News with evidence. Power with scrutiny. Sri Lanka without fear or favour.
Lanka Witness is an independent Sri Lankan public-interest publication built around one simple rule: claims need evidence, power deserves scrutiny, and every side gets the same standard.
We will not ask readers to trust a headline simply because it is loud. We will show the source, separate fact from allegation, seek the other side, correct mistakes and keep asking what remains unanswered.
The latest UN human-rights reporting records movement in some investigations, while warning that deeper legal and institutional reform remains unfinished.
Read source & context →Human Rights Watch / UN reportingFamilies of victims have heard commitments across successive governments. The public-interest question is now measurable progress: investigations, prosecutions, institutions and answers.
Read source & context →Human Rights WatchTransparency International Sri Lanka says proposed changes could weaken oversight, public access to asset declarations and judicial safeguards. The challenge is before the Court.
Read source & context →Transparency International Sri LankaLanka Witness will preserve source links, distinguish allegations from established facts and keep unanswered public-interest questions visible after the daily news cycle moves on.
Read source & context →Lanka Witness standardsWe separate fact, allegation and opinion. Serious claims should be supported by primary documents or multiple credible sources. Where a person or institution is criticised, their response belongs in the story.
We are not a party mouthpiece. Government, opposition, institutions and powerful private interests are judged by the same standard: what happened, what is the evidence, who is accountable, and what remains unanswered?
Budgets, procurement, public contracts, state assets and declarations of interest deserve reporting that ordinary people can follow. Lanka Witness will turn documents into clear questions — without turning suspicion into fact.
Sri Lanka does not need another place where political loyalties decide which facts matter. It needs more places where evidence survives the news cycle. Lanka Witness begins with a modest promise: document carefully, question fairly, publish clearly and never give power a free pass because of the colour of its flag.
— The Lanka Witness Editorial Desk