Elections and Minorities: Present Problems and Alternatives for the Future May 2010 marks the first anniversary of the end of the war. Since the defeat of the LTTE, Sri Lanka had a Presidential Election in January 2010 and will have Parliamentary Elections on 8th April 2010. These two national elections held in a post war context […]
5 April 2010, Colombo, Sri Lanka: CMEV has received confirmation of the first election related murder and reports of the further intensification of violence as the campaign draws to a close today, midnight. A tense situation is reported from the Sinhala areas of the Digamadulla District due to the competition between candidates for preference votes. […]
Total number of Incidents: 363 Major incidents: 206 Minor incidents: 157 Firearms involved: 49 Intra party disputes UPFA against UPFA – 72 UNP against UNP – 1 Details here in Sinhala, Tamil and English.
Total number of Incidents: 341 Major incidents: 196 Minor incidents: 145 Firearms involved: 45 Intra party disputes UPFA against UPFA – 68 UNP against UNP – 1 Details here in Sinhala, Tamil and English.
3 April 2010, Colombo, Sri Lanka: CMEV is deeply concerned about the escalation of violence in the last stage of the campaign and calls up on the Police to act fast to arrest the situation. Repeated allegations against supporters of Minister Rishard Badiudeen in Puttalam and Vanni CMEV continues to receive complaints against supporters of […]
Summary of incidents received to CMEV by 4.30 p.m. 3 April 2010. Total number of Incidents: 325 Major incidents: 186 Minor incidents: 139 Firearms involved: 43 Details here in Sinhala, Tamil and English.
Total number of Incidents: 307 Major incidents: 178 Minor incidents: 129 Firearms involved: 43 Details here in Sinhala, Tamil and English.