The Sri Lankan elections

Sri Lanka will have a Presidential election on the 8th January 2015. The candidates announced to date include the serving President, Mahinda Rajapaska, and Maithripala Sirisena, a former senior member of the President’s Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) who has...

Sri Lankan Government gives with one hand, takes away with the other

Less than a week after historic elections to the Northern Provincial Council were comprehensively won by a Tamil anti-government party, and only a few hours before the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group is due to meet, the Sri Lankan Government has stripped the new...