List of Sri Lanka articles
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (L) and Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena interact during a meeting at the Presidential Secretariat in Colombo on March 13, 2015. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged Sri Lanka's new leaders to grant greater autonomy to minority Tamils who suffered the most during decades of ethnic war. AFP PHOTO / ISHARA S.KODIKARA (Photo credit should read Ishara S.KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images) Colombo Consensus 2.0
The new Sri Lankan government is re-balancing its foreign policy, drifting away from China's orbit toward a more equidistant engagement with India and the United States.
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COLOMBO, SRI LANKA - MAY 02 : U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, shakes hands with Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera during a news conference following a meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, May 2, 2015. (Photo by Chamila Karunarathne/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) America’s Sri Lankan Dilemma
The United States and the U.N. must ensure that Sri Lanka's reconciliation process is fair and just, rather than leaving the Sri Lankan government to its own devices.
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Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe (R) after taking an oath as he is sworn in as minister of policy planning and economic affairs in front of Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena in Colombo on September 4, 2015. Sri Lanka's President September 4 formed a unity government with 42 ministers, a day after parliament endorsed the move as part of efforts to address ethnic reconciliation after decades of war. Maithripala Sirisena gave a majority of portfolios to Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe's United National Party (UNP) which won the August 17 general elections. AFP PHOTO / Ishara S. KODIKARA (Photo credit should read Ishara S.KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images) Sri Lanka: It’s Time to Turn Promises Into Action
In order to help ensure that Colombo fully commits to reform, sustained engagement from the United States and other members of the international community is more important than ever.
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Cover_Montage Elite Fundraiser for Obama and Clinton Linked to Justice Department Probe
An FP investigation shows that Imaad Zuberi, who has bundled hundreds of thousands of dollars for leading Democrats, failed to disclose the extent of his ties to a foreign government.
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Sri Lanka's former president Mahinda Rajapaksa lights a lamp in Colombo on May 18, 2015 in commemoration of those who died six years ago in battles between Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fighters and government troops at the end of the three decades old separatist conflict. Rajapaksa urged against any separatist wars in the future. The sixth anniversary of the killing of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is being marked in the first anniversary of the event under the new government of President Sirisena. AFP PHOTO / ISHARA S. KODIKARA (Photo credit should read Ishara S.KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images) Rajapaksa on the Ropes
Sri Lanka's former president faces an uphill battle in his quest to become the country's next prime minister.
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Sri Lanka's former president Mahinda Rajapaksa speaks in Colombo on May 18, 2015 in commemoration of those who died six years ago in battles between Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fighters and government troops at the end of the three decades old separatist conflict. Rajapaksa urged against any separatist wars in the future. The sixth anniversary of the killing of Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader Velupillai Prabhakaran is being marked in the first anniversary of the event under the new government of President Sirisena. AFP PHOTO / ISHARA S. KODIKARA (Photo credit should read Ishara S.KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images) Sri Lanka: Back to the Future?
Sri Lanka's authoritarian former president is on the brink of a political resurgence. His electoral success would put a halt to the country's already troubled political reform process.
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20130726-IMG_2670-2 Can Google’s Fleet of High-Altitude Balloons Bring the Internet to the World’s Unconnected?
Two out of three people on Earth can't access the Internet. Google hopes its whimsically named "Project Loon" can change that.
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Sri Lankan war-displaced civilians peer from behind barbed wire fences surrounding their internment camp in Vavuniya on November 21, 2009. Sri Lanka said it plans to allow some 136,328 war-displaced civilians to come and go freely from their camps from December 1 with resettlement completed by January 31, 2010. Some 288,000 people were displaced when the conflict with separatist Tamil Tigers ended in May. AFP PHOTO/Ishara S. KODIKARA (Photo credit should read Ishara S. KODIKARA/AFP/Getty Images) Sri Lanka’s Wounds of War
The new Sri Lankan government must make reconciliation a top priority in order to move the country past a brutal, decades-long civil war.
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LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 09: President of Sri Lanka Maithripala Sirisena arrives at the Observance for Commonwealth Day Service at Westminster Abbey on March 9, 2015 in London, England. (Photo by Chris Jackson/Getty Images) More Electoral Surprises in Sri Lanka?
The timing of Sri Lanka's parliamentary elections has significant ramifications for the country’s domestic politics and Colombo’s relationship with the international community.
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88004093 v2 Sri Lanka’s Tortuous Path to Reconciliation and Justice
Elections might have ousted an authoritarian leader, but without the political will of Sri Lanka’s new president, genuine reconciliation may continue to elude the island nation.
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178184096 v2 Stalling Justice in Sri Lanka
Reversing course on corruption, Tamil persecution, and Sinhala ethnic triumphalism might finally be happening with a new government in Colombo. But a disturbing dark reality remains: the absence of justice for the massacre of thousands of Tamil civilians in "No Fire Zones" at the civil war's end in 2009.
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Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena (C) and Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe (L) offer prayers during a Buddhist ceremony at the Kelaniya temple in Kelaniya on January 17, 2015 (Getty Images) Sri Lanka’s Surprising Election Victor
With poll results that stunned incumbent power, Maithripala Sirisena defeated two-term president Mahinda Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka's national elections. Will the island nation now get a more liberal version of democracy?
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