When thousands of boats with GPS monitoring systems violate the International Maritime Border Line that divides Sri Lanka and India and Tamil Nadu crafts travel as far as Trincomalee and pilfer fish that belong to Sri Lanka’s fishermen where is …

(Courtesy of The Island)

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 …

The renewed ties between India and Sri Lanka while being welcomed cannot exclude or overlook some harsh realities. At the background of these realities are some painful facts yet the common factors if given due deliberation should ideally place …

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 …

With the conclusive end to LTTE terror another obstacle has emerged. Shrouded in secrecy and hidden by verbal statements, there is an underlying need to make clear and establish what the ITAK Constitution is aiming to achieve. Though ITAK …

Editorial of Daliy News on 8th August 2014 —

Sri Lanka ranks first in South Asia in the Rule of Law Index according to the World Justice Project (WJP) report. The compilation was released recently under patronage of the …

By Nalin de Silva
(By Courtesy of Daily News)

If the West is genuinely interested in the human rights of people they should have looked into the violations of human rights of JVP youth by the UNP governments of

By H. L. D. Mahindapala

(Courtesy of Daily News)

After the UNHRC passed resolution A/HRC/25/1 in March 2014, insisting on a UN investigation confined ONLY to the last five months of the 33-year-old war – a bizarre time-frame to evaluate …

Cartoons about world leaders and politicians are many. Articles against world leaders and politicians are many. Have world leaders and politicians ever reacted like India and Tamil Nadu politicians are currently doing? Most certainly not. It should be an embarrassment …

Sri Lankan president J.R. Jayewardene asked Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi in 1986 to hand over Tamil Tigers terrorist leader Velupillai Prabhakaran to him so that he could hang him in Jaffna.

Jayewardene made the request to Gandhi during the …