Fifteen of the 24 defendants tried over Sri Lanka’s 2019 Easter Sunday bombings were found guilty on Tuesday, while the remaining nine were acquitted and ordered to be released, according to a
Introduction Sri Lanka is facing multiple crises – economic, politicaland cultural. How the government deals with these is crucial to the future of the country. The failed unitary form of government, in
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I met comrade H A Seneviratne during the main trial of the Criminal Justice Commission (CJC) held in 1972. He was one of the junior attorneys who worked alongside comrade Bala Tampoe,
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Link to part 5 Conclusive remarks The IMF programme needs to be used to negotiate debt restructuring with commercial and multilateral creditors. It would create space to spend on priorities such as
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Link to part 4 The IMF program in Lanka and its implications The IMF agreement with Sri Lanka emphasises fiscal consolidation, which requires the government to achieve a budget surplus within two
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Link to part 3 National debt and human rights The implication of debt on human rights is also of significant concern. Many countries in the world are either already in a debt
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Click here to read Part 2 of this series A culture of innovation Long term survival of an entity depends on developing a culture of innovation. This needs to be an organizational
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Click here to read Part 1 of this series Neo-liberalism Neo-liberalism is not a solution, but the principal cause of the problem. I would like to offer some personal insights here from
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An outline of the problem Post-independent Sri Lanka (Lanka) has suffered from recurrent economic crises; the more notable ones being in August 1953, in the late 1970s and most pertinently the current
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The United States of America (US) must be one of the most incompetent, brutal and arrogant imperial powers in history. For Its hubris and gradual decline, the only counterpart is the Spanish
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As the 75th anniversary of independence gathers steam, it will be important to reflect on the gradual erosion of checks and balances and the rule of law. No crisis, be it in
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Voices for democracy are reverberating in many countries, where people’s rights and freedoms are being usurped by fundamentalist and autocratic regimes around the world. They are openly and covertly resorting to desperate
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