Interview | Sri Lankan democracy has been altered by citizens themselves: Jayadeva Uyangoda
1 month ago

Interview | Sri Lankan democracy has been altered by citizens themselves: Jayadeva Uyangoda

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 22, 2024 18:57 IST - 21 MINS READ Jayadeva Uyangoda, emeritus professor of political science at the University of Colombo, spoke to Amit Baruah about the groundbreaking November 14 election results and their implications for Sri Lanka’s future. Since independence—actually since 1931 when we got the universal adult franchise—political power through elections has always been the monopolistic privilege of Sri Lanka’s elite social classes. There may not always be the NPP, but other political parties could emerge to represent the interests and demands of the subordinate classes who represent the actual majority in Sri Lanka’s Sinhalese, Tamil, Muslim, and upcountry Tamil societies. One comparative lesson from Bangladesh’s situation is that in Sri Lanka, the NPP was there to fill the political vacuum—a new agency to utilise the political momentum created by the mass movement. Sri Lanka’s current change suggests that the NPP has emerged as a political force that can bring society together—an agency for reunifying a divided society.

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Sri Lankan president’s visit ticks most boxes
4 days, 23 hours ago

Sri Lankan president’s visit ticks most boxes

New Indian Express  

Sri Lankan President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s promise of continuity with change and saying what India wanted to hear on security relations ought to have eased concerns in New Delhi about the Marxist-leaning leader’s new regime. The joint statement also spoke about an open, safe and secure Indian Ocean region, which was read in the context of China’s territorial expansionism and …

‘Won’t allow anti-India activities’: Sri Lankan President Dissanayake
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1 week ago

‘Won’t allow anti-India activities’: Sri Lankan President Dissanayake

Hindustan Times  

Sri Lanka will not allow its soil to be used against Indian interests, its President Anura Kumara Dissanayake told Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi on Monday as the two sides agreed on measures to bolster strategic and security cooperation. A joint statement said Dissanayake reiterated Sri Lanka’s “stated position of not permitting its territory to be used in any …

Challenges before the new Sri Lankan Government
1 week, 1 day ago

Challenges before the new Sri Lankan Government

New Indian Express  

In 2024, Sri Lanka witnessed seismic political shifts. In the second half of this year, voters installed a hitherto untried president and a new government, with the fervent hope that the old order should give way to a better new order. It’s taken the rather conservative Sri Lankan voters 76 years to move away from feudal parties and experiment with …

An overturning of Sri Lanka’s old political order
1 month ago

An overturning of Sri Lanka’s old political order

The Hindu  

The National People’s Power, led by Sri Lanka’s President Anura Kumara Dissanayake, has swept the Sri Lankan parliamentary polls with an astounding majority. There is another side to this story: Sri Lanka is Asia’s oldest electoral democracy, with universal suffrage going back to 1931, and its citizenry, in an awesome political swing, have not only given the new government an …

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

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

‘Need a change’: Sri Lanka’s leftist win sparks hopes, bridges old divides
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1 month, 1 week ago

‘Need a change’: Sri Lanka’s leftist win sparks hopes, bridges old divides

Al Jazeera  

President Dissanayake’s party has won a two-thirds majority in parliament, including among Tamils and Muslims. Dissanayake’s National People’s Power won a landslide majority in Thursday’s parliamentary election, securing 159 seats in a house of 225 members – representing a comfortable two-thirds majority. They have shown they need a change from the old politics.” Vote for change According to political analyst …

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

Why Sri Lanka’s parliamentary election today matters for its future
1 month, 1 week ago

Why Sri Lanka’s parliamentary election today matters for its future

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The parliamentary election in Sri …

Sri Lankan Parliamentary elections begin with issues of welfare, economic reforms at stake | WATCH
1 month, 1 week ago

Sri Lankan Parliamentary elections begin with issues of welfare, economic reforms at stake | WATCH

