The Rohingya are perhaps among the most persecuted people in the world today. Every week, countless Rohingya refugees escape ...

India’s move to name the Jaffna Cultural Centre after the Tamil poet-philosopher, Thiruvalluvar, is a symbolic gesture by New Delhi to reinforce the unbreakable bond with Sri Lanka. When ...

By Shamindra Ferdinando Sri Lanka must address the developing issue of Rohingya refugees cautiously. Whatever the domestic politics, or divisions within political parties represented in Parliament, ...

Sri Lanka said today that it had banned the self-declared government-in-exile of ethnic minority Tamils and over a dozen other Tamil diaspora groups. The government accused them of committing and ...

Mechanisms are needed to prevent them from losing their identity, lands, resources and equality, they say (UCAN) Leaders, representing indigenous people in Sri Lanka, have called on the government to ...

Freedom, Liberty and Independence. Three words that seemingly have the same meaning, but differ slightly in their interpretation. Sri Lanka gained independence from the British rulers on February 4, ...

The intersection of Buddhism, politics, and ethnic conflict in ... often at the expense of minority groups, particularly Muslims in the context of Myanmar and Sri Lanka. Islamophobia: Prejudice ...