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Report of UNSG Ban ki-moon’s Panel of Experts (PoE) on Accountability in Sri Lanka accused the then Sri Lankan government of five major human rights violations, committed during eelam war IV (Aug. 2006 to May 2009). …

Mohan Samaranayake on UNHRC resolution

The Geneva process against Sri Lanka was aimed at making use of ‘human rights’ to change Sri Lanka’s social, political and economic environment, said senior Journalist Mohan Samaranayake last week.

Delivering the key note speech …

Close on the heels of a statement issued by 41 university academics supporting the recent UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka, more than 70 scholars have now come out vehemently opposing it.

The dons describing themselves as ‘Responsible and concerned group …

Chaos prevailed in La Chapelle, Paris on Friday around 4 p.m. when several members of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) came under strong verbal attack by a number of irate Tamil Diaspora members, mostly LTTE Tamil terrorists sympathizers, and the …

Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) Leader and MP Udaya Gammanpila said that the reply letter sent by President Maithripala Sirisena regarding the Constitutional Council (CC) appointments was amusing.
Gammanpila had sent a letter to President Sirisena on Monday asking for his …

Dismissing much touted accusations regarding the massacre of over 40,000 civilians on the Vanni east front during 2009, Skills Development and Vocational Training Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe accused the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council of relentlessly pursuing a political agenda …

Defence columnist,

Keerthi Waranakuslsuriya the veteran defence columnist of Sunday Divaina was reporting from Geneva the treacherous role played by the individuals and NGOs et during the sessions of the OHCR for last two weeks. He had been covering the …

Since pro-Federalist and pro-Tamil Ranil; and pro-minority Sirisena backed in power in 2015 they are after the war heroes to keep the promises and pact that they signed with pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists’ political party TNA. In the beginning, they sentenced …

American Forces Bombed Hospital in Kunduz?

Air strikes on a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz that killed 19 people were “tragic, inexcusable and possibly even criminal”, the UN human rights chief says.

High Commissioner Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein …