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Sri Lankan court orders ex-leader to pay victims of bombings
Read full article: Sri Lankan court orders ex-leader to pay victims of bombingsSri Lanka’s Supreme Court has ruled that inaction by the country’s former president and four others led to Easter Sunday bomb attacks in 2019 that killed nearly 270 people and ordered them to pay compensation for violating the basic rights of the victims and their families.
President and PM: 2 men at heart of Sri Lankan crisis
Read full article: President and PM: 2 men at heart of Sri Lankan crisisAs Sri Lanka’s crisis peaked this weekend, two men in the center of the turmoil brought about by the country’s economic collapse promised they would heed the call of tens of thousands of protesters and resign.
Sri Lankan power family falls from grace as economy tanks
Read full article: Sri Lankan power family falls from grace as economy tanksWith one brother president, another prime minister and three more family members cabinet ministers, it appeared that the Rajapaksa clan had consolidated its grip on power in Sri Lanka after decades in and out of government.
Wickremesinghe chosen Sri Lanka PM in effort to quell crisis
Read full article: Wickremesinghe chosen Sri Lanka PM in effort to quell crisisFive-time former Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has been reappointed in an effort to bring stability to the island nation that's engulfed in a political and economic crisis.
Lawmaker: Sri Lanka president agrees to remove brother as PM
Read full article: Lawmaker: Sri Lanka president agrees to remove brother as PMA prominent lawmaker says Sri Lanka’s president has agreed to replace his older brother as prime minister in a proposed interim government to solve a political impasse caused by the country’s economic crisis.
Sri Lankan court frees 2 officials charged over 2019 blasts
Read full article: Sri Lankan court frees 2 officials charged over 2019 blastsA Sri Lankan court has freed two top former officials who were charged with negligence in connection with 2019 Easter Sunday suicide bomb attacks that killed 260 people.
Man blamed for nearly half Sri Lanka virus cases speaks out
Read full article: Man blamed for nearly half Sri Lanka virus cases speaks outSri Lankan auto rickshaw driver Prasad Dinesh, linked by Sri Lankan officials to nearly half the country's more than 2,600 coronavirus cases, sits in his house in Ja-Ela, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, July 1, 2020. Dinesh, however, says his drug addiction, which is considered a crime in Sri Lanka, makes him a convenient scapegoat. After Dinesh, 33, tested positive for the virus in April, navy sailors raided his village, forcing his contacts into quarantine. At least 15 villages were isolated in different parts of Sri Lanka for about two weeks, and about 1,300 other people underwent self-quarantine. Sri Lanka has confirmed at least 2,665 cases in all, including 11 deaths, meaning nearly half of its caseload has been blamed on one man Dinesh.