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  • Colombo risks squandering Sri Lanka's hard-won peace

    Sep 29
    If Sri Lanka is to become a tropical paradise again, it must build enduring peace. This will only occur through genuine interethnic equality, and a transition from being a unitary state to being a federation that grants provincial and local autonomy.
  • New UN envoy amidst concern over detentions
    A senior political official of the United Nations arrived in Sri Lanka to amidst international concern over human rights violations committed by Sri Lanka during its war against the Tamil Tigers and the continued detention of tens of thousands of Tamils in barbed wired camps.
  • India uses arrests and visa refusal to suppress support for Eelam

    Seventeen lawyers and approximately 50 students were arrested for protesting against Congress party’s support for the Sri Lankan state and its failure to protect Tamil civilians in the neighbouring island.

    The arrests came as All India Congress Committee (AICC) general secretary Rahul Gandhi, toured major cities in Tamil Nadu to rejuvenate the party at the grass-roots level in the state.

  • US bemoans Sri Lanka inaction on camps, reconciliation
    The United States State Department is preparing a report on war crimes committed by Sri Lanka to be presented to the US Congress next week, local media in Colombo reported quoting US Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Stephen Rapp.
    Stephen Rapp, US's ambassdor at large for War Crimes Issues (WCI) told Time magazine that his office is responsible "to collect information on ongoing atrocities... [and] give a signal [when] something serious is occuring."
  • Aiding Repression
    Sanctions compel people to change their government's conduct.
  • Australia parliament hears of starvation, rape, killings, torture in Sri Lanka camps
    Noting that "hundreds of thousands of innocent Tamils displaced by the military offensive are living in camps in appalling conditions. Moreover, foreign media channels have reported horrifying evidence of the worst violations of human rights, including starvation, rape, killings and torture.
  • Sri Lanka hits out at reports of GSP+ withdrawal
    Sri Lankan officials have responded angrily to reports that the European Union may withdraw the GSP+ concessions that Sri Lanka is currently entitled to.

    “Western countries should remember that economic power has shifted from the west to the east,” said Palita Kohona, Sri Lanka’s new ambassador to the UN.

    “New markets open up in the east. Our friends China, India, Japan, Korea, Iran … a whole range of countries [can help]," he was quoted as saying.
  • Top Sri Lankan officials refused visa by UK
    To ire of Sri Lankan government, the British High Commission in Colombo has refused to issue visas to two top officials, according to media sources.
  • UN officials expelled by Sri Lanka
    Chief of Communications for UNICEF in Sri Lanka, James Elder's visa to continue to remain in Sri Lanka was refused earlier this month by Sri Lanka's Department of Immigration without giving any reasons.

    News of Elder’s eviction was followed by news of another senior UN diplomat expelled from Sri Lanka in July for providing details to the international community of mass killings of civilians during the final battles against the Tamil Tigers, also emerged.
  • Witness to Thileepan’s fast
    As we entered the premises of the Nallur Kandasamy temple we were confronted by a sea of people seated on the white sands under the blazing sun.
  • Le Monde calls for Sri Lanka to ‘stop’

    "After winning the war, the Sri Lankan regime is in the process of losing the peace. Following the historic, but bloody and distasteful victory, against the armed struggle of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), the Sri Lanka's President Mahinda Rajapaksa could be magnanimous and reach out to the Tamil minority and open the way for national reconciliation.

  • TNA outlines political formula
    Based on Self-Determination, distinct and comprehensive autonomy to the historical homeland of Eelam Tamils is the political solution envisaged by the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) to the ethnic conflict in the island of Sri Lanka.
  • Sri Lanka pressures murdered aid workers’ families
    The Sri Lankan government is putting pressure on the families of murdered aid workers to seek compensation from the charity that had employed the 17 individuals at the time of their murder.
  • ‘End of conflict brings children no respite from human rights abuses’
    Despite the end of hostilities, children in Sri Lanka continue to be at risk of forced recruitment, arbitrary detention and other human rights abuses, the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers (Coalition) said on Tuesday, 28 July.
  • Sri Lanka deaths probe demanded
    The New York-based group Human Rights Watch on Tuesday pressed for an international probe into the killings in Sri Lanka of 17 local employees of a French charity three years ago.
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