MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered massive exercises involving most military units in western Russia amid tensions in Ukraine.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said in a televised statement made at a meeting of top military brass in …

It is not uncommon for two people in the same family to have widely divergent opinions.  Brothers, after all, have set upon one another from time immemorial.  There’s nothing wrong then about two individuals belonging to the same political party …

A group of Sri Lankan Tamils prisoners in  the Central Prison campus locked up the inner gate with three Nigerian officials inside on Tuesday.

The Nigerian  officials came to the camp for completing immigration formalities for the eight Nigerians housed …

The imbroglio that resulted among the New Delhi government, the Tamil Nadu state led by its Chief Minister Jeyaram Jayalalitha and the Supreme Court caused a constitutional crisis which was stalled by the ruling of the Supreme Court but unless …

India’s Central Board of Film Certification has refused to allow permission to screen pro-LTTE Tamil terrorists film called “No Fire Zone”. The director of the documentary, Callum Macrae, a close associates with LTTE Tamil terrorist sympathisers stated that the documentary …

Tamil Nadu Youth Congress members observe fast in Chennai on Friday against the State government’s move to release convicts in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case. Photo: K. V. Srinivasan

Her husband a terrorist leader was responsible for the most number of child conscription for the LTTE and her own role is questioned past and present.

(a child innocently asked ‘If Vegetarians eat Vegetables ….. what do Humanitarians” eat!)…

February 22, 2014,

(Courtesy of The Sunday Island)

There seems to be a school of thought in the country that the government should heed the calls made by the Western powers for an internal inquiry into allegations of human rights …

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Reporting of the civil war in Sri Lanka has tended to distort various aspects of the violence that ensued, particularly in terms of the number of civilian casualties and the causes of their deaths.

By Michael Roberts and Padraig …

Navi Pillay is expected to submit the Report by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Sri Lanka at the 25th session of the UN Human Rights Council, sometime this month.

All Sri Lankans will however …