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Taming the east
“It is a dynasty, but by people’s choice, a people’s dynasty.”– Basil Rajapaksa, Minister of Economic Development and Presidential Sibling. Gotabhaya Rajapaksa does not hesitate to cavort where men...
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Conditioned by war
flickr/ssoosay Having experienced one long war and two insurgencies, Sri Lanka is no stranger to violence. But until a few years ago, violent crimes targeting children were relatively rare in this...
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A garrison state?
A bulldozer covered with armour plates in the military’s war memorial at Elephant Pass, Jaffna.Photo: Flickr / koolb Just two years ago, the Urban Wetlands Park was an abandoned tract of land. Located...
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When the worm turns
Photo: Flickr / Vikalpa | Groundviews | Maatram | CPA ‘The Files’ had been public knowledge for years. No one had seen them, but many believed in their existence. Brimming with incriminating evidence...
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Whither Lankan spring?
Photo: Flickr / Mahinda Rajapaksa Six months ago, Sri Lanka stunned the world, and itself, by unseating the country’s neo-monarchical president without firing a single shot, by voting out Mahinda...
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The spectre haunting Lankan democracy
Photo : Flickr / Nazly Ahmed Sri Lanka is a democratic success story at a time when success stories are rare and failure is the norm. But it is easy for Lankans to lose sight of that fact as their...
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Freeing the fourth estate
Illustration: Marcin Bondarowicz July 2012: Frederica Jansz, the editor of the Sunday Leader, called Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, Secretary to the Ministry of Defence and Urban Development, about a dog. Jansz...
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Sri Lankan Muslims: the new ‘others’?
From the town of Digana, in central Sri Lanka’s Kandy district, where anti-Muslim violence erupted in early March this year. A few days after Kandy District in central Sri Lanka experienced a spate of...
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Sri Lanka: Back on the brink
Outside St Anthony’s Church, Kochchikade, in Colombo, one of the sites of Easter Sunday attacks. Photo: Amalini De Sayrah / Groundviews The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has claimed...
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