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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..

Faulting the government of India for providing military training to Tamil youth in the early 1980s, Arun Thambimuttu, SLFP Chief Organiser for Eastern Batticaloa District on Tuesday (Feb 25) said that many people believed the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF)..

The Government of Sri Lanka (GOSL) has rejected the call by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navananethem Pillay’s call “to establish an international inquiry mechanism to further investigate the alleged violations of IHRL and IHL and monitor any domestic accountability..

A group of peace loving Sri Lankans has launched an on-line petition to persuade the UK government to extradite one of the main terrorist criminals Adele Balasingham widow of the LTTE warlord Anton Balasingham. The Tamil LTTE terrorist leader is..

MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday ordered massive exercises involving most military units in western Russia amid tensions in Ukraine. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said in a televised statement made at a meeting of top military brass in..