Tamil people’s struggle for freedon and justice – beyond our borders The United Socialist Party (USP) Helped to organise a very successful meeting on October 20, 2010. The theme of the meeting was, ‘Tamil people’s struggle […]
So, now Mahinda Rajapaksa, the president of Sri Lanka with the deaths of tens of thousands of Tamil-speaking people on his hands, has been rewarded with an invite to the Commonwealth Games in India. He […]
It is an emotive and highly passionate plea. “My husband surrendered to the Sri Lankan army in front of my eyes on 18 May 2009 after the end of the war,” laments Ananthi Sasitharan to […]
SYDNEY — A group of protesting asylum-seekers Tuesday threatened to leap from the roof of a Sydney detention centre where a Fijian man plunged to his death a day earlier, an activist told AFP. Bala […]
Non-government Organizations in Jaffna peninsula accuse Sri Lanka government to have abandoned most of the uprooted families resettled in Jaffna peninsula without providing them adequate assistance for rehabilitation. 82,000 uprooted persons had been resettled in […]
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” – Lord Acton, 1887 The 18th Amendment will fundamentally transform Sri Lanka’s political system, stripping away the façade of democracy. The 18th Amendment will end presidential […]
The Supreme Court in Sri Lanka has paved the way for a far-reaching constitutional amendment to go before parliament without a referendum. The change would abolish limits on the number of presidential terms and hugely […]
COLOMBO: Sri Lankan Deputy Minister for Highways Mervyn Silva on Tuesday tied an official of the Samurdhi Poverty Alleviation Department to a tree in full public view for not participating in the department’s dengue control […]
What is the GSP+? The following explanation of the GSP is given by the European Union: “The EU’s Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) is a trade arrangement through which the EU provides preferential access to […]
The Daily Mail headline read: “Hunger Striker’s 7 million Big Mac”. This outrageous attack, printed on 9 October 2009, accused Subramanyam Parameswaran of eating a Big Mac while ‘pretending’ to be on hunger strike. A […]
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