Racism

Cartoon by Avantha Artigala. White vans and ‘black media’ aside (which I will return to later), Sri Lanka has seen politicians insulting judges in Parliament under cover of parliamentary privilege in the past. Staggering and scurrilous abuse Each time, these attacks have been discomfiting, indicating the extent to which the ancient law of privilege can […]

Mahamewna Buddhist Monastery has issued a statement to its devotees urging not to allow people from other religious and racial communities to cook meals for Buddhist monks. The official Facebook page of the monastery has confirmed that it has issued such a statement. purely as an internal document. The reason for the statement is the […]

(Lanka Truth) A ‘Sathyagraha’ campaign to protest against the communal clashes that occurred in Digana area in Kandy District and the attempt to spread communalism in other areas was held at Viharamahadevi Park today n 9th March. The ‘Sathyagraha’ organized by the JVP was participated by a large crowd including representatives of civil society organizations, […]

Image: Indian businessmen Ajay Gupta and younger brother Atul Gupta in 2011. The family of Indian-born tycoons are close to president Jacob Zuma. Photograph: Gallo Images/Getty Images. Opposition politicians and campaigners in South Africa are pushing for harsher punishment of the British public relations agency Bell Pottinger for running a campaign to deliberately stoke racial tensions in the […]

( JHU monks in a political rally) Partner of the ruling coalition and UNP led United National Front, the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) has warned the government against giving any  autonomy to Tamil dominated North and East of Sri Lanka.vJHU former party of the Buddhist clergy has been anti devotion  and rabid Sinhala nationalist party […]

 The current wave of Sinhala-Buddhist supremacism / extremism / racism, and attempts to establish a ‘Sinhala-Buddhist Raj’ in Sri Lanka, if left unchecked will eventually lead to fragmentation of Sri Lanka into separate states, of the minorities. It may not happen in the immediate future, but it’s a reality staring us in the face. With […]

(Hundreds of supporters of the Sri Lankan opposition political parties protest outside the UN office in Colombo. They criticised a report by United Nations human rights chief Zeid Raad al-Hussein as he began discussions with the Sri Lankan government on measures taken to investigate alleged atrocities committed during the long civil war. Photo: AP) Hundreds […]

The participation of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, former President Chandrika Kumaratunga and visiting British Minister Hugo Swire at the Thai Pongal celebration in Jaffna is an indication of the special attention that is being given to the northern polity by the government. The top leaders of the government have been making frequent visits to the […]

By Cassendra Doole. “Every miserable fool who has nothing at all of which he can be proud, adopts as a last resource pride in the nation to which he belongs; he is ready and happy to defend all its faults and follies tooth and nail, thus reimbursing himself for his own inferiority.” – Arthur Schopenhauer […]

Rejecting assertions by the Jathika Hela Urumaya, the Tamil National Alliance said today that the protest in Jaffna was only an ‘expression of anger against the brutal murder’ of an 18 year old student. “There was not even a hint of targeting the Sinhalese living in Jaffna or anything of that sort. That is a […]

(Kumar Sangakkara is a known figure in cricket playing nations) Sri Lanka cricket star Kumar Sangakkara, currently in England turning out for the English county Surrey, had to taste the bitter side of the United Kingdom Immigration Department in London. Sangakkara, who was in London during the final week of April to play Surrey’s Division […]