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Author: Minoli de Soysa

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Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War

Rajapaksa Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost

January is usually a grim indication of the perilous state of human rights in Sri Lanka. It is reminder of the many cases that have gone unpunished with perpetrators still at large.…

Minoli de Soysa Minoli de Soysa on 01/11/202301/15/2023
Colombo, Development, Economy, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

The Long Journey To an United and Democratic Sri Lanka

As the world marks another Human Rights Day, Sri Lanka is sinking deeper and deeper into an authoritarian regime where human rights are routinely flouted and international criticism is regularly ignored. The…

Minoli de Soysa Minoli de Soysa on 12/10/202212/12/2022
Development, Economy, Human Rights, IDPs and Refugees, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Poverty, Vavuniya

Abandoned to Their Fate, Northern Villagers Battle to Survive

They are a small, tight knit community held together by their shared suffering and insurmountable difficulties. Ever since the start of the 1983 civil war, their lives have been marked by tragedy…

Minoli de Soysa Minoli de Soysa on 11/29/202211/29/2022
Human Rights, justice, Mullaitivu, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Vavuniya

The Enduring Cost of a Long and Brutal War

Human rights defenders, journalists, families of the disappeared and people remembering their dead are continually being harassed and monitored by intelligence services, military and police in the North. Although the war ended…

Minoli de Soysa Minoli de Soysa on 11/23/202211/23/2022
Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Vavuniya

The Never Ending Search for Sri Lanka’s Forcibly Disappeared

Chandrakumari whips out her smart phone and prods it sharply with one finger. She wants to display the website that says Sri Lankan Tamil girls are being held as sex slaves in…

Minoli de Soysa Minoli de Soysa on 11/21/202211/26/2022
Colombo, Economy, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Stability or Protest, That is the Question

One striking issue is currently polarising society. Should the country forget about demanding system change and accept the status quo for now to get the economy back on track? The argument is…

Minoli de Soysa Minoli de Soysa on 11/12/202211/12/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Memorialisation, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

Unfreezing the Grief: Coping with Ambiguous Loss

Are you a wife or a widow if your husband has been gone for years? Are you still a mother if your only child is missing? Do you speak of your brother…

Minoli de Soysa Minoli de Soysa on 10/14/202210/15/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA)

A Life Wrecked by an Unjust Law

In the decades of its use, the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) has been condemned for being an unjust and arbitrary law. The suffering of those detained under the PTA and the…

Minoli de Soysa Minoli de Soysa on 10/12/202202/08/2023
Colombo, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA)

The Urgent Need to Repeal a Law that Cannot be Reformed

It was supposed to be a temporary law to fight the perceived threat of a militant uprising but it has remained for over 40 years, enduring even after the enemy has been…

Minoli de Soysa Minoli de Soysa on 09/29/202210/13/2022
Colombo, Diplomacy, Human Rights, International Relations, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation, Transitional Justice

Paying Attention to the Voices That Will Not Be Silenced

As the world marks another International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, in Sri Lanka, which has the second highest number of forcibly disappeared in the world after Iraq, families of…

Minoli de Soysa Minoli de Soysa on 08/30/202208/30/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

D-Day for the Aragalaya

Mahatma Gandhi said that civil disobedience became a sacred duty when the state became lawless and corrupt. To the diehard protesters left at the diminished GotaGoGama, Gandhi’s words are at the heart…

Minoli de Soysa Minoli de Soysa on 08/05/202208/05/2022
Colombo, Human Rights, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

Father Jeewantha Peiris: A Warrior for Truth and Justice

Rediff Ever since the aragalaya began in April this year, Father Jeewantha Peiris has been a familiar figure in the forefront of the protesters, easily identifiable by his flowing black hair and…

Minoli de Soysa Minoli de Soysa on 08/04/202208/04/2022
#GoHomeGota, Colombo, Easter Sunday Terrorist Attacks, Human Rights, justice, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

The Curse on Sri Lanka’s Bloodstained Leaders

The Catholic Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, knows exactly why most Sri Lankans are living through the worst times ever experienced in recent history. It’s the curse on the bloodstained leaders…

Minoli de Soysa Minoli de Soysa on 04/21/202204/21/2022
Human Rights, Jaffna, justice, Kilinochchi, Mullaitivu, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation

Who Will Punish the Perpetrators?

The images are stark and compelling. The STF men are stoic and menacing. They stand unmoving, machine guns clasped tightly to their chests, their faces obscured by motorcycle helmets. The women are…

Minoli de Soysa Minoli de Soysa on 03/24/202203/24/2022
Colombo, Easter Sunday Terrorist Attacks, Human Rights, justice, Politics and Governance, Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA)

The Puzzling Case of Hejaaz Hizbullah

The gold balloon tubes spelling out the words “welcome back” still hang in the living room, swaying in the gentle breeze one month after he finally returned home, a stark reminder of…

Minoli de Soysa Minoli de Soysa on 03/07/202203/14/2022

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