India TV News  

Colombo: Sri Lankans began voting on Thursday in a snap election to decide if the Indian Ocean island will give its new leftist president greater strength to help the poor as it recovers from a financial meltdown. "I think we are seeing the first signs of a positive political change in Sri Lanka after the president was elected and we …

Sri Lanka: Economic crisis, political change, and reconciliation | Interview with Ahilan Kadirgamar
1 month, 1 week ago

Sri Lanka: Economic crisis, political change, and reconciliation | Interview with Ahilan Kadirgamar

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 14, 2024 14:38 IST - 1 MIN READ On November 14, 2024, Sri Lankans began voting in the snap parliamentary election, the first major test of the ruling National People’s Power party led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayake. Having failed to secure 50 per cent of the vote at the September 21 presidential election, Mr. Dissanayake is …

Interview| I Think More People in the North and the South Will Vote for the NPP: Ahilan Kadirgamar
1 month, 1 week ago

Interview| I Think More People in the North and the South Will Vote for the NPP: Ahilan Kadirgamar

The Hindu  

Published : Nov 13, 2024 20:29 IST - 21 MINS READ Ahilan Kadirgamar, who teaches sociology at the University of Jaffna and has been a long-time human rights activist, has a keen eye on developments in Sri Lanka. Just as there have been major changes in politics in Sri Lanka’s south—who would have imagined that a coalition led by the …

Real winners of Sri Lanka’s election: A people emboldened to force change
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Real winners of Sri Lanka’s election: A people emboldened to force change

Al Jazeera  

Anura Kumara Dissanayake rode a wave of anger to power. Back then, the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, the Marxist outfit that the country’s new president, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, now leads, was reviled in swaths of southern Sri Lanka for having twice attempted violent revolution. The “curse” essentially, was the population having allowed political elites, largely organised into Sri Lanka’s two main …

A new chapter in India-Sri Lanka relations
2 months, 4 weeks ago

A new chapter in India-Sri Lanka relations

Hindustan Times  

The Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s victory and ascension to the presidency marks a significant shift in Sri Lanka’s political landscape, with effects on its relations with India. PM Modi’s immediate outreach indicates India’s desire to build on the $4 billion assistance package it provided during Sri Lanka's economic crisis, deepening collaboration in areas like infrastructure, energy, and trade​. Dissanayake’s approach to …

Ramification | Sri Lanka: First presidential election after economic crisis and all weather Colombo-Delhi ties
3 months, 1 week ago

Ramification | Sri Lanka: First presidential election after economic crisis and all weather Colombo-Delhi ties

Firstpost  

Irrespective of the outcome of the election, India, as it has done in the past, will continue to support Sri Lanka in its economic recovery President Ranil Wickremesinghe and Prime Minister Dinesh Gunawardena gesture as they arrive at the Election Commission in Rajagiriya to submit his nomination papers for the upcoming presidential election, scheduled for September 21, in Colombo, Sri …

Prominent Tamil party in Sri Lanka seeks governance structure based on federal model
4 months, 1 week ago

Prominent Tamil party in Sri Lanka seeks governance structure based on federal model

The Hindu  

The Ilankai Tamil Arasu Katchi, a prominent political party representing Tamils of Sri Lanka’s north and east, has said it would consider backing a presidential aspirant who agrees to its demand for a governance structure based on a federal model. The party’s position, which reiterates its long-standing demand for a just political solution to the civil war-scarred country’s Tamil question, …

A poverty of hope among Sri Lankan Tamils
6 months, 4 weeks ago

A poverty of hope among Sri Lankan Tamils

The Hindu  

When Antony Jesurathnam Mariapushparani, 62, recalls the horrific final days of Sri Lanka’s civil war in striking detail, it is hard to believe it has been 15 years since its end. I saw the destruction with my own eyes,” she says of the time when tens of thousands of Tamils, including women, children, and infants, were killed in the Sri …

Sri Lanka President Wickremesinghe backs India-mooted 13A as solution to Tamil community's demand for political autonomy
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Sri Lanka President Wickremesinghe backs India-mooted 13A as solution to Tamil community's demand for political autonomy

