Centre for Policy Alternatives on 11 April, 2010 Total number of Incidents: 13 Major incidents: 8 Minor incidents: 5 Firearms involved: 4 Intra party disputes UPFA against UPFA – 6 UNP against UNP – 1 Details here in Sinhala, Tamil and English.
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 11 April, 2010 9 April 2010, Colombo, Sri Lanka: On Election Day CMEV recorded 84 Major Incidents, including 53 incidents of Intimidation within the vicinity of polling centers. This figure includes 07 incidents of involving election officials, 07 incidents of Threat and Intimidation and 06 Assaults. CMEV has recorded 189 incidents of election law violations as well. When […]
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 8 April, 2010 8 April 2010, Colombo, Sri Lanka, 3pm: The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) reported that as of 2pm on polling day, there was a turn -out of 35-40% across Sri Lanka with a low turn- out in Jaffna of around 10%. There were several reports of threat and intimidation against voters and polling agents. […]
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 6 April, 2010 Total number of Incidents: 398 Major incidents: 223 Minor incidents: 175 Firearms involved: 53 Intra party disputes UPFA against UPFA – 75 UNP against UNP – 2 Details here in Sinhala, Tamil and English.
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 5 April, 2010 Elections and Minorities: Present Problems and Alternatives for the Future May 2010 marks the first anniversary of the end of the war. Since the defeat of the LTTE, Sri Lanka had a Presidential Election in January 2010 and will have Parliamentary Elections on 8th April 2010. These two national elections held in a post war context […]
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 5 April, 2010 5 April 2010, Colombo, Sri Lanka: CMEV has received confirmation of the first election related murder and reports of the further intensification of violence as the campaign draws to a close today, midnight. A tense situation is reported from the Sinhala areas of the Digamadulla District due to the competition between candidates for preference votes. […]
Centre for Policy Alternatives on 5 April, 2010 Total number of Incidents: 363 Major incidents: 206 Minor incidents: 157 Firearms involved: 49 Intra party disputes UPFA against UPFA – 72 UNP against UNP – 1 Details here in Sinhala, Tamil and English.