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Sri Lanka

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Group.png Sri Lanka  
(CountrySourcewatchRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Sri Lanka (orthographic projection).svg
Flag of Sri Lanka.svg
LocationSouth Asia, Asia
TypeUnited Nations Members.svg nation state
Member ofCommonwealth of Nations, UN
SubpageSri Lanka/Finance Minister
Sri Lanka/Foreign Minister
Sri Lanka/President
Sri Lanka/Prime Minister
Small country in Asia, an attack blamed on IS killed more than 200 people in 2019 just after COVID erupted.

Sri Lanka is a nation state in South Asia.

Suffering a spate of kidney disease widely attributed to glyphosate, Sri Lanka banned it in May 2015.[1]

 

Citizens of Sri Lanka on Wikispooks

TitleBornDiedDescription
Asanga Abeyagoonasekera21 August 1977founding director general of the Institute of National Security Studies Sri Lanka. Selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2012.
Mangala Samaraweera21 April 195624 August 2021The finance minister of Sri Lanka until just before COVID. He later died of the disease despite being vaccinated.
Ranil WickremesingheBecame President of Sri Lanka in 2022

 

Event Participated in

EventStartEndLocation(s)Description
Bandung Conference19551955IndonesiaImportant conference for the global south; participants soon became prime targets for US foreign policy

 

Related Document

TitleTypePublication dateAuthor(s)Description
Document:UK PM Covers Up Crimes Against Humanity – Lectures Sri Lanka on Crimes Against Humanityarticle19 November 2013Felicity ArbuthnotA juxtaposition of the sanctimonious posturing of UK PM David Cameron at the opening of the Commonwealth heads of government conference over Sri Lanka's human rights record, with his own machinations to prevent the Chilcot Inquiry publishing papers fundamental to the understanding of how Blair and Bush engineered the Iraq war.
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