The Tamil National Alliance (TNA), the main Tamil political party in Sri Lanka, has renewed its demand for a federal system with self-determination rights, amidst President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s efforts to implement the 13th Amendment to…
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As sections of Sri Lanka’s Buddhist clergy took to the streets against a proposed full implementation of an India-backed constitutional amendment to resolve Sri Lanka’s ethnic issue, the country’s opposition parties remained mum on the…
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Sri Lanka President Ranil Wickremesinghe has a clear vision for the country which must be supported and the Buddhist clergy must stay out of the reconciliation process, Jaffna district MP and former Northern Provincial Council Chief…
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President Ranil Wickremesinghe reiterated his commitment to devolution of power within a unitary state as a solution to Sri Lanka’s ethnic issue even as Buddhist monks intensified protests against the full implementation of the 13th…
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Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday (23) said he will convene an all-party meeting next month to resolve the long held demand for political autonomy for the minority Tamils in the island nation
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The 21st Amendment to the Sri Lankan Constitution adopted last week does not place adequate checks and balances on the powers of the executive president, the country’s influential lawyers’ body said on Thursday (27)
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Despite a clause on Sri Lanka’s 21st Amendment to the Constitution barring dual citizens from entering Parliament, legislators who hold dual citizenship can continue to be in Parliament unless challenged in court, to Justice Minister…
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Twenty two is not perfect. Far from it, perhaps light years far. Yet, in a season of defeats and setbacks, it is a win for Sri Lankan democracy, and for those Sri Lankans who would be free citizens rather than obedient subjects or terrified…
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Sri Lanka's Parliament voted Friday (21) to curtail the powers of the president, a partial concession to the protest movement that forced the island nation's former head-of-state into exile
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The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was taken up for debate in the legislature on Thursday (20), but its chances of seeing the light of day and becoming law are as great as the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP) winning the next national…
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