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In Sri Lanka there are so many rights groups very often, if not always, financed by the western countries led by the US and England, though funds may be directed through other nations in the west. …

Sri Lankan Government slammed the outgoing UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay, South African Tamil and widely alleged as pro-LTTE Tamil sympathizer and expressed confidence in the new High Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein.…

‘Defence Seminar- 2014’, Sri Lanka Army’s international defence conference will be held from August 18th to 20th at the Galadari Hotel in Colombo. Held under the theme “Sri Lanka: Challenge to a Rising Nation” the international conclave will see a …

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New York based Human Rights Watch (HRW) recently warned that holding of civilians could amount to a war crime.

The AFP in a Beirut datelined story quoted HRW’s Middle East and North Africa Director Sarah Leah …

A Sri Lankan government-appointed panel, probing cases of missing persons during the country’s civil war with the LTTE Tamil terrorists, on Tuesday claimed that the numbers cited by Pro LTTE dispora, TNA, and Tamil groups on alleged disappearance of individuals …

 Israel lashed out on Tuesday after the UN Human Rights Council named the man who will be running an inquiry into its Gaza offensive.

Apparent war crimes committed by US and NATO troops in Afghanistan have gone uninvestigated, leaving the families of thousands of the victims without justice, Amnesty International said in a new report.

“Thousands of Afghans have been killed or injured …

A hero is a great warrior or man of noble qualities and great achievements. Lieutenant General Denzil Lakshman Kobbekaduwa was both of these. He was beloved by his men, respected by his colleagues and loved by the people. Unfortunately, the …

Learning from the experience of the furor over the allegedly controversial Jayalalitha-Modi article in the Sri Lanka Defence Ministry website Sri Lankans need to have broader perspective of the unenviable position in which successive Indian central governments have been placed …