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Sri Lankan workers revolt against the kleptocracy

8Jun

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Sri Lankan workers revolt against the kleptocracy

The island nation of Sri Lanka is enduring its worst-ever economic crisis since its formal release from British colonial rule in 1948. For months, petrol, diesel, gas, food and medicine have been in very short suppy and have risen astronomically in price, as has the cost of transport. People are compelled to wait in long queues to get the essentials. Every day there are power cuts lasting for hours because of lack of fuel for thermal power plants. The Sri Lankan masses are placing the blame fairly and squarely on the government that is led by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, brother of a previous Sri Lankan president Mahinda Rajapaksa who is currently the prime minister. Cause of the economic crisis in Sri Lanka To be fair to the Rajapaksas (not that they deserve it), Sri Lanka...

Sri Lanka: Debt Crisis, Neocolonialism and Geopolitical Rivalry

5Jun

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Sri Lanka: Debt Crisis, Neocolonialism and Geopolitical Rivalry

By Asoka Bandarage Global Research, Sri Lanka is in the throes of an unprecedented economic crisis. Faced with a shortage of foreign exchange and defaulting on its foreign debt repayment, the country is unable to pay for its food, fuel, medicine, and other basic necessities. Notwithstanding the austerities that would be entailed, a bail out by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been accepted as the only way out of the dire economic situation. Opposition political parties and citizens across the country blame the Rajapaksa government’s widespread corruption and mismanagement for the crisis, and demand that the President and the Parliament resign. The Prime Minister, Mahinda Rajapaksa did so on May 9th, 2022. However, the protesters at...

A Staged Default: Sri Lanka’s Sovereign Bond Debt trap and IMF’s Spring Meetings amid hybrid Cold War

24Apr

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A Staged Default: Sri Lanka’s Sovereign Bond Debt trap and IMF’s Spring Meetings amid hybrid Cold War

By Fabio Giuseppe Carlo Carisio On the image cover a protestor wearing a mask of Sri Lankas President Gotabaya Rajapaksa performs during a protest against President Rajapaksa in front of the Presidential Secretariat, amid the country’s economic crisis in Colombo by Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake for VT Sri Lanka The writer, Dr. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, is a Social and Medical Anthropologist, based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Links to Gospa News articles have been added by our Editorial Staff In Cherry Blossom lined Washington DC in the glare of global media last week Sri Lanka became the poster child of the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF), Spring Meetings. The strategic Indian Ocean island’s pathetic plight featured on major media and television ch...

Mourners demand justice for Sri Lankan man lynched in Pakistan

21Dec

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Pakistan & Kashmir, Sri Lanka

Mourners demand justice for Sri Lankan man lynched in Pakistan

Hundreds in Sri Lanka attend the funeral of Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana, who was killed by a mob in Sialkot, Pakistan. Diyawadana's mother grieves at her son's coffin after his body was returned to Sri Lanka [Eranga Jayawardena/AP Photo] By Rathindra KuruwitaPublished On 8 Dec 20218 Dec 2021 Ganemulla, Sri Lanka – Mourners who gathered for the funeral of Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana, a Sri Lankan man lynched by a mob in Pakistan for alleged blasphemy, have urged the authorities in both South Asian nations to ensure justice for the victim. Diyawadana’s body was taken to Polhena cemetery in Ganemulla, 25km (11 miles) from the Sri Lankan capital Colombo on Wednesday, after Buddhist rites had been conducted. Body of Sri Lankan lynching victim arrives from Pakistan L...

Sri Lanka: Human Rights Groups Demand Release of Lawyer Held Months Without Trial

9Aug

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Human Rights, Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka: Human Rights Groups Demand Release of Lawyer Held Months Without Trial

Human rights lawyer Hejaaz Hizbullah, who has been detained for 15 months without trial, on July 16, 2021. BYAisha Maniar, Truthout Eleven international human rights organizations have issued a statement calling on the Sri Lankan government to “immediately and unconditionally” release human rights lawyer Hejaaz Hizbullah, who has been detained for 15 months without trial, as well as other prisoners denied due process under the repressive Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTA). The groups also call for the wholesale repeal of the PTA. The PTA grants the Sri Lankan authorities sweeping powers to detain individuals arbitrarily for up to 18 months without charge or trial. Used to stifle dissent, it is disproportionately used against ethnic and religious minorities in t...

