The Sri Lankan High Commissioner to India, Prasad Kariyawasam, warned that India will be isolated if PM Manmohan Singh boycotts the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

“If PM Singh doesn’t go, we have to think about who it will affect. Who will be isolated? Every other country barring Canada is attending. So those who don’t attend will be in isolation.

"We welcome the resolution. But we should take care to ensure that our stand in no way affect the Sri Lankan Tamils”.

 A trade union in Sri Lanka’s education sector deplored the withdrawal of allowances granted to teaching assistants in the North-East, today.

According to the Ceylon Teachers Union, teachings assistants were granted Rs. 4000 in the months of July August and September.

Sri Lankan President, Mahinda Rajapaksa said today that expenses incurred by the government to host the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo next month will be  an investment for the future of the country and its people.

In a recent report from the North-East of Sri Lanka, BBC correspondent heard the stories of  Tamil victims of torture, rape and arbitrary detention by the Sri Lankan military.

Click here for the full interview.

The Tamil Nadu Assembly, convened today to unanimously pass a resolution that called on India to ‘completely’ boycott the upcoming Common Wealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Colombo.

The Sri Lankan Army Commander Daya Ratnayake attended the 60th annual meeting of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) in Washington earlier this week.

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.