Articles
Crisis Sri Lanka
By Manny Thain
Month: November 2018
News
Sri Lanka mass graves: 230 skeletons found at country’s largest site
Thanks to BBC News 22 November 2018 Sri Lankan experts say a mass grave found earlier this year in the north-western town of Mannar has turned out to be the country’s biggest such site. More […]
News
The European Union must suspend GSP+ immediately
Recent events in Sri Lanka have once again shown the immense political instability and lack of progress made in respect of democratic and human rights. The sudden removal of the prime minister and suspension of […]
Statements
End the Executive Presidency now! – CMU Statement
Sri Lanka workers’ union calls for end to executive presidency Please see below a statement from the Ceylon Mercantile, Industrial and General Workers’ Union (CMU), which represents workers from the Sinhalese, Tamil and Tamil Muslim […]
News
Parliamentary coup in Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka is experiencing a dramatic constitutional crisis – an unprecedented parliamentary coup. It has seen the president – Maithripala Sirisena – break his coalition with Ranil Wickramasinghe, suspend parliament and appoint the former dictator/president […]