This week’s announcement makes clear that the JVP/NPP administration will not hesitate to use the PTA and other repressive ...

We had one mango, we cut it open and it was rotten,” a Colombo tuk-tuk driver remarked of Sri Lanka’s traditionally dominant ...

Hundreds of youths fled Sri Lanka for safety ... and the third leader Lalith Wijerathne were among the top 14 JVP leaders killed by the state in 1989-90. The only senior top leader and Politburo ...

In the history of the JVP, Dissanayake has played a particular role in its jettisoning of socialistic demagogy and ...

“The police, who had killed them, let them float downstream ... s politics and cultural imagination. For many in Sri Lanka, ...

During islandwide protests, over 100 people were killed and 700 injured ... inability to contain India from pushing Sri Lanka ...

In 1989, comrade Rohana Wjeweera and colleagues of mine in the Political Bureau were killed. Of course ... such allegations against the JVP. I request all our members, sympathisers, well-wishers, and ...

He was none other than Anura Kumara Dissanayake who was elected as the ninth executive president of Sri Lanka in September ... were among the top 14 JVP leaders killed by the state in 1989-90.

So far, Sri Lanka has managed to restructure about $ ... including almost the entire the-then leadership of the JVP. The list of JVP killings during the insurgency included a number of Sri Lankan ...

JAFFNA: Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, who addressed his first public meeting in Jaffna since coming to ...

Less than a fortnight after Sri Lanka elected a new president, Anura Kumar Dissanayake, Tamil women gathered to observe International Children’s Day (1 October) — a day of mourning for their loved ...

Sri Lanka's political campaigning drew to a close Monday ahead of parliamentary polls that have turned into a referendum on ambitious plans to tackle corruption in the bankrupt nation.