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The Sri Lankan economic meltdown has triggered a regime change as Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned on Monday. In his resignation letter, according to news agency Reuters, he said, “Multiple stakeholders have indicated the best solution to
Terrorism is not the big problem any more in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, according to the Sydney-based think tank, Institute for Economics and Peace. This is being attributed to the weakening of Daesh in the region.
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By Ermiza Tegal and Amra Ismail
Does the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA) keep us safe? How often is it misused? Does it cause unjust suffering to people? If it does cause suffering, how much suffering are we as a society willing to barter for a sense of security? Whose suffering do we barter? What gives us a sense of security, random arrests or actual accountability? These are some of the questions we as Sri Lankan society have not openly confronted or answered in the past 40 years the PTA has been in force. There is much publicly available documentation that torture has been widely committed under the PTA and that the PTA provisions do not meet human rights standards. Yet, these facts have have not moved Sri Lankan society at large to support its reform or repeal.