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— Report by Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (p. 368) The 2002 ceasefire agreement (CFA) which was signed between the Sri Lankan government and LTTE, although brought about a short lived respite to the country, was unstable and eventually unproductive. Conceptual flaws and the untenable dual roles of the Government of Norway, as facilitator of the peace process and the head of ...
In 2022, as protests began growing in Sri Lanka, Jaliya Wickramasuriya, former Sri Lankan ambassador to the United States and Mexico, and a cousin of the Rajapaksa brothers, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court for defrauding $332,027 from the Sri Lankan government during the purchase of a new embassy building in 2013.
Signature. Dissanayaka Mudiyanselage Anura Kumara Dissanayake[ a ] (born 24 November 1968), commonly referred to by his initials AKD, is a Sri Lankan politician serving as the tenth president of Sri Lanka since 2024. [ 1 ][ 2 ] He is the current party leader of the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and the National People's Power.
Sri Lankan housewife Lankika Dilrukshi says she is tired of the daily struggle needed to provide for her children. Dilrukshi, 31, is one of the millions of people barely able to make ends meet ...
Sri Lankans will vote on Saturday for their next president, who will be key to deciding the future of reforms in a nation slowly emerging from worst financial crisis in decades. A critical ...
By Uditha Jayasinghe. COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's presidential candidates wrapped up their campaigning on Wednesday, 48 hours before the election, pledging to fix the island country's ailing ...
National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ; Arabic: جماعة التوحيد الوطنية; Jamā‘at at-Tawḥīd al-Waṭanīyah, "National Monotheism Organisation") is a Sri Lankan Islamist jihadist militant group implicated in the 2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings. [4][5] It is believed to have ties to the Islamic State (ISIL). [6] President of Sri ...
Eliyantha White. Eliyantha Lindsay White (1971 [1] – 22 September 2021) was a Sri Lankan shaman who used traditional herbs. He treated several world leaders and many cricket players. [2][3][4][5][6][7]