If structural changes are what the West aims in the island of Sri Lanka through IMF and GSP+ loans, those cannot be achieved without first emotionally rehabilitating the Eelam Tamils.

Sri Lanka's President and Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces, Mahinda Rajapaksa, on the occasion of Esala Perahera, the Sri Lankan Buddhist festival that commemorates the scared tooth of Buddha, has granted an special amnesty for 1,933 SLA deserters including SLA officers released from several prisons, Sri Lankan police authorities said on Tuesday, July 28 .

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse has appointed more military top brass to a number of top and strategic positions in the government and promoted more officers including three Brigadiers to the rank of Major Generals and 46 Colonels as Brigadiers.

The New York-based group Human Rights Watch on Tuesday pressed for an international probe into the killings in Sri Lanka of 17 local employees of a French charity three years ago.

Sri Lanka has claimed it played a key role in preventing the suspension of Fiji from the Commonwealth forum at the Extraordinary Meeting of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (CMAG), held in London, to discuss the recent political developments in Fiji.

Whilst Sri Lanka’s government hailed its securing of an IMF loan for $2.6bn last week as a ‘victory’ and as indication of international support for its political and economic policies, the reality is the reverse. Sri Lanka has been compelled to accept not only painful economic and quasi-political obligations, but also the kind of external supervision the ultra-Sinhala nationalist regime routinely rails against.

Despite the end of hostilities, children in Sri Lanka continue to be at risk of forced recruitment, arbitrary detention and other human rights abuses, the Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers (Coalition) said on Tuesday, 28 July.

Despite Sri Lanka touting the approval of the IMF loan as a resounding vote of confidence in Sri Lanka and some Sri Lanka and India based analysts projecting it as a boost for investor confidence, there has been no significant investment flow into the country according to market watchers.

With Sri Lanka's war over, there is no excuse for anti-Tamil policies

This is an eyewitness report from someone who had personal exposure to the suffering of Tamils in the Manik Farm concentration camp.

The Sri Lankan government is putting pressure on the families of murdered aid workers to seek compensation from the charity that had employed the 17 individuals at the time of their murder.

Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture

The head of an all party panel set up by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse to seek an ever elusive southern consensus on the Tamil national question and buy time to conduct war has said the panel has come up with a home grown solution with no absolute devolution.

The Centre for Monitoring Election Violence (CMEV) said Wednesday, July 29 that it received complaints that three candidates of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) contesting the election to the Vavuniyaa urban Council have been issued with death threats.