Police spokesman SSP Ranjith Gunasekera said the suspect was arrested around 5.00pm. “Police also seized a mobile phone from the suspect which belonged to Wickramatunga. He also had in his possession a telephone book containing numbers of Wickramatunga and several others,” he added. more.. ...
Fresh protests erupted in Sri Lanka after the news of Rajapaksa fleeing from the country was confirmed. Angry Sri Lankans arrived in large numbers in Colombo and barged into the Prime Minister’s Office. The police fired tear gas on protesters who broke through a barricade and storm...
Sri Lanka frees detained French TV crew Dec 26 (AFP) A Sri Lankan judge freed two foreign television reporters held for two days by police while making a documentary about people detained under emergency laws, officials said. The two-member crew of France 24 were detained overnight at Ratga...
A separate incident involving vandalism of Buddha statues in the Mawanella, Peradeniya and Velambada Police areas triggered a series of investigations that led to an NTJ member admitting that M.C.M. Zahran was intending to cause “communal disharmony” in Sri Lanka. Abyeskara was ...
Individuals, families and communities in Northern Sri Lanka have undergone three decades of war trauma, multiple displacements, and loss of family, kin, friends, homes, employment and other valued resources. The objective of the study was understanding c
Official Country Name: Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka Region (Map name): East & South Asia Population: 19,408,635 Language(s): Sinhala (official and national), Tamil (national language) Literacy rate: 90.2% Area: 65,610 sq km GDP: 16,305 (US$ millions) Number of...
--Sarath Nishantha, a laborer in Sri Lanka "It was very strong. We all ran out of the building." -- Telephone operator in Sumatra Sources: AP, cnn.com, Reuters In Malaysia, residents fled their shaking apartments and hotels. ''I was getting ready for bed, and suddenly, the room star...
Feb 1 (LG) “In a telephone conversation with Foreign Secretary Kohona, Ambassador Akashi, the Japanese peace envoy, vehemently denied that Japan was reconsidering its aid policy, vis-à-vis, Sri Lanka,” according to statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Colombo. “He confi...