U.S. businesses, primarily apparel brands that import Sri Lankan-made goods to the United States, must begin to act in a more socially responsible and thoughtful manner if they want to be regarded as good corporate citizens.
AP | Posted 09.18.2011
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka -- Sri Lanka's postwar policies are a hindrance to reconciliation between the country's embittered ethnic communities, two years af...
Amarnath Amarasingam | Posted 05.25.2011
Faith that karma will mete out punishment with mathematical certainty may work against the potential for remorse, regret or reconciliation.
John Feffer | Posted 05.25.2011
A nation is like a marriage, or so Lenin imagined it to be, with each partner or province having a right to get out if things go horribly wrong. With so many post-Cold War precedents, you'd think secession wouldn't be dirty word today.
Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza | Posted 05.25.2011
While a narrow view of what constitutes democratic government has periodically impeded U.S. foreign relations, particularly in Asia and the Middle Eas...
Anuradha K. Herath | Posted 05.25.2011
The ongoing internal conflict within the main opposition United National Party (UNP) is now unfolding in public, with independent statements, accusations and denials highlighting the party's fragmentation.
Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza | Posted 05.25.2011
The 18th Amendment will fundamentally transform Sri Lanka's political system; Its effect will be to remove vital checks on Executive power and further undermine Sri Lanka's democracy.
Peter Henne | Posted 05.25.2011
The aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war presents significant implications for the international community concerning counterinsurgency, terrorism and refugee flows.
AP | KRISHAN FRANCIS | Posted 05.25.2011
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — President Mahinda Rajapaksa's ruling coalition has won Sri Lanka's first postwar parliamentary elections further consolidat...
AP | FISNIK ABRASHI | Posted 05.25.2011
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka's president dissolved parliament Tuesday to make way for spring elections a day after authorities arrested a key ...
James Ross | Posted 05.25.2011
Sri Lanka's Mahinda Rajapaksa's re-election gives him a choice between continued nationalism versus addressing the serious grievances of the minority Tamil population that lay behind the country's civil war.
AP | FISNIK ABRASHI and KRISHAN FRANCIS | Posted 05.25.2011
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa swept to a second term in office, but his chief rival vowed to challenge the results...
AP | FISNIK ABRASHI and BHARATHA MALLAWARCHI | Posted 05.25.2011
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Early returns Wednesday showed Sri Lanka's incumbent president ahead of his former army chief in their bitter race to win t...
BBC News | Posted 05.25.2011
Voters in Sri Lanka are preparing to choose their next president after a bitter election campaign....
Mahinda Rajapaksa | Posted 05.25.2011
Five years on from the terrible tsunami of 2004 that ravished our island, now is truly an exciting time for Sri Lanka. We are creating a land of opportunity for all Sri Lankans and no one will be left behind.
Anuradha K. Herath | Posted 05.25.2011
Humanitarian organizations criticized the Sri Lankan government for collaborating with Karuna, a former rebel alleged to have committed war crimes.
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lankan police say they have arrested a popular astrologer for publicly predicting President Mahinda Rajapaksa's imminen...
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
Sri Lanka is now focused on the "3 R's:" Rehabilitation, Reconstruction, and Reconciliation. European leaders need to stop lecturing and start helping.
Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011
In spite of the slaughter, of using their own people as human shields, of creating the largest, bloodiest hostage drama of modern times, the Tigers have at long last been defeated.
Karunyan Arulanantham | Posted 10.18.2011