08/18/2011
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Centre for Policy Alternatives
18 August 2011, Colombo, Sri Lanka: CPA notes the decision of the Elections Commissioner to hold elections in October to twenty-three local authorities, after elections to these authorities were effectively postponed for more than a year through the use of Emergency Regulations.
08/08/2011
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Daily Mirror
Fresh after the reiteration by India that Sri Lanka should do away with the state of emergency immediately, the government has decided to lift it from next month, a senior government minister said yesterday.
06/28/2010
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BBC Sinhala
The detained leader of the Tamil Tigers is playing a 'leading role' in helping the government in 'reconciliation process' after the end of the war, representatives of Tamil diaspora say.
06/24/2010
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Earth Times
Colombo – The Sri Lankan government Thursday declared thatit would refuse visas for UN panel members appointed to investigatealleged human rightsabuses during the civil war against Tamil rebels.
04/25/2010
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The Sunday Leader
Sri Lankan-born Sara Malani Perera was finally released last Wednesday, April 14. It was indeed the beginning of a new year for the 38-year-old Bahraini, who had been held at the Mirihana Police for more than 30 days.
03/09/2010
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BBC
Sri Lanka's outgoing parliament has voted to extend the state of emergency across the island until after next month's legislative elections.
03/08/2010
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Groundviews
The general election offers all of us an opportunity to play our part in ensuring that the bases for good governance and economic take off are firmly laid within a solid democratic framework of effective checks and balances on the exercise of executive power. It must not be yet another exercise of going back to the future.
03/03/2010
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Al-Jazeera
Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, has said he is extending the country's state of emergency and will reconvene the recently dissolved parliament next week to ratify the move.
02/21/2010
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Sunday Leader
The government may consider re-summoning the now dissolved parliament in March to extend the emergency regulations currently in place by another month.