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What is UNHRC resolution about Sri Lanka and how will India vote?
It will be the first time that a UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka calls for accountability for violation of human rights due to corruption and economic crisis. This concept is directly linked to the report of the OHCHR published last month,…
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Former president Chandrika Kumaratunga blames Rajapaksas for making Sri Lanka bankrupt
If a government led by Ranil Wickremesinghe and all other parties, an honest government, solves the country’s problems, history will put the Rajapaksas in their due place
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Wickremesinghe urges China to change tune on debt as IMF visits
Sri Lanka is urging China to dramatically change its stance on debt relief, President Ranil Wickremesinghe told Nikkei Asia in an exclusive interview, conceding that reaching a deal will be no simple task
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Cardinal Ranjith reacts to Pope Francis’ €100,000 gift for Sri Lanka’s families
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Sri Lanka is grateful to Pope Francis for, taking the initiative to send €100,000 to help families of victims and survivors of the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks
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Sri Lanka’s crisis is a chronicle foretold
Chinese loans financed Rajapaksa-era mega-infrastructure and vanity projects which have not been to the benefit of the people, and whose costs were allegedly inflated by hefty ‘commissions’ to the former first family and connected parties.…
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Uprising and reprisal
Parliament is increasingly seen as a self-indulgent body, largely irrelevant to the deteriorating lives of the people. Government has not taken any steps to organize economic relief, or distribute food and essentials efficiently, since the…
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Sri Lanka’s Uprising: What led to the recent protests
Sri Lanka’s recent upheaval offers an extreme example of the world’s recent problems. Covid disrupted the country’s major industries, particularly tourism, and then leaders failed to adapt — setting off a chain of economic calamities,…
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‘Rajapaksas lacked vision, worked for themselves’ says Erik Solheim, peace mediator in Sri Lanka war
Norwegian diplomat Erik Solheim, who was the spearhead of an international peace process in Sri Lanka that failed, says the now ousted Rajapaksa brothers had no larger vision for their country and were into doing “politics for themselves”
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I can turn around Sri Lanka’s economy says Ranil
Ranil Wickremesinghe, the newly appointed prime minister of crisis-hit Sri Lanka, has said he is confident he can turn the economy around – but cautioned it will take 18 months before stability returns
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Ananthy Sasitharan: One woman’s relentless quest for justice
In his powerful documentary Sri Lanka’s Rebel Wife, film maker Kannan Arunasalam traces the story of Ananthy Sasitharan whose husband Elilan, a Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fighter, disappeared in 2009 at the end of the war.…
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