Sri Lanka’s economic crisis is so extreme it has just one day’s worth of petrol left.
An interim prime minister has been appointed in Sri Lanka following days of political violence amid the country’s worst economic crisis since independence. The former prime minister of the ruling Rajapaksa family has been slapped with a travel ban – and a nationwide curfew remains in place.
Security forces in Sri Lanka have been ordered to shoot on sight anyone considered to be taking part in violence – as anti-government protests continue around the country.
The country’s known nothing like it since the end of the civil war. Mobs attacking each other on the streets.
There are fears that pollution from a stricken container ship off the coast of Sri Lanka could cause an even more severe environmental disaster.
The man accused of running military death squads during decades of civil war in Sri Lanka has been elected President with an overwhelming majority.
We’re joined in the studio by Charu Lata Hogg from the foreign affairs think tank Chatham House.
We’re joined by Sri Lankan journalist Faraz Shauketaly.
At least 207 people have been killed and hundreds more injured in a series of explosions across Sri Lanka.
The Sri Lankan government has denied its ambassador to Brazil is on the run, after a human rights group filed war crimes charges against him there.
Jon Snow
Our return to Sri Lanka’s killing fields coincides with the President announcing that there will be no “international component” in any “investigation” of the civil war or the alleged war crimes.
After years of Sri Lankan government denials, Channel 4’s evidence of war crimes and extra-judicial killings in Sri Lanka’s civil war is vindicated by a leaked government report, writes Callum Macrae.
The United Nations Human Rights Council passed a historic resolution over allegations of ongoing human rights abuses in Sri Lanka. But as Callum Macrae reports, it has received mixed reactions.
A United Nations report finds evidence of abuses by both Sri Lankan government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels at the end of the country’s civil war, and calls for a special court to be set up there.
Sri Lankans finish voting to elect a new parliament in what could herald a comeback for ex-president Mahinda Rajapaksa, a man accused of overseeing war crimes at the end of the country’s civil war.
