Friday 7th April, 2023 Sri Lankan politicians apparently specialise in making bad laws, which are legion, prominent among them being the PTA (Prevention of Terrorism Act). Amidst heavy fire from various quarters, the government has decided to bite the bullet and defer the presentation of its controversial Anti-terrorism Bill (ATB) to Parliament. Justice Minister Dr. […]
Thursday 6th April, 2023 The Catholic Church has challenged the veracity of a claim by the police that Pulasthini Mahendran alias Sara Jasmine, wife of Muhammadu Muhammadu Hasthun, who carried out a suicide bomb attack on St. Sebastian’s Church, Katuwapitiya, on 21 April 2019, is dead. The police say a third DNA test has revealed […]
Wednesday 9th March, 2022 Sri Lanka-UNHRC relations have been replete with complexities, irony, policy contradictions and volte face. Mahinda Rajapaksa went to the UNHRC during the JVP’s reign of terror (1987-89) as part of a campaign to bring international pressure to bear on the late President Ranasinghe Premadasa to stop suppressing democracy on the pretext […]
By Jehan Perera The killing of a Sri Lankan, in Pakistan, by a frenzied mob, who accused him of committing an act of blasphemy, serves as a grim reminder of the ever-present danger of pent-up emotion exploding in society. Over the eons, religion has served to humanize the more primitive nature, lurking within human beings. […]
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