Sri Lankan Tamils Distressed Over UN Probe Report
Sri Lanka's main Tamil political party Tuesday expressed distress at a decision taken by the Human Rights Council in Geneva to postpone the submission of...
Justice has been delayed: Suresh Premachandran
The United Nations’ top human rights official agreed Monday to delay the release of a long awaited report on alleged atrocities during the Sri Lankan...
Sampanthan neither happy nor disappointed with UN’s decision
Tamil National Alliance leader R. Sampanthan was quoted as saying to BBC Tamil Service that he was neither happy nor disappointed about the Human Rights Council’s...
Deeply disappointed by UN inquiry delay says TAG
The rights group, Tamils Against Genocide (TAG) said witnesses would be "deeply disappointed" by the UN Human Rights Council's decision on Monday to delay the...
Govt seeks cordiality with Northern Province
Local Government Minister Karu Jayasuriya has stated that the new government seeks to establish cooperation with the northern province not only to solve people’s problems...
One lakh war widows in North: Vigneswaran
The Chief Minister of Sri Lanka’s Northern Province, C V Wigneswaran, said in Jaffna on Monday, that there are “almost a lakh war widows” in...
India and Sri Lanka begin a new chapter in their relations
India and close neighbour Sri Lanka on Monday sought to begin a new chapter in their relations as the island nation’s newly-elected President Maithripala Sirisena...
UN rights chief requests deferral of report on Sri Lanka conflict
At the request of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Geneva-based UN Human Rights Council on 16 February 2015, agreed to temporarily hold off its...