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Sri Lanka’s Errant Officials Slapped With The Highest Ever Compensations In 2019 Easter Attack Case. Canada Imposes Sanctions On Mahinda Rajapaksa And Gotabaya Rajapaksa For Human Rights Violations.
Sri Lanka: Families Of ‘Disappeared’ Persecuted: Renewal Of UNHRC Mandate Crucial To Counter Impunity, Abuse. August 30, 2024. author: Statement.
The law would seriously threaten the right to freedom of expression as Sri Lanka prepares for parliamentary and presidential elections later this year. The proposed law, the Online Safety Bill, purportedly provides protections against online harassment, abuse, and fraud.
President Gotabaya Rajapaksa re-imposed the curfew, on May 9 th, while SLPP thugs were attacking Gota-go-gama protestors. Across the nation, the curfew was ignored, this time not by peaceful protestors but by marauding mobs. On May 10 th, President Gotabaya called in the military.
Who Can Better Walk the Talk? A Fourfold Strategy To Navigate Sri Lanka’s Political Landscape
Sri Lanka & Democracy. There’s soul-searching at present in Sri Lanka about the Island and democracy but most writers on the subject, though erudite and concerned, seem to take the term ‘democracy’ for granted, and don’t pause to explain what they mean by the word.
As the final lap of the presidential election campaign comes to its close at midnight on Wednesday, there is no certainty about the outcome. The only certainty is that it will be one of three candidates—incumbent president Ranil Wickremesinghe, opposition leader Sajith Premadasa or NPP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake.
Thus, this article attempts to understand the major sources that gave birth to Janatha Aragalaya, commonly named by Sri Lankans as the # GotaGoHome protest movement, the significance of the movement and some suggestions to build a democratic and peaceful Sri Lanka.
Sri lanka has a President elected by ousting the Rajapaksa regime in 2015, giving sane people some hope for a better future. Every political party combined to oust a dictator under whose watch all the murders. bribery, corruption and profligacy held sway.
Journalists in Sri Lanka have woefully failed to hold persons accountable for murder, abduction, assault and torture of brethren practising their profession but instead are unashamedly promoting such ilk back in to high office.