Sri Lanka’s September 22, 2026 Easter Sunday judgment marks a decisive legal reckoning with one of the country’s deadliest terrorist attacks, convicting 15 of 24 defendants after an extensive examination of thousands
The month of August lived up to the caption of “the living, dead and disappeared.” The month saw the end of the 10-day Kandy Esala Perahera festival in all its glory. The
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During the nearly three decades of fighting Tamil separatists and two insurrections by the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP), the Sri Lanka armed forces had expanded. In three years of the final instalment
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The month end saw Daily Mirror blaring “More arrests of lawyers, politicians and senior police officers are likely in the near future” following the arrest of Nadun Chinthaka Wickramaratne alias Harak Kata
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During the month of April, the Straits of Hormuz continued to face the ‘double blockade’ of both the US and Iran. The word ceasefire in West Asian wars has lost its meaning
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The plight of Sri Lanka, an island nation of about 23 million people caught in the after effect of a war in faraway Iran and GCC countries (Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Saudi
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Will the arrest of Sri Lanka’s former intelligence chief Major General Suresh Salley in the last week of the month, in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday terror attacks that killed nearly
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Sri Lanka had weathered political, economic and climatic maelstrom in the last three years after the Aragalaya – spontaneous uprising of the people – dethroned the Rajapaksas from power in 2022. During
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The year 2025 will be remembered in Sri Lanka for Cyclone Ditwah, which struck the Sri Lanka coast towards the end of November. The heavy rain and landslides during the cyclone presents
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President Anura Kumara Dissanayake (AKD) would remember his 58th birthday on November 24 for long as the disastrous cyclone Ditwah struck a few days later. Before the cyclone struck, heavy rains in
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The highlight of the month of October is Prime Minister Harini Amarasuriya’s official visit to India from October 16 to 18. This was the 55 year-old former academic’s first visit to India
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The highlight of the month of September is President Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s visit to attend and speak at the UN General Assembly. AKD posed for the photograph with US President Donald Trump
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The aftereffects of years of lawless politics and lack of accountability among the political class and government servants are coming home to roost Sri Lanka after the National Peoples Power (NPP) government
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The month of July is remembered in Sri Lanka for many eventful things that changed the course of history. But two events – the Black July Pogrom carried out on July 23,
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For the ruling National Peoples Power (NPP) group led by President Anura Kumara Dissanayaka (AKD), the local government (LG) elections held during May 2025 was one of the coming-of-age tests at national
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The month of May saw President Anura Kumara Dissanayaka (also known as AKD) coming to terms with the pleasures and pains of democracy in action. This was brought out starkly in two
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