• Army colony planned in Palaly

    May 24
    A new Army colony is being planned in the Jaffna peninsula announced Sri Lanka's army commander Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya.

    Speaking to the Sinhala language newspaper Divaina, Jayasuriya said existing army camps would be 'withdrawn' and 'relocated' into an army colony in the Palaly region.
  • Govt responsible for calls to abolish 13th Amendment: Sumanthiran

    A parliamentarian from the Tamil National Alliance, M.A Sumanthiran, speaking to the Sunday Leader, outlined that the government was  responsible for the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU) calls to abolish the 13 Amendment.

  • SL military soldier suspected of Vavuniya child rape
    A Sri Lankan military soldier is suspected to have perpetrated the rape of a 7 year old girl in Nedunkeni, Vavuniya, reports Uthayan.

    The incident led to a protest by local Tamils, demanding that the culprit be arrested.
  • German NGO interrogated by SL police

    Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has interrogated members of the German NGO the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, for allegedly working beyond its legal mandate.

    The NGO, which has been working on the island since 1974, has had their local representative Sagarika Delgoda interrogated by CID.

    According to ColomboPage,

  • Sri Lanka concerned over US MoU with Trincomalee urban council

    The Sri Lankan government has expressed concern over a recent Memorandum of understanding, signed between the US Embassy in Colombo and the Trincomalee Urban Council, to establish an ‘American Corner’, a public information centre.

  • JHU to incite the masses against the 13th Amendment

    A party in coalition with Sri Lanka’s ruling United People’s Freedom Alliance (UPFA), the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU,) announced today, that steps would be taken to mobilise the public in calls to abolish the 13th Amendment of the constitution.

  • Commonwealth Business Council looks to increase investment in SL

    The Director General of the Commonwealth Business Council, Mr Peter Callaghan, met Sri Lanka’s Minister of External Affairs, G.L Peiris, for discussions relating to the arrangements for the Business Forum, a side-line event that will be held at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM).

  • Sri Lanka announces Commonwealth propaganda initiative

    Amidst discontent over Sri Lanka's hosting of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), Sri lanka will launch a campaign to ‘promote’ the Colombo ahead of the meeting.

  • Mervyn Silva, the agony aunt
    Sri Lanka's Public Relations and Public Affairs Minister, Mervyn Silva, has decided to launch a hotline for public complaints, reports Colombo Page. The hotline would allow the user to choose their language of choice, out of Sinhala, Tamil and English.
  • JHU reveal 19th Amendment proposal

    A ruling government coalition party, the Jathika Hela Urumaya (JHU), have submitted a motion proposing a 19th amendment to the Sri Lankan constitution, earlier on Thursday.

  • Gotabhaya warns of ‘grave repercussions’ if TNA wins NPC elections

    Defence Secretary Gothabaya Rajapakse has warned the government of the consequences in case the TNA wins the Northern Provincial Council polls, due to be held later this year.

  • Govt confirms Northern PC elections in Sept
    The Northern Provincial Council (NPC) elections would be held in September, confirmed the Cabinet spokesperson and Minister for Petroleum Industries Anura Priyadharshana Yapa.
  • TNA MP questioned over May 18 memorial event

    Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department has questioned the Tamil National Alliance MP for Vanni, Sivasakthi Anandan, over Saturday’s memorial event in Vavuniya.

  • Sri Lanka to receive US$580m from China

    A government document has revealed that the China Development Bank is to increase its lending to Sri Lanka development projects, now totalling to more than US$1.4 billion.

  • Four years on, genocide continues off the battlefield
    Originally published on OpenDemocracy.net/OpenSecurity on 20th May 2013:

    In May 2009 as the armed conflict between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and the government of Sri Lanka came to a harrowing end, Sri Lanka's genocidal offensive against the Tamil population of the North-East reached a peak. Four years on, as the Tamil nation - scattered worldwide through decades of oppression and armed conflict - remembers the massacre that took place, the prospect of a stable and secure future remains bleak. Sri Lanka has long proven itself both incapable and unwilling to deliver accountability and justice to the Tamil people, yet the international community too has failed to instigate a credible process towards it. But most of all, the systematic destruction of the Tamil identity continues, unchecked.

    It is increasingly evident that the mantra of granting Sri Lanka time, space, economic support and international engagement is not leading to a process of accountability, reconciliation or peace for the Tamils. Torture, disappearance, rape and murder prevail; the economic and political fabric of Tamil society is repressed. What the Sri Lankan government celebrated as the defeat of one of the world's largest ‘terrorist' organisations has not brought security to the Tamil nation.

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