Foreign presence in probe not ruled out
Even as a controversy continues over Sri Lanka President Maithripala Sirisena’s reported observations against permitting foreign judges and prosecutors in…
Housing project for plantation Tamils
The Indian government’s housing project for hill country Tamils of Sri Lanka, envisaging the construction of 4,000 houses, will be…
Missing Persons Panel Seeks An Year’s Extension
The Sri Lankan Missing Persons’ Commission headed by retired Justice Maxwell Paranagama, has requested the government to extend its term…
We Can’t Survive in Isolation
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has told Lankan security forces personnel that Lanka was answerable to the international community regarding…
Need safeguards against majoritarianism
Jayampathy Wickramaratne, 67, is one of the most keenly watched persons in Sri Lanka at the moment. He chairs the…
US envoy to Geneva insists Lanka needs foreign judges
The US Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Keith Harper, says Sri Lanka must have foreign judges…
The agony of Sri Lanka’s carapace of peace
Our return to Sri Lanka’s killing fields has managed to coincide with two major developments – the first is the…
Sri Lanka reiterates rejection of foreign judges in war crimes probe
The president of Sri Lanka has said foreign judges and prosecutors should not be involved in an investigation into allegations…
President Sirisena will lose the trust of the Tamil community
The Global Tamil Forum (GTF) releasing a statement on 25 January 2016 said it was “deeply concerned and disappointed” by…