Journalists are being targeted, news outlets threatened, bullets fired, curfews imposed and internet blocked by a military junta intent on silencing dissent against stolen...
Image: President Mahinda Rajapaksa was welcomed by Senior General Than Shwe, ruler of the Myanmar in June 2009.
The Burma (now Myanmar) was a British...
Image: the Permanent Representative Mohan Peiris quite brazenly equates the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), victims groups and human rights...
Issuing a statement on the 73rd Independence Day, Colombo based advocacy Think Tank Centre for Policy Alternatives states that "If the government is unwilling...
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President Gotabaya Rajapaksa had instructed the formation of a special unit of retired military personnel to check all prison officers who...
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The findings of the National Study of Prisons undertaken by the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka have been discussed...
Summary
The present report is submitted pursuant to Human Rights Council Resolution 40/1 which requested the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human...
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is filling government with ex-top brass in the name of 'professionalizing' island-nation's politics.
by Salman Rafi Sheikh
Even at the height of the Sri...
Caroon by Avantha Artigala.
Militarisation of civilian space began during the first Rajapaksa regime. Yet, it didn’t cause public concern, except amongst certain civil society...
The Prisons Department has called for applications to recruit 200 male Prison Guards from those who have retired from the defence services after completing...
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Opposition law Harin Fernando In a letter to IGP C.D. Wickremeratne has requested immediate protection after president Rajapaksa made a remark that...
The project of President Gotabaya seems to be the conversion of Sri Lanka from an uninterrupted, long-standing democracy and open society, into a second...
Image caption: Sri Lanka’s president, Gotabaya Rajapaksa, was elected last year on a wave of anti-Muslim sentiment. Photograph: Xinhua/Rex/Shutterstock/TG.
The country insists all people who...
GR’s strategy of containing the political damage caused by his failure to win the economic war by winning the parallel war fought against minorities...
Major General (Retired) Jagath Alwis has been appointed as the Secretary to the Ministry of Public Security.
The Esquire Chief of the National Intelligence Service...
Minister of Public Security, Rear Admiral (retired) Sarath Weerasekara says that Mahinda Rajapaksa Government should have banned the largest Tamil political party, the Tamil...
The human rights environment in Sri Lanka worsened, with the continuation of surveillance and intimidation of activists and human rights defenders, the detention without...
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Opposition Samagi Jana Balavegaya Member of Parliament Imthiaz Bakeer Markar is accusing the government of targeting media-persons critical of the government...
Image: There is widespread concern about the militarisation of the COVID response and broader militarisation under the cover of COVID. Yet, militarisation too is...
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Sri Lanka’s covid-19 ‘dark riders’ and the urgent need to correct ourselves.
The fearsome sight of armed motorcycle riders, clad in black, complete with...
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In 2019, with no global pandemic, the Sirisena-Rajapaksa administration set aside Rs. 188 billion for health. In 2020, amidst a global...
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By Vyshnavy Velrajh.
(Colombo Gazette) Drones will be deployed to monitor movements in areas under lockdown in the country due to...
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...
