Posted on February 23, 2009 by srilankalawlessness
Thousands of Sri Lankan women work as domestic helpers in Hong Kong. They have only one free day a week, which they spend with fellow workers in places like Kowloon Park, along with thousands of domestic workers from other countries.
Several Sri Lankan domestic helpers interviewed last week expressed views that represent the situation of thousands [...]
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Posted on February 2, 2009 by srilankalawlessness
Thabutthegama is a remote village close to the city of Anuradhapura in the North Central region of Sri Lanka. A young man from this village once described the shocking conditions of life there as, “When the officer-in-charge of the police station shoots one of our live stock and takes away the animal for one of [...]
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Posted on January 5, 2009 by srilankalawlessness
The Sri Lankan government’s Ministry of Defense website published the following caption with a photograph of the president’s counsel, Romesh de Silva.
President’s Counsel Romesh de Silva, Mr. M A Sumanthiran, Mr. Viran Korea, Ms. Lilanthi De Silva and Chamaine Gunarathne are the team of lawyers who regularly appear for the detainees charged with terrorist activity.
On [...]
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Posted on January 2, 2009 by srilankalawlessness
The president of Sri Lanka, Mahinda Rajapaksa, is operating as a “one-man show,” in the words of a former minister who quit his post because he felt he could not function properly under this circumstance.
The well-known lawyer and former minister, Wijeyadasa Rajapaksha, said in an interview with the Sri Lankan publication Lakbima: “I relinquished my [...]
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Posted on December 22, 2008 by srilankalawlessness
The Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, in a controversial judgment on Dec. 17, ordered a reduction in petrol prices and said it should be implemented on the same day.
The government, on the other hand, declared that it would not implement the court’s ruling as it was contrary to the war effort against the Liberation Tigers [...]
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