A three-member panel has been appointed to probe the findings of former war commissions.
The panel has been appointed as the Human Rights Council prepares to discuss human rights in Sri Lanka at its next session in February-March 2021.
President …
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet is expected to table a damning report on Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva next month.
An advanced copy of the report is expected to be published …
Daya Gamage
Vice President Kamala Devi Harris is not the only high-ranking member of Biden administration who has Indian connection, and a Tamil who has Sri Lankan connection holding a very senior position under Harris: President Biden’s top policy-makers – …
Pradeep Ramanayake, K. Ratnayake
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According to Colombo media reports, a “Core Group on Sri Lanka” is planning to present a new resolution to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on human rights issues. This group includes …
The Sri Lankan American Community in the USA, and Sri Lankans expats community worldwide join to express their good wishes to the incoming President of the United States, Jo Biden and incoming Vice President Kamala Harris on January 20, 2021 …
Buddhist society suspects Jaffna monument retaliation
IUSF suspects act ‘organised’ to fuel racial tension
Four police teams to probe
Two Buddha statues at the Kilinochchi Campus of the University of Jaffna were damaged by unknown persons on the night of …
The files requested relate to the extent of UK’s support for mercenaries training Sri Lanka’s security forces. Photograph: Chamila Karunarathne/EPA
The Foreign Office is resisting publishing files relating to its diplomatic support for British mercenaries in Sri Lanka in the …
A group of pro-LTTE Tamil terrorist organizations has written to Prime Minister of UK demanding to take international actions against Sri Lanka and commence internationally backed investigation against alleged war crimes and genocides from the following letter;
In response …
There is much hue and cry over allegations of post-independent Sri Lanka disenfranchising Indian Tamils. Let us therefore address this question directly.
Sri Lanka was illegally invaded and occupied by 3 western European countries from 1505 – the Portuguese, the …
“How come those who voted for Fonseka still push for an int’l war crime probe?’
Wartime Foreign Minister Rohitha Bogollagama (2007-2010) yesterday (17) said that those who had been tainted by their association with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam …
Whenever predictions are made about repercussions from the international community for things said or left unsaid or else things done or left undone, I am reminded of Libya. Muammar Gaddafi was for decades the bad boy. He decided at one …
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India’s External Affairs Minister, Dr. S. Jaishankar during his recently concluded visit to Sri Lanka is reported to have stated at a Joint Press Conference that ‘It was in Sri Lanka’s own interest that expectations of …
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The newspapers have been full recently of arguments regarding Provincial Councils. Unfortunately, most writers seem to approach the problem from their own long entrenched perspectives, both those in favour of Councils who have been plugging their …
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It has been reported that the Ministry of Justice is moving to amend the Antiquities Ordinance, repealing the provisions therein preventing the courts from releasing persons charged with or accused of offences under the Antiquities Ordinance …
Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar visited Sri Lanka last week to voice New Delhi’s displeasure over delays in investment projects it considers important to its geo-strategic moves against China.
During his three-day tour, which ended on January 7, Jaishankar …
The University of Jaffna is a State university. It is funded by the Government of Sri Lanka and Faculty are paid salaries by the GoS. Therefore, all staff are bound by rules & regulations applicable to the Public Sector. Jaffna …