Kishali Pinto Jayewardena.
(Sunday Times/03.3.19) Verbal gymnastics indulged in by Sri Lankan politicians in respect of the draft Counter Terrorism Act (CTA), now before Parliament...
Returning from Malaysia this week, correspondence with a now retired and respected diplomat focused on the ravages that the Malaysian people has had to...
In retrospect, one of the greatest missed opportunities of the now doomed Sirisena-Wickremesinghe Unity Government was its failure to grab Sri Lanka’s legal system...
Image: Rajapaksa is waiting to capture the power to establish autocratic family rule in Sri Lanka.
Kishali Pinto Jayawaradene.
Those who are bewildered by the results...
Image: This year, the mood of the visiting European delegation is certainly more irritable. ( photo credit: FT)
There appears to be a brisk uptick in...
Image: White flag being hoisted on the top on the Meetotamulla Garbage dump after the tragedy in April 2017.
Kishali Pinto Jayawaradene.
It is a typical...
Kishali Pinto Jayawaradene.
The perception that Sri Lanka’s proposed Counter-Terror Act (CTA) will affect only those of one community or another engaging in ‘terrorist’ activities...
Kishali Pinto Jayawaradene.
The Government’s proposed draft on a new counter-terror law for Sri Lanka is rather like a thoroughly unpleasant case discovery. Each time...
By Kishali Pinto Jayawaradene.
Governments may come and go in Sri Lanka but the anti-reform and anti-liberties mindset seems firmly entrenched. This is now proven...
(Anti PTA protest in Sri Lanka)
By Kishali Pinto Jayawaradene.
A draft policy and legal framework aimed at a new law on counter-terrorism to replace Sri...
( Disappeared in Sri Lanka; Image courtesy Amnesty International)
Even from a fairly prosaic standpoint, the Unity Government’s proposed Office of Missing Persons (OMP) Bill...
Government MP Wijeyadasa Rajapaksa says that he will complain to Sri Lanka’s IGP against threats made to him by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today (16),...
Fishers of the Mannar district were brutally attacked and humiliated by Sri-Lankan navy personnel in the mid-sea for three hours. This cruel incident occurred...
