12/30/2011
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New York Times
If Sri Lanka wants true reconciliation, the government must take responsibility for civilian deaths during the civil war.
07/23/2011
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New York Times
The balloting in Sri Lanka’s former war zone, the first in at least a dozen years, included intimidation and vote buying.
06/20/2011
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New York Times
The Sri Lankan government must respond to a damning U.N. report about its conduct in the civil war.
04/18/2011
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New York Times
A leaked report by a U.N. panel contradicted the Sri Lankan account of its fight against the Tamil Tigers in May 2009.
02/18/2011
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Associated Press, New York Times
A senior United Nations official said Friday that 5,000 former combatants remained in Sri Lankan camps 21 months after the civil war ended.
07/06/2010
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New York Times
MUMBAI — The European Union is suspending preferential treatment for Sri Lankan imports because it says the government has not committed to resolving human rights complaints.
04/08/2010
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New York Times
Three months after winning re-election in a landslide, Sri Lanka’s president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, sought to solidify his party’s hold on power by securing a two-thirds majority in parliamentary elections held Thursday.
02/16/2010
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New York Times
War has a way of chipping away at the foundations of even the strongest democracies. But what has surprised many people in Sri Lanka and beyond is the way that crackdown has endured well beyond the government’s battlefield triumph, and has, in some ways, even intensified and become routine as Mr. Rajapaksa and his family have tightened their grip on government.
“Sri Lanka has been on a clear path towards the consolidation of power in the hands of very few people, many of them related to each other,” said Alan Keenan, an analyst at the International Crisis Group who specializes in Sri Lanka.
01/27/2010
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New York Times
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Mahinda Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s president, was re-elected by a wide margin, election officials here said Wednesday, defeating the newly retired army general who had tried to lay claim to Mr. Rajapaksa’s biggest political victory, the defeat of the Tamil Tiger insurgency.
01/26/2010
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New York Times, The Lede blog
Millions of Sri Lankans cast votes on Tuesday in a presidential election, but the leading opposition candidate, a retired general who crushed a separatist movement last year, was not one of them.