https://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/5276 2026-04-22T00:14:43Z https://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/5291 Sri Lankan Economy After the Terrorist Conflict Wijekoon, WM Dilshani; Hapuarachchi, Senuri Chanma; Gunasekara, MVA Shehan 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/5290 2019 Easter Sunday Attack in Sri Lanka Jayasinghe, Apoorwa Sharadishashi; Jayawickrama, AV Sathini Jayathma; Kumari, MR Pramudi Paboda This paper primarily examines the Easter Sunday bombings plotted and executed by a group of Sri Lankan Muslims and the impact of post-war conditions in Sri Lanka towards the Muslims in the country. Aimed at Christians and tourists, a string of bomb blasts was orchestrated killing hundreds of people in Sri Lanka as they gathered for Easter Sunday Mass. It is a controversial fact that the post-war violence, organized Islamophobia among overall non-Muslim communities and the Sinhalese in particular, has increased their fears and distrust towards Sri Lankan Muslims in general and state enterprises of Muslim political leaders who supported the successive Sri Lankan ruling class from independence through the defeat of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in 2009. Although having meant an isolation of the community from the two main ethnic communities, the concessions that the Muslim community had won, has actively helped them to be proactive in their religious practices and thus paved the way for exclusive social and political choices. However, prior to the Easter Sunday attack there were still many motionless conflicts between Muslims and non- Muslims in the country. After the Easter Sunday bomb attack, these tensions heightened and spread through whole of Sri Lanka. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/5289 Fighting Against Terrorists: an Analysis on Chinese and Sri Lankan Experiences Attanayake, Pahani Wandana; Premachandra, PR Dismini Sri Lanka fought a war against domestic terrorism for three decades and defeated it physically. However, Sri Lanka had to face a lot of allegations by the western media during the post terrorist conflict period. Majority of the allegations were hyped due to the strategic media usage of anti-Sri Lankan elements working day and night from abroad to tarnish the image of Sri Lanka. There is a western media hype against the Chinese government as well. The Chinese authorities label the crackdown on dissent on the Muslim minority in western Xinjiang as “war on terror.” Meanwhile, the Western media institutions in the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and France, United States and human rights organizations are labelling Chinese reaction to terrorist as “genocide.” Among the allegations against the Chinese government are the mass trial and imprisonment of more than a million Uighurs and other Muslim minority groups in “re-education camps” without a proper trial. In addition, torture, long imprisonment, sentences or the death penalty after serious unjust trials, measures to prevent the birth of women and the forcible transfer of Uighur children from their community are also included in the list of allegations against Chinese. This article will draw parallels of the Chinese situation with Sri Lankan situation by using various reports published by media institutions in the West. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z https://ir.kdu.ac.lk/handle/345/5288 Role of the Export Sector in Sri Lanka’s Development Hapuarachchi, Senuri Chanma Sri Lanka is a country conflicted over its resources by great powers in the past. Today the interest on Sri Lanka still remains the same and it is clear, how countries with powerful economies are eyeing to be authoritative over Sri Lanka. With independence and the establishment of embassies, Sri Lanka was given state recognition worldwide. Today embassies are increasingly positioning themselves as proxies in developing the export sector. However, it is not the case in Sri Lanka. As the export sector is systematically interconnected with diplomatic representation abroad, it is without doubt that the Sri Lankan government is on the lookout to uplift its export performance while coping with financial pressures of the country. But the responsible authorities do not seem to show the same interest. While potential Sri Lankan products like tea, rubber, apparel and other cash-crop exports dominate Sri Lanka's export economy, technology service exports have shown rapid increase as of recent times. This paper studies on the development of exports from 1949 till the present. It further analyses how exports are systematically related to international diplomatic representation and how embassies and high commissions of Sri Lanka can work to drive the export sector towards its improvement. 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z