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Minister Prasanna Ranatunga convicted of extortion
A cabinet minister in crisis-hit Sri Lanka was convicted on Monday (6) of extorting money from a businessman over a land deal, a rare guilty verdict in a graft case in the South Asian country
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What the crisis in Sri Lanka means for the World
Many middle-income and developing countries are now suffering from a combination of internal political dysfunction and external economic shocks generated mainly by COVID-19 and the war in Ukraine. Sri Lanka provides a powerful example and a…
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Women forced to sell sex to survive as Sri Lanka’s turmoil escalates
There has been a 30% increase in women joining the sex industry in Colombo since January, according to the Stand Up Movement Lanka (SUML), the country’s leading advocacy group for sex workers
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Sri Lanka in the chalk circle
Ranil Wickremesinghe’s record of wantonly destroying every chance history handed him is unprecedented, his ability to self-destruct, taking down his side with him, legendary. Still, I hope he succeeds in pulling Sri Lanka out of the…
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Rajapaksa not only needs to go, he needs to face accountability
Amid widespread protests resulting from the island’s gravest economic crisis since independence, Parliament clearly thinks this is a figure to steady the ship. But without acquiescing to the protesters’ key and repeated demand – for the…
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A ruling family on the run as Sri Lanka plunges into economic ruin
Once empowered by a triumphant Buddhist Sinhalese nationalism after a brutal civil war, the Rajapaksas have been undone by what their own allies call incompetence and denial
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The End?
Knowingly or unknowingly, the Rajapaksas had done something more devastating than sending an army of thugs to attack the two protest encampments. They had sent a dose of their own poison along with their thugs. The unarmed protestors…
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Nine out of ten Sri Lankans think Rajapaksas should leave politics
The findings of the Centre of Policy Alternatives’ (CPA) survey of the Confidence in Democratic Governance Index (Wave 2) conducted by Social Indicator (SI) send an unequivocal message to the government that the current public outcry…
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Complex web of creditors, politics threatens Sri Lanka restructuring
LONDON - Social unrest, political uncertainty and a complex web of creditors could scupper Sri Lanka's push for a swift overhaul of its $12 billion overseas debt, analysts warn, saying the South Asian nation is fast running out of road
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A chance to hit refresh in Sri Lanka
Having swept to power in a landslide victory in late 2019, Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa wasted no time declaring unequivocally that his would be a Sinhalese ethno-nationalist state. He chose to be inaugurated at the island’s…
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