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Lawyers for Democracy Responses to Mahinda Rajapakse’s Misleading Statement
3RD DECEMBER 2018.
Lawyers for Democracy Response to Mahinda Rajapakse’s Misleading Statement made in the wake of the Supreme Court case.
Lawyers for Democracy expresses its...
Sri Lanka court denies Rajapakse authority to act as PM
Dec 03, 2018 .
AFP – A court in Sri Lanka suspended Mahinda Rajapakse’s powers as prime minister on Monday and ruled his disputed cabinet...
The Removal of the Prime Minister and the Dissolution of Parliament:...
Image: From Vikalpa.
This legal opinion was prepared by Gehan Gunatilleke, Dinesha Samararatne, Kalana Senaratne and Asanga Welikala in response to a request made by Dr Jayampathy Wickramaratne,...
Sri Lanka President seeks exit strategy as Mahinda fails majority test
ECONOMYNEXT – President Maithripala Sirisena appeared to have softened his hardline position and was seeking a face-saving exit from the political crisis of his...
Sri Lanka’s civil resistance awakens, like the phoenix from the ashes...
Despite the undeniable shock caused to Sri Lanka’s democratic system on October 26th 2018 as a result of President Maithripala Sirisena’s swearing in of...
TNA urges Sirisena to take a swift, considered decision
Sampanthan points to impending court cases.
The mounting pressure of an impending Supreme Court verdict on his dissolution of Parliament, and the lack of majority...
TNA to Sirisena: The ITAK, will support the restoration of a...
Image: TNA leader Sampanthan with Prez Sirisena. ( the Economic Times).
29th November 2018.
His Excellency Maithiripala Sirisena
President of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka
Presidential...
Looming prospect of targeted sanctions: How appropriate are they ? –...
Not long ago, the stooges of Mahinda Rajapaksa, and MR himself, spewed some fanciful justifications for the contested ( and obviously unethical) sacking of...
Will the Sri Lanka Left rise up to the occasion or...
Since independence, our country has been ruled by Right and Center-Right parties. The latter was, however, mistaken as Center – Left on account of...
‘JVP and TNA must fight together’ – Anura Kumara, JVP
Anura Kumara Dissanayake. File photo. | Photo Credit: Meera Srinivasan .
Sri Lanka’s Leftist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) or the People’s Liberation Front has been a...