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Author: Ruki Fernando

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Colombo, Easter Sunday Terrorist Attacks, Peace and Conflict, Religion and faith

Refugee crisis in Sri Lanka after the Easter Sunday bombings

Photo courtesy Gemunu Amarasinghe/Associated Press via “Pakistanis a country where suicide bombings happen on a regular basis, mobs gather and kill minorities and people who think differently, houses and settlements are attacked,…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 05/04/201905/05/2019
Development, Human Rights, IDPs and Refugees, Peace and Conflict

Keppapulavu: Land Struggle Reaches Boiling Point after 700 days of protest

700 days is a long time for a day and night protest outside an Army camp. Since March 1, 2017, the people of Keppapulavu, located in the Mullaitheevu district in Northern Sri…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 01/22/2019
Human Rights, Issues, Jaffna, Peace and Conflict

The Struggle for Justice

Editor’s Note:  Dear friends, I want to congratulate the Law and Human Rights Centre for organising this course. It is difficult but very important to do this in Jaffna, a place that…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 10/20/201810/23/2018
Human Rights, Issues, Media and Communications

Freedom of Expression on the decline in Sri Lanka

The last twelve months, since World Press Freedom day 2017, has not been a good year for freedom of expression in Sri Lanka. The war ravaged North bore the brunt of repression,…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 05/03/201805/03/2018
Human Rights, Issues

Iranaitheevu: a community reclaims their island home from the Navy

On the morning of April 23, 2018, about 300 people from the Iranaitheevu twin islands decided to sail there in about 40 boats. They have been displaced since 1992, and the Navy…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 04/25/201804/25/2018
Human Rights, IDPs and Refugees

Iranaitheevu; a year of continuous protests to regain Navy-occupied land

After the election of the new government in 2015, the people of Iranaitheevu, forcibly displaced since 1992, finally thought they would be able to return home. Yet a flurry of letters and…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 04/20/2018
Development, Human Rights, Issues

Crippling civic organising, mobilising and resistance through Draft Amendment to the Act on NGOs

On February 20, 2018, the Cabinet decided to publish the repressive Draft Act to Amend the Voluntary Social Service Organizations (Registration and Supervision) Act no. 31 of 1980 (LDO 32/2011) to a gazette and…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 03/22/201803/22/2018
Human Rights, Issues, Religion and faith

STF brutality against Muslims in Digana: March 5

As Sinhalese – Buddhist mobs were escalating violence against Muslims around Digana on March 5, the Hijrapura mosque in Digana had just finished afternoon prayers around 4 pm that day. As usual,…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 03/13/201803/13/2018
Human Rights, Post-War, Transitional Justice

366 days – Roadside Protests in Kilinochchi

366 days (as of 20th Feb) is a long time to be at a 24 hour roadside protest. That’s how long Tamil families of disappeared in Kilinochchi have been there. In the…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 02/22/201802/22/2018
Issues, Media and Communications, Politics and Governance

Ekneligoda, Sugirtharajan and 24th January

For several years, the Free Media Movement (FMM) of Sri Lanka and free expression advocates have dubbed January as “Black January”. This was in the context of a large number of journalists…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 01/24/201801/27/2018
Colombo, Religion and faith

Mary’s Consent for Jesus’s birth: A Christmas reflection

Image courtesy Wikipedia Christmas is the story of Mary, a young unwedded mother, giving birth to a refugee child, Jesus, in a sheep shed. The central male character in this story is…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 12/25/2017
Colombo, Human Rights, Human Security, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

“We vehemently refuse to be deceived again”: Protests by families of disappeared, continuing abductions and empty promises

Photography from Above was the last line in a press release issued on 17th August, by Association for Relatives for Enforced Disappeared in Kilinochchi district, at a press conference in Colombo. It…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 08/30/201708/30/2017
Colombo, IDPs and Refugees, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance

World Refugees Day and refugees from and to Sri Lanka

Photograph courtesy 20th June is World Refugee Day. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that 65.6 million people have been forcibly displaced globally. I have heard that close to one…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 06/21/201706/21/2017
Advocacy, Colombo, Peace and Conflict, Politics and Governance, Religion and faith

In support of religious minorities, rule of law and Lakshan Dias

Image from Religious minorities in Sri Lanka – particularly Muslims and Evangelical Christians – faced serious persecution under the Rajapakse Government, which has continued even under the Sirisena-Ranil Government. The Catholic Archbishop…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 06/18/201706/18/2017
Development, Gender, Human Rights, Human Security, Politics and Governance, Post-War, Reconciliation

Sellamma & her struggle to reclaim her house and land in Puthukudiyiruppu

Sellamma is 83 years old. She has a house in Puthukudiyiruppu (PTK) East, Ward no. 7, in the Mullaitivu district in the Northern Province. It’s opposite the PTK Divisional Secretariat (DS). But…

Ruki Fernando Ruki Fernando on 02/20/201702/21/2017

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