rasaratnam.
The Rajapaksa family’s recent resounding electoral successes appear at first sight to mark a decisive break in Sri Lanka’s post-war...
The long awaited 2020 Parliamentary Elections has concluded with a 71% Voter turnout despite the difficulties imposed by the COVID -19 Pandemic threat. Appropriate...
Image: Tamils voting in Jaffna, 2013.
Issuing a statement the Global Tamil Forum has congratulated newly elected MPs Mr. Gajendrakumar Ponnambalam and Mr C.V. Vigneswaran...
TNA releases 12-point election manifesto
Says constitutional arrangement on federal model meets legitimate aspirations of Tamil people
Advocates power-sharing as they existed earlier...
R.Sampanthan.
My attention has been drawn to the interview said to have been given to the media by Mr. M. A. Sumanthiran, President’s Counsel, former...
Image: Defence Secretary Maj. Gen. (Retd) Kamal Gunaratne and visiting Zambian Army Chief Lt. Gen. W.M Sikazwe.
Defence Secretary Maj. Gen. (Retd) Kamal Gunaratne has...
(Suhasini Haidar/The Hindu)
Sri Lankan Prime Minister seeks delay in debt payment.
Sri Lanka wants India to allow debt repayments by Colombo to be deferred for...
(New York) – Respect for fundamental human rights in Sri Lanka is in serious jeopardy following Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s election as president in November 2019, Human Rights...
Why no overtures will be made to Tamils and Muslims by the SLPP until after the parliamentary elections.
(Daily Express) The ruling Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna...
Image: TNA parliamentary group led by its leader R.Sampanthan meeting former president M. Sirisena to discuss issues related to devolution of powers. (file)
" The...
Issuing a statement the National Peace Council has listed three issues that can have impact upon inter-community relations with the state.
The statement says that...
Colombo, Dec 20 (PTI) Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has said he cannot entertain the 2015 UN Human Rights Council resolution co-sponsored by the...
Image: Sri Lanka President Gotabaya Rajapaksa. (AP/ File)
In Sri Lanka, with the longest history of universal suffrage in Asia, every election excites the nation, and...
Image: Presidential Election meeting in Jaffna ( Lanka Truth photo)
Although the origins of political Buddhism in Sri Lanka goes back to the 19th century,...
Image courtesy of Tamil Guardian.
Sri Lanka Podu Jana Peramuna and its presidential candidate Gotabaya Rajapaksa have rejected the demands submitted by five major Tamil...
The United Kingdom Minister of State for the Commonwealth, UN and South Asia and Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Sri Lanka is going into another presidential election in a few weeks with unresolved human rights issues and undelivered promises in hand. The...
Meera Srinivasan.
Jaffna district MP and Tamil National Alliance spokesman on the national unity government’s performance, the 13th Amendment, and India’s relations with Sri Lanka.
In...
Public Statement on the Government management of the COVID-19 response
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis, that is still evolving. Despite early efforts that...
Calling of the President of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka to condemn the police action in the strongest possible terms, the attorney representing...
Member of Parliament, TNA MP M. Sumanthran has presented a Private Member's Bill for the enactment of the "Public Health Emergency Act".
One week earlier...
Police, Judicial Officers Should End Arbitrary Arrests, Torture of LGBT People
(Colombo / October 20, 2020) – Sri Lankan authorities have subjected at least seven people...
