The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) stated it was "deeply disappointed" by the decision to ban Parami Nileptha Ranasinghe from presenting on the state run television network, Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC).

Canadian MP, Gary Anandasangaree, called on the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to ensure that any potential bailout for Sri Lanka should "impose severe reductions on it's out-of-control military spending" to help solve the island's escalating economic crisis. 

Sri Lanka signed a USD $ 1 billion credit line with India last week, for the supply of essential goods to alleviate the shortages of fuel, food and medicine. 

Following discussions with the Sri Lankan Minister of Finance Basil Rajapaksa, India's Ministry of Finance announced that an agreement was signed between the state bank of India (SBI) and the Government of Sri Lankan for a USD $1 billion credit facility. The credit line is set to be used for the purchase of food, medicine and other essential items.

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights is currently creating a “centralised repository” of material that could be used to prosecute war crimes suspects, according to a report in the BBC this week.

Rory Mungoven, Asia-Pacific chief at the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, told the BBC, that further to a UN Human Rights Council resolution on accountability in Sri Lanka, his office was already collecting material.

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Sri Lanka has cancelled school examinations indefinitely for millions of students over a shortage of printing paper as the island struggles to grapple with one of its worst financial crisies.

Printing paper is the latest in a series of goods that Colombo have been unable to import due to a shortage in foreign exchange reserves. 

Sri Lankan police officers pushed back Tamil families of the disappeared into their bus to block them from attending a rally opposing the Sri Lankan Prime Minister's visit to Jaffna. 

Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa dropped his plans to lay a foundation stone for a Buddhist temple today after local Tamils protested his visit amidst heavy police presence. 

Writing in the Bloomberg, Ruth Pollard highlighted that the Rajapaksa regime has "lost control of Sri Lanka’s economy" as the island continues to suffer from an economic crisis "mostly of its own making".

"From an ill-fated fertiliser ban that led to a dramatic fall in yields of crops like rice and tea, to its failure to deal with a foreign-currency crisis that’s now a humanitarian emergency, the government of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa is fast running out of solutions. Relying until now on help from its two major backers — India and China — and stubbornly refusing wider international aid, the country is on the verge of default," Pollard wrote. 

Sri Lankan authorities stormed a Women’s day event that took place at Manipai Fort in Jaffna on 12th March.

The International Women’s day event was hosted by Quotech religious group, on Saturday in the hall by the Aanaikottai Bala Subramaniam Vidyalaya.

The heads of 14 embassies to Sri Lanka have called on the government to call “on Russia to end its hostilities immediately” and join in “vocal support for Ukraine and international law”.

Press Release on International Support for Ukraine and Condemnation of Russian Aggression



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