Sri Lanka stance needs urgent rethink

Griffith Asia Institute
Published
Adjunct member of the Griffith Asia Institute,Gordon Weiss, last week publishedan opinion piece for the Newcastle Heraldcommenting on Australia’s opposition to the United Nation’s Sri Lanka war crimes investigation. Gordon Weiss isauthor of The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers, and wasUN spokesman in Sri Lanka during […]

New book revisits Buddhism in Sri Lanka

Buddhism and the political landscape in Sri Lanka is the subject of a new book by a Griffith law lecturer.
Griffith Law School
Published
A line in the sand of Sri Lanka’s constitutional history was drawn in 2005 with the election of President Mahinda Rajapakse, providing the moment in time for Griffith Law School lecturer, Dr Roshan de Silva-Wijeyeratne, to start work on his first book. The conclusion of a long-running civil war with the defeat of the Tamil […]