The commander of the Sri Lankan Army’s 53 Division said secrets from the war “will go with him to his grave,” as he battled off claims that he revealed military secrets in his newly published book.

Major General Kamal Gunaratne was speaking to reporters outside the Seethawakapura Urban Council when he made his comments, according to Colombo Gazette. 

A 30 year old Tamil man was found dead whilst under police custody in a Sri Lankan prison in Kandy. 

The man, Kaviraj Ravichandran, who was arrested on Saturday, was reportedly found hanging in his cell. 

The subinspector and police constable on duty that night have been suspended pending investigation, the Daily Mirror reported.

Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister has proposed the hiring of a US-based management consultancy firm to set up a “Central Programme Management Unit,” on a US$2.3 million contract, reports the Sunday Times.

Sri Lanka’s Minister for Defence Ruwan Wijewardene told an international peacekeeping summit in London that his government would not bow down to international pressure and would protect Sri Lankan troops.

Mr Wijewardene met with members of the British Sri Lanka Forum on the sidelines of the United Nations Peacekeeping Defence Ministerial Meeting in London last week.

Sri Lanka’s Prime Minister told Tamils in Jaffna that his government would enact a political solution to the island’s ethnic conflict which would solve porlbems faced by the Tamil people.

Sri Lanka’s Ambassador to Geneva said his government looks to obtain “expertise and technical assistance” from  the United Nations after a report by the Working Group of Enforced Disappearances called for international judges to be involved in an accountability mechanism.

Members of the Global Tamil Forum met with US Assistant Secretary of State Nisha Biswal in Washington this week to discuss justice and accountability on the island.

The Sri Lankan government announced on Tuesday that it had decided not to proceed with plans to build an Indian funded coal power plant in Sampur. 

The construction of the power plant was opposed by locals and environmental activists. 

The ministry of power and renewable energy had decided "not to go ahead with constructing the [Indian coal power] plant", deputy the solicitor general, Sanjaya Rajaratnam was quoted by Ceylon News as saying. 

A fire has destroyed shops and stalls at Kilinochchi market on Friday evening, after local fire services struggled to bring the blaze under control.  

It is not known how the fire, which broke out at midnight started. 

Market vendors, many who had only started to rebuild their lives after the end of the armed conflict, have been left with nothing but ashes. 

Sinhalese journalists from the South were taken on a tour of Jaffna by the Sri Lankan military last week, who briefed them on the "reconciliation process" that was allegedly underway in the region.

The Sri Lankan government called on North Korea to “abide by its international obligations” in a statement released in response to a nuclear test launched last week.

Colombo condemned the testing and said it “notes with concern” that this is the second such test to be carried by the DPRK this year.

The release of land occupied by the Sri Lankan army in Kilinochchi has revealed the widespread destruction of an LTTE cemetery that once stood on that ground, reports TamilNet.

Video footage obtained by TamilNet shows the graves of hundreds of fallen fighters have been obliterated, reportedly by bulldozers. Only fragments of tombstones can now be seen littering the landscape.