The Britain- based Tamil group, British Tamil Forum has sought India’s help for Tamils based in Northern Sri Lanka in improving their lives through a host of measures, reports Daily Mirror on June 2. Representatives of the British Tamil Forum, which claims to represent nearly …
Sri Lanka’s civil war ended in May 2009. For years, the lack of accountability for the grave human rights abuses committed during the last phase of the war has seemed for many actors to be the sole issue of concern. Powerful states, international human rights …
Maithripala Sirisena’s victory over Mahinda Rajapaksa in the Sri Lankan presidential elections in January 2015 was enabled by massive support from minorities in the country — the Tamils and Muslims. Clearly, the mandate was not just for a more accountable and democratic government that would …
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has slammed Buddhist extremists for distorting Buddhism which he described as a religion of peace, non-violence and inclusive development. In his message for Poson Poya which marks the introduction of Buddhism to the island nation by Emperor Ashoka’s son, …
Nearly two years after Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev terrorized Boston with a pair of homemade bombs, Dzhokhar has been sentenced to death. Much of the trial focused on his brother’s connections to the Caucasus Emirate (IK), a jihadist organization based in the North Caucasus – …
The Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government is unlikely to hand back large chunks of land back to the Tamils until after the parliamentary elections in September this year, a highly placed official source said. Land is a sensitive subject in Sri Lanka, which is why power over it …
U.S. President Barack Obama hosted 75 people with the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative at the White House on Monday (June 1). He told young leaders from South Asia at the White House “As I always point out, democracy is hard,” Obama told the town hall …
By M.A Sumanthiran “Stones were pelted at police stations and the courts in Jaffna. The LTTE too began in …
The Police has been blamed for shocking post-war increase of child abuse, sexual abuse and exploitation, drug addiction and crime rates in the island’s embattled northern Jaffna peninsula. Jaffna District Secretary (Government Agent) N. Vedanayagam has said that the latest incident of gruesome rape and …
The Democratic People’s Front (DPF), National Union of Workers (NUW) and the Up-Country People’s Front (UPF) will take a collective decision on the upcoming parliamentary election. Leader of the DPF Mano Ganesan told media the NUW led by Minister Palani Digambaran and the UPF led …