The International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced on last week that it will hold hearings in a case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against its Rohingya minority.
British MP Uma Kumaran called on the UK's Foreign Secretary to expand on the government's sanctions on Sri Lankan war criminals.
During a Foreign Affairs Committee meeting on December 16, the MP for Stratford and Bow highlighted the lack of accountability and political will from the current Sri Lankan government to address war crimes and mass atrocities committed in Sri Lanka.
December 20 marks 25 years since the Mirusuvil massacre, where Sri Lankan soldiers murdered eight Tamil civilians in Jaffna, including three children, before dumping their bodies in a mass grave.
The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Employment, Arun Hemachandra, will lead a Sri Lankan delegation to Israel to discuss employment opportunities for Sri Lankans across the country and to strengthen ties between the countries in the sector.
Residents of Gankankulam staged a protest march demanding an immediate halt to illegal gravel excavation and protection of their village’s environment and resources
Five Tamils have been released on bail after they were arrested by Sri Lankan police earlier today during a peaceful protest against the illegally constructed Buddhist temple in Thaiyiddy, Jaffna.
The Batticaloa High Court granted bail to Ampitiye Sumanarathana, an extremist Buddhist monk who incited violence against Tamils.
The Batticaloa Magistrate’s Court had previously issued an arrest warrant after Sumanarathana failed to appear before the court for the hearing on December 15.
The Sri Lankan government is expected to nominate Colonel O.R Rajasinghe as the Auditor General, in a move which is considered to undermine the independence of the office and further militarisation of government institutions.
The court hearing on the case seeking excavation of the alleged mass grave wells in Mandaitivu has been adjourned until 31 March pending further investigations
The British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) Court of Appeal upheld a ruling that Tamil asylum seekers were unlawfully detained on the island of Diego Garcia.
In December 2024, the BIOT Supreme Court ruled that 64 Tamil asylum seekers, including sixteen children, had been unlawfully detained on Diego Garcia, part of the Chagos Islands and home to a UK-US military base.
