The United States on Thursday October 22 urged Sri Lanka to probe and possibly prosecute those behind war crimes alleged to have occurred this earlier year.

I AM suffering flashbacks of my time at Woomera Detention Centre. Not as a detainee, but as a psychologist and part of the medical team employed to cover contractual requirements to ''manage'' the psychological needs of asylum seekers

Many of the 76 migrants seized from a ship off the Canadian coast have valid travel documents and legitimate reasons to apply for refugee status in Canada, according to a lawyer who has spoken to them.

"The video and audio of the events depicted in the Video, were continuous without any evidence of start/stops, insertions, deletions, over recordings, editing or tampering of any kind," said the preliminary findings from a US-based forensic company that took nearly three weeks to analyze the Channel-4 broadcast video allegedly showing SLA soldiers extra-judicially executing Tamil captives stripped naked and hands tied behind their back.

"Sri Lanka refugees, we have lived in forest for one month. Please, sir, please take us to a country. It's OK if it is not Australia. It's better if any other country trades us. We can't live in Sri Lanka."

Thousands of non-combatants, according to the United Nations, were killed in the final phase of the Sri Lankan war this year as government forces overran the Tamil Tiger guerrillas.

Tamil Diaspora in Germany gathered in Berlin on October 22 to stage a protest march in an effort to draw the attention of the international community to the pathetic plight of Tamils interned in SLA camps

The Sri Lanka Peace and Justice Campaign oppose the European Union's possible extension of the GSP + trade programme.

Vietnamese and Sri Lankan presidents agreed on Thursday October 22 that the two countries would promote cooperation in the sectors of agriculture, fishery, oil and gas, and tourism, Vietnam News Agency reported.

Sri Lanka Peace and Justice Campaign oppose extension of GSP Plus to Sri Lanka

The logic of ‘dialogue amongst moderates’ amid genocide

WHEN Muthu Kumaran returned to Sri Lanka in February 2007, he had hoped, even expected, that his Tamil people were about to win independence.

Children held in "welfare camps".

Donors are increasingly concerned over the conditions in Sri Lanka’s camps for IDPs and are less likely to provide funding if they continue to restrict IDPs’ freedom of movement, say UN officials.