Gotabaya Rajapaksa Archives

‘We want our children back’: the Sri Lankan families still demanding justice for their missing loved ones

In May 2009, Leeladevi Ananda Nadaraja’s 34-year-old son surrendered to the Sri Lankan army at a military checkpoint after being conscripted by a separatist militant group fighting for a homeland …

Sri Lanka settles US$20 million Iranian oil debt with tea

by Walter Watson

Sri Lanka settles US million Iranian oil debt with tea

Cash-strapped Sri Lanka said on Wednesday it had exported tea worth US$20 million to Iran to partially repay its US$251 million oil debts, with Colombo saying Tehran’s visiting foreign minister …

Sri Lanka faces heat to hold ousted politicians to account after court ruling: ‘fight for economic justice not over’

by Walter Watson

The Sri Lankan Supreme Court’s decision this week to hold key figures from the country’s ousted regime, including the former president and his brothers, responsible for the country’s financial crisis, …