The European Union’s top court kept Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on the EU terrorism blacklist on Wednesday and removed Sri Lankan separatist Tamil Terrorists

However, the EU said in a press release later that the ban on the Tamil Tigers …

A group former LTTE Tamil separatist terrorists storm to Vavniya District Secretarial Office and removed the National Flag hoisted in the building.

The Police officers who were in duty in the premises had been failed to prevent this crime and …

(Courtesy of The Island)

Jeffrey Feltman, the UN UnderSecretary-General for Political Affairs, heads the Department of Political Affairs at the United Nations in New York. The main role of the department according to its website is to prevent and resolve …

(Courtesy of The Island)

By Tamara Kunanayakam,
former Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva
and
Dr. PalithaKohona,
former Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York

The Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur Ben …

National Organizer of the National Freedom Front (NFF), Piyasiri Wijenayaka stated that no Sri Lankan citizen had asked UN Special Rapporteur Ben Emmerson or anyone else to probe into the “dark, closed chapter of the terror-stricken of LTTE Tamil terrorists.”…

By Daya Gamage

(Courtesy of Asian Tribune)

Jeffrey Feltman, Under Secretary-General for Political Affairs, the second most senior position in the United Nations and the coordinator of the agenda of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, was on an …

UN Human Rights High Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein delivered the Grotius Lecture at British Institute of International and Comparative Law on 26th June 2017. In the course of that lecture Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein specifically mentioned “A few days …

Ben Emmerson responds to the media at UN compound in Colombo on the afternoon of July 14, 2017.UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative Una McCauley looks on.

By Shamindra Ferdinando

Ben Emmerson, QC, UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion …

(Courtesy of The Island)

The Global Sri Lankan Forum (GSLF) has requested the Joint Opposition (JO) to quit the UNP-led constitutional making process.

A senior spokesperson for the group told The Island that the JO couldn’t further delay a decision …

(Courtesy of The Island)

The former Navy Spokesman Commodore D.K.P.Dassanayake was arrested last week on charges of causing the disappearance of 11 persons in 2008. Dassanayake, a highly decorated Naval officer who played a major role in the war, is …