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Ranil Wickremesinghe invokes the Buddha on Nepal—but what about Sri Lanka’s record? From Minister of Education during th...
28/09/2025

Ranil Wickremesinghe invokes the Buddha on Nepal—but what about Sri Lanka’s record? From Minister of Education during the July 1983 pogrom to 2015–2019, and what accountability still hasn’t come.

Sri Lanka’s former President Ranil Wickremesinghe issued a strongly worded statement this week on the unfolding crisis in Nepal. He condemned the police shootings in Kathmandu, the killing of the former Prime Minister’s wife, and the burning of Parliament and court buildings by Gen-Z protestors....

145,000 hate crimes in 2023–24. Why is the St George’s Cross multiplying—what does it signal? This essay traces the flag...
27/09/2025

145,000 hate crimes in 2023–24. Why is the St George’s Cross multiplying—what does it signal? This essay traces the flag from Crusades to EDL and unpacks the colonial contradiction behind Britain’s food and fury.

There’s a smell to fear when it stalks a neighbourhood. It isn’t always gunpowder or petrol bombs. Sometimes it’s vinegar-soaked chips from the corner chippy, gone cold in a greasy paper bag carried by men who march with the St George’s Cross. A flag that, to

Are Sinhalese A***n by DNA? In our exclusive with Dr. Maanasa Raghavan, new data show Sinhalese, Adivasi, and Sri Lankan...
26/09/2025

Are Sinhalese A***n by DNA? In our exclusive with Dr. Maanasa Raghavan, new data show Sinhalese, Adivasi, and Sri Lankan Tamils share ASI roots with

A recent study on Sri Lankan populations, published in Current Biology (June 2025), goes beyond science: it challenges long-held assumptions about population origins and rewrites our understanding of Sri Lankan genetic history. Dr. Maanasa Raghavan led this research alongside Dr. Niraj Rai of the Bi...

September 9, 1990: 184 civilians (42 children) killed at Sathurukondan. 35 years on, 0 prosecutions. Inside the new comp...
25/09/2025

September 9, 1990: 184 civilians (42 children) killed at Sathurukondan. 35 years on, 0 prosecutions. Inside the new complaint—named army captains, excavation demands, and the push for an international probe.

On the 35th anniversary of one of Sri Lanka’s most horrific wartime atrocities against Tamils—where 42 children under the age of ten, including five infants less than a year old, were among the victims—justice remains elusive. The Sathurukondan massacre of September 9, 1990, claimed the lives ...

Can Sri Lanka really go mine-free by 2028? The data behind the pledge: more than 2.5 million explosive devices unearthed...
24/09/2025

Can Sri Lanka really go mine-free by 2028? The data behind the pledge: more than 2.5 million explosive devices unearthed, only 207 people injured since 2010, and what HALO, MAG, SLAHDU and JJCDR are doing next.

In Sri Lanka, landmines claimed countless lives and left many more—combatants and civilians alike—crippled, limbless, or permanently scarred. Yet their true infamy is often traced to one shattering moment: the first-ever landmine explosion in Jaffna on 23 July 1983, an event that many regard as ...

Why are 2,700 acres in Valikamam North locked in a High Security Zone 16 years after the war? Sivagnanam Shritharan pres...
23/09/2025

Why are 2,700 acres in Valikamam North locked in a High Security Zone 16 years after the war? Sivagnanam Shritharan presses Parliament for answers: who's displaced, what the new govt did, when resettlement begins.

Sixteen years after Sri Lanka’s civil war officially ended, the people of Valikamam North remain barred from returning to their ancestral lands. The issue reverberated in Parliament this week when Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) president-elect and Jaffna–Kilinochchi MP Sivagnanam Shritharan ...

Who killed Ali Uthuman? Not the LTTE, but ENDLF gunmen. Revisit the 1 August 1989 Akkaraipattu shooting and the yellow n...
22/09/2025

Who killed Ali Uthuman? Not the LTTE, but ENDLF gunmen. Revisit the 1 August 1989 Akkaraipattu shooting and the yellow notice poem "To the Friend Who Stole My Breath" that turned grief into forgiveness.

Sri Lanka Muslim Congress (SLMC) leader Rauff Hakeem sparked controversy this week when, during a condolence speech for former Deputy Minister Cegu Issadeen, he claimed that Ali Uthuman — a former member of the merged North–East Provincial Council — had been killed by the LTTE. The claim was s...

Ramanathan Archchuna accuses Fisheries Minister Ramalingam Chandrasekar of bribes and ignoring karai valai/surukku valai...
21/09/2025

Ramanathan Archchuna accuses Fisheries Minister Ramalingam Chandrasekar of bribes and ignoring karai valai/surukku valai; sea cucumber farming; Chandrasekar seeks a two-week period to reply.

Jaffna District MP Ramanathan Archchuna has leveled serious corruption allegations against Fisheries Minister Ramalingam Chandrasekar in Parliament, demanding his resignation if the charges are proven. Speaking during a recent parliamentary session, Archchuna accused the minister of failing to take....

Is Tilvin Silva the real power behind President Anura Kumara Dissanayake? Inside: clashing lines on PC polls, a $4.2 bil...
20/09/2025

Is Tilvin Silva the real power behind President Anura Kumara Dissanayake? Inside: clashing lines on PC polls, a $4.2 billion India warning, Bimal Rathnayake's attacks and the President's "one more month" promise

What some political observers described as a “naïve question,” Batticaloa District parliamentarian Shanakiyan of the Ilankai Tamil Arasu Kachchi (ITAK) recently asked in Parliament whether JVP General Secretary Tilvin Silva had effectively become the country’s President. His query came during...

Building an aircraft from carbon fiber and two motorcycle engines led to a 2011 CID arrest, a 2013 STF raid—and, he says...
19/09/2025

Building an aircraft from carbon fiber and two motorcycle engines led to a 2011 CID arrest, a 2013 STF raid—and, he says, the Air Force displaying his plane as LTTE at Rathmalana. Exclusive interview

Imagine a prodigy: blessed with immense talent, relentless hard work, and unshakable grit. He sets out to build an aircraft—perhaps the first of its kind in the country. Not with imported technology or expensive gadgets, but using only the raw materials at hand. Motorbike engines, makeshift compon...

At the NPP/JVP Jaffna library, Rohana Wijeweera hangs beside Marx, Lenin, Engels—raising a blunt question: would a Prabh...
18/09/2025

At the NPP/JVP Jaffna library, Rohana Wijeweera hangs beside Marx, Lenin, Engels—raising a blunt question: would a Prabhakaran portrait be allowed? We unpack reactions and the 1987–1989 backdrop.

The newly opened library at the NPP/JVP office on Palaly Road, Jaffna. In the background, portraits of JVP founder Rohana Wijeweera are displayed alongside leftist icons. The newly opened, small yet symbolically significant public library at the National People’s Power (NPP) / Janatha Vimukthi Per...

Was Nepal’s Gen Z revolt organic—or engineered? Inside: the September 4, 2025 ban of 26 platforms, 19 dead on September ...
17/09/2025

Was Nepal’s Gen Z revolt organic—or engineered? Inside: the September 4, 2025 ban of 26 platforms, 19 dead on September 8, 2025, Oli’s China tilt, and NED’s alleged $1.6 million footprint.

The defiant yet turbulent “Gen Z” protests that toppled Nepal’s government last week demand an analysis that goes beyond the surface narrative of a spontaneous youth uprising. While Gen Z undoubtedly played a leading role, the parallels with Sri Lanka’s Aragalaya in 2022 and Bangladesh’s s...

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