The US Ambassador-at-Large on War Crimes Issues, Stephen Rapp, has indicated to the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) that the resolution that US will present at the March session of the UN Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) in Geneva, will seek an independent international investigation into the war crimes committed by the Sri Lankan armed forces in the last phase of Eelam War IV. Rapp had …
By Charitha Ratwatte A new thunderbolt has hit the political scene in South Asia. The South Asian voter after decades of being lied to and cheated by a class of self-serving professional politicians, a political class which has given a new meaning to the word parasite, since South Asia emerged from colonial bondage many moons ago, has today seen new hope in the Aam Admi …
By D B S Jeyaraj. The Northern province chief minister was invited by Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa for a discussion on January 2nd.A direct meeting with the Executive President was something the former Supreme court Judge had been trying to secure for a long time during the last quarter of 2013.Now with the dawn of 2014 the much awaited appointment had become a reality. …
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared on Friday that he will step down after the next Lok Sabha election. “In a few months’ time, after the general election, I will hand the baton over to a new Prime Minister,” Manmohan Singh told the media here. “I hope it will be a UPA chosen Prime Minister, and our party will work to that end in the campaign for …
The past year witnessed bloodshed in Syria and Iraq, turmoil in Egypt, anarchy in Central Africa, threats by a nuclear-armed North Korea and Chinese military posturing, but as 2013 ends a global poll finds that the country seen as representing the greatest threat to peace today is … the United States. Not only did the U.S. top the list with an aggregate of 24 …
I am pleased that the Northern Provincial Council Elections took place in 2013, and for selecting the former Supreme Court Judge Honorable C. V. Wigneswaran as Chief Minister for Northern Province. It was the first ever Northern Provincial Council elections took place after 1988. Although the war is over the suffering is not, the people want justice and peace. The people have cast their …
A Sri Lankan court today suspended the excavation at a suspected mass grave found in a former conflict zone where the army battled Tamil Tiger rebels, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) whose remains will now be scrutinised by archaeologists. “We have found layers and layers of skeletal remains. We now feel that further excavations will not be possible without the expertise of …
The civil war in Sri Lanka ended in 2009 with the victory of President Rajapaksa’s forces over the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), but there are claims that abduction, torture and even rape of suspected former fighters or sympathisers continues today. In November 2013, Commonwealth leaders, including British Prime Minister David Cameron, converged on Colombo for the bi-annual heads of government meeting. It …
The provincial government in Sri Lanka’s main Tamil region said Thursday it would compile its own death toll from the country’s ethnic war, saying an ongoing census would play down the number of casualties. Tamil officials said the census ordered by President Mahinda Rajapakse last month would give a distorted picture because of its “flawed” terms of reference, arguing that a more credible alternative …
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