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Sri Lankans living in Australia are refraining from sending desperately-needed funds to struggling friends and family back home, fearing money will never end up in the hands of those in need because the government will steal it. Multiple members of the Sri Lankan community contacted by NCA NewsWire have lost trust in the government to […]
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Former Finance Minister Basil Rajapaksa and businessman Thirukumar Nadesan have been acquitted in the Malwana property case. Basil Rajapaksa was accused of misappropriating Government funds to purchase the land. He is reported to have constructed a mansion on the land, with a swimming pool and a functioning farm. However, the Gampaha High Court today acquitted […]
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Sri Lanka has been facing a severe economic crisis since the beginning of 2021 and was trying to cushion the effect of the financial instability by seeking help from almost all friendly countries. Sri Lanka sought the intervention of the good offices of the political hierarchy of Bangladesh and Pakistan, apart from India, for much-needed […]
Photo courtesy of Twitter Malathi de Alwis, friend, mentor, teacher, feminist, anthropologist, birder, foodie and the most amazing cook, passed away on January 21. As we mourn this utterly devastating, untimely loss...
Photo courtesy of Twitter Malathi de Alwis, friend, mentor, teacher, feminist, anthropologist, birder, foodie and the most amazing cook, passed away on January 21. As we mourn this utterly devastating, untimely loss...
Photo courtesy of Twitter Malathi de Alwis, friend, mentor, teacher, feminist, anthropologist, birder, foodie and the most amazing cook, passed away on January 21. As we mourn this utterly devastating, untimely loss...
Photo courtesy of Twitter Malathi de Alwis, friend, mentor, teacher, feminist, anthropologist, birder, foodie and the most amazing cook, passed away on January 21. As we mourn this utterly devastating, untimely loss...
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The UN should not be taking the side of the bullies, nor should they be adding to the confusion and speculation by failing to renew Lee’s accreditation. As for the UNCA; their role is to stand up for its members, not to expel them and we can see no justification for the continuation of this ...
Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka yesterday won the prestigious Commonwealth Book Prize 2012 for his “Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew” published by Vintage Publishing, Random House India. He received the coveted prize at the Hay Festival by the multiple prize-winning Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize was won by Emma Martin ...
“If we can’t think for ourselves, if we are unwilling to question authority, then we’re just putty in the hands of those in power”. – Carl Sagan (The Demon-Haunted World) By Tisaranee Gunasekara Gen. Fonseka was freed not because President Rajapaksa experienced a sudden democratic-epiphany or embraced the ‘quality of mercy’. The politico-electorally disabling nature ...
The government continued to arbitrarily detain, torture or ill-treat people and subject people to enforced disappearance. It failed to address most instances of impunity for violations of human rights and humanitarian law. The government rejected repeated allegations of war crimes committed by both sides of the conflict that ended in 2009, prompting Amnesty International to ...
23 March 2012 – The UN’s human rights chief today warned that there must be no reprisals against Sri Lankan human rights defenders in the wake of a resolution calling on its Government to probe alleged abuses during the country’s civil war. The warning from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navi Pillay, follows the ...
The High Commissioner for Human Rights today warned that there must be no reprisals against Sri Lankan human rights defenders in the aftermath of Thursday’s adoption by the Human Rights Council of a resolution on Sri Lanka, the Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Rupert Colville said. “During this Human Rights Council session, there has been an unprecedented and...
The Sri Lankan ambassador in Geneva Tamara Kunanayakam has received an anonymous threatening letter which is being followed up by the police and UN security, the office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said today. Meanwhile the High Commissioner for Human Rights today also warned
By Indika Sri Aravinda The Carlton Sports Network (CSN), owned by the Mahinda Rajapaksa family, has sought the exclusive broadcasting rights of the 2012 London Olympics. Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC) has already paid for and obtained the exclusive rights for the broadcast and stands to lose financially if it gives the rights to another ...
By Tisaranee Gunasekara “Kill them out of the way… And let me hear their everlasting grunts and whines no more!” Shelley (Œdipus Tyrannus or Swellfoot the Tyrant) Abductions in the South continue unabated, even as the Resolution on Sri Lanka awaits a vote in Geneva. Can there be a more damning measure of Rajapaksa-addiction to ...
“…countries that won a war but ‘lost the peace’: gratuitously wasting the opportunities afforded them by their victory” Tony Judt (Reappraisals) By Tisaranee Gunasekara Creating incredible illusions to conceal insupportable realities is the Rajapaksa way. In this dystopian world, zero equals 8,000+; when prices go up, inflation comes down and people just love political deprivation ...
Gandhi dressed to be accepted by the poorest person in India, advocating the use of homespun cloth (khadi). He and his followers adopted the practice of weaving their own cloth. President of the United States Barack Obama in an address to a Joint Session of the Parliament of India said that:”I am mindful that I ...