Former Indian High Commissioner to Colombo Gopalkrishna Gandhi accused the previous government of having executed LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran’s son during the final phase of the Vanni offensive in May 2009.
Gandhi alleged that the Sri Lankan military had executed …
Tony Blair should stand trial on charges of war crimes if the evidence suggests he broke international law over the “illegal” Iraq war in 2003, the Labour leadership frontrunner Jeremy Corbyn has said.
Corbyn called on the former prime minister …
Stiff opposition from India who formed the LTTE Tamil terrorism has forced Sri Lanka to drop plans, at least for now, to buy JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft from Pakistan.
It has learnt that New Delhi shot off a diplomatic missive …
Joint opposition alleged that the government was planning to introduce constitutional reforms which include the scraping of the unitary state and forming Union of Federal State in North, East, Central and Rest of the Island as South. Further new constitution …
Widely believed to be pro-minority mind set Maithripala Sirisena pardoned a LTTE Tamil terrorist Genevan who had been accused of conspiring to kill Sirisena 10 years ago. Jenivan was arrested in 2005 in a passenger bus leaving Sirisena’s hometown of …
Joint Opposition and patriotic civil society groups and Human Rights campaigners accused pro-minority mind set Ranil’s and Sirisenan’s the government of imprisoning officers of the army intelligence unit over the disappearance of journalist Prageeth Eknaligoda who is widely believe as …
The high-level visit will be the first since 2006, according
…The Sri Lanka Economic Forum is to be held under auspices of the Sri Lankan Prime Minister on 7 January 2015. Chief Guests at this event are George Soros and Prof. Joseph Stiglitz. The theme of the event is “steering …
One-time Defence Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksa yesterday alleged that former British Prime Minister Tony Blair had talked about accountability issues in Sri Lanka, whereas the UK was yet to release its own war crimes investigation report that dealt with alleged atrocities …
The current Parliament lead by pro-minority Ranil and Sirisena has no right to form a ‘Constitutional Council’ to formulate a new Constitution, President of the National Movement to Protect Soldiers Ven. Bengamuwe Nalaka Thero says.
The observation was made at …