Protesters slam Sri Lanka government for bowing down to Buddhist extremism
Hundreds protested in Colombo slamming the Sri Lankan government for detaining an award-winning Sinhala writer for almost 80 days at the bidding of Buddhist extremists.
Hundreds protested in Colombo slamming the Sri Lankan government for detaining an award-winning Sinhala writer for almost 80 days at the bidding of Buddhist extremists.
President Maithripala Sirisena is said to have sat up and taken notice of the legal action being taken against Senior Journalist Kusal Perera under the International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights (ICCRP) Act.
Giving his testimony before the Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) into the Easter Sunday Attacks yesterday (13) Former Governor of the Eastern Province M.L.A Hizbullah dropped a bombshell when he claimed that Easter Sunday attacks mastermind Zahran Hashim supported President Maithripala Sirisena at the last Presidential Election.
Sources from Police Headquarters have now revealed that several case files from the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) investigations into the Chief of Staff of Former
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It has been three years since the unexpected passing of my friend Mangala. As I pen this today, our country is in the brink of a particularly decisive election – the first since a democratically elected president was ousted by mass protest in an historic first for Sri Lanka.
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