2May

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Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka

Leading Muslim organisation condemns Saudi Sri Lanka fake news

NOVANEWS Leading Muslim organisation condemns Saudi Sri Lanka fake news The Saudi-led bloc has placed Qaradawi on a 'terror list' [Twitter] A leading Muslim organisation has called out Saudi Zio-Wahhabi media for publishing fake news related to the Easter bombings in Sri Lanka that killed at least 253 people. A leading Muslim organisation has called out Saudi Zio-Wahhabi media for publishing "fake news" related to the Easter Day bombings in Sri Lanka that killed at least 253 people. The Doha-based International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) condemned Saudi-funded news websites Al-Arabiya and Al-Hadathfor publishing a "false report" claiming that cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi had met with the extremist leader allegedly behind the brutal attacks. The outlets this week published a...

25Apr

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Sri Lanka, a foreign hand behind the attacks

NOVANEWS On Easter Sunday, eight explosions hit churches and hotels in Sri Lanka causing hundreds of deaths and injuries.The Sri Lankan government has temporarily blocked social media throughout the country and imposed a curfew, while security forces are still in operation . Yesterday a new attack hit Colombo . On the morning of Easter Sunday, eight simultaneous explosives exploded during the Easter celebrations , causing deaths and injuries, in the churches of St. Anthony in Columbus, St. Sebastian in Negombo and the Christian Baptist Zion Church in Batticaloa. Hotels frequented by tourists in Colombo, the Shangri-La, the Kingsbury and the Cinnamon Grand Colombo, and a small hotel in Dehiwala, on the southern outskirts, were also targeted . The eighth explosion, in Dematagoda, a nor...

24Apr

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Sri Lanka Gov’t Says Unknown Islamist Group Behind Attacks, Imposes Curfew

NOVANEWS Teachers hold candles as they pray for the victims of Sri Lanka's serial bomb blasts, at a school in Ahmedabad, India, April 22, 2019. | Photo: Reuters Sri Lanka government accused a fringe militant Islamist group National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ) for the attacks on Easter Sunday. The Sri Lankan government said Monday that Islamist group National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ) was behind the recent attacks in the country in which 290 people were killed and nearly 500 wounded. RELATED: US Warns Terrorists Still Planning Attacks in Sri Lanka NTJ is believed to have split from Sri Lanka Thowheed Jamath (SLTJ), another hardline group. SLTJ’s leader Abdul Razik was arrested in 2016. NTJ is being considered as a fringe group of the minority Muslim community which constit...

23Apr

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India, Pakistan & Kashmir, Sri Lanka

Right on Cue: Indian Media Blames Pakistan for the Sri Lankan Terrorist Attacks

NOVANEWS By Andrew Korybko Global Research It was bound to happen sooner than later, but Indian media finally decided to play the “Pakistan card” by attempting to connect their neighbor’s ISI intelligence agency to the Sri Lankan terrorist attacks, a desperate narrative move that says a lot more about the Indian incumbent’s political vulnerability during the ongoing month-long electoral process than anything about Pakistan’s purported culpability in this tragedy. The Cheap Shot That The Whole World Saw Coming It was only a matter of time before Indian media predictably blamed Pakistan for the Sri Lankan terrorist attacks, which just happened earlier this week in a piece by Vicky Nanjappa for “Oneindia” about “How ISI radicalised Sri Lanka through the Pakistan High Commission“. ...

17Dec

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka's Unrecognized PM Resigns to Avoid Gov't Shutdown

NOVANEWS Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa is accused of crimes against humanity for his role in Sri Lanka's civil war. | Photo: Reuters Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned Saturday, vowing to bring the opposition to "its knees" by organizing the people. Sri Lanka's embattled Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned Saturday, only a month and a half after taking office to prevent an imminent government shutdown. RELATED: Sri Lanka Speaker: Sacking ex-PM Was 'Non-Violent Coup d'etat' The South Asian island has been in political limbo since President Maithripala Sirisena in late October replaced former Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe with Rajapaksa, who was then twice sacked by parliament but had refused to resign. As a government shutdown loomed, Raja...