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Colombo, January 31: Sri Lanka is in discussion with India and other countries for support in the March session of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in Geneva when Western nations bring an intrusive and punitive resolution against it for..

(Courtesy of The Island) President Gotabaya Rajapaksa’s Office yesterday (15) strongly denied a claim by former US Ambassador for War Crimes and Global Criminal Justice Stephen Rapp (2009-2015) that wartime Defence Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa had admitted to killing LTTE leaders..

The Sri Lankan flag raised at Newham Town Hall To gain the cheap political advantages, the mayor of Newham,  Rokhsana Fiaz OBE and its council members has removed the Sri Lankan national flag from the Newham Town Hall in London..

The Government of Sri Lanka has decided to reject the report compiled by the United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Michelle Bachelet on alleged human rights violations in Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka’s response to the report is being submitted in writing…

Anti LTTE terrorism  Tamils in Jaffna carried out an ‘Independence day’ rally in Jaffna. The rally yesterday was carried out with posters reading “One Country, One Nation!”. Starting from the central square of the city, the rally circled around Jaffna..

The full Statement by H.E. Mohan Peiris, Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the UN at the United Nations Security Council-Arria Formula Meeting on Children and Armed Conflict-Repatriation of children from conflict zones: from camps to homes , Call for..

(Courtesy of The Island) The British government has sidestepped a query on the UK accommodating a group of LTTE cadres responsible for international crimes. Global Justice Forum (GJF) representing civil society groups based in UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand-all..

Today marks the 73rd anniversary of our nation gaining independence from colonial rule. On this day we pay our respects to all the leaders from the Sinhala, Tamil, Muslim, Burgher and other sections of the population who made various sacrifices..

The veteran patriot Ranjith Soysa has written to Minister of Justice, Mr. Ali Sabry about minister’s new proposed amendments to Antiquities Ordinance and discriminating of Sinhala language in the education of law at the Sri Lanka Law College. The full..

(Source: https://www.wsws.org) Officers from the Rochester, New York police department were involved in a brutal assault which was recorded on their body cameras on Friday of last week. The victim of the attack was a nine-year-old African American girl who..