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Four international human rights organisations yesterday (20) said that atrocities perpetrated during the deployment of the Indian Army, IPKF in Sri Lanka, too, should be properly investigated by the mechanisms proposed by the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC)…

September is the month when the UN Human Rights Council presents its latest Resolution on Sri Lanka. It is reported that the latest version has graduated from violations of human rights and international humanitarian law to include violations of “economic..

Foreign Minister, Ali Sabry, PC, yesterday (05) said entire fighting divisions which had been deployed on the Vanni front during Eelam War IV (2006-2009) had been ‘blacklisted’ on the basis of findings made by the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights..

The pro-LTTE TNA politicians and politically motivated extremists Tamils are destructing the functioning of the historical Kurundumale  Buddhist temple in Mulathiv district. The harassments to the Buddhists devotees and function of the temple being regularly disrupted by very organized and..

Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh- This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood;” Merchant of Venice -Shakespeare. India came to support Sri Lanka in our moment of utter despair ravaged by a unprecedented..

According to estimates by Pew Research Center, a major nonpartisan think tank based in Washington DC, in 2020, about 64% of Americans, including children, were Christian. Pew cautioned that these are not the only possibilities, however, and that they were..

Sri Lanka has landed in trouble due to bad advice and silly policy decisions. We already have a Lessons Learned & Reconciliation Commission. We have had 3 successive UNHRC Resolutions. We have faced an UNHRC investigation. So far, while we..

Given that UN-US-India & other nations including the Church are asking for Truth & Accountability, are they prepared to own up to some hard truths? The citizens of Sri Lanka all know these facts. No country that had anything to..

It’s now 13 years since LTTE was defeated. Let’s cut to the chase & put on the table the reason why Sri Lanka is still grappling to close the witch hunt taking place smearing the good name of the Nation..

The Island published an excellent article by attorney Dharshan Weerasekera titled “Legal implications of Aragalaya protests” which was a stark contrast to the position taken by some BASL attorneys including its President. The article brings to the forefront a clash of perceptions…