US Ambassador to Sri Lanka Julie Chung has expressed disappointment over a book authored by a Sri Lankan MP detailing an alleged US-backed regime-change conspiracy, which Chung said should be labelled fiction
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In Sri Lanka terror means Tamil or Muslim. When the J.R. Jayewardene government responded to the ethnic problem not with the promised political reforms but with repression and the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) was born
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Whilst the IMF deal delivers much needed foreign exchange, even the stray dogs on the streets of ­Colombo know that an IMF deal comes with ­injurious conditions and colonizes Sri Lanka to the cause of international ­capitalism
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The government’s attempts to subvert the Election Commission’s decision to hold local government elections on March 9 clearly demonstrates the de-democratizing intentions of the Wickremesinghe–Rajapaksa ruling coalition
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Sri Lanka’s former finance minister Basil Rajapaksa, whose government has been blamed widely for the island nation’s worst currency crisis in decades, has co-opted a popular opposition slogan to absolve the ruling Sri Lanka Podujana…
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A Supreme Court judgement, a new US law, Canadian sanctions and United Nations evidence gathering are making it increasingly hard for Sri Lanka’s past and present rulers to avoid accountability for large scale violence and abuse of power
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The change of presidents of Sri Lanka in 2022 did not lead to any improvement in the country’s human rights record, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its World Report 2023 released on Thursday (12)
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Sri Lanka’s foreign ministry summoned the acting Canadian High Commissioner to express the island nation’s displeasure over Ottawa imposing targeted sanctions against four Sri Lankans including two former presidents over human rights abuse
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Canada has issued a travel ban on former Sri Lankan presidents - and brothers - Mahinda and Gotabaya Rajapaksa for human rights abuses committed during the island nation's civil war
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Canada on Tuesday (10) announced targeted sanctions on the Rajapaksa brothers, Mahinda and Gotabaya, and two state officials over human rights violations during the armed conflict in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009. The two officials have been…
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