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    • Buddhist Archaeological sites under attack 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 11/30/2019)
      Based on a discussion with the Ellawala Medanandha Thera, Lakbima reports that Buddhist archeological sites in the North and the East have recently come under attack in unprecedented ways. The thera points out that even ...

    • Political participation of women 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 1/18/2019)
      Dinamina and Divaina report on a statement made by Sudharma Kulathunga, an executive member of the organisation ‘Women for Justice’. The entry also includes newspaper images of the said issue.

    • Labour participation of women in the North 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 1/18/2019)
      The entry contains writeups in Sinhala, Tamil and English pertaining to statement of the Governor of the Northern Province, Suren Raghavan on January 16, 2019. He stated that most of the women in the North are only teachers ...

    • Sirisena meets with the TNA regarding political prisoners 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 2/20/2019)
      The entry contains writeups pertaining to the manner in which the the meeting between President Maithripala Sirisena and TNA on political prisoners was reported in the Sinhala and Tamil press. The entry also includes 4 ...

    • Vijitha Herath's stance on the 20th Amendment to the Constitution 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 2/20/2019)
      The entry contains writeups pertaining to the manner in which the Sinhala and Tamil press covered JVP MP Vijitha Herath's stance on the 20th Amendment. The entry also includes an image of a newspaper article on the issue.

    • Tamil press doesn't want to forget; Sinhala press doesn't want forgiveness 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 2/28/2019)
      The entry contains writeups in Sinhala, English and Tamil on the press coverage on Ranil Wickremeisinghe's speech in Kilinochchi on 15 February, 2019, requesting to forgive and forget. The entry also includes images of ...

    • Nayaru religious site: Polar narratives at play 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 3/12/2019)
      The entry contains writeups in Sinhala, Tamil and English pertaining to the coverage of tensed situation in Nayaru during Thai pongal celebration in January 2019. The entry also includes images of newspaper excerpts regarding ...

    • International involvement: To help or to meddle? 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 3/28/2019)
      The entry contains writeups in all three languages on the views of the Sinhala and Tamil press on international intervention in Sri Lanka. The entry also includes 2 images of newspapers pertaining to the issue.

    • New Constitution: Is it 'federal' or is it 'unitary'? 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 4/10/2019)
      The entry contains writeups in Sinhala and Tamil on the new constitution that was being drafted. The press discussed the terms 'unitary' and 'federal'. In addition, the entry also contains 6 images of newspaper excerpts ...

    • UNHRC: Sinhala press says too much; Tamil press says too little 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 4/18/2019)
      The entry contains writeups in English, Sinhala and Tamil on the manner in which the Sinhala and Tamil press covered the UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka. The entry also includes four images of newspaper excerpts regarding the issue.

    • Hybrid courts (un)wanted 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 3/5/2019)
      The entry contains writeups in Sinhala, Tamil and English on the press coverage pertaining to the hybrid court system suggested by the UNHRC. The entry also contains six newspaper excerpts regarding the issue.

    • International intervention: needed or not? 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 5/18/2019)
      The entry contains writeups regarding international intervention to defeat terrorism after the Easter Sunday attacks. The entry also contains images of newspaper excerpts regarding the issue. Some Sinhala newspapers reported ...

    • Emergency Regulations: Security or Suppression? 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 4/6/2019)
      The entity contains writeups in all three languages and images of newspaper excerpts on the press coverage of emergency regulations imposed by the government. It also includes infographics in all three languages on the ...

    • Resignation of Muslim politicians: splitting or slapping? 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 6/24/2019)
      The entry contains writeups in all three languages and images of newspaper articles pertaining to the resignation of Muslim MPs against the hunger strike carried out by Ven. Athuraliye Rathana Thera demanding the resignation ...

    • Two sides of grief 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 6/11/2019)
      The entry contains a writeup of how the Sinhala and Tamil press covered the pain of the relatives whose loved ones had died during the war. It also contains images of the newspaper excerpts of the articles in each press.

    • Kanniya religious site: A Hindu Kovil or a Buddhist Temple? 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 7/23/2019)
      The entry contains the writeup pertaining to the tensed situation in Kanniya in English and Sinhala, Trincomalee in July 2019. In addition it also contains images of newspaper articles.

    • Shavendra Silva: A war hero for the Sinhala press, an accused war criminal for the Tamil press 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 10/1/2019)
      The entry includes the English writeup of how the Sinhala and Tamil press perceived Army Commander Shavendra Silva.

    • Press coverage on the tensions in Nayaru, Mullaitivu 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 9/30/2019)
      The infogrpahic describes the manner in which the Sinhala and Tamil press covered the tensed situation in Nayaru, Mullaitivu over the cremation of a Buddhist monk on September 23, 2019.

    • Move to replace Prevention of Terrorism Act 

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      Media Team       (Colombo: Veritè Research, 2/12/2020)
      This entry included: English, Sinhala and Tamil versions of divide and 8 scanned newspaper items. .

    • Dinesh Gunawardena: Foreign Remittances 

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      FactCheck       (www.factcheck.lk, 6/18/2020)
      TRUE: In 2018 the income the country received from overseas workers was about USD 7 billion. That was 7.9% of that year’s GDP. - Dinesh Gunawardena, Divaina, 9 June 2020