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Day: 5 February 2021

Protesters heading to Jaffna

05/02/2021 Karu

It is believed that the government has asked all English tabloids to NOT to cover the protests by the minority in Sri Lanka. Tamil protesters are marching in large numbers against the government who have […]

By Karuna

Myanmar has happened. Are we next? Does it need to? – Dr. Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu

05/02/2021 Karu

As we mark the 73rd anniversary of our independence, the two extracts from an exchange in New York before the United Nations exemplifies the situation Sri Lanka finds itself in.  Whilst the Permanent Representative Peiris […]

By Karuna

UN Experts dismayed by regressive steps, call for renewed UN scrutiny and efforts to ensure accountability

05/02/2021 Karu

GENEVA (5 February 2021) – UN human rights experts* have urged the Sri Lankan authorities to stop rolling back hard fought progress made in recent years on rebuilding democratic institutions, and to press for accountability […]

By Karuna

ITJP’s Yasmin Sooka writes to UN: Urges suspension of Lankan peacekeepers

05/02/2021 Karu

The International Truth and Justice Project (ITJP) has made a request from the United Nations’s (UN) Department of Peace Operations (DPKO) to suspend the deployment of Sri Lankan peacekeepers due to the report by UN […]

By Karuna

No smoking, no alcohol for least six months if vaccinated

05/02/2021 Karu

Hundred percent assurance cannot be given on getting infected with COVID-19 virus for people who continue to smoke and consume alcohol, even if they were vaccinated, National Authority on Tobacco and Alcohol (NATA) Chairman Dr. […]

By Karuna

Minor Cabinet Reshuffle Likely To Ease Pressure On Human Rights Front

05/02/2021 Karu

The government is contemplating a minor cabinet reshuffle in the next few days, informed political sources said. Accordingly, two new cabinet portfolios and four state portfolios will be appointed during the cabinet reshuffle. It is […]

By Karuna

Court bans issued against #P2P protests across the North-East

05/02/202105/02/2021 Karu

Sri Lankan magistrates across districts in the North-East issued bans and injunctions against civil society members, journalists and other individuals ahead of a ‘walk for justice’  organised by Tamil war victims’ families, civil society organisations […]

By Karuna

‘Impunity has prevailed since independence’ – Canadian MP Gary Anandasangaree express solidarity with Tamil protesters

05/02/202105/02/2021 Karu

Canadian MP for Scarborough-Rouge Park,  Canada, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, Gary Anandasangaree, expressed a message of solidarity for Tamil protesters walking for Justice from Pottuvil to Polikandi. Noting in his […]

By Karuna

‘France must speak out loud and clear for justice and freedom in Sri Lanka at the Human Rights Council’ – French MP, Sébastien Nadot

05/02/202105/02/2021 Karu

Sébastien Nadot, the MP for Haute-Garonne stated that France must “speak out loud and clear for justice and freedom in Sri Lanka at the Human Rights Council” in a tweet as he joined the #GenocideSriLanka […]

By Karuna

Sri Lanka at 73 – Reaching Out to Liechtenstein!

05/02/202105/02/2021 Karu

“I was fascinated with the theme that we must make it happen together, which was perhaps said a countless number of times during your presentation. But Sri Lanka has a problem. We are made to feel […]

By Karuna

73 Years On – The “Neocolonial” Haze

05/02/202105/02/2021 Karu

If colonization is the exercise of hegemony, administrative control and the fundamental subjugation of one group of peoples to another, then the question for post-independent Sri Lanka should be whether or not we find remnants […]

By Karuna

Fulfilling expectations of Tamil community is in Sri Lanka’s own interest, says Jaishankar

05/02/202105/02/2021 Karu

The External Affairs Minister bats for Sri Lankan Constitution’s 13th amendment that talks about devolution of power to the Tamil community. External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said fulfilling the expectations of the Tamil […]

By Karuna

Ganesan sees nothing but crony capitalism in govt.

05/02/202105/02/2021 Karu

… says people voted to elect true leaders, but they got dealers By Saman Indrajith Tamil Progressive Alliance leader SJB Parliamentarian Mano Ganesan recently said that people who had voted for the SLPP expecting true […]

By Karuna

Politicians responsible for divisions among people: Cardinal

05/02/202105/02/2021 Karu

Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith said today that the politicians who have been in power after the Independence were responsible for creating divisions among the people and making the country a debt laden one. He pointed […]

By Karuna

Its Independence Day and what have we got

05/02/202105/02/2021 Karu

Today the decorations will be up and Sri Lanka’s military will take centre-stage with a scaled-down march past and the National Anthem will be sung but in Sinhala only. In the East, the Tamil National […]

By Karuna

President Rajapaksa asserts he is a Sinhalese, Buddhist leader

05/02/202105/02/2021 Karu

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa today reminded the Nation that he is a Sinhalese, Buddhist leader. Addressing the Nation during the 73rd Independence Day celebrations held at Independence Square, the President said that he follows the Buddhist […]

By Karuna

‘Gota Can Roll It And Shove It’ – JVP Leader Lambastes Political Victimization PCoI Report

05/02/202105/02/2021 Karu

President Nandasena Gotabaya Rajapaksa was the target of a blistering tongue-lashing by JVP Leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake this week about the executive’s flagrantly despotic plans to unseat critics from Parliament and strip them of their civic rights through what […]

By Karuna

Mad (Pissu) Commissioners Add To The King’s Madness

05/02/202105/02/2021 Karu

Serious questions have been raised about the manner in which the Commissioners who constituted the Presidential Commission of Inquiry on political victimization (PCoI) have compromised the independence with which they were expected to discharge their […]

By Karuna

Excluding National Anthem in Tamil on Independence Day

05/02/202105/02/2021 Karu

t was widely reported in the media early this week that the National Anthem would be sung in Sinhala only at the official celebrations of Sri Lanka’s 73rd anniversary of gaining independence from Britain. Defence […]

By Karuna
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