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(Courtesy of www.miamiherald.com) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS APRIL 12, 2019 04:46 AM, UPDATED APRIL 12, 2019 04:47 AM BERLIN German authorities have indicted a Sri Lankan man suspected of involvement in killing 15 captured government soldiers while fighting for the Tamil..

(Courtesy of The Island) Former External Affairs Minister Prof. G.L. Peiris, yesterday, said that the unprecedented US reaction to International Criminal Court (ICC) over possible inquiry into war crimes allegedly committed by US and its allies in Afghanistan again reminded..

(Courtesy of www.nytimes.com) PARIS — The United States has revoked the visa of the International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor because of her attempts to investigate allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan, including any that may have been committed by American..

While applauding Marapana for his speech, had he been genuine, he should firstly, not have permitted the meeting summoned by Mangala S on 6 February in the Finance Ministry, certainly not with representatives from the sponsor countries in attendance.Furthermore, he..

The main Opposition UPFA, yesterday, sought an explanation from the pro-minority UNP government as to how Finance Minister notoriously anti-Sinhala Buddhist Mangala Samaraweera challenged and ridiculed Foreign Minister Tilak Marapana’s stand at the recently concluded 40th session of the Geneva..

Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa, war wining former president, yesterday, raised the failure on the part of the UN to take into consideration the disclosure made by Lord Naseby in Oct 2017 in the House of Commons. Citing wartime British dispatches..

Pivithuru Hela Urumaya (PHU) leader Udaya Gammanpila, MP, yesterday said that former Northern Province Chief Minister C.V. Wigneswarazn’s rejection of scientific findings of Beta Analytic Institute of Florida, USA, in respect of samples of skeletal remains sent from the Mannar..

Keeping the value of the constitution accords of Sri Lanka that ‘foremost place’ to Buddhism, a large Buddhist Stupa is being built by the Sinhala Buddhists in North at the entrance to Jaffna city in Nawakkuliya which is located 7..

Lord Naseby said the UN for its part will have to submit proposals of how to get persons like Adele Balasingham and other senior LTTE officers settled in UK, Canada, USA or elsewhere to fully co-operate if a Truth and..

(Courtesy of The Island) Mano Tittawella, in his capacity as the Secretary General of the Secretariat for Coordinating Reconciliation Mechanisms (SCRM) instructed Sri Lanka’s Permanent Representative in Geneva A. L. A. Azeez to accept the latest resolution 40/1 on behalf..