Access to social media was cut off, many journalists have been harassed or attacked by police and at least nine have been injured in the course of the anti-government protests under way in Sri Lanka since 31 March. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the government to let the media do its job, as this would help to end the crisis in the best manner possible.
By Admiral Ravindra C Wijegunaratne (Retired from Sri Lanka Navy) Former Chief of Defence Staff A long time ago, on 01 April 1881, Royal College (then known as the Colombo Academy) in Mutwal, Principal Mr John B Cull started a School Cadet Platoon. The idea was to train students on drill so that they would […]
The suppression of news and information was almost certainly the Sri Lankan government’s undeclared goal when it blocked social media throughout the island on 3 April, at a time when a curfew had already been in effect for 36 hours, backed by a state of emergency. The large spontaneous demonstrations that erupted in the streets of Colombo, the capital, on the evening of 31
by ECB Wijeyesinghe Had Don Stephen Senanayake been alive he would have been 95 yesterday. To use his own familiar phrase, actually, as a matter of fact, he was born on Oct. 20, 1884. By an ironic twist of Fate, this ardent crusader for temperance, first saw the light of day in the village of […]
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