The stunning country of Sri Lanka has recovered from colonial rule and civil war to become a proudly independent nation with ...

The divide eventually deepened and turn Sri Lanka into what we know it as today. Yet the legacy of colonial divide and rule in Sri Lanka continues to haunt the nation, reminding us of the lasting ...

Sri Lanka’s foreign minister said Monday that his country welcomes the Netherlands’ plan to return hundreds of colonial-era artifacts — including a bejeweled, ceremonial cannon — and said ...

Sri Lanka is now under the clutches of the International Monitory Fund (IMF) just as we were under British colonial rule, where Sri Lanka had no freedom or sovereignty to decide on its taxation or ...

The myth of a Tamil homeland collapses under scrutiny of historical records, colonial chronicles, and demographic facts. The ...

During his official visit to Sri Lanka, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk welcomed proposed legislation to decriminalise same-sex relations. ..

Following in the footsteps of elephants on a journey through wild eastern Sri Lanka Heading south east from the tea plantations of Sri Lanka’s highlands, vast tracts of jungle flow towards the ...

Today, 21 September, Sri Lanka will hold its first presidential election since the July 2022 popular uprising known as the Aragalaya, which drove the corrupt President Gotabaya Rajapaksa from power.

Clearly, as we see unravelling in Sri Lanka, these sanctions will have the complete opposite outcome. If the colonial credo was to ‘Divide and Rule’; is the neo-colonial credo ‘Divide, Destabilise and ...

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Historical Context Sri Lanka has been mired in ethnic conflict since the country, formerly known as Ceylon, became independent from British rule in 1948.