The Hindu  

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe on January 5 backed the India-mooted 13th Amendment as a solution to address the minority Tamil community's long-pending demand for political autonomy. Addressing a group of professionals in Jaffna, the capital of the Tamil-dominated Northern Province, Mr. Wickremesinghe said the devolution of power shouldn’t merely be a political concept but an economic reality. The 13A …

Sri Lanka needs a national liberation movement, not mere regime change: Anura Kumara Dissanayake
1 year ago

Sri Lanka needs a national liberation movement, not mere regime change: Anura Kumara Dissanayake

The Hindu  

As Sri Lanka tries to rebuild its battered economy after last year’s devastating crisis, the country’s political scene is gradually heating up, in the run up to two national elections scheduled next year — parliamentary and presidential — that will give citizens their first chance to vote, after they dislodged the Rajapaksas from power in 2022. We have developed an …

A cautionary tale from Indian Tamils in Ceylon
1 year, 1 month ago

A cautionary tale from Indian Tamils in Ceylon

Hindustan Times  

More people have heard of the fast-bowling Sri Lankan wizard of a spinner Muttiah Muralitharan than of the great community of “Indian Tamils” in Sri Lanka or the tea plantation workers on the Emerald Isle’s Hill Country, to which he belongs. That makes Muttiah Muralitharan one of the 4.2% of Sri Lanka’s “Indian Tamils”. Between 1978 and 1982, I had …

An under-discussed facet of colonial history
1 year, 1 month ago

An under-discussed facet of colonial history

The Hindu  

November 09, 2023 12:16 am | Updated 01:55 am IST This year marks the bicentenary of the arrival of Tamil indentured labourers in Sri Lanka, a milestone recently commemorated in Colombo at an event called “Naam 200”, where I delivered an address on this woefully under-discussed facet of our colonial history. It was not without reason that the British historian …

Citing ‘inadequate progress’ on rights front, India urges Sri Lanka to keep its promises
1 year, 3 months ago

Citing ‘inadequate progress’ on rights front, India urges Sri Lanka to keep its promises

The Hindu  

India on Tuesday said the progress made by Sri Lanka, on its commitment to fulfill the Tamils’ aspirations, was “inadequate” and urged the island nation to “work meaningfully” to keep its promises. However, progress on the same is inadequate and we urge the Government of Sri Lanka to work meaningfully towards early implementation of its commitments to ensure that the …

India aids Sri Lanka to fund its digital identity project, hands over INR 450 million
1 year, 4 months ago

India aids Sri Lanka to fund its digital identity project, hands over INR 450 million

India TV News  

Aid to Sri Lanka: ​India has handed over an advance aid of INR 450 million to Sri Lanka to fund its digital identity project, a significant step in its digitalisation programme being implemented through the Indian grant assistance. “Signifying the Indian government’s commitment to the initiative, the Indian High Commissioner handed over a significant contribution of Indian Rs 450 million …

Sri Lankan President plans to implement 13th Amendment: How is it significant for India? Know about it
1 year, 4 months ago

Sri Lankan President plans to implement 13th Amendment: How is it significant for India? Know about it

India TV News  

Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe is planning to press ahead with his quest for the full implementation of the 13th Amendment as part of his reconciliation efforts with the nation’s minority Tamil community, officials said. The Tamil minority community in Sri Lanka has been demanding the implementation of the 13th Amendment that provides for the devolution of power to it. …

Tamil National Alliance ‘categorically rejects’ Sri Lankan President’s offer of 13th Amendment minus police powers
1 year, 5 months ago

Tamil National Alliance ‘categorically rejects’ Sri Lankan President’s offer of 13th Amendment minus police powers

The Hindu  

The Tamil National Alliance on Tuesday “categorically rejected” Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s offer to implement the 13th Amendment sans police powers, terming his proposal for development and power devolution “another hollow promise”. ‘No police powers’ A small section in the 16-page dossier that dealt with devolution said that the 13th Amendment would be implemented “with the exception of police …

