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Enforced Disappearances in Sri Lanka: In pursuit of an elusive justice for over a decade

JAFFNA/ MULLAITIVU/ COLOMBO: There is a sameness to the manner in which families affected by enforced disappearances in northern Sri Lanka narrate their stories: names, dates, documents. The homogeneity arises not just from the similarity of their experiences but also from the countless times they've had to tell their stories over the past decade -- to journalists, human rights activists, …

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1 month ago

The Hindu profiles on Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna

The Hindu

When Anura Kumara Dissanayake was elected President of Sri Lanka in September, and his National People’s Power alliance swept the general elections on November 14, most international news headlines stamped the winners as ‘Marxist’. Wijeweera began what became the JVP in 1965, exactly three decades after Ceylon’s left movement birthed the country’s oldest party, the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, consequent …

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1 month ago

Padma Rao Sundarji | ‘Honeymoon year’ for Sri Lanka’s new govt

Deccan Chronicle

Fed up of nepotism, corruption and a staggering economic crisis and for the first time in their history, Sri Lankan citizens last week voted a largely unknown political party, the National People’s Power, with a landslide two-thirds majority in their Parliament. The JVP has consistently rejected all attempts to grant greater autonomy to Sri Lanka’s Tamil-majority Northern and Eastern provinces, …

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1 month ago

DC Edit | Lankans vote for change under Anura; Tamils too

Deccan Chronicle

The Sri Lankan people wanted change. Popular politicians had fleeced a country already suffering the aftereffects of the Covid pandemic so dry that the island nation’s biggest economic crisis had come to spur a citizens’ uprising that shook Colombo two years ago. The definitive desire for change was reflected in the mandate when Anura Kumara Dissanayake, presidential candidate of the …

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1 month, 1 week ago

What Dissanayake's JVP sweeping Sri Lankan parliament polls means for India

Firstpost

To date, no single entity, whether global or otherwise, has extended funds and facilities to Sri Lanka the way India has done—and that too without strings For the third time in a row, Indian High Commissioner Santosh Jha became the first foreign dignitary to call on Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, AKD, after the ruling Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna-National People’s …

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Landslide win for Sri Lanka president's leftist coalition in snap polls

Raw Story

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake thanked voters Friday for delivering his leftist coalition a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections that repudiated establishment parties blamed for triggering an economic crisis. Dissanayake, a self-avowed Marxist, swept September presidential elections on a promise to combat graft and recover stolen assets, two years after a slow-motion financial crash imposed widespread hardships on …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Sri Lanka Election Results 2024: JVP Wins Parliament Control, Marks Historic Political Shift

The Hindu

Published : Nov 15, 2024 12:12 IST - 6 MINS READ The Sri Lankan people have given a thumping two-thirds majority in parliament to a once-fringe party whose founder was killed by the state—the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna —and its coalition, the National People’s Power. Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s party, which had a majority in the outgoing parliament after winning the …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Parliamentary polls: Dawn of a new political era in Sri Lanka

New Indian Express

Less than three months after the installation of a new executive president, Sri Lankans are voting on Thursday to elect 196 members to the next parliament. Forming a part of the JVP’s violent history is the bombing of the Sri Lanka parliament on August 18, 1987, a period of political turmoil. By then, the JVP had launched its second armed …

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3 months ago

The Left turn in Sri Lanka

Hindustan Times

The election of Anura Kumar Dissanayake, the leader of Janata Vimukti Perumuna, an outfit with Marxist leanings, as the ninth President of Sri Lanka, marks a new chapter in the island nation’s politics. In a way, the ascent of the JVP, which led two violent insurrections in 1971 and during 1987-89, and its eclipsing of the three mainstream parties that …

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3 months ago

JVP victory and its effect on the Lankan economy

Hindustan Times

The victory of Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of the Marxist-Leninist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, has the potential to destablise Sri Lanka’s fragile economy. Having become the first Asian nation in at least three decades to default on its sovereign debt in April 2022, Sri Lanka’s economy had been painfully restored to stability by outgoing President Ranil Wickremasinghe, while remaining vitally dependent …

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3 months ago

‘I am not a magician,’ Sri Lanka’s Dissanayake tells supporters after taking oath as president

Firstpost

After taking oath on Monday, the new Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said he had no magic solution to the hardships suffered following an unprecedented economic crisis Sri Lanka's first leftist president, Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, took oath on Monday at the colonial-era Presidential Secretariat in Colombo after trouncing his nearest rivals in Saturday's vote. Sri Lanka’s first leftist president …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Sri Lanka's JVP vows to cancel Adani energy project if elected

The Hindu

The Marxist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna on Monday vowed to cancel the Adani Group’s wind power project in Sri Lanka if it gets elected in the presidential election scheduled for the weekend. We will definitely cancel it as it threatens our energy sovereignty.” The JVP, which led a bloody anti-India rebellion in the island nation between 1987 and 1990 following India’s …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

Fixing Sri Lanka’s economy, wiping out racism top priority, says JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake

The Hindu

Fixing Sri Lanka’s battered economy and wiping out racism will be top priority for a National People’s Power government, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, among the frontrunners in the September 21 race, said on Tuesday. The NPP’s campaign began “long ago,” Mr. Dissanayake said, referring to his party’s steady efforts soon after its poor performance in the last election in 2019, when …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Sri Lanka political parties flag poll aspirations on May Day

The Hindu

With a presidential election expected later this year,the May Day rallies ofall main political parties in Sri Lanka seemed a prelude to their poll campaigns. Addressing the SJB’s May Day rally in Colombo, Leader of Opposition Sajith Premadasa, pledged to implement the 13th Amendment to the Sri Lankan constitution, which promises a measure of power devolution to the provinces. The …

