Posted on April 26th, 2021
Dr Sudath Gunasekara Mahanuwara
The following statement by the Indian
Foreign Minister reported to have been made in the Indian Rajaya Sabha calling
for early elections to Provincial Councils etc is a direct interference with
the Sovereignty and Freedom of this country that should be deplored by every
Sri Lankans.
0 .3 wants Sri Lanka to hold early
election to provincial councils: Jaishankar Indian Foreign Minister
CHENNAI, April
19, 2021 18:34 IST
India supports
the call of international community for the Sri Lankan government to fulfill
its commitments on devolution of political authority including through early
holding of elections to provincial councils, according to S. Jaishankar,
A relic of the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
Members of the Eritrean community gathered outside the State Library on April 11 to protest against Isaias Afwerki, the dictatorial ruler of Eritrea.
Alamin Idris, the regional officer of the Eritrean National Council for Democratic Change, told
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The Eritrean National Council for Democratic Change is an umbrella organisation for political and civil society groups opposed to Isaias.
Idris said that Eritrea should not be involved in an internal war in Ethiopia. “Our youth have been sent to Ethiopia to fight in a war they have no interest in,” he said.
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With Slow Progress On Federal Level, Police Reform Remains Patchwork Across U.S.
By Becky Sullivan
April 27, 2021
One week ago, people celebrated in the streets of Minneapolis as a judge read the guilty verdicts in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted of murdering George Floyd.
In the days since, the Justice Department announced it would investigate whether the police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville, where Breonna Taylor was killed by police, engage in a “pattern or practice” of discrimination or excessive force.
But even as advocates and family members of those killed by police welcomed those developments, they said the need for structural change to policing has not disappeared a point underscored, they said, by the police killings of Black people during and since the Chauvin trial in Brooklyn Center, Minn., Columbus, Ohio, and Elizabeth City, N.C.
Demonstrators in Minneapolis ahead of the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, who has since been convicted of murdering George Floyd.
One week ago, people celebrated in the streets of Minneapolis as a judge read the guilty verdicts in the trial of former police officer Derek Chauvin, convicted of murdering George Floyd.
In the days since, the Justice Department announced it would investigate whether the police departments in Minneapolis and Louisville, where Breonna Taylor was killed by police, engage in a pattern or practice of discrimination or excessive force.
But even as advocates and family members of those killed by police welcomed those developments, they said the need for structural change to policing has not disappeared a point underscored, they said, by the police killings of Black people during and since the Chauvin trial in Brooklyn Center, Minn., Columbus, Ohio, and Elizabeth City, N.C.