C’est fini, les Sri-Lankaises domestiques à l’étranger - Pale Moon. New Survey Sri Lanka Examines Ethno-Religious Relationships | In Asia - Pale Moon. Notes from the Field New Survey in Post-War Sri Lanka Examines Ethno-Religious Relationships July 11, 2012 By Gita Sabharwal and Liam Chinn Few countries in the world possess the level of ethno-religious pluralism found in Sri Lanka. The country is home to two national languages, Sinhala and Tamil, and four major religions: Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, and Christianity. In Sri Lanka, ethnicity and religion are intertwined: Buddhists are Sinhalese; Hindus are Tamils; Muslims comprise a separate ethnic category and are still referred to as “Moors,” especially among older Sri Lankans. While the mother-tongue of Muslims here is Tamil, they are not Tamils. As the country emerges from decades of civil war and the societal landscape realigns, new challenges relating to ethno-religious dynamics are palpable.
Within this complex and evolving ethno-religious landscape, The Asia Foundation just released its National Values Survey in Sri Lanka conducted in late 2011. Write a comment: * Required. Sri Lanka president to free General Sarath Fonseka. Sri Lanka considers banning mini-skirts. COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lanka said Monday it was considering banning mini-skirts following complaints about women wearing skimpy clothing in the conservative island nation. Nimal Rubasinghe, secretary of the Cultural Affairs Ministry, said the government had received representations calling for a ban on wearing revealing clothing in public, though he declined to name the groups involved. "There have been complaints from various quarters about mini-skirts, but we are only considering them and no final decision has been taken," Rubasinghe told AFP.
Rubasinghe was responding to a media report that said the government had asked a committee to prepare a dress code for public places to ensure that mini-skirts were outlawed. The Lakbima News newspaper said mini-skirts could be banned if the cultural ministry had its way under a "new era of moral purity. " Sri Lanka - Cablegate.
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2009 Sri Lanka's presidential election. Will the World Bank indirectly support web censorship in Sri Lan. Sri Lankan government to block internet and censor independent w. Sri Lankan President halts web censorship, which raises more vit. Sri Lankan Tamil diaspora. ReliefWeb » Document » Post-LTTE Sri Lanka: Demilitarization as. N Manoharan Senior Fellow, CLAWS, New Delhibr> e-mail: mailtomanohar@gmail.com Under President Mahinda Rajapakse, the Sri Lankan government's approach towards the long simmering ethnic issue rests on "four D's" - Demilitarization, Democratization, Development, and Devolution. Under demilitarization, the primary objective of the government was to defeat the LTTE and break its network - both internal and external - completely. Although the Tigers have now been defeated, about 1,000 of them are still at large.
Fear of slaughter or disappearance is perhaps making these scattered Tigers fall back; the common refrain is "if death is the result of surrender, then fight and die rather than get caught and die. " A good rehabilitation package will certainly attract those Tigers at large who are keenly watching the status of their surrendered colleagues. Demilitarization should also logically include demobilization of excess government soldiers. Demining is yet another aspect of demilitarization. Sri Lanka Plans for Increased Defense Spending - Defense News - Published: 19 Aug 2009 05:14 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - The Sri Lankan government plans to keep up record defense spending, a senior official said, despite the country's recent victory over Tamil rebels that ended nearly four decades of fighting.
Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse said the military needed to be modernized and payments made on hardware bought on credit. Sri Lanka raised its defense budget to a record $1.6 billion in 2009, and it crushed the Tamil Tigers separatists in May after months of intense battles. "I don't see an immediate need to reduce the defense spending next year," Rajapakse told AFP on the sidelines of a meeting Aug. 18. "We have cut down on our ammunition purchases. Sri Lanka relied heavily on mortar bombs and ammunition purchased from China and Pakistan during the ethnic conflict. After routing the Tigers, the government scrapped a $200 million ammunition order from China. L'écrivaine sri-lankaise Malini Perera accusée de lutte contre l.
Malini Perera, arrêtée en mars 2010 au Sri Lanka, est suspectée d’entretenir des liens avec une organisation islamiste extrémiste. C’est certainement la récente conversion de l’écrivaine du bouddhisme à l'islam qui a dû attirer l’attention des forces de l’ordre. Le Sri Lanka, pays laïc mais majoritairement bouddhiste, est sensible à tout débat sur la religion et le livre écrit par Malini Perera qui faisait le récit de sa conversion ne va pas pencher dans l’intérêt de l’écrivaine. Victime des lois d’urgence actuellement en usage dans le pays, Malini Perera est accusé de mener des activités « anti-étatiques ».
L’arrestation a suivi de près l’envoi de copies de ses livres par courrier électronique. From Darkness to Light et Questions and Answers avaient été envoyés à l’ensemble de sa liste de diffusion. Pour l’avocat de l’écrivaine, on ne peut pas faire dire à ces livres qu’ils attaquent la religion. Sources : , , , Pour approfondir. Le Sri Lanka lève la limitation du nombre de mandats présidentie. Au Sri Lanka, le gouvernement a annoncé ce vendredi 11 juin la levée des restrictions du nombre de mandats qu'un président peut remplir. L'actuel président Mahinda Rajapakse, qui commence son deuxième mandat, peut ainsi envisager de se représenter pour un troisième mandat à l'horizon 2016. Une mesure qui demande encore à être approuvée par le Parlement, mais ce ne devrait plus être qu'une formalité.
C'était tout l'enjeu des dernières législatives. Mahinda Rajapakse devait s'assurer de remporter une victoire suffisamment large pour faire approuver un changement constitutionnel requérant une majorité des deux-tiers de l'Assemblée. Même si le parti présidentiel ne détient pas à lui seul une aussi forte majorité, par le jeu des alliances, le gouvernement a désormais les mains libres pour procéder à un tel amendement. Enfin, le principal rival de Rajapakse à la présidentielle de janvier dernier reste hors d'état de nuire.