“Serious doubts have emerged regarding the future investigations into the mass grave at Matale where the remains of 156 persons have been found. In today’s press it was reported that…
By Tasil Samarasinha - I had a dream.No no I lived this dream. A dream where …..as a child I together with the neighbourhood kids would scamper down to the beach…
By Colombo Telegraph - GuardianSelect429x46 Colombo Telegraph has the honour of being first Sri Lankan site to be approved for inclusion in ‘Guardian Select‘. Colombo Telegraph was proposed for membership…
Impeachment Ruling Appeal To SC: AG Violates Procedure And Gets Leave To Appeal Behind Back Of Shirani B And Others
The latest development following the illegal ousting by the Rajapaksa regime of Chief Justice Dr. Shirani Bandaranayake and installation of Mohan Pieris as de facto Chief Justice despite…
Ganeshan Nimalaruban Case: De Facto CJ Denies Petitioner’s Right To See Replies Filed By AG
De facto Chief Justice Mohan Peiris denies petitioner’s lawyers right to see replies filed by Attorney General The Fundamental Rights case of Ganeshan Nimalaruban was taken before the…
Wholesale Corruption Continues, Public Funds Are Freely Expended On Ostentatious But Manifestly Worthless Schemes – Bala To Mahinda
“We have to point out that your Government has manifestly failed to make good the promise of a better life for the people of this country, that you…
WikiLeaks: CPC And CEB – Sri Lanka Is Meeting IMF Targets
“An IMF team conducting its first quarterly assessment has determined that Sri Lanka is meeting the targets of the July IMF standby agreement, and it appears that the…
Sunila Has Given To The World, Now It’s Time To Give To Her!
“We are writing to ask you to join a solidarity effort for our dear friend Sunila Abeysekera, a leading women’s human rights defender, who is in a life…
WikiLeaks: JVP Electricity Strike Could Delay Reforms – US
“Unions affiliated with the Marxist- Nationalist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) party have warned of a strike and country-wide blackout on May 23 in protest of government moves to…
Serious Doubts On The Inquiries Into The Mass Graves At Matale: Gota The Suspected Perpetrator
“Serious doubts have emerged regarding the future investigations into the mass grave at Matale where the remains of 156 persons have been found. In today’s press it was…
Politicization Continues: FUTA Condemns Sacking Anuruddha Pradeep
“Politicization, loss of academic freedom and autonomy are grave threats faced by the university community currently. The latest victim of this malaise is Mr Anuruddha Pradeep, Probationary Lecturer…
US Department Of State: The International Religious Freedom Report On Sri Lanka
The U.S. Department of State’s International Religious Freedom Report describes the status of religious freedom, government policies violating religious belief and practices of groups, religious denominations and individuals, and U.S.…
No Progress 4 Years On: Since War’s End An Erosion Of Rights, Absence Of Accountability -HRW
Respect for basic rights and liberties has declined in Sri Lanka in the four years since the government defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). This week…
Beware Travelers To Sri Lanka Of Extortion Scam By Immigration Officers
A traveler’s experience on arrival visa and fraud at Colombo International Airport By Jurgent T. Steinmetz - After a short and pleasant flight on SriLankan Airllines, the national airline for Sri Lanka, from…
1474 Jaffna Tamils’ Writ Case Against Land Grab By Rajapaksa Regime To Be Supported On Next Monday
CA (Writ) 125/2013, the case filed by 1474 desperate landowners of the Jaffna Province against steps by the Rajapaksa regime to take over their traditional lands in the…
Tamil Eelam Freedom Charter: A Giant Step In The Right Direction – Prof. Francis Boyle
Lancaster, Pennsylvania - report by Nimal Vinayagamoorthy - Chair, Conference Committee In the legendary city of Lancaster (Pennsylvania, U.S.A) the birth place of Thaddeus Stevens, the immortal 19th century egalitarian…
4 Years On, Largest Rally Since May 2009 On Mullivaikkal Remembrance Day In London -BTF
Thousands of people came together to take part in a rally through London, in remembrance of the hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians who were killed, maimed and…
I Don’t Mind Shaking Hands With The War Criminal
I don’t mind shaking hands with the war criminal – Cameron I’m President of Sri Lanka Determined to Annihilate Tamils – Rajapaksa British Tamils organised a rally on…
TGTE Launched ‘Tamil Eelam Freedom Charter’
