As Major General Sarath Fonseka's military and political stars in Sri Lanka show signs of decline, the General may have to soon decide whether to stay in Sri Lanka and suffer ignominy under the Rajapakse brothers, or to use the lottery-won US Green Card, and seek safety with his children in the US. But safety in US may spell judicial danger.
With news emerging that Sri Lanka may still be able to hold on to the GSP+ concessions, EU Ambassador to Sri Lanka Bernard Savage warned that there are still issues to be overcome.
Seventeen months after being arrested, and almost three years after writing two articles the government claims were meant to incite “communal disharmony,” journalist J.S. Tissainayagam was sentenced to 20 years of rigorous imprisonment on August 30 by the Colombo High Court.
The Sri Lankan Government has refused to release documents detailing the underlying basis of the IMF loan to Sri Lanka, but has started to comply with those terms.
A SLA soldier and explosive expert attached to Minneriya camp in Polonnaruwa was arrested by Kurunegala Police Friday, October 2, in connection with the school van bomb blast the previous Friday that killed a 11 year old girl student and injured 11 others including school children and the driver.
The Chairman of MAS Holdings, warned of “very challenging times” ahead, with the prospect of GSP Plus concessions being withdrawn by the European Union.
Four months after crushing the Tamil Tigers, the Sri Lankan government is still unable to define peace, even as it has embarked on the further expansion of an already-large military.
If Sri Lanka is to become a tropical paradise again, it must build enduring peace. This will only occur through genuine interethnic equality, and a transition from being a unitary state to being a federation that grants provincial and local autonomy.
The International Monetary Fund has issued a statement warning Sri Lanka from building up its foreign currency reserves by borrowing from overseas investors.
What Ranil, Mangala and Mano Ganesan said on 3 September at a Platform for Freedom Press Conference on the IDP issue was fairly widely covered in the print and electronic media, but three other contributors, Siritunga Jayasuriya, Nimalka Fernando and Herman Kumara failed to attract coverage.
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayaka gave a long triumphant speech at the 64th UN General Assembly in New York, to a hall that was more than half empty, reported Inner City Press.
Is the Rajapaksa regime caught in the grips of the ME Syndrome? - Missing the Enemy, that is. Over the last two weeks, the leading lights of the regime have warned of conspiracies to destabilize the regime and even to replace it and have used the state controlled media as well as the defence ministry website to launch propaganda attacks against alleged conspirators, this columnist included.
