Since the people of Sri Lanka voted out Mahinda Rajapaksa and his allies in presidential and parliamentary elections in 2015, progress on human rights has been frustratingly slow. Some Tamil and ...

Sri Lankans ousted Rajapaksa clan from power two years ago. Now they are back in the fray - Heir apparent to the powerful ...

Sri Lanka (CNN)-- Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa claimed Friday there was "a conspiracy with certain international forces" to belittle his government's military victories against Tamil ...

In his speech on Sunday ... which was critical of then President Mahinda Rajapaksa The second case relates to Roy Samathanam, a Tamil civilian with Canadian citizenship. He was arrested in ...

As we have discussed in a previous article, the 9th Presidential election which is being held today is different from the ...

A sweeping new law on online speech threatens the political humor ... wings is the family of the former strongman president, Mahinda Rajapaksa. Clashes erupted in the city of Negombo after a ...

Even though Mahinda Rajapaksa was adored by the country’s majority Buddhist Sinhalese for defeating the ethnic Tamil separatists after a 26-year bloody civil war, allegations of human rights ...