Sri Lanka

Taxonomy Color
red

  • Tamil Brahmi inscription found in Tissamaharama

    Jun 29
    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.
  • 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.

  • 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.
  • 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 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’.
  • UN chief appoints war crimes panel on Sri Lanka
    Despite Sri Lanka’s vehement objections, the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has appointed a trio of international experts to examine reports of widespread war crimes during Sri Lanka’s war against the Liberation Tigers.
  • Dismantling Sinhala Utopia
    Global liberalism confronts Sri Lanka’s ethnocracy.
  • Amnesty calls for UN action
    Amnesty International has criticised the politicisation of international justice in general.
  • War Crimes Day observed globally by Tamils
    Tamils across the globe commemorated the first anniversary of the end of the Mulliyavaikkal massacre and marked 18 May as ‘War Crimes Day’.
  • Stranglehold
    Sri Lanka will strive to keep the Tamil homeland marginalised.
  • Sri Lanka dismisses war crimes charges
    The Sri Lankan government has issued furious denials against allegations of war crimes committed by their forces during the final phase of the war last year.
  • Sanctions if independent inquiry not allowed - ICG
    An international rights group has called for sanctions to be imposed on Sri Lanka if it doesn’t submit itself to an independent international probe into war crimes allegations.
  • ‘Kill everybody!’ order came from the top – SLA officer
    Executions of Tamil civilians and surrendered LTTE fighters and their families were carried out under orders ‘from the top’, Sri Lankan Army soldiers have claimed.
  • British policy must align with the times
    It is now clear that the time for 'quite diplomacy' in dealing with Sri Lanka's spiralling political crisis is now past.
  • Friends like these
    The Sri Lanka option: The rush to learn lessons from the obliteration of the Tamil Tigers
Subscribe to Sri Lanka

Most-Read Articles

Former Sri Lankan soldier rapes doctor at hospital in shocking assault
A former Sri Lankan military officer has been arrested after he reportedly raped a…
US President Trump imposes 44% tariff on Sri Lanka
US President Donald Trump has announced 'reciprocal' tariffs on countries worldwide,…
Gary Anandasangaree appointed Canada’s Minister of Justice
Gary Anandasangaree has been appointed as Canada’s Minister of Justice, in a historic…
Eelam Tamils win World of Dance Switzerland and head to World Championships
An Eelam Tamil dance group who won first place at the World of Dance Switzerland…
UK sanctions Sri Lankan war criminals
The United Kingdom has announced sanctions against four individuals implicated in “…