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Protests against fuel price hikes. Image: Ishara S Kodikara/AFP

Sri Lankans prepare to tighten their belts — and take to the streets — as prices soar

COLOMBO (17 February 2012) — One person was killed and at least four others were injured on February 15 when police fired on fishermen protesting fuel price hikes in the fishing town of Chilaw, 70 kilometres north of Colombo.

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Elusive Peace

COLOMBO (10 February 2012) — A high-level US delegation is set to arrive in the island nation, with the aim of encouraging a sputtering reconciliation process between the majority Sinhalese and the minority Tamils.

Peace by Committee

COLOMBO (3 February 2012) — Amid rising frustrations on all sides over Sri Lanka’s inconclusive peace process, President Mahinda Rajapaksa has dispatched three senior ministers to the United Nations to counter what he has dubbed as negative “propaganda” about his government’s treatment of ethnic Tamils.

The Devolution Solution

COLOMBO (20 January 2012) — More than three years after armed Sri Lankan separatist movement the Tamil Tigers were declawed, growls of ethnic discontent continue to reverberate.

Academic Warfare

COLOMBO (13 January 2012) — A simmering row between students from one of the country’s main universities and their vice-chancellor threatens to explode onto the national level after a bomb blast on campus damaged a highly symbolic monument.

Anything but United

COLOMBO (23 December 2011) — The bitterly fought leadership battle for Sri Lanka’s main opposition party, the United National Party (UNP), came to an end on December 19 with longstanding party leader Ranil Wickremasinghe beating Karu Jayasuriya in a landslide victory.

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