Rathindra Kuruwita

2 weeks ago | thediplomat.com | Rathindra Kuruwita

On August 19, 2023, Anura Kumara Dissanayake, then a Sri Lankan opposition leader, criticized a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that then-President Ranil Wickremesinghe had signed with India. “We must have the freedom to freely move our hands and legs! But with this agreement, we will be in a situation where we are unable… to take any political or economic decision” independently, he said in a speech to National People’s Power (NPP) affiliated ex-military personnel.

1 month ago | tribunecontentagency.com | Rathindra Kuruwita

Lenin once said: “There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.”This quote quite aptly describes recent developments regarding the Batalanda torture camp and former President Ranil Wickremesinghe’s involvement in the brutal counterinsurgency campaign against the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) in the late 1980s. Wickremesinghe was then the Minister of Industries in the United Nationalist Party government led by Prime Minister Ranasinghe Premadasa.

1 month ago | thediplomat.com | Rathindra Kuruwita

An interview with a former President that led to public calls for a probe into the Batalanda Commission Report has finally prompted the government to reopen a dark chapter.

1 month ago | thediplomat.com | Rathindra Kuruwita

In its 2025 budget, the Sri Lankan government has allocated its 442 billion Sri Lankan rupees (around $1.5 billion), a 3 percent increase from $1.45 billion in 2024, and up 15 percent from $1.3 billion in 2023. Only the Ministries of Finance, Planning and Economic Development ($2.41 billion), Health and Mass Media ($1.71 billion), Public Administration, and Provincial Councils, and Local Government ($1.68 billion) received bigger budgets.

1 month ago | island.lk | Thilina Walpola |Rathindra Kuruwita

by Saman IndrajithOpposition MPs, led by SJB leader Sajith Premadasa, yesterday, in Parliament, accused Speaker Jagath Wickremesinghe of preventing the MPs speaking in the House and thereby depriving them of their rights. The Opposition made that allegation when the Speaker warned that he would be compelled to have MPs Ramanathan Archchuna and Shanakiyan Rasamanickam removed from the House for disrupting the proceedings.