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Sri Lanka: The absurdity of the argument that President can...

 (Dr) Jayampathy Wickramaratne, President’s Counsel and Member of Parliament. There is speculation that Parliament will be dissolved. Arguments have been made for and against the...

Sri Lanka: Free Trade Zone TU condemns violation of “People’s Sovereignty”...

Free Trade Zones & General Services Employees Union/ Statement to Media. We condemn violation of “People’s Sovereignty” using Constitutional provisions By now the country is slipping...

Allow Parliament to demonstrate its confidence by voting immediately when reconvened,...

JOINT STATEMENT; The Delegation of the European Union issues the following statement in agreement with the EU Heads of Mission as well as the Ambassadors...

Sri Lanka’s political crisis explained, and what it means for the...

Image: Many Tamil activists see the ousted Ranil Wickremesinghe as less brutal than Mahinda Rajapaksa. by Kumaravadivel Guruparan. In November 2014, Maithripala Sirisena, who was then a...

Speaker has taken a stand: Now the int’l community should follow...

After a long and rather undue wait, Speaker Karu Jayasuriya yesterday announced that the arbitrary sacking of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and appointment of...

USA is committed to the implementation of UNHRC resolution on Sri...

TNA Press Release/ 06.11.2018. The United States for Sri Lanka Ms. Alaina B. Teplitz met with the Leader of the Opposition and the Tamil National Alliance...

Political turmoil could test Sri Lanka’s ties with international community

 LAKRUWAN WANNIARACHCHI/AFP/Getty Images:  A Demonstration in Colombo on November 4, 2018. The U.S. and Japan have both paused their respective projects in Sri Lanka amid...

Politically speaking, ‘a plague on both your houses’ – Kishali Pinto...

Continuing his swift disastrous strike last Friday, President Maithripala Sirisena has taken a familiar problem of public fury with an inept and malfunctioning Government...

Sri Lanka : The Return of a Supremacist – Anura Gunasekera

Never has the truth of that  hackneyed cliche’, “ in politics there are no permanent friends  or permanent enemies, but only permanent interests”, been...

Prez Sirisena’s action both undemocratic and unconstitutional- Statement by Professionals

Statement on the Constitutional Crisis Recent actions of President Maithripala Sirisena purporting to remove Mr. Ranil Wickremasinghe from office as the Prime Minister and the...