Making Sense Of Sri Lanka’s 2018 Political Crisis – OpEd
President Maithripala Sirisena’s sacking of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on October 26, 2018, ended the national unity government, which was
Read morePresident Maithripala Sirisena’s sacking of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on October 26, 2018, ended the national unity government, which was
Read moreThe Supreme Court was presented with a relatively simple case when entities which did not approve the dissolution of Parliament
Read moreBelieving that he could win a third term as president, Mahinda Rajapaksa scheduled the presidential election for January 2015. After
Read moreIn a Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) electoral organizers meeting, President Sirisena proclaimed that he would not allow a federal
Read moreSri Lankas President Maithripala Sirisena became part of yet another political coup within five years. In the first coup, he
Read moreLast week, attending the late Maduluwawe Sobith Thera’s 76th birth anniversary at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute, President Sirisena warned
Read moreI have labeled Sri Lanka as a “failed case of reconciliation” in some of my previous writings. In the immediate
Read moreOn February 27, 2018, a riot broke out in Ampara, a Southeastern town in Sri Lanka. A group of Sinhala-Buddhist
Read moreThe much-anticipated local government elections in Sri Lanka were concluded without troubles on February 10, 2018. The Sri Lanka Podujana
Read moreSri Lanka’s President Maithripala Sirisena surprised many people by asking the Supreme Court (SC) whether he has “any impediment to
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