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Human Rights, Issues, Peace and Conflict, Reconciliation

Impunity in Sri Lanka and the Commissions of Inquiry into Disappearances

The violation of the language rights following the enactment of Official Languages Act No. 33 of 1956, started the process of human rights violations of the Tamils of Sri Lanka which eventually…

MCM Iqbal MCM Iqbal on 07/26/2018
Issues, Politics and Governance, Presidential Election 2015

The Emerging Political Vacuum in Sri Lanka: Is JVP the Answer?

If there is one question that troubles many rights activists in Sri Lanka today, it is the current political instability within the coalition Government led by Ranil Wickremesinghe and Maithripala Sirisena government…

Sunanda Deshapriya Sunanda Deshapriya on 06/25/201806/25/2018
International, International Relations, Issues, Political philosophy

Yester-Years: The Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna and The Cuban Revolution

In the 1950s, Cuban revolutionaries launched their July 26 Movement () to get rid of foreign domination and economic injustice. In 1952, Fulgencio Batista launched a coup d’etat, which made the Cuban…

Lionel Bopage Lionel Bopage on 12/01/201612/01/2016
Colombo, Politics and Governance

Weerawansa Disrobed or the Birth of a Sinhala Karuna

Image courtesy JVP website Some priests in ascetic orders who indulge in carnal pleasures, though not very often, do get excommunicated. A prominent catholic priest of high rank in Europe who had…

Gamini Viyangoda Gamini Viyangoda on 04/14/200804/14/2008

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