Former President Mahinda Rajapaksa says that though the President and Prime Minister have repeatedly stated that no foreign judges will be brought to try Sri Lanka’s armed forces, the pledge given in Geneva last week is exactly the opposite.

“The …

By Milinda Senevirthna

A highly successful lawyer was once asked why he was not interested in becoming a judge.  He had laughed, ‘I would rather talk a load of rubbish all day than listen to a load of rubbish.’  Judges …

By Asoka Bandarage

(Courtesy of  https://asianstudies.georgetown.edu/sites/asianstudies/files/documents/gjaa_3.2_bandarage.pdf)

In May 2009, the Sri Lankan military defeated the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

(LTTE), a “most lethal and well-organized terrorist group in the world,” which had

fought for nearly thirty years to establish …

(Courtesy of The Island)

By Shamindra Ferdinando

Having received two additional years to fulfill the Oct 1, 2015 Geneva Resolution 30/1, the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government last Friday (March 24) thanked those who had brought a second resolution 34/1 to give time …

By Neville Ladduwahetty

Although the separatist armed conflict ended in May 2009, the first UNHRC Resolution on “Promoting reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka” was in April 2012. This was followed by Resolutions in March 2013; March 2014 and September …

Coutersy of The Island

by Shamindra Ferdinando

The UN mission in Colombo yesterday said that it would soon respond to The Island query whether a report received from the Federation of National Organizations (FNO) on ‘A factual appraisal of the …

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Australia has denied Maj. Gen. Chagie Gallege a visa, as we reported yesterday, though it now claims his application, which was submitted in September, 2016, is still under assessment. It has cited, as the reason for …

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Consular Affairs Officer

Australian High Commission Office
Colombo, Sri Lanka

Dear Sir/Madam,

The annexed news report speaks of a denial of a travel visa to Maj. Gen. Chagie Gallege to visit his brother who is an Australian citizen claiming that …

The Global Sri Lankan Forum, GSLF, who are in the battle front in UNHRC  in Geneva has launched a global petition calling Sri Lankan government to withdraw from  the Sri Lankan Co-sponsorship of UNHRC Resolution A/HRC/30/L. 29. The petition was …