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Courtesy of Bloomberg News. Sri Lanka’s deepening economic ties with China offer it a cushion from any measures aimed at pressuring the South Asian country into cooperating with investigations into alleged crimes during its civil war. The U.S. introduced a..

Due to the continuous harassment and interfering with the internal affairs by Indians not only to the small neighboring  countries like Sri Lanka but to the whole Indian Sub-continent for decades, the sentiment of the general public are rising against..

Sri Lanka on Wednesday dismissed a UN report calling for an international probe into allegations of war crimes at the end of its civil war as “fundamentally flawed.” Foreign Minister G L Peiris said his government rejected a report from..

Israel tightens grip on West Bank Ahmed Awais is desperate to get out of his parents’ cramped home where he, his wife and three preschool children share one room, sleeping on mattresses on the floor. Six months ago, the Palestinian..

Indian origin Tamils who make up of nearly  2% of Myanmar’s 55-million population have veered from one extreme to the other in the past 200 years. After independence in 1948, the introduction of land reforms, the imposition of the Burmese..

Sri Lanka questioned the independence of the human rights office of the United Nations on Wednesday, a day after the United States with its Western allies asked the U.N. to investigate human rights violations by the Sri Lankan government. The..

South Africa strongly supported Sri Lanka’s post-war national reconciliation process at the on-going session of the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Addressing the 47-member states of the council as well as other delegates, South African International Relations and..

Patriotic Sri Lankan  protestors marched to the UN Headquarters in Colombo to hand over a petition to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, against the US sponsored resolution on Sri Lanka at the Human Rights Council this month in Geneva. The..

Head of Swarna Hansa Foundation, Mr Galllege Punyawardana has written to Ambassador of United State of America protesting their concern over the Embassy interfering with internal affairs of Sri Lanka. In particular, Foundation has voiced their serious concerns over the..

Ms. Navi Pillay High Commissioner for Human Rights UNHRC Geneva Dear Madam, Comments on the report of the UN High Commissioner,  Ms. Navi Pillay. titled Promoting reconciliation and accountability in Sri Lanka I read with interest your report titled Promoting reconciliation and..