Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has let the cat out of the bag when he revealed the intention of his government to prosecute those who had liberated the country from terrorism in the name of a […]
The US assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, Nisha Biswal, who is currently visiting Sri Lanka, met with the wife of the missing political cartoonist, Prageeth Eknaligoda on Wednesday. Earlier this week, […]
‘Right’ pacifies West Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe in an interview with ‘The Hindu’ said that a domestic mechanism would probe alleged war crimes, allegedly committed by the then government and the security forces during the […]
A vote for the blue betel leaf has since undergone a colour variation: blight seems to affect a part of the leaf, at least. After 20 years of rule and misrule of one alliance there […]
The general election to elect members to the country’s eighth parliament concluded last week after a campaign period that lasted a little over 45 days. Setting the stage for an entirely different political framework, this […]
The rebel-turned-politicians once carried heavy weapons, killed civilians as well as soldiers and bombed buses and trains packed with children. They wore cyanide capsules around their necks and lived by a code that required them […]
Abductions in 2006 Sporadic reports of abductions and forced recruitment of boys and young men by the Karuna group began soon after the split from the LTTE in March 2004, but the reports were few […]
Lists girl raped and killed by Government Minister Karuna Gang rape, executions and a cover up Tamil Guardian 07 February 2007 One year after seven staff members of the Tamil Rehabilitation Organization (TRO) disappeared […]
By V. Kanthaiya – “The fate of Premini was terrible. The dusky woman with attractive features was taken to another camp and raped first by Sinthujan himself. Thereafter it was a horrible gang rape with […]
The Colombo Chief Magistrate Gihan Pilapitiya issued summons on former Minister Mervin Silva to appear in court on November 11th to give evidence in connection with abduction and disappearance of persons involving white vans. The […]
Sri Lanka briefs U.S. on domestic human rights mechanism On measures taken by the government to address the human rights concerns following the over three-decade-long civil war with the LTTE Sri Lanka’s new Foreign Minister […]
Former Janatha Vimukti Peramuna (JVP) Provincial Councillor K.D. Lal Kantha in an interview with the Daily Mirror said the party could not achieve the expected results at the General elections as it was as crucial […]