A people of an emerald isle, waiting with doosras
1 year, 6 months ago

A people of an emerald isle, waiting with doosras

The Hindu  

George Bernard Shaw visited Ceylon in 1948, skipping India altogether. ‘…born in Kandy…to a Hill Country Tamil Hindu family of tea plantation workers, the eldest of the four sons born to Lakshmi and to Sinnasamy Muttiah who runs a successful biscuit-making business, he is a grandson of Periasamy Sinnasamy who migrated from south India in 1920 to find work on …

Remember our history, recognise our labour, say Sri Lanka’s Malaiyaha Tamils
1 year, 6 months ago

Remember our history, recognise our labour, say Sri Lanka’s Malaiyaha Tamils

The Hindu  

Marking 200 years since their arrival in Sri Lanka from southern India, to work in the British-run plantations, members of the island nation’s historically marginalised Malaiyaha Tamil community have sought greater recognition, political rights, and improved living and working conditions. Watch:How Sri Lanka’s economic crisis affected the Malaiyaha Tamil community Organised by the Institute of Social Development, an NGO working …

Is Transformation Possible in Sri Lanka?
1 year, 8 months ago

Is Transformation Possible in Sri Lanka?

The Diplomat  

Sri Lanka marks 75 years of independence this year. This has seen advocacy targeting key capitals and the United Nations with several resolutions adopted at the United Nations Human Rights Council that highlighted Sri Lanka’s past legacies and continuing challenges. Despite its past experiences – a near three-decade ethnic conflict, the devastating Easter Sunday attacks in 2019, and numerous cycles …

Sri Lanka seeks India’s help with policy reforms, governance
1 year, 8 months ago

Sri Lanka seeks India’s help with policy reforms, governance

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Trying to recover from its worst economic crisis since independence, Sri Lanka’s president Ranil Wickremesinghe has sought India’s help in establishing policy reforms, governance, capacity building, digitalization, and public service delivery, a statement issued by India’s Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions said. The Indian delegation led by the director general of the National Centre for Good …

The elusive political solution in Sri Lanka
1 year, 9 months ago

The elusive political solution in Sri Lanka

The Hindu  

Early February, a group of saffron-clad Buddhist monks gathered near the Sri Lankan Parliament and burnt a copy of the 13th Amendment. Tamils’ engagement Months into his unexpected Presidency, Mr. Wickremesinghe announced that he would ensure that the country’s long-pending ethnic question is resolved by February 4, 2023, the day Sri Lanka marked 75 years of its Independence from colonial …

In Ceylon, there was no tryst with democracy: Rajan Hoole
1 year, 10 months ago

In Ceylon, there was no tryst with democracy: Rajan Hoole

The Hindu  

Sri Lanka’s crisis last year was unprecedented on many accounts. But, it was not entirely unrelated to the country’s tumultuous past, marked by discriminatory laws and policy targeting the island nation’s minorities, especially the Malaiyaha Tamils, according to Rajan Hoole, Jaffna-based mathematician, best known for his human rights activism during the civil war years. Published by the Colombo-based Sailfish, it …

Little to celebrate in Sri Lanka at 75
1 year, 10 months ago

Little to celebrate in Sri Lanka at 75

The Hindu  

Controversy looms over Sri Lanka’s celebration of the 75th anniversary of its Independence, with a question having been raised on whether it is worth wasting Sri Lankan rupees 300 million on this event. The Left critique shared the Sinhala nationalist argument that political independence secured by the local elites was incomplete, arguing that only a socialist republic would ensure full …

13th Amendment | A promise of devolution
1 year, 11 months ago

13th Amendment | A promise of devolution

The Hindu  

If an Indian leader or top official makes a statement on Sri Lanka, it would invariably mention one piece of legislation in Sri Lanka’s Constitution — the 13th Amendment. External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, who was in Colombo earlier this week, said he shared India’s “considered view” with President Ranil Wickremesinghe that the full implementation of the 13th Amendment was …

