Newton Gunasinghe, a pioneering Sri Lankan sociologist and Marxist scholar, made significant contributions to the study of ...

Following independence from Britain, both India and Sri Lanka emerged as leaders of the Non-Aligned Movement, which sought to ...

The Supreme Court of Canada has upheld the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision, confirming that there will be no further ...

The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), once considered one of the most ruthless terrorist organisations in the world, ...

JURIST Staff, US Sri Lanka’s civil war (1983-2009) between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), a separatist Tamil militant and political ...

The United Kingdom’s recent sanctions against four Lankan officials for alleged human rights violations during the civil war has stirred controversy within Sri Lanka. While hardline factions decry the ...

If they are not, they continue to fester beneath the surface until they rise again in a most unexpected way and when they may be more difficult to deal with. In the case of the Batalanda interrogation ...

Many a bond burst asunder and the gravity of its consequences are being felt even today. Polarization of the country along ethnic lines could not have been avoided. Failure of successive governments ...

Since the February 2021 coup, Myanmar’s military regime has waged a brutal campaign of terror against the population, including indiscriminate airstrikes, mass arrests, and executions. The Assistance ...

Amnesty’s goal was to serve as an advocate for victims and prisoners of conscience, and to stand apart from the polarized ...

Myanmar's junta chief will attend a regional summit in Bangkok next week, a spokesman said Thursday, a rare foreign trip ...