Sri Lanka on Wednesday dismissed a UN report calling for an international probe into allegations of war crimes at the end of its civil war as “fundamentally flawed.”

Foreign Minister G L Peiris said his government rejected a report from …

Israel tightens grip on West Bank

Ahmed Awais is desperate to get out of his parents’ cramped home where he, his wife and three preschool children share one room, sleeping on mattresses on the floor.

Six months ago, the Palestinian …

Do we know how India will vote on the anti-Sri Lanka Resolution? Manmohan Singh says his experts are studying the document.  Yeah right!  Here in Sri Lanka there are no prizes for predicting India’s position.  And yet, right here in …

Indian origin Tamils who make up of nearly  2% of Myanmar’s 55-million population have veered from one extreme to the other in the past 200 years. After independence in 1948, the introduction of land reforms, the imposition of the Burmese …

[Go through this — written 3 years ago — and you will find the guys making noises are the same guys who’ve always made noises when they batted for the LTTE.  The exception is of course Sunila Abeysekera, now no …

March 4, 2014, 7:04 pm

(Courtesy of The Island)

Two hundred and five Tamil Christian priests in the Northern and Eastern Provinces of Sri Lanka including Bishop Rayappu Joseph have written to the members of the United Nations Human Rights …

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.

The …

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.

The …