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Dilrook Kannangara “If an independent local and international investigation is launched into the matter, Sri Lankan military leaders must break ranks with politicians and implicate India in horrendous war crimes it has committed in Sri Lanka on three counts (by..

By Saman Indrajith The Commission of Inquiry that probed Abductions and Disappearances (better known as the Maxwell Paranagama Commission) has found that it was the LTTE which killed majority of Tamil civilians during the last 12 hours of the final..

Rishi Iyengar Sri Lanka Finance Minister,  Ravi Karunanayake, a Tamil who changed his name to Sinhala for cheap political gains  appealed to China this week to partially relax the immense foreign debt owed by the South Asian island nation that has..

“Information Clearing House” – The Aleppo power plant is a 1,000 megawatt thermal plant in five units build by Mitsubishi Heavy Industry in 1995-1998. It is situated some 25 kilometers east of Aleppo city center. During the fighting around Aleppo..

By Dasun Edirisinghe The joint opposition yesterday challenged President Maithripala Sirisena and Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe to make public all documents related to the UNHRC report on Sri Lanka’s alleged war crimes. Addressing a well-attended rally at Viharamahadevi Park in..

If Sri Lanka is to be compared to any nation it must have similar historical civilizational traits. No amount of distortion, attempts to re-write history by religions out to convert Vedic religions can take away the Buddhist heritage of Sri..

A member of the LTTE Tamil Tigers terrorist who was allegedly sent to Toronto to run the Sri Lankan Tamil terrorist group’s Canadian front organization has been ordered deported for terrorism, according to documents filed in the Federal Court. The..

Courtesy of The Island Report of UNSG Ban ki-moon’s Panel of Experts (PoE) on Accountability in Sri Lanka accused the then Sri Lankan government of five major human rights violations, committed during eelam war IV (Aug. 2006 to May 2009)…

Mohan Samaranayake on UNHRC resolution The Geneva process against Sri Lanka was aimed at making use of ‘human rights’ to change Sri Lanka’s social, political and economic environment, said senior Journalist Mohan Samaranayake last week. Delivering the key note speech..

Close on the heels of a statement issued by 41 university academics supporting the recent UNHRC resolution on Sri Lanka, more than 70 scholars have now come out vehemently opposing it. The dons describing themselves as ‘Responsible and concerned group..