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— Report by Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (p. 368) The 2002 ceasefire agreement (CFA) which was signed between the Sri Lankan government and LTTE, although brought about a short lived respite to the country, was unstable and eventually unproductive. Conceptual flaws and the untenable dual roles of the Government of Norway, as facilitator of the peace process and the head of ...
Government of Sri Lanka. The Government of Sri Lanka ( GoSL) ( Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා රජය, romanized: Śrī Lankā Rajaya; Tamil: இலங்கை அரசாங்கம்) is a Semi-presidential republic determined by the Sri Lankan Constitution. It administers the island from both its commercial capital of Colombo ...
Politics of Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka is a unitary multi-party semi-presidential representative democratic republic, whereby the President of Sri Lanka is both head of state and head of government. Executive power is exercised by the President on the advice of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet of Ministers. Legislative power is vested in the ...
The Sinhala Official Language policy was gradually weakened by all subsequent governments and in 1987 Tamil was made an official language of Sri Lanka, [33] alongside Sinhala. English has remained the de facto language of governance; government activity continues to be carried out in English, including the drafting of legislation.
The leftist Sinhalese Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna drew worldwide attention when it launched an insurrection against the Bandaranayake government in April 1971. Although the insurgents were young, poorly armed, and inadequately trained, they succeeded in seizing and holding major areas in Southern and Central provinces before they were defeated by the security forces.
Sister newspapers. Forward, Deshabhimani. Website. www.aththa.lk. Aththa ( Sinhala: ඇත්ත, 'Truth') was a Sinhala-language daily newspaper, published from Colombo by the Communist Party of Sri Lanka between 1964 and 1995. [1] [2] [3] The name was borrowed from the Russian newspaper Pravda. [1] As of 1971, it had an edition of around 41,000.
The president of Sri Lanka ( Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා ජනාධිපති Śrī Laṃkā Janādhipathi; Tamil: இலங்கை சனாதிபதி Ilankai janātipati) is the head of state and head of government of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka. The president is the chief executive of the union ...
Starting from the early 1950s, Sri Lankan politics was mostly dominated by two political parties and their respective coalitions : the centre-left social democratic Sri Lanka Freedom Party. the centre-right liberal conservative United National Party. Recently, however, the influence of the two parties has diminished significantly.