Sri Lanka questioned the independence of the human rights office of the United Nations on Wednesday, a day after the United States with its Western allies asked the U.N. to investigate human rights violations by the Sri Lankan government.

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South Africa strongly supported Sri Lanka’s post-war national reconciliation process at the on-going session of the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Addressing the 47-member states of the council as well as other delegates, South African International Relations and …

This is not THE resolution.  Let’s keep that in mind.  It is not even a ‘draft’. It is a leaked draft, at best.  But in these days of leaks and gushes when the key political issue that bothers the …

Patriotic Sri Lankan  protestors marched to the UN Headquarters in Colombo to hand over a petition to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, against the US sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka at the Human Rights Council this month in Geneva.

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Head of Swarna Hansa Foundation, Mr Galllege Punyawardana has written to Ambassador of United State of America protesting their concern over the Embassy interfering with internal affairs of Sri Lanka. In particular, Foundation has voiced their serious concerns over the …

Faulting the government of India for providing military training to Tamil youth in the early 1980s, Arun Thambimuttu, SLFP Chief Organiser for Eastern Batticaloa District on Tuesday (Feb 25) said that many people believed the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) …

It’s a neat plan. The ill-willed gets some quotes from the ill-willed, write a report, the ‘informants’ say ‘see, even they say it’ and mutual-massaging inflates, inflates and inflates.  And so the infamous ‘Darusman Report’ will in fact chair the …

The Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) has rejected the call by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navananethem Pillay’s call “to establish an international inquiry mechanism to further investigate the alleged violations of IHRL and IHL and monitor any domestic …

The Tamil National Alliance has responded with glee to the note penned by UNHCR chief  Navi Pillai.  The TNA, almost three years ago, salivated similarly when the illegally set up panel of experts (sic) led by a man called Darusman …

A group of peace loving Sri Lankans has launched an on-line petition to persuade the UK government to extradite one of the main terrorist criminals Adele Balasingham widow of the LTTE warlord Anton Balasingham.

The Tamil LTTE terrorist leader is …