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Tag: Tamil Tigers

Posted inSouth Asia

Post-elections Sri Lanka trajectory yet to pan out

by S K Chatterji December 16, 2019February 18, 2020

The Sri Lankan election has delivered a decisive verdict. Gotabaya Rajapaksha is the new president of the island state. His elder brother and ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksha has been sworn in as the prime minister. Sri Lanka watchers in many capitals have their sights focused on Colombo. Mahinda Rajapaksha had led the country into a Chinese […]

Posted inSouth Asia, Sri Lanka, World

Sri Lanka’s top military officer shifted to safer prison

by Kris Thomas November 30, 2018February 18, 2020
Posted inBeijing, China, India, Pakistan, South Asia, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, World

Sri Lanka’s Chinese connection: beyond bribes and debts

by Ana Pararajasingham July 16, 2018July 16, 2018
Posted inAT Finance, Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Myanmar, Nepal, Northeast Asia, Philippines, South Asia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Timor Leste, World

Asian nations move slowly toward reconciling with violent pasts

by Binaifer Nowrojee July 2, 2018
Posted inAT Finance, Australia, China, India, Myanmar, Oceania, South Asia, Sri Lanka, World

Geopolitics will decide fate of the Rohingya

by Ana Pararajasingham October 4, 2017
Posted inIndia, Russia, South Asia, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, World

Silenced stones mark hard path to Sri Lankan reconciliation

by Duncan McCargo July 26, 2017February 18, 2020

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