Sri Lanka's Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake lashed out western states for questioning Sri Lanka's human rights records despite their own human rights violations.
In a commentary published in the Washington Post newspaper, Bruce Fein urged the U.S. Justice Department to lead a genocide investigation of Sri Lanka's Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapakse, Lt.Gen. Fonseka, and Basil Rajapakse.
Accusing international non-government organisations of disseminating ‘wrong’ information to media on the civil war with LTTE and rights issues, the government has moved to tighten the visa regime for foreign workers in entering the country.
President Mahinda Rajapakse and his borhter, the Defence Secretary, Gothabaya Rajapakse predicted imminent victory even as the Army chief predicted great challenges ahead in its campaign against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.
Pakistan has pledged to one shipload of the wherewithal every 10 days in coming months to help the Sri Lankan its final push to wipe out the LTTE, according to Sri Lankan media.
Bishop of Jaffna, Dr. Thomas Savundaranayagam, urged the Sri Lankan government to ensure the safety of the civilians and also appealed to all Catholics in the Jaffna peninsula to contribute to a relief fund to assist the internally displaced in Vanni.
As fighting intensifies, IDP movement is crippled by various hardships imposed by the GoSL, 134,868 IDPs belonging to 35,353 families are heavily affected by the economic blockade in Kiinochchi district.
Thousands of families displaced by warfare in Sri Lanka's northern region are in danger because of dwindling emergency aid stocks, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Friday
The long awaited showing of a film following a pair of female Black Tigers at the sold out Frontline Club finds the audience in expectant mood given the controversy the film has drawn.
