Reflections on Presidential Elections
Victor Ivan looks back at 2010 and 2015 and then at the man on the 2019 ballot, setting out at length what was done to journalists and soldiers during Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s years as Defence Secretary.
ආචාර්ය ගාමිණී කොරෙයා නිවාස අඩස්සියේ තැබීම
The editorial describes Dr Gamani Corea, former UNCTAD head and Sri Lanka’s most internationally respected intellectual, as effectively held under house arrest by a wealthy relative, identified in the allegation as Lalith Kotelawala, who is said to fear that Corea will leave his assets to a planned economics foundation. It condemns the local media’s silence out of dependence on his advertising, noting that Ravaya too receives it, and that the story reached the world through the Lanka Academic website.