UN Secretary General’s (UNSG) Annual Report - 2022 on the work of UN organisations has “Blacklisted” a large group of member nations for retaliating against human rights defenders. Sri Lanka is one among those blacklisted member countries.
Justice delayed is Justice denied and that’s more so in the case when the affected are war-affected Tamils. In the case of those affected by the brutal Mylanthanai massacre in eastern Sri Lanka, both happened.
Sri Lanka’s external relations are a part of its history, often replete with myth and legend as well. Foreign relations of Sri Lanka in the modern era are mostly a function of post-independence developments in the country.
You can only have a foreign exchange shortage if you're trying to fix the price of that foreign exchange. A government that doesn't know this … well, perhaps we shouldn't be all that surprised that they're also having problems with debt.
Sri Lanka’s president has named a veteran anti-Muslim agitator to head a legal reform task force. Critics have called the move “incomprehensible”, but it is readily understood as a way to divert discontent among the government’s Sinhala Buddhist base toward an embattled minority.
Expecting India to bail Sri Lanka out every time there is a crisis may work for some time, but it's a recipe for disaster.
Sri Lankan children sit on tree branches as they access their online lessons from a forest reserve in their village in Bibila, Sri Lanka. Photo: Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo
A Leaked Special Report from December 2019
Sri Lanka's decision to move to organic farming is not behind its food shortage given that a majority of the farmers have not even started the transition process.
By Vineet Kumar
