Unable to establish correspondence with the Commonwealth Secretary General, Kamalesh Sharma, Channel 4 news anchor, Jon Snow, questioned the director of the Secretary General’s office, Simon Gimson, on the purpose of holding Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Sri Lanka. 

The Burmese opposition leader and human rights activist Aung San Suu Kyi has said that David Cameron should engage with all parties in Sri Lanka, after increasing pressure on the prime minister not to attend the forthcoming Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting on the island.

A Buddhist organisation in Sri Lanka is reinvigorating their campaign against halal meet by holding protest prayers, reported ColomboPage.

The Bodu Bala Sena is holding the prayer meeting outside a temple in Kandy which houses a tooth relic, purportedly belonging to the Buddha.

The Australian Human Rights Commission found today that asylum seekers were at the risk of being returned to harmful situations in Sri Lanka, under the current government’s ‘enhanced screening process’.

The Commission president, Professor Gillian Triggs, further noted, in their latest report, that Australia’s treatment of asylum seekers and refugees did not meet international standards of law.

An Australian gambling tycoon’s plans to build a $400 million resort in Sri Lanka have been delayed after protests by Buddhist leaders and some political parties, reports Reuters.