It is now clear that the time for 'quite diplomacy' in dealing with Sri Lanka's spiralling political crisis is now past.

Refugee advocates say at least nine asylum seekers returned to Sri Lanka by the Howard government were killed and those sent back in past year have been held in police custody and some assaulted.

The Sri Lanka option: The rush to learn lessons from the obliteration of the Tamil Tigers

The Sri Lankan government's suggestion that a newly announced commission will provide accountability for laws-of-war violations during the armed conflict with the separatist LTTE is yet another attempt to deflect an independent international investigation, Human Rights Watch said

Executions of Tamil civilians and surrendered LTTE fighters and their families were carried out under orders ‘from the top’, Sri Lankan Army soldiers have claimed.

The Rajapaksa government has appointed an eight-member Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission

New evidence of human rights abuses committed by the Sri Lankan government during the last stages of the war last year have been uncovered by the New York based global rights monitor Human Rights Watch (HRW).

China is recreating its Africa story in Sri Lanka. Little China enclaves are sprouting up in the Buddhist majority island nation in the Indian Ocean as President Mahinda Rajapaksa has spread the red carpet all the way from Colombo to Jaffna.

Tamils across the globe commemorated the first anniversary of the end of the Mulliyavaikkal massacre and marked 18 May as ‘War Crimes Day’.

As Tamils world over mark one-year of the Indian abetted genocidal war against Eelam Tamils in the island of Sri Lanka, the Hindi film industry known as Bollywood and the major Indian conglomerate of trade unions, Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI) are joining hands with Rajapaksa regime in Colombo in staging 11th International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) awards weekend during the first week of June in Colombo.

The Sri Lankan government has issued furious denials against allegations of war crimes committed by their forces during the final phase of the war last year.

2009’s single, protracted program of state-conducted slaughter has a sixty year-long antecedent.

The detention, trial, imprisonment and subsequent pardon of the journalist Tissanayagam reveals that the rule of law no longer applies in Sri Lanka.