After a flurry of diplomatic activity in Geneva, the UN Human Rights Council resolution on Sri Lanka has finally been tabled.

On September 24, the U.S.-led UN Human Rights Council (HRC) resolution on Sri Lanka was tabled. This would …

Liberals Set off Row

with Sri Lanka

The Liberal party of Canada shamefully supported the LTTE purely to garner votes from those sympathetic to that outfit to win elections. They did not care about Sri Lanka or bilateral relations between …

Courtesy The Daily Mirror

(Courtesy of  The Sunday Island)

The government should take great care with the American sponsored draft resolution that was tabled before the UNHRC on Thursday especially because they have decided to make it a consensus resolution. Dayan Jayatilleke recently said …

Several United Peoples Freedom Alliance (UPFA) parliamentarians have highly criticised the autocratic behaviour of pro-minority mind set Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in Parliament.

UPFA MP Gamini Lokuge speaking on the matter said that Ranil’s recent antics in Parliament was akin …

Former Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Prof.G.L.Peiris has said that the report of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights on “war crimes” in Lanka has soft pedaled the LTTE’s using civilians as a human shield, when it is a war …

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The Sri Lankan forces should not be penalised for liberating thousands of people from the grip of the LTTE.War crimes allegations should have been investigated soon after 2009 to prevent white nations waging a witch-hunt, …

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While the penumbra of the US resolution on Sri Lanka has softened, the core, the essence, remains. The Sri Lankan side has succeeded only in watering down the inessential, or to switch metaphors, in changing the décor. The crux of …