Edit in Daily Mirror, Oct 28, 2023In March 2021 The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted a resolution giving UN Rights Chief Michelle Bachelet a mandate to collect and preserve information and evidence of war crimes committed during Sri Lanka’s nearly 30-year-long civil war, which ended in 2009.The Washington Post reported the Liberation Tigers of the Tamil Eelam (LTTE), held more than 300,000 civilians ‘hostage’ to enforce a ‘strategic human buffer between themselves and the…
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by Kelum Bandara in Daily Mirror, Oct 10, 2023The government has moved to change the parliamentary electoral system triggering fears in political circles whether it is yet another attempt to postpone the national elections including the Presidential Election pending next year, Daily Mirror learns. Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe has submitted a Cabinet resolution seeking approval to introduce a new system to elect members to Parliament under a mixed system. According to the resolution, the electorates…
by Kelum Bandara in Daily Mirror, Sept 21, 2023 is reported to have stood his ground, refusing to allocate any more Cabinet portfolios despite persistent requests from the Sri Lanka Podujana Peramuna (SLPP), Daily Mirror learns. The president has continuously resisted requests to increase the size of the Cabinet even despite some MPs such as S.B. Dissanayake warning to explore ways to topple the government. The position has been taken over concerns that such a…
By Kelum Bandara in Daily Mirror, Aug 29 2023Sri Lanka will have a low profile approach to the upcoming session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) scheduled to start next month, Daily Mirror learns. The UNHRC adopted the resolution 51/1 on Sri Lanka last year. The resolution calls for the Office of the High Commissioner to enhance its monitoring and reporting on the situation of human rights in Sri Lanka, including on progress…
by Yohan Perera in Daily Mirror online, August 17, 2023 at 12:43 pmA group of Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MPs together with MPs from other parties have initiated new moves to bring Members of Parliament of all parties to form a joint group to ensure economic justice, the Daily Mirror reliably learned. These MPs have decided to call the group the “MPs Guild for Economic Justice”. The SJB MPs who are to form this group…
by Jamila Husain in Daily Mirror online,April 9, 2023President Ranil Wickremesinghe will contest the next Presidential Election and has hinted at a possible presidential poll to be held early next year, the Daily Mirror learns. In a meeting held with minority political party parliamentarians this week, Wickremesinghe informed them that he would contest as a presidential candidate and would call for an election early next year following consultations with the Elections Commission, Treasury and Attorney…