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By Janaka Perera Has anyone heard of a country after militarily crushing a vicious terrorist outfit trying to seek ‘peace and understanding’ with the unrepentant supporters of the very same group? Well, there is one country, the ‘Democratic Socialist Republic..

  M Prabakaran, the 36-year-old man who created a kerfuffle at a seminar here on Wednesday by hurling a slipper at former West Bengal governor and NSA M K Narayanan, in protest against what he claimed was the former bureaucrat’s..

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation Author: Emma Batha More   Joanne Liu, president of Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) International, pauses before making her statement in Geneva, Switzerland, October 7, 2015. MSF said it demands an international fact finding commission into the..

National Freedom Front (NFF) leader Wimal Weerawansa, MP yesterday alleged that the Maithripala Sirisena-Wickremesinghe government had failed to defend the Sri Lankan military against war crimes accusations made by the UN on the basis of UNSG Ban Ki-moon’s Panel of..

Sri Lanka’s Law and Order minister Tilak Marapana to whom the Island’s Police are reporting blasted that the raid on Avant Garde, private maritime security company similar it to the “Millennium city” raid carried out by Ranil lead UNP government..

 LTTE Terrorist Fr Emmanuel invited by Mangala to visit Sri Lanka to advise Government  GTF Hiding Behind HR Issues To Promote Terrorism By Camelia Nathaniel   After the defeat of the LTTE in Sri Lanka, the constituent organizations that funded..

Clarification by Paranagama Commission   The Paranagama Commission felt it appropriate to add what has set out here to the already existing question No: 06 under the subject – Did the Paranagama Commission recommend a domestic or foreign process for accountability? ..

Several local newspapers announced in July 2015 that the Government of China planned to allocate as aid a sum of Rs.300m to renovate the Basilica at Thewatta, Ragama following a request by the former Minister of Law & Order and..

“In implementing the Geneva resolution recommendations the government has no alternative but to work within the parameters already set by the UNHRC at the behest of the US etc. It may have discussions with other stakeholders and invite their suggestions,..

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..