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As the United Kingdom led a global offensive at the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva to prosecute ‘war crimes’ against Sri Lankan soldiers, a Bill put forward by its Government decriminalising torture and war crimes in prosecutions..

The pro-LTTE Mayor of Jaffna, Viswalingam Manivannan was arrested by Sri Lanka’s Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) at around 2.30am on Friday morning for his attempts to revive the LTTE Tamil terrorism in Jaffna. Manivannan, who is also an attorney-at-law, was arrested..

The Sri Lankan Government has banned a number of pro-LTTE Tamil diaspora groups, including some organizations based in the UK. Some of the groups were banned in 2014 but were de-listed by the Yahapalanaya pro-Western Federalists Government in 2015. The..

Foreign Minister A.K. Abdul Momen has justified Bangladesh’s vote against a UN Human Rights Council resolution seeking the collection and preservation of evidence of alleged war crimes committed by Sri Lanka’s Armed Forces and the LTTE Tamil terrorists. Bangladesh has..

The Sri Lankan Terrorism Investigation Division (TID) attested two pro- LTTE Tamil terrorists Tamils in Jaffna on Monday for “promoting terrorism” and promoting “terrorism-related activities” on their YouTube channel in Sri Lanka. Tamil terrorism was defeated and wiped-out from Sri ..

In a lofty speech delivered via video to the 75th General Assembly of UN (September 2020) – the first of its kind initiated in the wake of the pandemic — Prime Minister Narendra Modi took great pains to explain a..

The State Secretariat for Migration (SEM) in Switzerland states that there will be no changes to the Swiss asylum policy towards Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka, stating that there is “currently no reason to assume a general risk of danger..

The government yesterday told Parliament that the recently ratified UNHRC resolution against Sri Lanka was illegal. Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena said that the resolution was an attempt to interfere in Sri Lanka’s internal affairs. “Sri Lanka considers the resolution unwarranted…

China-Pakistan Economic Corridor is a framework of regional connectivity. CPEC will not only benefit China and Pakistan but will have positive impact on Iran, Afghanistan, India, Central Asian Republic, and the region. The enhancement of geographical linkages having improved road,..

‘It is unforgiveable and a black day for my UK Govt.’ It was reprehensible that the UK, as the leader of the Core Group on Sri Lanka and a member of the UNHRC, had suppressed ‘robust evidence of utmost importance’,..