Sri Lanka seems to be undaunted in the face of an imminent threat of a resolution at the UN Human Rights Council which may call on the country to address accountability issues.
Accountability issues concerning Sri Lanka since the end...
• Government revises number of missing persons to 14, 988
• TNA, TNPF and CV Wigneswaran raise objections with Human Rights High Commissioner
September will be a busy month for foreign ministry mandarins as the country gears to face the...
• Why 100 percent organic farming will not succeed and the example of Bhutan
• Chemical fertilizer ban will precipitate food shortages
• Agriculture experts urge government to rethink its decision on the ban
Two weeks ago farmers in the town...
• CEB management ignored warnings about impending power crisis
• Ranil Wickremesinghe tells government that this situation cannot float
As the old adage goes, Sri Lankans have been reduced to living a hand to mouth existence. For months the country has...
• Sri Lanka under pressure from several quarters on human rights issues
• Tamil political parties and civil society groups to write a series of letters to the UN and others
• Pakistan PM to visit Sri Lanka on 23...
By Lankathilaka
• Latest US State Department report points to alleged human rights abuses
• Is ASP Perera the victim of a political witch hunt?
• The Government’s war with conservationists continues unabated
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, with an unassailable logic in mind, appears...
Human rights lobby groups line up to fire
Amnesty International adds to growing calls for
Last week it was a case of the idiom, giving with one hand and taking away with the other, coming true. The freeing of...
· A parliamentary election to break the political quagmire?
· Rapid rise in witch hunt of government critics
By Lankathilaka
The government is on the horns of a dilemma. The Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) General Secretary Sagara Kariyawasam conveyed the party’s...
The revelations about an alleged power plant deal at the highest echelons of government involving the heads of state of Sri Lanka and India would have sufficed to bring down governments in another continent. Even though in the two...
Prime Minister tells Buddhist clergy that he will not resign until the certainty of a replacement
Will the Prime Minister oust the Leader of the Opposition?
It has been three weeks since the start of GotagoHome at Galle Face...
