Tag: Accountability

Seven years later, Easter Sunday attack verdict brings long-awaited convictions

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Speed Read Ending a five-year trial, a Colombo High Court trial-at-bar has convicted 15 of 24 men accused of being...

A Year After Nepal’s Uprising, Self-Immolations Test the State’s Promise of Change

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Five people set themselves on fire in Nepal in July. Some are now reading the deaths as political in...

Sri Lanka’s anti-corruption bill faces backlash over transparency, public scrutiny

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Speed Read Transparency International Sri Lanka (TISL) has challenged the Bill in the Supreme Court, arguing that several provisions violate...

Effective campaign finance control calls for regulation of third-party campaigning, cap on donations

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Speed Read COLOMBO—A candidate can spend more than the legally permissible limit, fail to properly disclose where the money came...

How Justice Was Derailed After the Muttur Massacre

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JAFFNA, Sri Lanka — It was around 4:15 in the afternoon of Aug. 4, 2006. The men who came through...

The Easter Bombings: Anatomy of a State Failure

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At 8:27 on the morning of April 21, 2019, a foreign intelligence service sent one last message to the...

Sri Lanka judicial crisis deepens over plan to extend judges’ retirement age

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Speed Read: 1.13 million cases remain pending across Sri Lanka's 293 courts, with more than 818,000 stuck in Magistrates' Courts...

Overcrowding, drugs and system failures fueled Sri Lanka’s deadliest prison riot

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Speed Read: The Negombo Prison riot became one of Sri Lanka's deadliest prison disturbances in decades with 28 fatalities. Authorities are...

AI profiles of women on Facebook: Identity deception, sexualised engagement, and platform accountability

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Speed Read 10 Facebook profiles posing as Sri Lankan women were found to be entirely AI-generated, using fabricated identities to...

Sri Lanka Airbus probe shaken by ex-CEO’s death

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Speed Read Ex-CEO of SriLankan Kapila Chandrasena found dead under suspicious circumstances hours after court ordered re-arrest in Airbus bribery...