Sri Lanka Crisis

Sri Lanka suffers from cleavages along many different lines, notably ideology, ethnicity, language, and religion

Rajapakse's government would continue to call for a parliamentary election in order to resolve the ongoing political crisis

If, as Speaker of Sri Lankan Parliament, Jayasuriya had wavered even for a second, the leader of the joint opposition Mahinda Rajapaksa, would have been PM, both de facto and de jure

The crisis talks came after Sri Lanka's parliament witnessed unprecedented violence as lawmakers threw furniture and chilli powder at each other

Questions over the future of the new coalition in Colombo

Sri Lanka's ousted Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said he still enjoyed a majority in Parliament and would prove his numbers when sittings convene

It was the first report of serious violence since President Maithripala Sirisena sacked Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Friday

President Maithripala Sirisena on Friday night sacked Wickremesinghe and appointed former strongman Mahinda Rajapaksa as the new prime minister

Sri Lankan police have been accused of failing to protect the island's minority