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Wijikala Nanthan and Sivamani Sinnathamby Weerakon were aged 24 and 22 years when they arrested by the Sri Lankan Navy in Mannar and accused of being members of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Wijikala who was pregnant, her husband, Sivamani Sinnathamby Weerakon and her child were arrested at 11.00 PM and allegedly tortured in custody.
The 1989 Valvettiturai massacre occurred on 2 and 3 August 1989 in the small coastal town of Valvettiturai, on the Jaffna Peninsula in Sri Lanka. Sixty-four Sri Lankan Tamil civilians were killed by soldiers of the Indian Peace Keeping Force. The massacre followed an attack on the soldiers by rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam cadres. The ...
The Divi Neguma Bill was published in The Sri Lanka Gazette on 27 July 2012. [26] The bill established the Department of Divi Neguma Development by amalgamating the Samurdhi Authority of Sri Lanka, Southern Development Authority of Sri Lanka and the Udarata Development Authority, and created numerous community organisations, banks and banking societies. [27]
The 1987 Eastern Province massacres were a series of massacres of the Sinhalese population in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka by Tamil mobs and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) during the Sri Lankan Civil War. Though they began spontaneously, they became more organized, with the LTTE leading the violence. Over 200 Sinhalese were killed ...
According to the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord, the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) arrived in Sri Lanka in July 1987. Their presence in the country was not popular among the Sri Lankan public and the politicians. In January 1989, President Ranasinghe Premadasa's government was elected. President Premadasa's initial intention was to work out a peace ...
In May 2018, the Sri Lanka parliament approved a special high court [33] that would expedite the hearing and trial of bribery and corruption related cases. The concept for the High Court Trial-at-Bar was instituted with the passage of amendments to the Judicature Act, the purpose of expediting cases from the Rajapaksa Government era. [ 34 ]
The number of police disciplinary panels as well as misconduct and gross misconduct cases have "not materially risen" in the past 10 years, the States of Guernsey has said. ... "This is evidenced ...
Corruption in Sri Lanka is considered a major problem in all levels of society, from the top echelons of political power to minor staff levels.. According to Transparency International's 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), Sri Lanka scored a 34 on a scale from 0 ("highly corrupt") to 100 ("very clean").