The Transnational Government of Tamil Eelam launched Tamil Eelam Freedom Charter today. Aspiring to take the Vaddukoddai Resolution forward as the TGTE moves towards realizing its goal, and taking inspiration from Britain’s…
Matale Mass Grave: Police Failed To Record A Statements From Gota
“The standing committee of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka (BASL) on Rule of Law at its meeting on 10thMay decided to express its concern on the appointment…
War Victory Celebration Will Not Help To Win Over All Who Are The Sri Lankan People – NPC
May 19 will mark the 4th anniversary of the end of Sri Lanka’s three decade long civil war, but with absence of a joint commemoration to remember all…
Pictures Of The Kuragala Islam Holy Site Demolition
“It has also been bought to our notice that a stone inscription dating back to Hijra 300 (over 1200 years old) been Destroyed. Also the Bodu Bala Sena…
Tamils Of The Vanni – Betrayed By All
By Elilini Hoole - It really bothers me that the protest depicted by photograph titles…
Devolution, Sri Lanka’s Defence And Security
By Dayan Jayatilleka - Prof G.H. Peiris in his latest response (‘The Case against the Thirteenth Amendment’,…
Midweek Politics: The Proxy War Against 13A
By Dharisha Bastians - To mark four years since the end of the military conflict…
SLMC & Leadership: ‘Policy Of Something Is Better Than Nothing’
By Rushdy Nizar Getaberiya - Rally-round the Muslims under one umbrella was most likely the founding…
Possessing Memories, Designing Cemeteries: The Production And Policing Of Memories In Post-War Sri Lanka
By Sinthujan Varatharajah - The aftermaths of wars are coined by various, often divergent, forms of…
Target Practice
By Kath Noble - Dealing with ‘inconvenient’ people is one of the Government’s main talents.…
A Stand For Solidarity
By Kamaya Jayatissa - “A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in…
Worries Of Bodu Bala Sena: Religious Jealousy Of BBS
By Rifai Naleemi - In this part of our series we shall try to expose some aspects…
Rohini Marasinghe And The Proportionality As A Ground Of Judicial Review
By Lakshman I.Keerthisinghe - “We as judges of this land must take the lead from our departed…
Sri Lanka Has To Do A Lot To Improve Its Fiduciary Risk Management
By W.A Wijewardena - Fiduciary risk: Failure to handle others’ money properly When someone handles…
Make All People Part Of War Commemoration
By Jehan Perera - The government’s decision to celebrate May 19 as a day of victory…
Vaddukkottai Memories: Jaffna In The 1960s
By Glenn Yocum - Confessions: I’m an American, now almost 70 years old. I spent a…
Lessons (Not) Learnt And Reconciliation Spurned!
By Lukman Harees - Everywhere I go I see increasing evidence of people swirling about in a…
The Question Of Religious Pluralism And Unity In Sri Lanka
By Ayathuray Rajasingam - The issue of enforcing unity among the people in Sri Lanka…
Pick Another Day
By Dayan Jayatilleka - The usual polarised debate is on again, on the issue of the Victory…
Political Machinations: Entrenching The Tuition Culture
By Rajiva Wijesinha - The term rent-seeking is generally applied to politicians and government officials who seek…
Low Caste Tamil Hindu Converts: Failed Effort To Hide The Identity Of Muslims
By Rushdy Nizar Getaberiya - Failed effort to hide the identity of Muslims origin in Sri…
A Response To The President’s Address On ‘Victory Day’
By Rajasingham Narendran - I read with much interest the President’s ‘Victory Day’ speech at…
Gota, The National Security State And The PTA
By M A Sumanthiran - The arrest and detention of Azath Salley, leader of the Muslim Tamil…
The Agony Of Peace
By Tisaranee Gunasekara - “To change masters is not to be free” - Jose Marti (eddosrios.org…
Sri Lanka Retreats Into The Dark Ages
By Kishali Pinto-Jayawardena - As lights are dimmed over Sri Lanka following prohibitively crushing electricity hikes, the…
Pakistan’s Democratic Milestone: First Electoral Succession In 66 Years
By Rajan Philips - Pakistan passed a rare milestone in its bumpy 66 year history. …
Let Us Celebrate, Let Us Mourn Too
By Malinda Seneviratne - Four years ago the nation, which had held its collective breath…
Rural Realities Notwithstanding “Negumas” Of All Kinds
By Emil van der Poorten - I have, over several years past and in a variety of…
Electricity Economics: Pointless Populism
By Kumar David - On April 28, in this column, I discussed the design of…
Six Myths Of The Opposition
By Dayan Jayatilleka - Erroneous political thinking and analysis obscure and obstruct the path of the political…
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