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9 months, 1 week ago

‘Reject AIPAC’: US progressives join forces against pro-Israel lobby group

Al Jazeera

Washington, DC – Prominent progressive organisations in the United States are joining together to push back against the political and electoral influence of the country’s most powerful pro-Israel lobby group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. More than 20 advocacy groups launched on Monday a formal coalition dubbed “Reject AIPAC” to organise against what they called AIPAC’s campaign to silence …

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9 months, 2 weeks ago

On the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | Explained

The Hindu

March 07, 2024 10:51 pm | Updated March 08, 2024 10:26 am IST The story so far: On February 5, an unlikely visitor landed in Delhi from Sri Lanka on an official invitation. Over its five decade-existence, the JVP, which calls itself Marxist, but has been mostly a Sinhala nationalist party, has viewed India as an expansionist power seeking to …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Sri Lankan Opposition JVP leader meets Jaishankar, Doval

The Hindu

Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of Sri Lanka’s leftist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, who is currently visiting India on New Delhi’s invitation, on Monday met External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval, in an indication of the Union government’s high-level engagement with the 55-year-old opposition politician. “In our meeting with Mr. Doval, we discussed regional security and bilateral …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

View From India | The persisting Maldives challenge

The Hindu

The outcome of the second meeting of the India-Maldives High-level Core Group held on February 2, 2024, was an indication that the two sides are yet to fully concur on the question of Indian troops in the Maldives, and their possible removal before the March 15-deadline given by President Mohamed Muizzu. The Maldivian Foreign Ministry statement said: “Both sides agreed …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

Sri Lanka’s JVP-led alliance invited for talks in Delhi for the first time

The Hindu

The Indian government has invited a delegation led by Anura Kumara Dissanayake, leader of Sri Lanka’s leftist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, to New Delhi, in a significant outreach to the island nation’s most popular politician at the moment. This is the first time that the JVP leader, who helms the National People’s Power alliance, has received an official invitation from the …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Columbia University suspends pro-Israel and pro-Palestine groups amid protests

Hindustan Times

Columbia University has suspended two student groups, Jewish Voice for Peace and Students for Justice in Palestine, citing repeated violations of university policies. Gerald Rosberg, senior executive vice president of the university, justified the suspension, stating that it resulted from repeated violations of campus event policies, culminating in an unauthorized event marked by threatening rhetoric and intimidation. The decision also …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Sri Lanka's Opposition Parties Divided on Ethnic Reconciliation of Tamil Minority

News 18

Sri Lanka’s opposition parties on Tuesday stood divided over their participation in the all-party conference called by President Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday on the National Reconciliation Programme that seeks to address the thorny issue of ethnic reconciliation of minority Tamils in the island nation. Wickremesinghe prior to his Delhi visit had agreed to the full implementation of the 13th Amendment …

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1 year, 6 months ago

140 weapons surrendered from across Manipur after Amit Shah’s visit

Op India

After the appeal made by Union Home Minister Amit Shah during his recent visit to Manipur, the State police on Friday said that a total of 140 weapons have been surrendered at different places across the State. Among the surrendered weapons include SLR 29, Carbine, AK, INSAS Rifle, INSAS LMG,.303 Rifle, 9mm pistol,.32 pistol, M16 rifle, smoke gun and tear …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Ranil govt. faces mounting pressure for ‘attempt to postpone’ polls in Sri Lanka

The Hindu

Sri Lanka’s President Ranil Wickremesinghe is facing mounting pressure from the political Opposition and civil society over his government’s apparent attempts to postpone local government polls, scheduled in early March, citing the lack of funds. ‘Attack on democracy’ The Bar Association of Sri Lanka, a professional body of lawyers, noted that several decisions taken by the government in recent weeks, …

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2 years, 4 months ago

How were the States formed and how has the Indian map changed since 1947?

The Hindu

The story so far: On the “appointed day”, as Independence Day was referred to in the Indian Independence Act, 1947, British paramountcy lapsed in India, leading to the formation of two independent dominions- India and Pakistan. From then to now, as India completes 75 years of independence and has 28 States and eight Union Territories, the internal boundaries of the …

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Enforced Disappearances in Sri Lanka: In pursuit of an elusive justice for over a decade

The Hindu profiles on Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna

Padma Rao Sundarji | ‘Honeymoon year’ for Sri Lanka’s new govt

DC Edit | Lankans vote for change under Anura; Tamils too

What Dissanayake's JVP sweeping Sri Lankan parliament polls means for India

Landslide win for Sri Lanka president's leftist coalition in snap polls

Sri Lanka Election Results 2024: JVP Wins Parliament Control, Marks Historic Political Shift

Parliamentary polls: Dawn of a new political era in Sri Lanka

The Left turn in Sri Lanka

JVP victory and its effect on the Lankan economy

‘I am not a magician,’ Sri Lanka’s Dissanayake tells supporters after taking oath as president

Sri Lanka's JVP vows to cancel Adani energy project if elected

Fixing Sri Lanka’s economy, wiping out racism top priority, says JVP leader Anura Kumara Dissanayake

Sri Lanka political parties flag poll aspirations on May Day

‘Reject AIPAC’: US progressives join forces against pro-Israel lobby group

On the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna | Explained

Sri Lankan Opposition JVP leader meets Jaishankar, Doval

View From India | The persisting Maldives challenge

Sri Lanka’s JVP-led alliance invited for talks in Delhi for the first time

Columbia University suspends pro-Israel and pro-Palestine groups amid protests

Sri Lanka's Opposition Parties Divided on Ethnic Reconciliation of Tamil Minority

140 weapons surrendered from across Manipur after Amit Shah’s visit

Ranil govt. faces mounting pressure for ‘attempt to postpone’ polls in Sri Lanka

How were the States formed and how has the Indian map changed since 1947?