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Feb 27, 2023 · By W.A. Wijewardena –. A country in deep crisis. By any indicator, Sri Lanka is going through the worst of the economic crises in its post-independent history. Noting that Sri Lanka Government has defaulted its foreign debt repayments since April 2022, some have branded that the country is financially bankrupt today.
The Colombo Telegraph is a Sri Lankan website run by exiled journalists. It was founded in 2011. [2] It has been blocked in Sri Lanka repeatedly. Uvindu Kurukulasuriya is the editor. He went into exile to UK in 2009 after the murder of Lasantha Wickrematunge and after he was threatened publicly via national radio by the president's media advisor.
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Mar 8, 2024 · The Steps To Achieve Justice In Sri Lanka. Under President Mahinda Rajapaksa’s tenure, the Sri Lankan civil war, which spanned from 1983 to 2009, reached its brutal conclusion on May 18, 2009. This marked the end of a 25-year conflict between the Sri Lankan government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a separatist rebel group.
Dec 22, 2021 · The kind of civilisation that existed centuries ago is immaterial now. It is time to look at Sri Lanka as it is now. (Refer to ‘The Tamils Are the Original Inhabitants of Sri Lanka’ published in the Colombo Telegraph by a retired judge and a leader. Wonder if has added one iota for the future of Sri Lanka.
May 1, 2024 · Sri Lanka & Israel: Parallel Legacies As Geo-Conscious States. May 5, 2024. author: Niranga Indrajith Hettiarachchi.
Dec 21, 2012 · By Colombo Telegraph –. The Court of Appeal today observed that it has the jurisdiction to hear the writ petition filed by Chief Justice Shirani Bandaranayake challenging the findings of the Parliament Select Committee (PSC) and as such issued notices on the Speaker and PSC members returnable on January 3, 2013.
