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Thu, 2014-06- By Raj Gonsalkorale Outgoing UNHRC chief Navi Pillay gives the distinct impression that terrorism and conflict in Sri Lanka affected only the Tamils of Sri Lanka. This impression arises from the fact that she has led the chorus..

Hundreds of men and women demonstrated outside the Indian High Commission in Colombo Sri Lanka on Tuesday slamming the new Indian Premier Narendra Modi for urging Colombo to speed up implementation of unpopular  13 Amendment  and the post-war reconciliation with..

Sri Lanka has reiterated its categorical rejection of the Human Right Council Resolution 25/1, and said it will not cooperate with the OHCHR-driven so called “comprehensive investigation” emanating from it.  Sri Lanka has observed that the Government is firmly committed..

Close to 27,000 men sacrificed their lives while scores of soldiers have become injured to deliver peace to Sri Lanka. We call them our ranaviruwos. Handful of others wined, dined and shook hands with the enemy gleefully signing a bogus..

Archaeologists in the Northern Province have affirmed that the ruins recovered from Shivanagar, Uriththirapuram in Kilinochchi, containing slates, stacks of ancient bricks, Sri Paada symbols, etc, belong to the historic Polonnaruwa era. 20 Sri Lanka Light Infantry (SLLI) troops of..

When the country given independence in July 2011 by the West declares a UN Human Rights Officer, a persona non grata and expels her from the newly independent country in 2012, it is unusual news. Her crime, South Sudan declared..

The government should do away with the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, without succumbing to the pressures exerted by India, the Asgiriya Chapter said yesterday. Committee Member of the Asgiriya Chapter, Medagama Dhammananda Thera, calling the 13th Amendment the root..

(Courtesy of  Guardian) Police to investigate after increase in intimidation of Phil Shiner, his family and law firm since Iraq cases went to The Hague. Phil Shiner said the abuse directed at his firm for ‘upholding the law in a..

No information has been received to date as to the Muslims kidnapped by the LTTE Tamil terrorists at Kurukkalmadam , Batticaloa, say the relatives of the missing Muslim individuals. Majority of these relatives who volunteered to testify before the commission ..

What happens when persons protesting against the ‘missing’ are confronted by persons protesting against those missing because of the ‘missing’? What happens when the persons protesting against the ‘missing’ number just 20 in addition to members of the ruling Northern Provincial..