• Journalists live dangerously in Sri Lanka

    Feb 05
    Sri Lankan journalists are going through a trying period. Government leaders are taking a hard line on media freedom, with even senior media persons facing death threats and murderous assaults.

    Media watchdogs, both national and international, have publicised serious incidents of intimidation by the state and other agencies directed against media organisations. But President Mahinda Rajapaksa denies any repression.
  • Sri Lanka’s aggressive foreign policy pays off
    Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse's foreign policy based on an aggressive display of nationalism appears to be paying off.

    In the two years Rajapakse has been in power, the government has taken on the UN and the West and has rapped multilateral bodies on the knuckles for being soft on the Tamil Tigers.

    It has also demonstrated closeness to China and Pakistan regardless of how India, the only neighbour, may view it.
  • Lanka asks UN to emulate India
    Sri Lankan leader, Basil Rajapaksa, had asked the visiting UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour, to emulate India and stop "policing" Sri Lanka, The Nation reported on Sunday.
     
    The second most important man in Sri Lanka after President Mahinda Rajapaksa, told the ranking UN official, that India was not acting as the policeman of the South Asian region, but was helping Sri Lanka solve its problems.
  • Sri Lanka battles cash crunch
    Due to inefficiency, corruption, fall in income and the mounting expenditure on war, the Sri Lankan government is facing a financial crunch. This is likely to get worse in the future because of a planned rise in defence expenditure.

    At last Wednesday's cabinet meeting, President Mahinda Rajapaksa had turned down requests from a number of ministers for more financial allocations, The Sunday Times reported.
  • No going back until peace is restored, refugees say
    The attacker can't be seen. There is no warning that he is going to come. There is no escape!'
  • US and Sri Lanka sign military pact
    The Acquisition and Cross Servicing Agreement (ACSA) had been on hold for five years.
  • Sri Lanka: a graveyard of pacts
    Most of the pacts abrogated in Sri Lanka have been on the Tamil question.
  • A moderating influence in the LTTE

    ANTON Balasingham, the LTTE's chief negotiator and ideologue who died of bile duct cancer in London on Thursday at the age of 68, was a moderating influence on the militant group's supremo, Velupillai Pirapaharan.

  • SLFP under stress ahead of election
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