Aug 21, 2014
Last year we ran a campaign around the Government of Sri Lanka’s seizure of land belonging to Tamil families forced from their homes by the civil war. Over 7,000 acres of land – potentially up to $2 billion worth at current prices – was seized in the...
Aug 22, 2013
On July 25 an Associated Press (AP) story about purported troop reductions in the North of the country was picked up and re-produced by a number of major news outlets around the world. The article, inaccurately titled ‘Sri Lanka to Reduce Troops in Ex-War Zone North’,...
May 30, 2013
We recently wrote about the Sri Lankan military’s land seizures. Since then the Government of Sri Lanka has issued even more seizure notices, and we understand yet more are still to come. Once again they are claiming this land in the public interest. Yet they...
May 21, 2013
The Sri Lankan Government are engaging in a massive land grab on the Jaffna peninsular. 1474 people have appealed to the courts to quash a Government’s land acquisition decision and to prevent the Government to grab an area of approximately 25.8 square kilometres...
May 9, 2013
By The Social Architects Even though the protracted internal armed conflict has ended, community members have been unable to return to their day-to-day lives. Under the administration of Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s militarization has continued unabated. The Sri...
