Tag Archives: Sri Lanka

For decades Sri Lanka faced a deadly civil in the Northern part of the country. The ethnic Tamil minority make up 12% of the 22 million Sri Lankans, started a movement for an “independent ethnic state.” By 2009, when the war proceeded to end, an estimated 40,000 individuals lost their lives (Al Jazeera). With the […]

On Saturday, September 21st, 2024, the South Asian nation of Sri Lanka voted in its tenth annual presidential election (Reuters). This was the first election for the island since the insufficiency of foreign currency pushed Sri Lanka into an unprecedented economic crisis in decades (Reuters). Sri Lanka’s crippling economy came after they defaulted on their […]