SRI LANKA

With 49% of the East Container Terminal (ECT) handed over to the Indian Adani Group, in spite of strong opposition from Sri Lankan trade unions and anti-Indian nationalists, India has gained a strategic foothold in Sri Lanka. To the Rajapaksa Government, it was a deal, according to the Prime Minister, …

His Excellency Mr. Imran Khan Prime Minister of Pakistan 14th January 2021 Dear Prime Minister, Assalamu Alaikum! RE: FORCED CREMATION OF COVID-19 VICTIMS IN SRI LANKA We, the undersigned Sri Lankan Muslim organisations in the UK, USA, Europe, Canada and Australia understand that your excellency is due to visit our …

Baseless Public Health Claims Smokescreen for Persecuting Minority Sri Lankan municipal cemetery workers carry the coffin of a Covid-19 virus victim for cremation in Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 21, 2020.  © 2020 Tharaka Basnayaka/NurPhoto via AP (New York) – Sri Lanka’s requirement to cremate anyone who dies from Covid-19 goes against public health guidance …

Is it not true that at least five of these tourists were COVID19 infected? Is not the ‘bubble’ concept of exclusivity an explodable bubble? In the case of COVID-19 vaccines and other health issues, we follow the guidelines of the World Health Organisation (WHO). But not in the case of …

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has announced that the government will be entering into an agreement with the Adani Group based in India to offer them 49 percent of the shares in a joint venture company. This joint venture will include Japanese government financing and will manage one of the terminals in Colombo port. …

In the recognition of Pakistan’ successful policies against COVID 19. World Economic forum announced Pakistan Strategy Day on November 25, 2020. WEF successfully organized an international event “Country Strategy Dialogue (CSD) on Pakistan”. This is endorsement of Pakistan’s brilliant strategy in a very challenging environment of COVID-19 and Economic Crisis. …

The cremation/burial controversy is a micro item of a macro agenda in the hands of the ruling power cartel to reduce the two minorities to second class status. Only a broad coalition of democratic forces including the discontented Sinhala Buddhists and rest of the country could bring back peace and …

The Sri Lankan medical authorities had permited planeloads of Ukranian tourists to land in Sri Lanka and visit multiple places in the country, knowing very well that the risk of spreading Covid-19 is very high, and, therefore, there is no acceptable reason to deny Sri Lankans the choice of a …

Attorney-at-Law Hejaaz Hizbullah, had been denied justice for nine months and he had tested positive for COVID-19, Chief Opposition Whip Kandy District MP Lakshman Kiriella told Parliament on Thursday. “If the government has any evidence then it should charge any person including Hizbullah. If he had been involved in anything …

The public outcry not only by Muslims but also Buddhists, Hindus and Christians, have done little to change the Government’s hard-line approach – Pic by Shehan Gunasekara   Sixteen Australian organisations have made an appeal to the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres and several other international organisations requesting them …