Tamil political prisoners have announced their intention to fast unto death again unless they are granted amnesty.

Calling on the Sri Lankan president to secure their release before November 7th as promised in a letter, the prisoners said that unless a general amnesty was granted they would resume their hunger strike and refuse to call it off for any other reasons.

The prisoners are quoted in Ceylon Today as saying to their relatives,

Tamil judges are often too intimidated to pass the right judgements, the Chief Minister of the Northern Province has said.

Meeting with the Japanese ambassador, Kenichi Suganuma on Wednesday, Mr Wigneswaran said that a domestic accountability mechanism would be of no good to victims of atrocities, and that unbiased international judges would be crucial to the process.

A district court in Jaffna has announced that from January 2016 all cases will be conducted in Tamil.

District judge Srinthi Nanthasekaran told visiting Justice Minister Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe that despite the apparent recruitment of 600 Tamil police officers, police in the North did not conduct any cases in Tamil.

Testimonies were not recorded in Tamil, she said.

Sri Lankan Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Harsha De Silva met with officials from the United States State Department and World Bank to promote economic and business ties, reports the official government news portal of Sri Lanka.

The meetings were arranged “in the light of path breaking transformation taking place in Sri Lanka in terms of political reforms and addressing accountability issues”, reported the news portal.

Charges have been filed against six people for the 2006 murder of Jaffna MP Nadaraja Raviraj.

Colombo Telegraph reports that of the six against whom the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has filed charges, three are navy personnel and three are former LTTE cadres of the Karuna faction.

China is Sri Lanka's biggest investor, particularly in real estate, the Sunday Times reports.

Data from the Central Bank confirmed that China was the biggest contributor to Sri Lanka's foreign direct investment (FDI) with a high number of infrastructure and real estate projects on the island being developed by China.

A number of Tamil political prisoners will be released as soon as possible, the Minister of Justice Wijeyadasa Rajapakshe has announced.

Paying an official visit to Jaffna on Tuesday, Mr Rajapakshe said that while the department had been taking steps to release all Tamil political prisoners, certain numbers of them would be released according to the offences committed and on the advice of the Attorney General.