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Sri Lanka police minister raps Catholic leaders for not revisiting Easter probe despite requests

Catholic Church leaders have expressed their dissatisfaction over the Easter Sunday probe.

August 29, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lanka's proposed ATA will be presented after broader consensus - Justice Minister

Many local and international rights groups have opposed the proposed ATA

April 28, 2023 2 min read

Easter Sunday Attack: Sri Lanka Catholics demand for justice, expose mastermind

The attacks killed at least 269 mainly Christian devotees who attended the Easter Sunday mass on April 21, 2019.

April 21, 2023 3 min read

Sri Lanka's central town Akurana starts body checking at mosques after security threat 

Two other sources said the recommendations include body check on both men and women devotees.

April 19, 2023 2 min read
Sri Lanka's wartime sexual violence victims denied justice: UN report

Rights groups have long demanded justice for victims since end of war

Facing international pressure, Sri Lanka Justice Minister discusses new anti-terrorism law

Sri Lanka's successive governments have been accused of using PTA to suppress dissents

Sri Lanka Easter bombings: Masterminds already known; no desire to conceal findings, says minister

With opposition pressure mounting to find the brains behind the 2019 Easter bombings, Sri Lanka reiterated today that Ma...

Imesh Ranasinghe
April 6, 2021 2 min read

PCoI should've investigated allegations that Zaharan was on state payroll: JVP

The Rajapaksas “sold” the 2019 Easter bombings to secure election victories and the Presidential Commission of Inqui...

March 10, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka Easter attacks commission recommends criminal proceedings against President Sirisena

The Presidential Commission of Inquiry (CoI) on the 2019 Easter bombings has recommended that criminal proceedings be in...

February 23, 2021 4 min read
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Committee to study PCoI report panned by Church and Opposition

The President’s Committee will implement only what President Gotabaya Rajapaksa wants from the Easter Sunday inquiry r...

February 23, 2021 3 min read

Yet another committee appointed to study the report of the Easter Sunday attacks PCoI

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed yet another committee to examine the report of the Presidential Commission of...

February 20, 2021 3 min read

AKD demands govt publicise Easter bombings commission report

Sri Lanka must publicise the findings of a presidential commission of inquiry that probed the 2019 Easter bombings, Nati...

February 12, 2021 3 min read

Easter bombings: Cardinal prepared to go to int'l court if Sri Lanka fails to deliver justice

If Sri Lanka fails to bring the perpetrators and masterminds of the 2019 Easter bombings to justice, international judic...

February 11, 2021 2 min read

Pillayan released due to CA decision – Lawyer

The release of Sivanesathurai Chandrakanthan and others from the case ends the possibility of justice for the family of ...

Arjuna Ranawana
January 14, 2021 3 min read
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The government will fight efforts to lift ban on the LTTE in the UK – Foreign Ministry

The door has opened for the ban on the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the United Kingdom to be lifted by a r...

October 22, 2020 2 min read
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President Gotabaya says no deal with Bathiudeen over 20A

Sri Lanka’s President has shot down speculation that he is “cutting a political deal” with a powerful Muslim polit...

Arjuna Ranawana
October 4, 2020 3 min read
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Gotabaya controversially appoints Ali Sabry as Minister of Justice

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s decision to appoint his attorney Mohamed Ali Sabry as Minister of Justice today is cont...

Arjuna Ranawana
August 12, 2020 3 min read
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Pompeo and Dinesh talk about Millennium Challenge Compact deal - Ministry

US Secretary of State Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Foreign Relations Minister Dinesh Gunawardena have discussed th...

June 30, 2020 1 min read

Former Prez Sirisena refuses to accept responsibility for Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday attacks

Denying any prior knowledge of last year’s Easter Sunday attacks, Sri Lanka’s former President Maithripala Sirisena ...

June 18, 2020 3 min read

Opposition charges the government wants to set up surveillance systems to threaten critics

The opposition is accusing the government of collecting personal data that can be used to threaten or intimidate citizen...

June 8, 2020 3 min read

President appoints military-led task force to create a "disciplined, lawful society"

President Gotabaya Rajapaksa has appointed a Task Force entrusted with creating “a virtuous, disciplined and lawful so...

June 3, 2020 3 min read

Justice for Easter Sunday and Justice for Hejaaz: A Christian perspective

There must be justice for Easter Sunday, but there must also be justice for Hejaaz and others subjected to arbitrary arr...

Ruki Fernando
May 24, 2020 8 min read
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Eleventh anniversary of the end of the seperatist war today

The annual remembrance ceremony for the fallen servicemen in the Armed Forces, Police and Civil Security Department will...

May 19, 2020 1 min read

CID questioning Rishad's brother: police

Sri Lanka’s Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is currently questioning former minister Rishad Bathuideen’s bro...

Imesh Ranasinghe
April 15, 2020 1 min read

New probe into CID investigation of Easter attacks ordered

The Acting IGP Chandana Wickramaratne has appointed two teams of investigators to look at whether there has been an inte...

Imesh Ranasinghe
March 29, 2020 2 min read

Easter attacks: Indications of collusion - Cardinal

Bishop of Colombo Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith called for a thorough investigation into, among other things, “indications ...

February 19, 2020 3 min read