Mark Salter
@marsal61
Senior Researcher & Consultant. Pessimism of the Intellect, Optimism of the Will - my favourite Gramsci misquote. RTs do not imply endorsement
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Zohran Mamdani will be the first Muslim and South Asian to lead America’s largest city, after winning NYC’s mayoral race aje.io/vrh1g8
The headline finding of this @HRW #SriLanka report will surprise few. The country's tax base, specifically direct taxation, remains far weaker - ruinously so according to the report - than required for the country's continuing, equitable development. ft.lk/front-page/Hum…
The stats in this important new @HRW #SriLanka report tell the key story. #lka's education sector remains seriously underfunded. ft.lk/front-page/Sri…
The Pekoe Trail comprising 22 stages is Sri Lanka's first long distance hiking trail. A Social leveller committed to sustainability Stewardship and Governance of Recreational Trails #SriLanka dailymirror.lk/opinion/Pekeo-…
He hasn’t engaged in any activity that can be deemed terrorism. Govt was elected with mandate to change system. This includes, in case they aren’t aware, security sector which continues to function with impunity. Govt is compounding harassment of @kumanan93 by justifying it at UN
Good to learn of important judgment from Kalawanchikudy Magistrate affirming right of families and the public to know fate of disappeared and to have #SriLanka #massgraves excavated fully and independently, and to have courts free from executive interference.
#MassGraves 1)On 25 Aug 2025 Kalawanchikudy Magistrate Ranjithkumar issued order on Kurukkalmadam mass grave thought to have remains of more than 100 persons who were abducted and killed in 1990s. In 2019 @ompsrilanka made application asking for permission to observe exhumation
“Every piece of poetry has a music of its own which it is humming to itself as it goes along. Verses sing themselves into people’s heads and stay there for ever, so that even when they are alone and unhappy they have this music with them for company.” ~A.A.Milne #poetry
Wouldn't it be great if #keir_starmer talked - and acted - more like his #Spanish counterpart Pedro Sánchez? theguardian.com/world/2025/sep…
My latest, a #DailyFT commentary on ex-Sri Lankan president Ranil Wickremesinghe's recent arrest on corruption charges. #lka ft.lk/opinion/The-Gr…
Useful account of the political issues raised by Ranil W's arrest. ft.lk/opinion/Sri-La…
Investigators decide to expand excavation area at Sri Lanka's third largest mass grave after analysing findings of Ground Penetrating Radar results. So far, 150 skeletal remains including those of babies have been removed from the Chemmani Siththupaththi mass burial site.
A good overview, fair to the range of different perspectives on #Wickremesinge’s arrest. dw.com/en/sri-lanka-e…
Do join us this week in a discussion that will explore past events & present developments in #Chemmani to attempts @ transitional justice in the past to future prospects in #SriLanka @GehanDG @benislos
Fantastic trilingual exhibition on Sri Lanka’s post-independence history at the Colombo Public Library, curated by the phenomenal Anisha Dias Bandaranaike and team. Really recommend taking everyone you know and going! On until 23 August, 8.30am-5.30pm
A thread well worth reading on a case that goes to the heart of whether the govt of @anuradisanayake is willing & able to expand its campaign against #impunity to include war-time atrocities by the #SriLanka military. Not easy, but still not out of the question. #Chemmani
#Chemmanimassgrave #Chemmani 1/More revelations by Somaratne Rajapakse who has promised the Tamil ppl he will provide information on violations other than the mass graves in Chemmani. Says that in the late 1990s those that were arrested at checkpoints from Chemmani to
CTID (police's terrorism unit) must withdraw summons to @kumanan93 & close investigating a baseless, false & politically motivated complaint, with malicious intention to intimidate, harras, discredit him & other Tamil journos & activists. Reporting military abuses is NOT a crime
I was summoned by the CTID on 7 August 2025 for interrogation on 17 August 2025. I lodged a complaint with the HRC Jaffna Regional Office seeking clarification. The CTID sent a written response to the HRC, stating that the investigation is based on a Military Intelligence…
My latest piece: a review of a new documentary about the life of Neelan Tiruchelvam. ft.lk/opinion/Unsile…
Important feed from @ambikasat. How the security forces leopard doesn't change its spots, and requires active govt. intervention to prevent such continuing behaviour.
1/Terrorism Investigation Div summoning @kumanan93 is latest in harassment and intimidation spanning many yrs. TID/CID and military intelligence call him often demanding info and over the yrs have warned/threatened him, summoned him for inquiry, visited his home and followed him.
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