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NEWS AND ARTICLES ABOUT SRI LANKA AND SRILANKAN MUSLIMS
Tone deaf to suffering
Last week, 70-year-old Mohamed Iliyas from Kandy died after he collapsed while standing for several hours…
Misgovernment; Has The Government Lost Its Legitimacy To Rule? By Mass L. Usuf
This is the reply Google gave me to the question: “What gives the government the right…
Irony of a Racist, Corrupt Regime, Being Strangled in Its Own Yard! By Mohamed Harees –
‘To sin by silence, when we should protest, Makes cowards out of men’-Ella Wheeler Wilcox Social…
Frustration growing in a ‘land milked of honey’
Our country’s finances are in a parlous position. The country is indebted to the tune of…
Three years after Easter attacks, politicians run for cover By Ben Joseph
With the mastermind still at large, the motive not established, and high-profile government officials going scot-free,…
Four cardinal mistakes the president did not admit in his speech by Ranga Jayasuriya
Last week President Gotabaya Rajapaksa addressed a nation in crisis. Instead of calming the masses, a…
Sirisena’s lament
Former President Maithripala Sirisena has embarked on an anti-corruption campaign, once again. Speaking at a recent…
Foreign newspaper spills the beans: Myanmar-Sri Lanka rice deal smells of corruption
Myanmar uses 70% of chemical fertilizer during the monsoons and 100% of such fertilizer during the…
Webinar: Fishing Dispute Parallel to the 49th Session of UNHRC in Geneva
Participants at a recent webinar held on “Fishing Dispute between India and Sri Lanka. The webinar…
Successive governments’ budgetary operations caused financial instability By Shmaindra Ferdinando
Ex-CBSL Governor Dr. Coomaraswamy: ‘My generation has failed the country…’ Former Governor of the Central Bank…
Another aspect of the crisis
It is not correct to perceive Sri Lanka’s balance of payments crisis as a sole outcome…
A Covid Lesson To Muslims By Ameer Ali –
It is almost two years since the pandemic broke out, and Sri Lanka was one of…
Rage against the regime: Why President GR should resign
March 15 feels like a tipping-point. The citizens addressed the President a day before the President…
Muslim traders support bandh against hijab verdict, BJP demands action
Even as Muslim traders supported the bandh call given by community organisations in Karnataka and closed…
Frustration spills over: No saviours in sight
“President Gotabaya Rajapaksa during his address to the nation said that some issues that can be…
Karu demands immediate repeal of 20-A to win confidence of all political parties
Proposed roundtable discussion Former Speaker and Chairman of the National Movement for Social Justice (NMSJ) Karu…
SJB takes to the streets against govt.
The Samagi Jana Balawegaya protest which commenced in Colombo today ended with dummy coffins being burnt…