ECONOMYNEXT – The Presidential Commission of Inquiry (CoI) on the 2019 Easter bombings has recommended that criminal proceedings be instituted against former President Maithripala...
Guilt by Association
In the immediate aftermath of the Easter Sunday Attacks of 21stApril, 2019, hundreds of
Muslims were rounded up and arrested under the PTA...
"Former Defence Secretary, continuing his statement before the PCoI probing Easter attacks said, claims that former President Sirisena was not informed of the possibility...
Image: Under repair: The St. Anthony’s church, one of the churches attacked last year on Easter. | Photo Credit: REUTERS
Meera Srinivasan.
Lawyers and activists have...
Most of the victims of horrific Easter Sunday bombings were Christian, majority killed inside three churches, and the bombers were Muslims. Immediately after the...
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Easter Sunday attacks, in which eight IS terrorists senselessly murdered 269 Catholic and Christian worshippers and tourists,...
Former Minister and leader of the All Ceylon Makkal Congress Rishad Bathiudeen's sister-in-law Mohamed Nisar Fathima Israth has complained to the Human Rights Commission...
The Defence Ministry has established a Task Force (TF) to monitor the progress to speed up the on-going investigation by the Criminal Investigation Division...
We are presently witnessing a whirlwind of activities in the lead up to Presidential Elections due on 16th November with an unprecedented number of candidates...
Introduction
On the late evening of 20 February 2009, two diminutive aircrafts swiftly approached Sri Lanka’s capital with the intention of launching an attack against...
CID Director SSP Shani Abeysekera. Picture by Gayan Pushpika, DN.
Senior Superintendent of Police Shani Abeysekera, Director of the Criminal Investigation Department told the Parliament...
In the midst of the ongoing sittings of the Parliamentary Select Committee to investigate the Easter Sunday bombings two senior officials in the public...
Background:
The Easter Sunday terrorist attacks have drastically changed Sri Lanka’s social and political fabric. Over the existing ethnic polarization, Sri Lanka now faces polarization...
Citra Abbott and Matthias Böhnke.
'Everyone knows that somewhere out there extremely dangerous people are running around who could attack again at any time'
Many Christians...
Image; Mazahina, left, pictured with her husband, was arrested over a pattern on one of her dresses which was wrongly believed to resemble the dharmachakra,...
Social media has revolutionized society. With creative and improved means of communication, live updates become freely accessible, news is as close to you as...
Image: Prof. S.R.H. Hoole speaking wearing a Sufi hat in solidarity with Sufi Muslims.
GA and District Secretary Vedanayahan, Prabhus assembled here, including women, friends: When I...
Cabinet approval has been granted to amend the Penal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code to take action against false news distribution, extremist statements...
Image: Ceylon Chamber of Commerce deeply concerned about the possibility that events that threaten the law and order situation in the country, will unfold and...
Image: Muslim ministers speaking at a press conference, announcing their resignation.
ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Muslim ministers have resigned protesting rising hate and harassment of...
Media Release/2019 June 03.
The Free Media Movement strongly condemns the abrupt suspension of the Parliament Select Committee (PSC) live proceedings, which was probing the Easter...
Image: Nada Al-Nashif, Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights making concluding remarks at the ID on Sri Lanka report.
Making interventions at the interactive dialogue at...
Many reports of the United Nations and International Human Rights organisations such as Human Rights Watch have documented human rights violations by LTTE for...
Image: Every leader commencing from Anagarika Dharmapala up to Gotabhaya who had led the country along this path have disrupted the country and carried...