As talks with Tamil parties drag, Ranil pledges full implementation of 13th Amendment
1 year, 11 months ago

As talks with Tamil parties drag, Ranil pledges full implementation of 13th Amendment

The Hindu  

The Sri Lankan government will “fully implement” the 13th Amendment, President Ranil Wickremesinghe said on Sunday, making a familiar promise to the Tamils on the nearly 40-year-old legislation guaranteeing a measure of power devolution to the island’s provinces. His remarks come even as his government is engaged in talks with the Tamil political leadership to find a durable political solution …

An uphill struggle in Sri Lanka’s tea country
2 years ago

An uphill struggle in Sri Lanka’s tea country

The Hindu  

Watch | How the economic crisis has hurt Sri Lanka’s hill Tamils Sathish Sumithra’s son, barely two years old, is too young to make sense of Sri Lanka’s unrelenting economic crisis, but not to escape it. “An egg costs 70 rupees now,” says Sumithra, breaking down what the country’s 70% inflation and over 80% food inflation means in her working-class …

Sri Lanka’s Tamil parties skeptical of Ranil’s outreach
2 years, 1 month ago

Sri Lanka’s Tamil parties skeptical of Ranil’s outreach

The Hindu  

Reaching out to Sri Lanka’s Tamil parties in Parliament on November 10, President Ranil Wickremesinghe invited them for a discussion this week, and pledged to resolve their pending issues before the island nation’s 75th Independence Day falling on February 4, 2023. Sumanthiran said despite known differences among Tamil parties, the TNA invited them for a discussion this week, “as we …

India abstains on Sri Lanka vote at Human Rights Council
2 years, 2 months ago

India abstains on Sri Lanka vote at Human Rights Council

The Hindu  

India on Thursday abstained from voting on a resolution on Sri Lanka at the U.N. Human Rights Council, while observing that Sri Lanka’s progress in implementing commitments on the 13th Amendment, meaningful devolution, and early provincial elections remains “inadequate”. Further, India has “taken note” of the Sri Lankan government’s commitments on the implementation of commitments “in the spirit of the …

Sri Lanka, India are 'soulmates', says Indian Envoy Gopal Baglay | Exclusive
2 years, 5 months ago

Sri Lanka, India are 'soulmates', says Indian Envoy Gopal Baglay | Exclusive

India Today  

As Sri Lanka votes in parliament to elect the new President of the country, Indian High Commissioner to Colombo, Gopal Baglay, emphasised the importance India attaches to the critical island nation faced with the worst crisis ever. As the high commissioner of India, I and my colleagues have been trying, with the help and guidance of our authorities in New …

Sri Lanka to witness three-way contest for Presidency
2 years, 5 months ago

Sri Lanka to witness three-way contest for Presidency

The Hindu  

Sri Lanka will witness a three-cornered race for Presidency on Wednesday, as the island awaits a new leader and government after an astounding people’s uprising ousted Gotabaya Rajapaksa last week. — Sajith Premadasa July 19, 2022 Mr. Premadasa later urged India to help Sri Lanka regardless of Wednesday's outcome in the key vote. — Sajith Premadasa July 19, 2022 The …

A revolt that could turn into a revolution in Sri Lanka
2 years, 5 months ago

A revolt that could turn into a revolution in Sri Lanka

The Hindu  

The great revolt of the masses has overthrown an authoritarian president in Sri Lanka, but it has not abolished the executive presidency. Sri Lanka is in a great moment of revolt, but it is far from a revolution, for a revolution would entail changing our fundamental social relations including property relations. As acting President last week, Mr. Wickremesinghe issued a …

‘Supreme power of people’: Sri Lanka marks 100 days of protests
2 years, 5 months ago

‘Supreme power of people’: Sri Lanka marks 100 days of protests

Al Jazeera  

The mainly youth-led movement over the island’s worst-ever economic crisis completes 100 days, with people saying the struggle is not yet over. Colombo, Sri Lanka – A mainly youth-led mass protest movement over Sri Lanka’s worst-ever economic crisis has completed 100 days. “I am glad that Gotabaya Rajapaksa is gone but we can’t enjoy or celebrate it as long as …

