The Guardian has run a really disturbing piece about a British man who was tortured during a recent visit to Sri Lanka. Evidently, Velauthapillai Renukaruban, who had travelled to Sri Lanka to get married, ran […]
Last Wednesday (6) Foreign Affairs Minister Mangala Samaraweera revealed that the final framework of the United Nations proposed hybrid court system will most probably be completed by January or February next year. His statements which […]
BY TRANSCONFLICT JULY 11, 2016 For the first time the Sri Lankan army has confirmed that a record of individuals moving across the front-line at the end of the war was kept and – whilst the […]
The Committee of Public Representations on the Constitution (CPRC), which has been appointed to gather public opinion on Constitutional amendments completed its task and handed over the report to the President recently. The 24 member […]
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The oldest son of Sri Lanka’s former president,Mahinda Rajapaksa, was arrested Monday on charges of money-laundering in the government’s latest effort to prosecute members of the previous administration — many of […]
By S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole – Prof. S. Ratnajeevan H. Hoole My son Yovahn, a Junior at Rice University, is a Student Counsellor to Freshmen coming in for orientation. Unlike in Sri Lanka, their own […]
By Jehan Perera – Jehan Perera The EU has downsized its list of conditions for Sri Lanka to regain the GSP Plus benefits that it lost in 2011. At that time the EU set out […]
