Reporting from Inamaluwa, Dambulla
Onion farmers in Dambulla have no other option but to commit suicide as they are forced to sell
their crops at a loss
Farmers say they have to sell a kilogram of Big onions at Rs.32  while it costs them Rs40 to produce.
In an economic climate that has hit all farmers across the nation […]

Reporting from  Kalawewa, Anuradhapura
It is not surprising that Sri Lanka’s politicians use government property and state land as if it were their own. Sri Lanka’s ruling family -the Rajapakses have done so for years.
Land rapes
The latest in a series of land rapes by the present regime is at the Kalawewa and Balaluwewa tanks in the […]

COLOMBO, 4 October 2012  – Law enforcement officials in Sri Lanka have documented an increase in illegal drug seizures since the end of a decades-long civil war in 2009, with activists pointing to lax law enforcement and political patronage as factors contributing to the apparently growing drugs trade.
Heroin and cannabis were the most common drugs […]

COLOMBO, 1 October 2012  – Finding paid work – especially for youths – is still difficult in Sri
Lanka’s former conflict zone in the north even after three years of peace and massive infrastructure projects, experts say, pointing to the region’s anaemic private sector as a main cause.
Jobless
Although official employment data for the region is unavailable, […]

The Asian model
The increase in the economic rate of growth that has taken place in the Sri Lankan economy since the end of the war puts it amongst the better performing countries. Colombo has now got
facilities that the more demanding international visitor has come to expect, and indeed it is more pleasing to the eye […]

“Had there been even one Sinhala family living in this village, the government and their representatives would have provided us with atleast the basic facilities, but since this is a minority area we are ignored” – Residents 
Reporting from Udappuwa
Despite the end of the war over three years ago the minorities in rural Sri Lanka still […]

OCTOBER 1: Addressing the General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York, Sri Lanka’s
Foreign Minster, G. L. Peiris, today deplored the selective intervention in the internal affairs of some countries, stressing from the Assembly’s podium that conflict resolution must be based on the United Nations principle of the sovereign equality of States.
Peiris grumbles about selective […]

A second group of Sri Lankan men left Christmas Island this morning, choosing instead to return to Colombo rather than be sent to Nauru while their claims for asylum were processed.
“Regular transfers to Nauru and more Sri Lankans returning home is further proof that people smugglers only sell lies and make false promises about what […]

NEW DELHI: Taken aback by what it describes as “propaganda” in Sri Lanka against the
Kudankulam nuclear power plant, India has offered to discuss the safety aspect of the pressurized water reactors with Lankan authorities. The dialogue mechanism between the two nations for cooperation on nuclear issues will include talks on Kudankulam safety when a Sri […]

“As you know the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) will take place in Geneva in November, 2012. It is through this the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) will examine the human rights situation in Sri Lanka. The government wants to score marks by announcing that they were able to re-settle all the IDPs who were […]