Sri Lanka Turmoil: A History of Discrimination That Culminated in the Current Crisis
2 years, 5 months ago

Sri Lanka Turmoil: A History of Discrimination That Culminated in the Current Crisis

The Quint  

Sri Lanka’s crisis is not just about the economy, but a long history of discrimination against minority groups Sri Lanka is in the grip of an economic, political and humanitarian crisis. Wickremesinghe rejected the UN Expert Panel report that outlined Sri Lankan government atrocities against the Tamils. He stated: “India gave us the intelligence but there has been a lapse …

Sri Lanka crisis: How the island nation descended into chaos; what's next | Explained
2 years, 5 months ago

Sri Lanka crisis: How the island nation descended into chaos; what's next | Explained

India Today  

Violent protests, a debt-laden economy, a President who fled the country and citizens staring at a grim future - that's Sri Lanka today, plunging into deeper economic as well as social crisis with no improvement in sight. With internal political dysfunction and external economic disturbance, the situation is only getting worse even as Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe took charge as …

Ensure peaceful transition of power in full respect for Constitution in Sri Lanka: United Nations
2 years, 5 months ago

Ensure peaceful transition of power in full respect for Constitution in Sri Lanka: United Nations

The Hindu  

The United Nations in Sri Lanka has urged all stakeholders in the island nation to ensure a peaceful transition of power in full respect for the Constitution and to ensure that the root causes of the current instability and people’s grievances are addressed. In Sri Lanka, no quiet after the storm Following the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, United Nations …

Sri Lanka kicks off process to choose new president
2 years, 5 months ago

Sri Lanka kicks off process to choose new president

Al Jazeera  

Parliament meets to begin choosing a new leader to serve the rest of the term abandoned by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa who fled abroad and resigned after mass protests. The Sri Lankan parliament met on Saturday to begin choosing a new leader to serve the rest of the current term after the president fled abroad and resigned following mass protests over …

Worldview with Suhasini Haidar | Gotabaya resigns | What’s next for Sri Lanka?
2 years, 5 months ago

Worldview with Suhasini Haidar | Gotabaya resigns | What’s next for Sri Lanka?

The Hindu  

Let us get up to speed with all that happened- much of it on live cameras, in a country that saw change in its highest office through the power of people taking to the streets - In the past week, those protests grew louder, and more violent. MEA’s reaction: India – Sri Lanka’s biggest neighbour has been remarkably reticent, even …

Sri Lanka crisis: How do you fix a broken country?
2 years, 5 months ago

Sri Lanka crisis: How do you fix a broken country?

CNN  

CNN — For years it had been one of Sri Lanka’s grandest and most heavily guarded buildings, serving as the official residence and state office of the President. “People are tired, hungry and angry … And they are demanding change and accountability because they are sick of seeing the same faces in charge.” ‘We can’t afford to pick or choose’ …

Sri Lanka crisis live updates | July 14, 2022
2 years, 5 months ago

Sri Lanka crisis live updates | July 14, 2022

The Hindu  

Sri Lanka’s President Gotabaya Rajapaksa on Thursday sent his resignation letter by email from Singapore, the Parliamentary Speaker’s office said, deferring an official announcement to Friday in order to verify the “authenticity and legality” of the document. Here is a timeline of events until July 13 Here are the latest updates 11:00 p.m. President’s resignation to be announced at 7:30 …

A brief history of the rise, fall of Sri Lanka’s president
2 years, 5 months ago

A brief history of the rise, fall of Sri Lanka’s president

Associated Press  

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Before he fled Sri Lanka on Wednesday amid a crushing economic crisis, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa was the last of six members of the country’s most influential family still clinging to power. Appealing to the nationalist sentiment of the island’s Buddhist-Sinhalese majority, he led Sri Lanka into a triumphant victory over ethnic Tamil rebels in 2009, ending …

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