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On September 13, after a five-year legal battle, the European Court of Human Rights said that the UK government’s surveillance regime—which includes the country’s mass surveillance programs, methods, laws, and judges—violated the human rights to privacy and to freedom of..

This by a young woman who has spent much of her life abroad in studies and career. I was pleasantly surprised as we were at the AGM of the Dharmavijaya Foundation (DVF) at its headquarters in Sarana Road, Colombo 7…

Pro-Federalist Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe’ s accusing Mahinda Rajapaksha and his election campaigners gave millions of rupees to the LTTE Tamil terrorists to secure Mahinda Rajapaksha’s win over the presidential election in 2005. Regardless of facts of the accuracy of..

October 4, 2018, 8:53 pm Archbishop of Colombo, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, at the service of St. Matthew’s Roman Catholic Church in Ekala, recently said something along the lines that ‘human rights had become the latest religion in the West…Sri Lankans..

Naseby documents end up in dustbin President Maithripala Sirisena, who is also the Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, pathetically shirked his responsibility at the recently-concluded United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) sessions. President Sirisena skipped Sri Lanka’s last opportunity to defend..

By Sri Lankan Solidarity Movement It is with great pain that we say that we completely disagree with this treacherous government regarding their stance with regard to extremely important, grave and critical issues facing Sri Lanka, mostly this treacherous government..

(Courtesy of Daily FT) Dr.Nalaka Godahewa (centre) briefing on Sri Lanka’s human rights situation in UN headquarters in Geneva On 24 September, the World Sri Lankan Association conducted a press briefing at the UN headquarters in Geneva to brief the..

(Courtesy of The Island) These clear and distinct provisions illustrate that the sovereignty of the People were to be exercised by separate and distinct organs of government namely, the Legislature and the Executive, both elected by the People. What the..

The government was yet to decide on temporary deployment of the army in support of law enforcement authorities in the North despite continuing attacks by violent elements in the Jaffna peninsula, security sources told The Island yesterday. Following representations made..

No. 91 Lake Road, Batticaloa is our house, where I lived for the first 14 years of my life! My mother adored the place, and all my happy memories are somehow related to this house. Today, the house is squattered..