The government was yet to decide on temporary deployment of the army in support of law enforcement authorities in the North despite continuing attacks by violent elements in the Jaffna peninsula, security sources told The Island yesterday.

Following representations made …

No. 91 Lake Road, Batticaloa is our house, where I lived for the first 14 years of my life! My mother adored the place, and all my happy memories are somehow related to this house. Today, the house is squattered …

The LTTE’s devastating cruelty lasted 30 years. It destroyed everything and carpeted the jungle floor with thousands of dead. When two prominent leaders decamped, Prabhakaran was hardly ever seen, living underground like a troglodyte, protected by four layers of wire …

We are a little puzzled at the manner the UN & the so called international community are handling post-LTTE defeat Sri Lanka. Whatever LTTE is now being presented as, what no one can ignore is the fact that the men, …

• We submitted counter response to OISL report 
• It can be done in terms of Article 129 of Constitution
• UN process against SL started after security forces defeated LTTE

Attorney-at-Law Darshan Weerasekara, who supports those working against the UNHRC resolution on …

Following is the text of the speech delivered by Dr. Nalaka Godahewa, at a special side event, in Geneva on 20 September, during the 39th Session of the UN Human Rights Council.

 
At the ‘2005 World Summit’, the leaders …

According to media reports President Sirisena is planning to attend the forthcoming 73rd Session of the UN General Assembly, where he hopes to use the opportunity presented to amend the UNHRC Resolution 30/1 co-sponsored by the government. General Assembly sessions …

Sri Lanka will soon seek the assistance of the United Nations and the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to amend the Geneva Resolution 30/1, co-sponsored by the Sirisena-Wickremesinghe coalition on Oct 1, 2015 soon after the last parliamentary election.…

At the ‘2005 world summit’, the leaders dedicated themselves to support all efforts to uphold the sovereign equality of all states, respect their territorial integrity, to refrain from the use of force in any manner inconsistent with the principles of …

It is time the Sinhalese asserted their rights. It is time the world knew the history & heritage of the Sinhalese – people found nowhere else but in the Sinhale nation, people who had a distinct language, distinct culture & …