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  • Campaign to move a Sri Lankan shipping lane to save blue whales

    Mar 12

    Conversationists have aligned themselves with shipping groups to lobby the Sri Lanka government to move a 15-mile shipping lane on the south of the island so as to protect a community of blue whales.

  • UNP MP wields knife during Sri Lanka parliamentary brawl

    A United National Party (UNP) MP was caught wielding a knife amidst Sri Lanka’s parliamentary brawl earlier today.

    Video footage and images circulating show MP Palitha Thewarapperuma being restrained before jumping into scuffles wielding a knife on the parliamentary floor.

  • US calls for swift action against sectarian violence in Sri Lanka

    The US Embassy in Colombo called for Sri Lanka act swiftly against perpetrators of communal violence and bring the State of Emergency to an end.

    In a statement released shortly after Sri Lanka declared a state of emergency, the embassy in Colombo said,  

  • The meaningless Sri Lanka inquiry panel
    Sri Lanka's panel is a chance to redraw the country's image, not an attempt at reconcilliation
  • Colombo schemes Sinhalicised capital for North
    Similar to the Sinhalicisation of Trincomalee, the capital of the East, Colombo plans for a new, Sinhalicised capital for the North at Kilinochchi, administrative sources working for Colombo on the project said.
  • Sri Lanka dismiss EU conditions for GSP+ extension
    Sri Lanka has refused to comply with European Union conditions for the extending of GSP+ trade concessions, calling them ‘insulting’.
  • GSP+ conditions
    The following are the conditions set by the European Commission for a 6 month extension of the GSP+ benefit to Sri Lanka, with the proviso that Sri Lanka had to provide written commitment to these conditions by July 1.
  • US war crimes experts visit Sri Lanka
    Samantha Power, Director of Multilateral Affairs and Human Rights of the National Security Council in the Obama administration, David Pressman, Director for war crimes atrocities and civilian protection of the US National Security Council, and Ms. Patricia A Butenis, Ambassador of the US in Sri Lanka, met with Sri Lanka’s President Mahinda Rajapakse on June 15.
  • Development depletes North
    The redevelopment of the North is a major focus of all international efforts to rebuild Sri Lanka now that the war has been deemed over, but the Sri Lankan approach to development has been the also termed exploitation.
  • GSP+ Timeline

    October 2008-2009 – EU investigates Sri Lanka’s commitment to the human rights requirements to receive GSP+ trade concessions and finds that the country had significant shortcomings with regard to three covenants; the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the Convention against Torture (CAT) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).

  • ADB to repair Sri Lanka roads
    The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is providing Sri Lanka with financial assistance to rehabilitate roads in the conflict-affected northern region, which will help spur inclusive growth and new economic opportunities in one of the poorest regions in the country.
  • Sri Lanka amongst challenges to 'never again' myth - Annan

    The cry of “never again,” raised by so many in the years after the end of the Holocaust 1945, has rung increasingly hollow with the passing decades, Kofi Annan, former secretary general of the United Nations, protested in an op-ed Friday in the International Herald Tribune.

  • After roaming oceans and continents, Sri Lankan Tamils find home in Oakland
    They were jailed in Indonesia, stranded in Romania and rescued by Australia off the coast of Sumatra, all in the last eight months.
  • Tamil Brahmi inscription found in Tissamaharama
    An early historic inscription in Tamil language and in Tamil Brahmi script, dateable to c.200 BCE, has been found in the archaeological excavations by a German team at Tissamaharama in the south of the island of Sri Lanka.
  • UN expert dismisses Sri Lanka's reconciliation commision
    In a brief but compelling interview with The Sunday Leader, UN Special Rapporteur on Extra-judicial Executions, Philip Alston slammed a Sri Lanka government initiative, asserting the Commission on Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation will not focus or address human rights, humanitarian law, violations or war crimes.
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