The Tamil National Alliance spokesperson Suresh Premachandra said over 700 people are being held at a secret army camp, established by Gotabaya Rajapaksa in the North-Eastern town of Trincomalee, Colombo Mirror reported.

“Over 20,000 have been forced to disappear during and after the war amid reports that many of them are held in various secret camps elsewhere in the country. We have reliable information that over 700 people have been detained without any outside links at the secret Gota’s camp in Trincomalee,” the MP told parliament on Thursday.

“We urge Minister of Law and Order, John Amaratunga to investigate into this reports and reveal the identity of those who are held at this secret camp,” he said.

The US Tamil Political Action Council has urged the international community to judge Sri Lanka’s new government by its actions and not by its words.

In a statement released on Friday, USTPAC said the dismay caused by the deferral of the report has been tempered by Human Rights High Commissioner Zeid’s commitment to a stronger outcome.

"USTPAC appreciates High Commissioner Zeid's "absolute and unshakable commitment" to the OISL report's publication in September," said Dr. Karunyan Arulanantham, President of USTPAC. "We also take note of the Government of Sri Lanka's stated commitments, made in conjunction with the announcement of the delayed release, and urge the international community to vigilantly ensure that these commitments are fully honored and translated into measurable metrics."

The Sri Lankan government is engaged in talks with Pakistan to explore cooperation on nuclear energy, according to Power Minister Champika Ranawaka.

Sri Lanka is said to have readied a memorandum of understanding to be signed with Pakistan to improve “technical capacities and human capacities.”

“We have already signed an agreement with Russian state-owned ROSATOM,” he told reporters on Thursday, adding that the government is also exploring possible collaboration with France and the United States.

The Sinhala group, Sinhala Ravaya, filed a complaint with the Terrorism Investigation Department against the prime minister, Ranil Wickremasinghe, on Friday, over his decision to release a stock of Indian magazines stopped by customs featuring the LTTE leader, Vellupillai Prabhakaran.

"His order to release the magazine was a threat to national security. We want police to investigate," the Buddhist monk and general secretary of the Sinhala Ravaya, Madille Pannaloka was quoted by PTI as saying.

The ‘No Fire Zone: The Killing Fields of Sri Lanka’ documentary has completed its tour of the United States with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis. The documentary, which was updated with new evidence and commentary on the recent Presidential elections in Sri Lanka, toured the US to raise awareness about the need to keep international pressure on Sri Lanka to secure justice and address the grievances of Tamils on the island.

The director of the film, Callum Macrae, whilst on tour addressed, senior policy makers from the State Department and a round table discussion organised by the Congressional Caucus on Ethnic and Religious Freedom in Sri Lanka, to stress the importance of not taking the international pressure off Sri Lanka to ensure that there was a long standing political solutions addressing injustices against Tamils.

The distribution and further screenings of the documentary can be supported using the 2015 No Fire Zone Impact Distribution Project page on Kickstarter.com.